The future of Porteus

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#256 by francois » 02 Mar 2016, 19:10

Maybe the exotism and the having to learn something is something that we still are looking for. There is arch linux and arch linux type (manjaro). Same basic distribution, but completely different philosophy. Here in porteus forum stand more on the manjaro side in terms of mission, but we really admire the arch linux accomplishment.

As an arch linux connoisseur, if you have a solution to the rolling release problem associated with arch linux or manjaro, it would be appreciated:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php? ... 883#p42883
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=137&t=5066

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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#257 by claude » 08 Mar 2016, 16:26

Thank God.....Please stay with Slackware, brokenman. This is the reason I became a Porteus user, Slackware
in a compact, wonderfully useful, live CD distribution.
THANKS...

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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#258 by francois » 08 Mar 2016, 20:22

You wish has been realised. Quote brokenman, the preceding post:
The decision has been made to go with slackware for at least another release while another strategy is decided upon
and even further:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=5602

I maintain that manjaro or arch linux as base for porteus has interesting advantages. :wink:
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#259 by Bogomips » 08 Mar 2016, 22:28

^ Bit off the mark! :twisted:
Linux porteus 4.4.0-porteus #3 SMP PREEMPT Sat Jan 23 07:01:55 UTC 2016 i686 AMD Sempron(tm) 140 Processor AuthenticAMD GNU/Linux
NVIDIA Corporation C61 [GeForce 6150SE nForce 430] (rev a2) MemTotal: 901760 kB MemFree: 66752 kB

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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#260 by francois » 09 Mar 2016, 02:38

Edited. Is it any better?
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#261 by Rava » 10 Mar 2016, 06:49

Good to hear we stay with Slackware for a while, while I downloaded Nemesis more than once, I was not able to try it due to having lost a monitor and not replaced it, meaning I am a PC short of playing around with and I prefer of having at least one running stable system. Well, stable with the downside of usm not working for unknown reason...
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#262 by Michele13 » 12 Mar 2016, 18:28

Rava wrote:Good to hear we stay with Slackware for a while, while I downloaded Nemesis more than once, I was not able to try it due to having lost a monitor and not replaced it, meaning I am a PC short of playing around with and I prefer of having at least one running stable system. Well, stable with the downside of usm not working for unknown reason...
Do you use Porteus as your Main system?

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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#263 by ralcocer » 12 Mar 2016, 18:38

I have not been able to boot Nemesis it always give me an error, I have been using Porteus since before it was called Porteus, before that I used Slax, Slackware, Suse defore all that Linux from Scratch.

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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#264 by Rava » 16 Mar 2016, 05:47

Michele13 wrote:Do you use Porteus as your Main system?
Yes... :D
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#265 by francois » 17 Mar 2016, 01:47

@rava:
How do you run any linux distribution without a monitor? :wink:
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#266 by Rava » 17 Mar 2016, 15:37

francois wrote:How do you run any linux distribution without a monitor? :wink:
Where did I say I run it without monitor?
I have speaker, monitor, optical scroll mouse and keyboard always as external parts to any PC, unless it's a notebook of course, then I still often prefer an external optical scroll mouse.
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#267 by francois » 17 Mar 2016, 19:03

Nemesis more than once, I was not able to try it due to having lost a monitor and not replaced it
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#268 by Rava » 17 Mar 2016, 23:00

francois wrote:Nemesis more than once, I was not able to try it due to having lost a monitor and not replaced it
Oh well, that is partly right with me as well, my other main PC, the Athlon one, had indeed the newer monitor I now use with the Pentium, since that monitor broke down, and I also was too lazy to check which monitor is currently a good bargain, low price but still good quality that will last for some years, since especially the last part is sometimes not so well with newer components...

Did I mention that this happened? Could be that I did and just forgot... :P


I mean, I still have the other monitor, but he switches off, then on, then off again, not in the way it would when it really lost its signal, more in a one-tiny-electronic-part failure kind of way...
(It was a small one, seriously, 1024x768 is a sucky resolution.
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#269 by francois » 18 Mar 2016, 01:10

Nemesis lxde edition was troubleshooted almost completely and functional. I worked with it. :)

And I am in it now in vbox. It still works. With pman wrapper for pacman you get the porteus module feeling. :D
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Re: The future of Porteus

Post#270 by wread » 03 May 2016, 00:28

@brokenman
http://www.mediafire.com/download/c7ghv ... us-livedbg

Here is my module list for Porteus current KDE5. After the last update to plasma 5.6.3, kcalc won't start.
X versions (some) of Porteus Scripts do the wrong task (text ones are ok). That is for you and fanthom to debug.
To start KDE5 with splash and wallpaper you must start in cli, run qdbus and startx. Otherwise you get a blank screen and a pointer for about 5 minutes and then the normal startup screen.

Could be of help...

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