What do you use porteus for?

[francois]

I use porteus as my main system on my last four laptops. I was fed up with the slow speed of w* and the constant updates needed by the os. The speed of the system is the most important quality of porteus. Working with other oses, I tend to become very impatient. It could be related to the os, but I have been told by my physician that it might be related to high blood pressure too.

My main needs are satisfied with porteus in terms of packages. But maybe we should ask what would you like to be able to do with porteus?

[cttan]

Hi francois,

Well said! I am also getting very impatient with the OS(Wxxxxx). Keep asking to update patches and constantly running something in the background and dragging the OS to become slower and slower.

I have since moved on to Porteus when the time is right(Sep 2012) and never have to look back. I have not booted into my Wxxxx os even once for the last six months.

[UrUtusUbU]

hi all
for make another distro

[xtudiux]

Main OS on my ACER v5-171

[francois]

Main os on my toshiba satellite z930 laptop. I do everything lightning fast, with much pleasure and satisfaction.

There is nothing that windows stock could do better. And all packages are free spirited.

[donald]

.....to keep my 12 Years old Box alive and useful....

[rollingscissors]

Porteus 2.1 is great! I have used SLAX Remix for a long time, and dabble in Debian Sid. Porteus is top notch, im my opinion, because it runs smoothly and does fast work. It is not hard to use, either.

[flux]

I use Porteus on an USB drive with xbmc to watch livetv with an dvb-t-adapter and videos over wlan from a local samba server. With a HDMI connection to my tv it is a great revival for my old notebook with HDMI port.

Thank you for your excellent work!

flux.

[hypomania]

I use porteus linux for everything except:
1- those website which require Windows and they use Silverlight add-ons in IE browser.
2- fix Android phones and install Frimwares, like Odin for samsung....etc.

[router]

i'd like to see this topic come alive again. i'd be interested to see how the answers evolve as Porteus evolves, and i believe there may be some value toward the advancement of Porteus and some inspiration for its growth if people share in this and similar discussions about what they have done, and maybe challenges they have overcome in getting some unique or exotic thing to work.

right now i'm using Porteus 3 on a dell latitude d810, and am in the next days going to install it on an old compaq tower i have that i use as a server for a few things i play with from time to time, that right now are running under windows, i'd prefer them on a linux os.

[Ed_P]

I've used it because it supports all of my hardware. My BIOS, my SATA hard drive, my NIC, my screen, my keyboard and my printer all out of the box. Plus a browser that gives me Internet access and the ability to access files and folders on my Windows machine. But mostly because it has great forum support people who have helped me learn Linux.

While it runs on 3 different ASUS ONE netbooks I also have a Dell Latitude, a D400, that I want to try it on in the near future.

[freestyler]

Porn...

[THX2006]

Warm Fuzziness ?

[bdheeman]

I use the Porteus + MATE as a mainstream desktop; here follows a list of default modules (though, some of these are home-brew) loaded into RAM:

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[guest@porteus:~]$ ls -1 /mnt/live/memory/images/
000-kernel.xzm/
001-core.xzm/
002-xorg.xzm/
003-mate.xzm/
004-firefox.xzm/
004-flash-plugin.xzm/
004-hangouts-plugin.xzm/
004-thunderbird.xzm/
005-additional-fonts.xzm/
005-devel.xzm/
005-gimp-studio.xzm/
005-oracle-java7-jre.xzm/
005-stardict.xzm/
006-libreoffice.xzm/
007-printing.xzm/

What I find still missing is only lack of some proper integration; see:

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[guest@porteus:~]$ xdg-settings --list
Known properties:
  default-web-browser           Default web browser
[guest@porteus:~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

Hence, I'm unable to set 'default-web-browser' for MATE/Gnome apps

I find, the videos play a lot better and quite smoothly over other distributions even in VESA mode under X; I'm forced to fallback to VESA because we don't have any stable and, or OSS drivers for:

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guest@porteus:~]$ /sbin/lspci -nn |grep -i vga
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Silicon Integrated Systems [SiS] 771/671 PCIE VGA Display Adapter [1039:6351] (rev 10)

[brokenman]

bdheeman open /usr/bin/xdg-settings and at line 318 add this:

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elif [ x"$DESKTOP_SESSION" == x"mate" ]; then DE=gnome;

Then set default browser to:

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xdg-settings set default-web-browser browser.desktop

This will ensure compatibility when you activate a different browser module.
Fixed in next release. Thanks.