We also appreciate feedback from our newer users, to let us know how the installation process is working and how to improve our documentation. We want Porteus to be easy to isntall, use and understand, and hearing from new users is the best way for us to know how we're doing, and how we can improve.
Neither search for USM on website nor on forum turned up anything.fanthom wrote:hi Bogomips,
a) for java please download following packages through USM:
- openjre
- icedtea-web
- cups
Finally stumbled on USM in the task bar tool tip for Package Manager.
- As veteran of good handful of Linux distros, miss a forum 'Software & Applications' section, which following upon each new release on Mint was my second home after 'Newbie Questions'. For instance, at the moment have a problem with Abiword, in that it crashes after some few seconds while loading. So it would be nice to just go to a 'Software & Applications' section of the forum and look for an Abiword thread.
- Being someone who always reads the operating instructions for a new appliance before switching it on, be it a washing machine or a dvd player, suppose the next thing to be looking for, on the wish list, would be easily found fairly comprehensive documentation on Package and Module Management, something like a Packages and Modules Guide or Reference Manual would be ideal. (Maybe it's already there, but not all in one place.)
Perhaps a Documentation Page holding some Sections:- Module Management
- Installing Modules
- Uninstalling Modules
As an example there is something very simple I'd like to do. Have Opera on running Live System. Now according to the blurb, should be able, on the fly, to purge Opera from the System and install Firefox from another build(/porteus directory on another partition) without rebooting. - Module Structure
- Modules containing more than one Package
Decompressing them. Followed by a Link to the 2 Cases Tutorial - Creating own Modules
Followed by Link to Bleeding Edge Tutorial.
- Modules containing more than one Package
- Package Management
(Btw the link to more info on Package Manager gave a 404 'Page not Found' Error)
- Module Management
Porteus can be advertised as a truly Live System and, unless I am mistaken, it's geared to people who want to use a Live System.You can also help Porteus by spreading the word about our distribution. You can also recommend us on Linux-related or other technical forums.
It's quite aggravating to find after a CD for a distro has been burnt, that it's intended for use as a Rescue System or for Installation, and even more frustrating to learn that the Live System is non-functional, but intended to serve as 'eye candy' for the installed system.
Very quickly gave up installing distros, used 'frugal install' instead. However releases kept coming so thick and fast, given up even on that. Now running, in the parlance here, 'always fresh'
Thereby harkening back to the bad old days of computing, when a program could change itself, depending on the data input; when code could be treated as data and data treated as code. Always started with an empty (clean) machine, program was then loaded and executed, being fed data which it processed. At the end of the run it vanished, and another program took its place in the 'empty' machine. In the same way each distro iso is unalterable, being RO, and can be regarded as an enormous (separate) program, which at the end of the run vanishes from memory, and is replaced in the 'empty' machine by another distro, a very clear illustration of which would be iso running in ram. Depending on input to this program, data can be loaded (modules from disk or repository), which it then regards as code thereby altering itself (module install). 
By always starting with a clean machine, data is no longer encapsulated within a distro, and the data processed by other programs(isos) remains freely accessible globally to every other program(iso). 
