[sf-lug] SF-LUG meets Sunday August 6, 2017

Thu Aug 3 11:19:21 PDT 2017


On 08/03/2017 10:45 AM, acohen36 wrote:
>
> Now that this past week's heavily-trafficked "NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT 
> SECTOR...", "dpkg -l...", shell-fu and maillist-admin threads are 
> ebbing a wee bit (see the mailing-list's Archive referenced at 
> [01])......
>
> Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com>:
>
>> And just today and last night downloaded latest
>> SystemRescue, Clonezilla and 4MLinux should have
>> them on CDs before the next meeting.

     Also Linux Mint 18.2 in KDE and Mate.
>>
>> But earlier got the stuff listed below.
>>
>>    Mageia-6-i586-DVD.iso  using KDE's Plasma 5
>>
>>    Mageia-6-x86_64-DVD.iso using KDE's Plasma 5
>>
>>    netrunner-1706-64bit.iso using KDE's Plasma 5
>>
>>    pclinuxos64-kde5-2017.07.iso using KDE's Plasma 5
>>    community-pclinuxos64-tde-2017.06.iso Uses Trinity DE,
>>  a fork from the old KDE 3.5.9.  Installed on my Dell laptop
>>  it looks better than as a Live Distro.
>>
>>    community-pclinuxos64-kde5-darkstar-2017.07.iso using KDE's Plasma 5
>>
>>    xerus64-8.2.iso which is Quirky (Puppy)(so far no time to boot it
>>  up to see what it looks like)
>
>
> Not cross-posting here (although likely cross-referencing and most 
> certainly heavily-referenced in general), but the end-of-July's BALUG 
> thread 'Linux Mint 18.2' [02] has some discussion of Lubuntu, Linux 
> Mint 18.2, LXDE, XFCE, LXQt and Bodhi Linux's Moksha desktop[03]; the 
> latter of which Rick M and one or two others have previously 
> recommended [04].
>
> Someone recently mentioned in passing a relatively unknown Linux 
> distro from China called LinuxBBQ [05] -- based upon Debian's 
> Unstable/Sid -- which supposedly has "no fewer than 53 window managers 
> - everything from aewm to xmonad" [06]. Included within all those 
> desktop environments and window managers (at least as the _LinuxBBQ 
> documenters_ define it :-| [07]) are AfterStep, Awesome, Blackbox, 
> Cinnamon, Enlightenment, Fluxbox, flwm, FVWM, IceWM, ion, JWM, KDE, 
> LXDE, MATE, Openbox, pekwm, Ratpoison, WMaker, Xfce.
>
> As related to LXQt...
> According to that selfsame "Window Managers" page [07] there is 
> supposedly support for the Razor-qt desktop [08], but as I couldn't 
> reach the webpages linked from [08], I think that the current 
> iteration of Razor-qt is LXQt instead [09]. Those wishing to use the 
> LXQt desktop for LinuxBBQ would have to 1st grab one of the year 2016 
> or 2017 Linux BBQ ISO's from its SourceForge repo [10] and then 
> post-install the appropriate LXQt Unstable/Sid packages from [11].
>
> As related to Moksha...
> Also, there is no direct availability of Bodhi Linux's Moksha 
> desktop[03] for LinuxBBQ, although there _is_ a webpage for the 
> LinuxBBQ Enlightenment window manager [12], so it _may_ be possible to 
> install the Moksha-related but inferior Enlightenment/E17 onto 
> LinuxBBQ. If someone really wants _just_ the Moksha desktop on 
> LinuxBBQ (w/o E17 itself) and doesn't mind putting in extensive 
> effort, they may have to 1) adapt Bodhi Linux maintainer Jeff 
> Hoogland's instructions at [13] for Unstable/Sid or 2) go through the 
> necessary steps at Jeff Hoogland's GitHub repo for moksha [14] to get 
> it running. More advanced LinuxBBQ people who would want to try out 
> the latest Enlightenment WM post-E17 would likely have to extract one 
> of the most recent tarballs from [15] and then build that version of 
> Enlightenment from source.
>
> And that last point brings me to my conclusion about LinuxBBQ...
> IMHO from what I've seen at its homepage [05], its 'About' page [16] 
> and its 'Forums' pages[17], it seems to me that LinuxBBQ is primarily 
> targeted for technically-proficient Linux "technohip" teens + 
> twenty-something males. I don't know, maybe LinuxBBQ is seen by this 
> particular crowd as one of the "uber-awesome" alternatives to Manjaro 
> [18] or Arch Linux [19][20] ??
>
> Would be interested to hear what thoughts others of you have on this 
> LinuxBBQ distro.
>
> -A
>
>
     I am not going to get into LinuxBBQ because of my time limitation 
but if someone want to
bring it along and point out all the features I shall not object.
>
> References
> ============
>
> [01] http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2017q3/date.html
>
> [02] 
> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2017-July/thread.html
>
> [03] https://mokshadesktop.github.io/
>
> [04] 
> http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-talk-balug.org/2017-July/000099.html
>
> [05] http://www.linuxbbq.org/
>
> [06] https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=linuxbbq
>
> [07] http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Category:Window_Managers
>
> [08] http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Razor-qt
>
> [09] http://lxqt.org/
>
> [10] https://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbbq/files/
>
> [11] https://packages.debian.org/sid/lxqt
>
> [12] http://linuxbbq.org/wiki/index.php?title=Enlightenment
>
> [13] 
> http://it.toolbox.com/blogs/enlightenment/installing-moksha-desktop-on-debian-jessie-70307
>
> [14]https://github.com/JeffHoogland/moksha
>
> [15] https://download.enlightenment.org/rel/apps/enlightenment/
>
> [16] http://linuxbbq.org/about.html
>
> [17] http://linuxbbq.org/bbs/index.php
>
> [18] https://manjaro.org/
>
> [19] https://www.archlinux.org
>
> [20] 
> http://www.linuxbbq.org/bbs/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=965&p=58784&hilit=Arch#p58784
>
> ===================================
>
> acohen36 at sdf.org
> SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
>
     bliss
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