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

Thu Aug 3 12:25:56 PDT 2017

aaron...
and 'others'

RE: MOKSHA

<
http://forums.bodhilinux.com/index.php?/topic/13566-installing-moksha-with-ubuntu-1604/
>

search on from there at your leisure...

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On Thu, Aug 3, 2017 at 11:19 AM, Bobbie Sellers <
bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:

>
>
> 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
>
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>
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>
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>
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