[sf-lug] Ubuntu 16.04.3 is released Re: SF-LUG meets Sunday August 6, 2017

Thu Aug 3 13:21:59 PDT 2017


On 08/03/2017 11:19 AM, Bobbie Sellers 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.

     Downloading Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS (32 bit) as I write.
but it will be using the new Gnome interface at
3.2 I believe.

     The announcement with the various flavors
is at <https://wiki.ubuntu.com> or distrowatch.com.
If anyone with a slow connection wants one of the
other flavors let me know  and i will try to have
a copy for you.  Do not forget to say whether for
32 or 64 bit processors.  I will get at least the
64 bit version of this Ubuntu as well.

     bliss

>>>
>>> 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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