[sf-lug] News on some less "mainstream" distros

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MANJARO Open-RC 64_bit is slick, clean, and lean...


The synchronize feature which accesses multiple repositories
including AUR repo.s is kewl...


Plus you get ALL the FULL benefits of the ARCH wikis...


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On Sun, Sep 17, 2017 at 3:12 PM, Bobbie Sellers <
bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> wrote:

>
>
> On 09/17/2017 01:41 PM, acohen36 wrote:
>
>>
>> As a reminder, I recently and previously wrote [01] about various distros
>> with different desktops. Some Hopeful news and Questionable news on some of
>> these, at least those I've recently seen so far.
>>
>> Some hopeful news is that the systemd-free Devuan distro [02] is at least
>> "planning" to come out with its Debian Stable/Stretch and Testing/Buster
>> equivalents fairly soon. Devuan Ascii is similar to Stretch and is "In
>> development", and Devuan Beowulf (intentional use of the same name as the
>> Linux Beowulf clustering-management technology [03] ?)  is similar to
>> Buster and is "Coming soon".
>>
>> Also several pieces of what are to me Questionable distro news.
>>
>> LinuxBBQ which I mentioned before in [01], is now recommending BORK! "an
>> openbox minimal spin" [04]. That's unfortunate, b/c there is the usual
>> meaning of "bork" in the tech world [05] to mean "Irreversibly damaged". Is
>> LinuxBBQ's BORK! implying that if one installs this, it _may_ bork your
>> machine according to this definition?? Ouch!
>>
>>
>> Partially quoting a recent Devuan mailing-list posting [06]
>> ~~~~
>> ..If you want sans-systemd that's rolling release, you have no shortage:
>> Void, Funtoo, Gentoo. Devuan is the only committed sans-systemd that is
>> version-release. Why would anyone want to change that?
>>
>> If you like rolling release, why not switch to Void or Funtoo?
>> ~~~~
>>
>> IIRC, I previously mentioned Void Linux [07] in an SF-LUG post from three
>> months ago here[08].  Advantages for both Devuan and Void Linux are that
>> they have _multiplatform_ installation releases for architectures _other
>> than_ just the current "gold standard" x86-64/amd64 (see [09] and [10]
>> respectively), e.g., for 32bit x86 and RPi3's ARM. This newfangled,
>> systemd-free, and gentoo-based Funtoo Linux [11], OTOH, currently lists
>> _only_ 64bit, non-ARM installation releases[12]. To me, that fact of being
>> stuck in "Betahood" seems to be a decided deficiency, and calls into
>> question how successfull this systemd-free distro will be.
>>
>> All this is my opinion only.
>> Please feel free to contribute your own.
>>
>> -A
>>
>> References
>> ===================
>>
>> [01]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2017q3/012765.html [02]
>> https://devuan.org/ [03]http://www.beowulf.org/overview/
>> [04]https://linuxbbq.org
>> [05]https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bork
>> [06]https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20170915.031152.
>> 4fddbada.en.html
>> [07]https://www.voidlinux.eu/ [08]http://linuxmafia.com/pipe
>> rmail/sf-lug/2017q2/012645.html
>> [09]https://mirror.leaseweb.com/devuan/devuan_jessie/README.txt [10]
>> https://www.voidlinux.eu/download/ [11] http://www.funtoo.org/Welcome
>> [12]http://www.funtoo.org/Subarches ===================
>>
>>     My 2 cents worth is that PCLinuxOS64 is committed to systemd free
> operation,
> which accounts for the slogan "Radically Simple".
>
>     You can get it stripped down or quite enhanced and in multiple DE
> flavors.
> KDE is the main line, followed by Mate, XFCE and for those with long
> memories
> Trinity DE which is quite a hodgepodge of stuff from KDE 3.5 and stuff that
> is updated since then which seemed to fit in for the people in the PCLinux
> community involved in this.  We may see a later release of
> Community-PCLinuxOS64-tde later this month.
>
> PCLinux is an excellent rolling release.  IF you want to see the support
> offered you can
> browse <http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum>
>
>     I have Community PCLinuxOS64 -tde-2017.06 installed on the Dell and if
> I make it to the meeting
> I will of course be happy to show it off.
>
>     Bobbie Sellers
>
>
>>
>> acohen36 at sdf.org SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.org
>>
>>
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