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Hi LUGers,<br>
<br>
Well the last meeting of the year was one of the<br>
quietest.<br>
The Dell E6420 was setup and waiting by about 5:40 PM.<br>
<br>
6:10 PM Tom made it in. I was able to give him a copy of<br>
GPartEd 0.33.0-1 on CD. Later I loaned him a couple of Flash<br>
Drives with Kodachi-5.6-64 as a bootable Live distribution on one<br>
and on the other Qubes-R4.0.1-rc1-x86_64 which is install only.<br>
He returned two recent issues of Linux Pro magazine.<br>
<br>
Kodachi is a distribution specialized for privacy and anonymous
<br>
activity on the net. It is from the Middle East. A bit too much
eye<br>
candy for my taste but if you want privacy and anonymity then this<br>
may be your choice. The URL is worth looking at if you want to play<br>
with Kodachi.<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://www.digi77.com/linux-kodachi/"><https://www.digi77.com/linux-kodachi/></a> <br>
A Warning! This bootable Flash Drive was made on my Dell E6520 but
<br>
that machine could not boot, giving an error, "Failed to set
MuklistRT". <br>
But being somewhat optimistic I took it to the Dell E6540 and it
booted <br>
right up.<br>
<br>
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</style> Since I had the free time I installed Deepin 5.8 on my Dell<br>
E6440. I already had an install of PCLinuxOS64 there and I<br>
still had it when I finished the install. Because my free time was<br>
limited I did a simple install which resulted in a root partition of<br>
240 GB and that is it. That is not satisfactory from my POV and<br>
I will be re-installing Deepin later on. <br>
"So why Deepin?" you might well ask. Well recently a columnist<br>
wrote a very good article in Forbes Magazine praising Deepin as<br>
the most beautiful Linux distribution.<br>
<<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/10/meet-the-linux-desktop-that-blows-away-windows-10-and-macos/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelho/2018/12/10/meet-the-linux-desktop-that-blows-away-windows-10-and-macos/</a>>
<br>
A friend of mine caught wind of this and wanted my opinion.
<br>
I hadn't seen Deepin since 15.5 and thought I wanted to try it out <br>
again. Sadly there is no Live version of Deepin as far as i know.<br>
I didn't like it much but the initial presentation was quite
nice.<br>
It had a lovely mountain landscape but the Deepin Desktop <br>
Environment still makes me think of Unity, Gnome 3+ and <br>
Cinnamon and similar DEs. I did manage to download and install<br>
Firefox. I was able to get the Chrome information collection<br>
web browser off the Cairo tool panel but could not add Firefox <br>
to it. It does have GPartEd loaded which is how I discovered the <br>
root partition size. Synaptic is available as well so when I have<br>
reinstalled the Deepin I will try to download it.<br>
So the simple install took about 40 minutes. Choices on the <br>
simple install were Time Zone and Language either "en" or <br>
"zh" which I think is short for Chinese.<br>
<br>
The first meeting of 2019 will be on Sunday January 6 from<br>
11 am to 1 pm at the Cafe Encnante. The announcement will be<br>
on the list by New Year's Day if not New Years Eve.<br>
<br>
I hope all will have had a happy holiday season and a Happy<br>
New Year in 2019.<br>
<br>
Bobbie Sellers<br>
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