Return of the Son of the Show Your Desktop Again
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MX is very unusual - gives you the option of systemd or sysvinit at boot time. I don't know of another distro like that. It uses the Debian kernel and mostly Debian repos and apps, so it can be libre-tized without too much work. It runs quite well with the Linux-libre kernel. It uses systemd "shims" to do the "magic" of switching init systems.
This is my Trisquel 9 desktop tower setup. The display monitor is an old TN 1440x900 HP L1908w that I bought ten years ago and still keep it. The tower is Lenovo's M920SFF ThinkCentre, pretty fast four core i3 8th gen, nvme SSD.
Got to love that Keytronic keyboard with full mechanical key travel. Is that a PS2 with a USB adapter, or just a USB?
I bought the Lenovo for its good selection of "ancient" ports: it has native PS/2, com and parallel connections on the motherboard. The keyboard and mouse are both PS/2.
That is one sweet rig, and still plenty fast it sounds like.
Oh, and here are the links to the images attached, in case someone wants to see them in the mailing list.
Anything that doesn't work? Trackpad, wifi, etc?
Wireless radio, of course, is out the window (Broadcom, but I use wired Ethernet with a dongle). The web camera doesn't work (they call it FaceTime HD, I never use it). Trackpad works. Resolution is fine and the screen and keyboard lights/dimming work. Sound buttons work.
That's a really nice setup then!
Here's a screenshot. MBA's screen is 1440x900.
https://trisquel.info/files/mbair_trisquel9_desktop.png
antiX (Debian-based) distro with runit init system. I got rid of any non-free software and firmware I could find, added Linux-libre kernel and abrowser. Should be close to libre-tized.
This is using the dwm window manager, which is extremely small and completely libre. There's no desktop installed, although I did go with the xfce4-terminal, because I prefer it.
Using 106mb memory when nothing but the system and the window manager are running. Not bad - not as good as Artix which can run it with 90mb, and I've heard gentoo can run dwm with about 45mb. So, as far as ultra-light distros go, antiX is not the lightest. But, the good thing is that you can do just about anything you would like with it.
I've added some status monitors for battery, cpu and memory.
I removed the secondary hard disk bay and reinstated the optical drive in my HP Probook.
It's so rare nowadays to have a CD or DVD drive in a computer. USB powered external optical drives abound but internal SATA drives are far less common, practically non-existent.
This is the second DVD drive in this laptop. The original stopped reading disks all of a sudden and I replaced it with another years ago.
https://trisquel.info/files/hp_probk_odd.JPG
I have a laptop with a DVD writer, but I end up having to use my external USB DVD writer, as the internal one is terribly unreliable on GNU/Linux. I chased down the problem last year and found out that the model I had for the internal DVD had never been fully supported with the GNU/Linux DVD burner tools, and really needed proprietary windows drivers to work well.
Hi!
Just setup Trisquel netinstall and here's mine!
Nice! The netinstall ISO has arrived.
Never heard of stumpwm. Anything like dwm?
I guess they're the opposite of the suckless philosophy:
"If you want a minimalist tiling window manager, then StumpWM is not what you're looking for. The code base is ~15k lines, the binaries produced are ~60mb."
"StumpWM is a 'everything-and-the-kitchen-sink WM' or 'the Emacs of WMs.'"
https://github.com/stumpwm/stumpwm
I liked their Window Manager because it's using Common LISP and I love using Emacs for nearly everything.
Wow, very interesting, I'm reading the manual. Some great concepts built into this one. I'm a bit too happy with dwm's auto-stacking right now, stumpwm sounds like a lot of manual stacking and arranging. But stumpwm seems to make it easy to manually stack and arrange, so it's worth considering for the future.
Yup, I actually tried out DWM, ST, and Dmenu via git install when I first installed Trisquel Netinstall. It was ultrafast and light on resources. However, I ran into problems when I downloaded the git for Slock and Surf -- missing files it seems. I may try it again in the future but now I'm content and excited with what I have.
I would not use surf or recommend it - it hasn't had a release in 3-4 years, and I would highly question its security. I really enjoy the minimalist nature of suckless software, but when it comes to browsing the web I use full-featured browsers and security extensions. When I want a minimalist browsing experience, I just use elinks.
Slock has the same problem - no release for 4 years, doesn't look like an active, maintained project at this point. And I use st but I don't promote it - there's too much stuff it doesn't do, like search the terminal history or have built-in scrolling ability. I use st as a super-lightweight terminal for simple stuff, but I keep a full-featured terminal on hand for any real work.
I agree with Surf -- it used up Gigabytes of resources when I tried to watch invidio.us on it vs. Abrowser. There's also a video saying that rxvt is even lighter and faster than ST. It convinced me that rxvt was the better terminal emulator.
https://invidio.us/watch?v=VTpXNvmcbxA
currently using xtrlock as my screenlocker. Cool thing is you can lock your laptop with whatever's on the screen but you can't change it without putting in the password to unlock it. I usually just do xtrlock -b to have a back screen on it.
That's perfect, and you could easily use rxvt in dwm, and probably xtrlock as well. But if you like stumpwm because of the emacs bindings, you probably get a better experience there. dwm could be set up with any bindings you like, but it can take quite a bit of time to change all the key bindings.
Thanks! I read the source code for DWM and it seems to be understandable for someone with intermediate knowledge of using config files. C knowledge is not required but makes it easier for someone to bend the source code to their will.
The Suckless philosophy reminds me a lot of the "New Jersey vs. MIT" camps mentioned in the "Worse Is Better" talk.
https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html
I'm thinking of going MIT-type approach myself.
> I read the source code for DWM and it seems to be understandable for someone with intermediate knowledge of using config files. C knowledge is not required but makes it easier for someone to bend the source code to their will.
Yup, I don't know the first thing about C, but the config files look enough like python that I make lots of changes to them and don't seem to screw it up very often.
Nothing extraordinary here: some wallpapers that I liked way back then. You can move away from a proprietary OS and keep the desktop background.
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Kiwix offline Wikipedia reader.
Mom, look – no Internet connection!
Playing with Nova Ligero 7 GNU/Linux (Cuba).
Updates work and Firefox is at 77.0.1. Default search engine is "Cuba".
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Some of the wallpapers are 1360x768, so these screenshots are closer to what was intended with the artwork.
dwm re-writing dwm config files on dwm in preparation for re-compiling on dwm
Interesting choice of editor. Have you tried Vis? Supposedly a minimal re-write from scratch for Vim.
He also did DVTM --it's like Tmux and DWM had a child. Supposedly it's just 40k of SLOC. He's heavily influenced by the suckless philosophy as well.
Both in the Trisquel repos :-)
I installed Nova Escritorio (Desktop) 7 on my Thinkpad.
Some screenshots.
This is not Linux Mint, mind your head.
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