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New wattOS survey announced.. have your say on our next steps!

Hi Folks..


It's here!!!


New website, R12... download links and a new forum setup


https://www.planetwatt.com/

With scrot now command line and/or multi key combo to work.. there is a much easier way to work with screen capture now.


It's gnome screenshot and it is a GUI


open terminal
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gnome-screenshot


I have a 2009 Mac Mini with a 2.0GHz dual core intel and 3gb ram with a 120Gb hd... I know very very soon El Capitan will no longer be supported 31st October 2019... and I cant upgrade the mac beyond El Capitan..


So.....


Do i keep my mac as is ... or look to blaspheme and install WattOS once the date arrives ?

So i've been having a bit of a play with the new 19.04 edition of Budgie, which is one of the ubuntu flavours and despite the fact its only 64 bit now.. I must admit, I've been impressed by its speed and ease of use. Up against, Xubuntu and Lubuntu .. I much prefer  This version of Ubuntu.


On the "bored" note...... I dropped a new OS on my spare lappy to compare against WattOS the other week.. This OS was the quirky and unusual Elive OS which is based on Deb and uses Enlightenment.
Elive was born in Belgium prior to 2005 as a private experiment by its founder to customize a Knoppix Live CD running the Enlightenment and with the designs based in the Evil Entity distro, it was called Tezcatlipotix.


Do i like it.... not sure to be honest.. I've never been a fan of enlightenment (bodhi especially) but i must admit, Elive has caused me to sit back and have a second think.... It wont be a replacement though for me against the much simpler to use WattOS.


So.. thats my thoughts for the week....

Deleting....

Windows - are you sure you want to delete?

Mac - (no delete key on standard small keyboard) newbie be like wtf. ..

Linux.. done

I should be shot for asking about this, given the amount of time i've been using linux, but alas i've never used elinks before and have need now to browse on the sly without prying eyes wondering.


I'd be most greatful for a cheat list of commands for using elinks listed so i can just to a screenprint and print please


Many thanks

I've noticed with linux of late that so many, include old faithful - Debian, are now moving in a direction that old old pc's simply cant be used anymore..


Now WattOS has always been good with old pc's but this too is getting hard due to LTS's being used.


I reckon an adventure could be worth a look at by Biff into old pc support as I use a linux system that can still be installed (and current) on Pentium 3's (1000Mhz copperhead)


It's not ubuntu based... its not red hat or centos or debian or any of the mainstream distros either... Its the very small (30mb iso!!!!! and a stupid 100mb hard drive installed) designed to be used with a pc with just 256mb ram. (16 MB of RAM and a little swap memory is possible if you really want to get nerdy)


BusyBox, a recent Linux kernel and GNU software. It boots with Syslinux and provides more than 200 Linux commands, the lighttpd web server, SQLite database, rescue tools, IRC client, SSH client and server powered by Dropbear, X window system, JWM (Joe's Window Manager), gFTP, Geany IDE, Mozilla Firefox, AlsaPlayer, GParted, a sound file editor and more is what it can come with.. i know it will happily run midori, and it can connect to wpa2-psk.. so modern wifi is catered for.


Downsides.... tazpkg for packages and tazpanel.. so limited there, no persistance either... but can be added if wanted only with ext2, 3  along with syslinux or extlinux boot loader.. last downside really.... its GNU/Linux    so not for the real newcomers to linux.


What do you guys think on this firstly re keeping old stuff alive...


Also Biff... whats your thoughts as it would be you building it