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wattOS R9 / where are locale settings on (micro)wattOS R9
« on: May 01, 2016, 12:32:52 PM »
Hi,
microwatt R9 just installed.
Say I wish to set wanted locales on microwatt and get rid of the unneeded.
Precisely I'd like to set the locales to fr_FR for the interface, TIME or units settings, and en_US for logs and system-related stuff.

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~$ locale
LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8
LANGUAGE=fr:en
LC_CTYPE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
LC_TIME=en_US.UTF-8
LC_COLLATE="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=en_US.UTF-8
LC_MESSAGES="fr_FR.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=en_US.UTF-8Also:
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~$ cat /var/lib/locales/supported.d/local
en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8
fr_FR.UTF-8 UTF-8
On Arch it's quickly done with:
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~# $EDITOR /etc/locale.gen         # uncomment en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8
~# locale-gen
Generating locales... en_US.UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8.         # two and that's it
On Debian (Wheezy) I do the same as in Arch, or
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~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales      # choose  en_US.UTF-8 and fr_FR.UTF-8that generates en_US.UTF-8, fr_FR.UTF-8 and that's it. Upon each updates, only these two will be generated when needed.

On microwatt (Ubuntu family?) there's no /etc/locale.gen. Also `dpkg-reconfigure locales` does not let me choose the locale (as in R8). Just generates over a dozen unneeded locales.
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~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales
Generating locales...
  en_AG.UTF-8... done
  en_AU.UTF-8... done
  en_BW.UTF-8... done
  en_CA.UTF-8... done
  en_DK.UTF-8... done
  en_GB.UTF-8... done
  en_HK.UTF-8... done
  en_IE.UTF-8... done
  SNIPWondering how/where to set the system locales on (micro)watt OS?

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wattOS R9 / [multi OS] Bootloader setup with preexisting syslinux
« on: May 01, 2016, 09:26:51 AM »
Hi watters!
I'd like to test watos r9 or r10 Beta on a little laptop that already has two distros running.
Microwatt is installed but not rebooted yet until I figure out q nice way to boot it from existing boot setup.

Partition setup:
sda1 = /boot, 500 MB
vg1_lv1 (lvm) = Arch
vg1_lv2 (lvm) = Arch test
vg1_lv3 (lvm) = Peppermint (Ubuntu based)
vg1_lv4 (lvm) = microwatt R9

Bootloader setup:
MBR = syslinux
sda1 = syslinux + various Arch kernels + grub2 chainloaded from syslinux (loads Peppermint on vg1_lv3). Partition has ~100 MB free.

What would be the choices to load Microwatt?
1. Add microwatt entries to sda1 grub.cfg and load the OS kernel images from vg1_lv4/boot
2. Mount sda1 as /boot in microwatt and run grub-install: to put the kernel images on sda1. Then how to make sure it does not overwrite the MBR?
3. Some other way I don't see?

Thanks in advance for sharing your opinion.

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wattOS Talk / Testing r9 microwatt battery real life efficiency vs Arch i3's
« on: April 16, 2016, 08:43:55 PM »
Salutations to you watters from a long time Linux user.

I may try WattOS r9 microwatt on a Atom powered netbook I got. Would like to see how battery life compare with the installed and also minimal Arch i3. after some bang-for-watt optimization the later is giving the same autonomy it had back six years ago.
Only launched in qemu whattOS shows pretty interesting speed and NRJ figures out of powertop :)
I'll probably replace Midori with Xombrero browser which I find both more efficient, tweakable and fun.

About OS general real life speed, I recently got antiX installed on a old Mama's PC. According to all who tested it makes her AMD 3000 machine just back on Main St.! I might test wattOS on this side as well, time permitting.

If you guys have any advice that you think might be interesting for a brand newcomer, I'm all ear!

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