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by thomasl
Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:26 pm
Forum: General
Topic: UnBelievable Video
Replies: 13
Views: 660

Re: UnBelievable Video

Stevo wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2024 12:05 pmMilitaries contacting the drone makers in 3, 2,1....
Besides the sheer fun aspect of such a project getting certain third parties interested in these devices probably played also a part.

I am looking forward to a repeat without rain :eek:
by thomasl
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:22 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Text Processing GUI - like grepWin [Solved]
Replies: 8
Views: 227

Re: Text Processing GUI - like grepWin [Solved]

@ajaxStardust wrote: Mon Feb 19, 2024 12:07 pmHave you ever seen this? "Seddy" - a "live tool" for testing sed expressions.
No, I haven't. Looks pretty good, thanks for sharing.
by thomasl
Fri Feb 23, 2024 2:20 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: How to keep "Save"-window settings?
Replies: 3
Views: 166

Re: How to keep "Save"-window settings?

That's one of my Linux pet peeves... that many apps just won't store such user changes. If I go to the lengths of adjusting the widths of a set of columns in say a listbox, I expect that to stick. Same for panels etc. It took years until all Windows apps would do that but at some point it became sta...
by thomasl
Sun Feb 18, 2024 1:55 pm
Forum: Software / Configuration
Topic: Text Processing GUI - like grepWin [Solved]
Replies: 8
Views: 227

Re: Text Processing GUI - like grepWin [Solved]

Not sure whether the following two fit the bill but that's what I've been using for a long time; both utilities are CLI but the second can be enhanced with other tools to provide an interactive mode, ie it works as a TUI. If I don't need visuals, eg I know that I want to change Q to Z in certain fil...
by thomasl
Sat Feb 17, 2024 8:46 am
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Experimental frugal install
Replies: 31
Views: 1231

Re: Experimental frugal install

I don't think I've mentioned it in this thread, but trying to run a VM or several VM's may not be wise in a frugal install fully loaded into RAM. On my main machine the frugal MX23 install runs in RAM (meaning linuxfs and rootfs are loaded into RAM; homefs is always mounted). I also have two VMs (V...
by thomasl
Thu Feb 15, 2024 1:22 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Experimental frugal install
Replies: 31
Views: 1231

Re: Experimental frugal install

I probably will do it over again at least once. Now that I have a better understanding of it, I think it would be nice to get every step right, get the packages from the deb.multimedia repository I like, install the nvidia, tweak the desktop, install the apps that I know I'll always want, and then ...
by thomasl
Thu Feb 15, 2024 10:33 am
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Experimental frugal install
Replies: 31
Views: 1231

Re: Experimental frugal install

But I just concluded update-initramfs won't work on a frugal install. And, if that's the case, I am probably going to run into other problems with current debian packages not playing nice with a frugal install. I do realise that you've solved that specific problem but I just want to my $0.02 re gen...
by thomasl
Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:00 pm
Forum: MX Help
Topic: Experimental frugal install
Replies: 31
Views: 1231

Re: Experimental frugal install

I am then going to disk manager https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbBBKMa-QYc to mount ~/Documents ~/Downloads ~/Music ~/Pictures ~/Videos to another partition. This will work. My $HOME lives in a 512MB (yes, MB) homefs file with most directories pointing into other volumes (mostly VeraCrypt'ed ext4 ...
by thomasl
Tue Feb 13, 2024 11:03 am
Forum: General
Topic: Loading MX into RAM [Solved]
Replies: 8
Views: 221

Re: Loading MX into RAM [Solved]

trawglodyte I can't say anything authoritative about other distros but MX is definitely capable of a frugal install as outlined. I've used this for at least five years now and with my latest lappy (w/ 24GB RAM) have started to load the whole thing into RAM (well, everything but the home partition)....
by thomasl
Tue Feb 13, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: General
Topic: Loading MX into RAM [Solved]
Replies: 8
Views: 221

Re: Loading MX into RAM [Solved]

To add to DO's answer, a frugal install (which is basically a live system installed on a local HD) can do that. In a frugal install, the bulk of the system is in a squashfs (ie read-only) file called linuxfs (which can be loaded into RAM) and one or two "persistence" files, one of which (r...

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