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another alternative is: http://exegnulinux.net/ It's Debian -based (devuan, actually). I've booted it & found it to be solid (no crashes, no noticeable memory leaks across a 3 or 4 day session) @bled, would you skim this this page https://github.com/DebianDog/Jessie/wiki/Porteus-boot and comment...

yeah, we need to fix that deb. the depend needs to be either udev or eudev. BTW, udev should be provided by eudev. Wait, amending "that deb" (spacefm package) would amount to treating the symptom, not the problem, yes? AFAICT, the solution would be to amend both the libeudev1 and eudev pa...

https://qupzilla.com/ Development News March 15, 2018 Final QupZilla release is out! Final release, QupZilla 2.2.6, is now out.There will be no more QupZilla releases, please switch to Falkon. Package: falkon (3.0.0-3) https://packages.debian.org/buster/falkon Falkon is available from debian testin...

During your session, other than web browser, are any other applications performing frequent disk writes? If using firefox: visit “about:config” and specify browser.cache.disk.enable=false After that change, the browser’s most-frequently-observed disk writes will be due to updated info being written ...

Did they kill off LMDE?

https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxmint/comm ... _come_out/

qupzilla won't download games that use apt Users coming over from Mint or Ubuntu may have grown accustomed to having https://launchpad.net/apturl installed on their system. IIRC, it registers a mimetype handler with compatible browsers, so that clicking an apt:// hyperlink results in OpenWith(gDebi...

sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales then sudo apt-get install localepurge (answer "Y" to blahblah paths) At this point, the system is no slimmer. Upon future package installation/upgrade operations, localepurge's postinstall hook scrubs only any freshly-installed locale related files. sudo apt-...

fascinated The Awstats page at distrowatch is world-readable (and publicly linked, for transparency to advertisers) https://distrowatch.com/awstats/ * 59% of visits to the site during March lasted 30seconds or less * 40% of visits to the site during March were folks using Windows OS/es * The antiX ...

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re: popularity of 64bit
Interestingly (to me, at least) the 32 vs 64bit download ratio has varied wildly from week to week.

That's software from >4 years ago. Time to move on. " GALPon MiniNo is a GNU/Linux distribution made for reusing old computers (10-12 years old) " https://minino.galpon.org/en (debian jessie -based 2017 release "Queiles 3.0" is using systemd) PicarOS https://minino.galpon.org/en...