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1 • File overwrite protection (by Otis on 2023-08-07 00:56:50 GMT from United States)
In my 25 years of using Linux I've not yet had occasion to fret about files being overwritten. If a file is overwritten it is because I've intentionally done that.
2 • File protection, Peppermint (by Andy Prough on 2023-08-07 02:39:23 GMT from United States)
I protect config files by simply backing them up. I run into this frequently as a DWM user - anytime you patch DWM the config.def.h and dwm.c files will be overwritten, so in the event that an attempted patch fails you may want to revert back to your backup copies of those files. When running the 'make' command, config.def.h overwrites config.h, so once again you may want to backup your version of config.h.
On Peppermint, my experience was better than the reviewer's. I tried Peppermint a few months ago for the first time, and I used the Devuan edition. I'm not sure why you would want to use a Debian version with bloated systemd for a minimal distro, but whatever. I disagree with the reviewer in that on a minimal distro I definitely do NOT want flatpaks and snapd setup by default, as I won't be planning to use them.
And the Appimagehub issue with poorly maintained packages is Appimagehub's fault, not Peppermint's. If that were the criteria for inclusion then no one should ever use flathub or the snap store or even the AUR either, as they all have their fair share of poorly maintained packages. Personally I wouldn't include any of these hubs and stores with their massively bloated package installations on a minimal distro, but that's just me.
3 • PeppermintOS (by Old One on 2023-08-07 05:39:12 GMT from Thailand)
I agree with Andy above
I have been using PeppermintOS , presently >Devuan, for about 11 months, nearly daily, and I had no issues.
It's fast and snappy. I use it mainly for music listening and piano learning and playing.
Besides my 8 year young Acer Desktop, I also have it installed on my two 17 year old Compaq laptops.
Also 3 member in my family have it on their 15-> 20 year old laptop with 1 only 2 Gb memory.
No one has complaints.
And on the forum, your questions are quickly replied to.
4 • Peppermint (by GrumpyGranpa on 2023-08-07 05:53:32 GMT from Australia)
I have run Peppermint Devuan for sometime. My only issues is that I really do not like xfce. I've ripped it out and installed lxde, but, it would be nice if there was a net install option made available whereby we can choose our desktop.
I use Peppermint due to the Calamares installer which is a pleasure to use. Devuan ships with its horrendous archaic installer that usually never works first time, especially partitioning.
I usually remove all the Peppermint branding and take it back to as pure Devuan as possible.
Seems like lot of work, but until Devuan gets its act together and switches to Calamares, what else is a man to do?
5 • Devuan Installer, alternative to painful setup (by Hank on 2023-08-07 06:28:01 GMT from Austria)
I agree on devuan installer, it is a horrible pain to use. Had to pre setup partitions using GParted before being able to install.
Until Devuan gets its act together and switches to Calamares, what else is a man to do?
This greybeard man who is not a fan of the system D built up a customized antiX running from a USB stick, using included remaster and live cloning of running system to a second stick until everything
was working as wanted then installed the custom setup which worked perfectly from day 1.
The usb stick is also my backup as well as a fully customized system with a choice of a recent and a legacy kernel. I carry the stick and have found it can boot and be useful many other devices with same arch. i.e. 64 bit. That included some very recent systems.
6 • Pep/Devu/MX/etc (by Sondar on 2023-08-07 07:32:52 GMT from United Kingdom)
Peppermint review was very helpful; tried it some years back - hadn't realised the passing of author. Echo the sentiments of others - do not want Flatties, sysD, snappies and co. Do like Xfce, though. Have been using Mint for many years but it has become too bloated and enamored with unnecessary tat. Will probably settle for MX despite the prospect of having to swap 20+yrs of files/data/etc and confront major reorganisation of default desktop. EASY on USB serves well for simple/transient tasks.
7 • @4 @5 Devuan Installer (by DaveT on 2023-08-07 08:36:00 GMT from United Kingdom)
Never had any problems with the Devuan installer.
Equally I am now so old I've been installing Debian and now Devuan using 'expert install' for literally decades!
Apple computers sometimes need GParted to make it play nicely before a Devuan install, but again, it never causes any problems, just a few extra steps.
8 • Peppermint (by Hoos on 2023-08-07 09:14:17 GMT from Singapore)
I haven't run Peppermint in ages, but my first thought when reading the featured review about snapd or flatpak not being preinstalled was simply that the developers were giving the user the freedom to choose what portable app format, if at all, they want on their system.
9 • @5 - alternative installers (by Uncle Slacky on 2023-08-07 09:22:09 GMT from France)
There's also the Refracta installer (also an option on EXE GNU/Linux as well):
https://refracta.org/docs/readme.refractainstaller.txt
10 • File overwrite protection (by Anthony on 2023-08-07 10:41:19 GMT from Czechia)
Since I use my own computer with no other (non-system) users, if I need to overwrite-protect a file, then setting its rights to 0600 is sufficient (by the way, my default umask is 0077), and if I do need to change the file, I can temporarily set it back to 0600. I also used chattr and the *i*mmutable option, probably just once or twice, but I don't remember when it was and why I needed it. 0400 is almost always enough for me. (And of course, important files are regularly backed up, in case I manage to erroneously delete or overwrite them.)
11 • Peppermint and others (by Nathan on 2023-08-07 12:21:41 GMT from United States)
i previously used Peppermint on several laptops which were donated to students.
All worked fine and fast.
The only issue I had was when trying to include updates during the install process.
Never worked. Borked the install.
Presently, I am running MX 23 on all three computers.
MX 23-KDE on my laptop.
MX 23-XFCE on my daily desktop.
MX23-Fluxbox on my distro hopping desktop.
As an aside, Arch based Liya linux has been the only Arch or Arch based distro
that made it through more then 4 updates without dying / locking me out / refusing to re-boot etc.
As an Arch based distro, highly recommended.
12 • PeppermintOS is a top 5 minimalist distro (by Alex on 2023-08-07 14:02:12 GMT from United States)
I run PeppermintOS on a bunch of repurposed EOL Chromebooks which come with a miniscule amount of diskspace and ram (16GB eMMC and 4GB memory). I appreciate that it does not install packages by default which IMO should be left up to user preference like office suites, photo viewers, etc.
I happily updated to the new Bookworm version a day after it was released and did not run into any problems. I recommend the distro highly.
13 • @11, including updates during install (by Andy Prough on 2023-08-07 16:12:40 GMT from Switzerland)
>"The only issue I had was when trying to include updates during the install process."
I've had problems with this on several distros. Mainly some of them take a lot of extra time during the installation to "install updates", but when I boot the fresh installation for the first time I find out I have "284 updates waiting for you". I've given up on using that option with any distro - seems like a waste of time for the most part. I think the installers don't sync to current repos, or there's some bug in Calamares or other installers. Whether it's Peppermint or any other distro, I would say the best bet is to do a normal installation and update afterwards.
14 • Preinstalled stuff (by Friar Tux on 2023-08-07 17:38:01 GMT from Canada)
Just a note from the other end of the spectrum. I appreciate preinstalled "bloat". Not too much, mind you, but enough to go right to work. I only have one program that I actually HAVE to install every time. But other than that, I like the fact that most distros preinstall software to go. I DO have my absolute favourite media player, office suite, music player, etc., but I can change those out at my leisure.
When Windows 10 forced itself onto our laptops a few years back, both The Wife and I were in the middle of working on stuff. It was to be an hour long disruption - at least that was the estimated time given - and confirmed by a friend after a phone call. I had been toying with Linux Mint/Cinnamon at the time, so I switched off the laptops and loaded Mint on both. We had a total of 20 minutes downtime due to the preinstalled programs being able to go right to work. Still using Mint 7 years later with not even so much as a hiccup in the system - even with updates and 3 or 4 version changes. Linux is great!!
15 • @14 - Preinstalled stuff (by Andy Prough on 2023-08-07 20:30:33 GMT from Switzerland)
>"Just a note from the other end of the spectrum. I appreciate preinstalled "bloat". Not too much, mind you, but enough to go right to work"
But we're talking about minimal distros, and your example of Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop is definitely not a minimal distro by any standard. I'm sure we all sometimes use distros like Mint or MX that are full-bodied distros - I use the Trisquel distro that comes pre-loaded with lots of software. But when I'm looking for a minimal distro, especially for older hardware, I want one that lets me make most of the software choices.
16 • Peppermint OS (by Glenn Condrey on 2023-08-08 00:20:30 GMT from Canada)
I used to run Peppermint quite frequently back when it was based on Mint/Ubuntu's family line.
Everything just worked...and I never had any problems with my laptops or netbooks running it.
I installed it recently...for old times sake...and it feels kind of like System76's version of Xandros and Linspire.
Yeah they have the same name...but nothing in common with the OSes they were named after.
This feels just like that.
Whatever made Peppermint special...died with the developer, just my opinion.
17 • Missed out... (by Friar Tux on 2023-08-08 13:32:22 GMT from Canada)
@15 (Andy) I think you missed my point... "Just a note from THE OTHER END of the spectrum." My point being that while minimalism is all well and good for some, there ARE those of us who don't care for minimalism and would simply prefer to have the tools needed to do our work included in the installation, as some distros have done. Sure they may not be my chosen tools in some cases, but they get the job done and, as mentioned, I can switch out to my favourites at my leisure, later.
To add to my point, MOST PCs and laptops, these days have more than enough space for a bloatful of software. While I don't think I would want to fill that space just 'cause it's there, I do like to have my tools handy for when I need them. Just a thought from one of us bloaters floating about in my bloat.
18 • Saving one's rump is important you know.... (by tom joad on 2023-08-08 20:01:14 GMT from United States)
Those are a couple of handy commands to know and tuck away in the old brain. More arrows in the quiver is always good.
My principle method of saving my rump is...BACKUP, BACKUP and well...BACKUP!
I do that multiple ways with Timeshift being my first line of defense. Another thing I do is save my backups FOREVER. I mostly never throw anything away. Big zip drives are relatively cheap these days.
My personal directories in my home folder are the ones I save for me.Timeshift gets the rest of it. And I back up Timeshifts, too, just in case....
BTW...I guess it was just understood in Jesse's 'Tips and Tricks' that one had to be Root to execute those commands.
19 • chattr (by hulondalo on 2023-08-09 07:02:46 GMT from Hong Kong)
i use uget a lot but unfortunately the interface settings are always changed remotely by some schmuks so i just set chattr on ~/.config/uGet and problem solved:)
i think the creator of this little tool should be given a highest medal
ps: can't wait to try mx linux 23. is kernel update bug like the one in debian 12 fixed?
20 • MX 23 - Peppermint (by Albert on 2023-08-09 13:00:38 GMT from Uruguay)
@19 (hulondalo): Yes, it was fixed on MX. As a fact I'm using the Xfce version of MX 23 to write this.
As for Peppermint I share the first sentence of @6 Sondar's comment and almost fully agree with @16 Glenn Condrey to which I would like to add that the current Peppermint release (2023-07-01) was buggy. I had it installed for a month, waiting for a correcting update that didn't come so I deleted it from the disk. Before, when Peppermint was based on Ubuntu, it used to be a great system. Nowadays even Ubuntu has taken a path that doesn't please me at all. Let's see what the result of this is finally.
I don't really care too much about systemd, however I've always installed the MX version using SysVInit, just because it's snappy and it's the default init system.
I also use some five flatpaks, and on systems with systemd I add one snap too. I don't like these 'universal' packages very much; I'd rather have the original .deb applications instead; however they simply don't exist or very frequently have problems with its server (I'm talking here about Skype specifically). As I've mentioned on some other occasion I find that flatpaks and snaps take too much space on disk.
21 • "Low-resource" distribution (by why-oh-why on 2023-08-09 16:34:49 GMT from Netherlands)
Low-resource distribution is relative.
I really am not so sure if 700 MB of RAM use still falls under "low-resource distro."
This would be more on par with "MX-Fluxbox Bloatware."
A full-fledged Gnome runs with less.
https://postimg.cc/vg5DHJhJ
https://postimg.cc/n9Zrs3wC
For comparison:
https://postimg.cc/RqQQgymp
https://postimg.cc/sM4DGPCL
Also, like almost every other Xfce distribution, it comes poorly preconfigured.
The network manager will open the light panel, but all others are dark.
The battery symbol is much bigger than the other symbols, etc.
At the end, there is a too-tiny font used for the clock...
Under a fully usable "low-resource distro," I understand something like Salix 15.
It comes with all the applications that one needs, regardless of purpose.
It comes without some bloat, and it even looks good OOTB.
Or, one can get a bare-bones distribution like Bodhi Linux 7 RC, which will come with only a few applications preinstalled but will look much better and use half as many resources.
22 • The life and death of MX Linux (23-Fluxbox) (by why-oh-why on 2023-08-09 16:56:44 GMT from Netherlands)
Imagine you start the live session of MX Linux 23 Fluxbox in a VirtualBox to show it to someone or to make some screenshots of its horrible presets.
30 screenshots later, or 25 minutes later, whatever you prefer, the "live session" turns into a "dead session."
MX Linux 23 Fluxbox used all 4 GB of RAM assigned to it.
https://postimg.cc/VSLwwk5Z
This is the most peculiar thing I've ever seen in my 20+ years of "Linuxing."
23 • Linux, quo vadis? (by why-oh-why on 2023-08-09 17:12:39 GMT from Netherlands)
Ubuntu 22.04:
https://postimg.cc/tYkyM64n
https://postimg.cc/bSTX4Xpf
Are they trying to tell me that I might have some open security holes, but they won't give me an update unless I register my OS for "ESM Apps"?
Paid software in the Linux Software Store? Why not, but why yes if we talk about applications that are available for free in every other store?
The most peculiar thing about the Elementary 7 Software Center is that there is almost nothing worth downloading—not even LibreOffice.
https://postimg.cc/HjfB1vjf
https://postimg.cc/9r5tn4n2
(We are talking about "Taxi" as an example here.)
24 • Peppermint OS (by James Herkimer on 2023-08-09 20:40:28 GMT from United States)
"----it might even run on an old 32-bit Asus Eee."----
It does.
25 bull; @14, Minimal Linux (by Justin on 2023-08-09 21:30:31 GMT from United States)
I appreciate @14's distro comments. That is my criteria for a good live CD. If I need to use a live system (or VM or whatever), I want it pre-configured so that I can do whatever it is I want to do as quickly as possible.
On the flip side, I appreciate the minimal distro part where I add the pieces because on my daily driver, I'm fine taking that time.
For minimal specs, those creep over time. When I first started with Arch + Openbox, I had a full system running at 98MB. Five years later, that same system is just over 200MB with no new software, configuration, autostart, etc., only kernel and package updates. Windows XP could configured to run with like 68MB of RAM, so while Windows has definitely bloated much faster, I'm disappointed in 5 years to see barebones Linux require twice the memory it used to. It doesn't feel faster at all. In fact, my boot times on that setup have increased by probably 5s in that time (13s to now 18s full desktop).
26 • I protect files from being changed/overwritten using... (by James on 2023-08-10 11:34:18 GMT from United States)
By not being stupid.
27 • Continuing with Peppermint (by Marti on 2023-08-10 11:56:18 GMT from United States)
The first Peppermint I used was the Ice distro from 2010: cooling and blue themed. A UNIX admin friend of mine had always helped me install Linux on my desktop, but that was the first time I installed by myself onto a laptop. So simple! It was glorious enough that the wifi worked right after install.
A laptop or two later, I have the Debian Peppermint which came from a Peppermint 10 update/upgrade. My most simple needs (word processing and Internet/E-mail) are met, but I'm now stuck with 3 broken packages with a dependency that "is not installable". If Broadcom wifi still works, I'm in a sweet spot.
It did seem that the update/upgrade did take "more than a minute". I can't comment on a from-scratch install.
XFCE is fine and consistent, though as an Ancient One I still pine for LXDE.
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| • Issue 1039 (2023-10-02): Zenwalk Current, finding the duration of media files, Peppermint OS tries out new edition, COSMIC gains new features, Canonical reports on security incident in Snap store |
| • Issue 1038 (2023-09-25): Mageia 9, trouble-shooting launchers, running desktop Linux in the cloud, New documentation for Nix, Linux phasing out ReiserFS, GNU celebrates 40 years |
| • Issue 1037 (2023-09-18): Bodhi Linux 7.0.0, finding specific distros and unified package managemnt, Zevenet replaced by two new forks, openSUSE introduces Slowroll branch, Fedora considering dropping Plasma X11 session |
| • Issue 1036 (2023-09-11): SDesk 2023.08.12, hiding command line passwords, openSUSE shares contributor survery results, Ubuntu plans seamless disk encryption, GNOME 45 to break extension compatibility |
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PHLAK (Professional Hacker's Linux Assault Kit) was a modular security distribution, geared to be used as a live CD. PHLAK was created to become the only tool security professionals would need to perform security analysis, penetration testing, forensics, and security auditing. PHLAK comes with two light GUIs (fluxbox and XFCE4), packages for printing, publishing, a little multimedia, many security tools, and a file cabinet full of security related documentation for your reading/educational purposes. This distro was based off of Morphix.
Status: Discontinued
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