Other Interesting Distros, Part 4

brent

tomscharbach Josh joined the SerpentOS team (part-time I'm sure) right after he left Solus (according to the 1-1-22 Strobl resignation dispatch) so I thought the Budgie question only followed suit. But the more I think about what you said the more I agree: Doherty would want something his own as the DE I am positive.

(edit/source for my facts is my memory but I did doublecheck https://news.itsfoss.com/solus-co-lead-resign-budgie-serpent/)

Axios

brent You scare me..lol I was reading on there site (serpentos) early today seems they might be getting close to an iso from what they said. but havent be able to pull up there website all afternoon.

brent

Axios I been checking in about once a month since the beginning of the year, then at their blog a couple times. they have been teasing this iso thing out for about a year at least. he has a stable of ex-solus maintainers it appears but serpent never seems to move forward. I still believe Ikey is a visionary genius but life keeps getting in his way it seems.

WetGeek

stalebrim I personally haven't noticed virtually any difference between Solus and Fedora KDE implementation, except for the underlying system but that's a given.

I personally am writing this from a Solus KDE Plasma VM, and I started creating a Fedora 37 KDE Pasma VM this morning. I personally can see a lot of difference. The Solus version doesn't suck.

stalebrim

WetGeek Thanks for the detailed insight.

murbert

tomscharbach I doubt that Doherty would be interested in making the compromises entailed in grafting on existing DE layers designed to be deployed on top of traditional OS layers. My guess is that Serpent will have a new DE.

He said in a forum post that Gnome and Plasma were going to be the DEs included. I gather there will be plenty of derivative distros soon

tomscharbach

brent I still believe Ikey is a visionary genius but life keeps getting in his way it seems.

Doherty seems to be the bottleneck. Fair enough. SerpentOS is Doherty's vision. The last I heard, Doherty had returned to the UK, set up a small development area, and was coding again after several months away from the project. I think I last checked in late Summer, though, so I'm out of date no doubt.

murbert [Doherty] said in a forum post that Gnome and Plasma were going to be the DEs included

I missed that ... thanks for the information.

brent

tomscharbach I missed that ... thanks for the information.

as did I. sure there will be a surprise in addition to gnome and kde (when that day comes)

stalebrim

tomscharbach Eh, not really. If you look at the blogposts you see the project has been steadily progressing all the time.

minrvovrfc

@WetGeek

I can't find the topic now where you showed off Debian with Calamares installer ROFL. Thank you for it. This surprised me, after 10 times I hit my head against the wall with Alacarte. My recklessness with trying to put in Bunsen Labs Lithium was the reason why the first out of two times suddenly I couldn't boot into Solus anymore. This was back in July.

Presently I'm checking out "Bookworm testing". I found an alternative that I think is much better called Spiral Linux. Had to settle for that with KDE Plasma because I tried with Debian but Konsole refused to let me create a profile and other problems.

Note that I cannot have a "virtual box" on my computer. Oracle software doesn't work and Bottles was a joke I don't want to go through again. So I have to install, more often to external USB disk and, if I have room and in the mood, to a partition on the groaning internal HDD.

Again thank you for your valuable information about other distributions. 🙂

Axios

Interesting has a custom app one can remove unwanted software easily
https://teejeetech.com/2022/08/15/zinc-22-04-1/

brent

Axios an entire complete Linux OS on an appimage? and you launch that appimage from the distro you are currently running? Mind. Blown.
I don't know where you would run updates or save stuff to unless it was to the host OS that launched you? An OS wrapped inside an OS.

WetGeek

brent An OS wrapped inside an OS.

Do you intend to review it here? It would certainly qualify as an "other interesting distro."

WetGeek

Bunsen Labs Berylliium - Coming Attraction

I've been waiting for this ever since I evaluated their previous release, Lithium. But due to its unique nature, this will be something coming to us in the near future. I expect it to take me longer than it does to explore the typical Debian 11 spin.

I'd also like to point out that -- athough I've created these threads -- I don't consider them personal property! I would love for others who know of interesting distros to bring them to our attention by exploring them and posting your observations here. Happy Winter Solstice, everyone!

brent

WetGeek It looks like a beautiful cousin to Lithium. This was going to be my #2 distro until I saw this at their website:
"Remember that BunsenLabs is a hobby Linux distro released under the GNU GPLv3+ license. This means there is no liability, warranty, or support, or guaranteed updates. If you need those things, choose another distro instead."

Look forward to your full review.
edit/emphasis mine

stalebrim

WetGeek My VirtualBox doesn't detect the appimage as a disc image. Gonna try Ventoy next.

brent

WetGeek Axios was just showing you it existed. I only commented because it blew mind🙂. No review from me.

WetGeek

brent or guaranteed updates. If you need those things, choose another distro instead

Remember, Beryllium is built on top of Debian 11, so what we think of as "updates" are simply done with apt*.
I suspect that message simply means there's no guarantee of a version past Beryllium. But a similar disclaimer could be made for any Linux distro.

or Symantec Package Manager, if you prefer GUIs.

WetGeek

Greetings from Beryllium
Despite family holiday interruptions, things are proceeding with my exploration of Beryllium. As this post implies, I'm coming to you from that distro with this message. So far, I've installed Thunderbird, installed and configured Vivaldi and sync'd it. I've created eight virtual desktops, which makes my task much easier.

What I haven't done so far is to modify /etc/fstab and mount my NAS shares. I'm a little concerned about that, because I could install neither nfs-utils nor nfs-common from the Debian repository the first time I tried. I might have just made a typo that I didn't catch, so re-trying that will be the next thing I do. See you again soon ...

brent

WetGeek that makes sense as an updated version then. If it's deb 11 then its daily sudo apt update all the way. thanks for clearing that up

tell me (us) if you like it better than Lithium--which you tried twice and I've tried twice--I be genuinely interested on your observations/edit

2nd edit/I'm downloading it now and will install on my windows ssd. note the word 'hybrid' in the name of the 64bit iso.

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