Cinnamon

Porteus-v5.01 – Cinnamon DE with Kernel 6.5.5

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‘Porteus is a fast, portable and modular live CD/USB medium based on Slackware Linux.’ Not an ounce of bloat on this Porteus-CINNAMON-v5.01-x86_64.iso @ just 380 MB. After adding apps & tweaking it only uses 1.7 GiB, so it easily fits on the 32 GB SanDisk USB.

OK – lots of pics to be added, and I am going to try to squeeze everything into just one post. There is a three part Porteus 5.0 Cinnamon series listed under the dropdown Category: Porteus Linux menu, and they are also listed under the Page section at the top – OPERATING SYSTEMS > LINUX > PORTEUS LINUX. Refer to those for more info and pics.

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How to turn a $314.57 Chromebook into a Fedora Linux Laptop/Tablet/Sketchbook

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  • NOTE: This 6/18/2021 post was transferred from my old Linux Newbie – Since 1996 blog, and has been edited to fix links, outdated info & etc., but the conversion from Chrome OS to Fedora info should still be correct. 

This was done using ‘Sam’ my new 12.2” Samsung Chromebook Plus V2 XE521QAB. Tried this same method on the new HP Chromebook – 14a-na0023cl (‘Chromebook’) ‘n it didn’t work. I had purchased two Chromebooks wid the hopes of turning one into a Fedora Linux laptop.

Here’s closer look at System Settings wid that so-called “weak” Chromebook Celeron 3965Y ‘n just 4 (“3.7”) GiB memory (6/19/2021 NOTE: forgot to upgrade to Fedora 33 from 32, ‘n so here’s the new System pic):

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 2

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 1 covered ‘Setting up PorteuX 0.3‘ & ‘Post Setup‘ – and you’ll need to refer to it for some of the info on using GParted to prep the Target device ‘n etc. Part 1 also covered how to set up the different PorteuX 0.3 (github) desktop environments—KDE, GNOME, LXDE, LXQT, MATE, and XFCE in either stable or current options.

Part 2 will be on how to set up the porteux-v0.3-xfce-4.12-stable-x86_64.iso wid a Cinnamon DE. The Developer says: ‘Xfce 4.12 is the recommended version for the best balance between performance and flexibility. Many patches have been applied to this Xfce version to improve the user experience.‘ You can use another version, but the xfce 4.12 stable version had the Screenshot app in it ‘n not all versions had that app. PorteuX 0.3 is very new ‘n has some minor bugs and/or slight differences in app options of various DEs.

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PorteuX 0.3 – ‘The Next Experience’ — Part 1

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I love testing new Linux Distros that show lots of potential ‘Right Out Of The Gate‘ – and PorteuX 0.3 certainly does that!!! 👏👌👍

Am all over the place wid this one – testing this DE ‘n that DE, testing the Stable ‘n the Current, etc. whilst also trying to put a review together!? 🤯 Put together a bunch of pics, and then discover something new that makes those pics sorta old. 🤔

It is going to require at least one more ‘Part‘ – since it is still new, am trying to keep it to just two ‘Parts‘ for now. 😉

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“Meet the Techs of Tomorrow Where They Are Today” — by Ankush Das

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I’ve been piddling wid Linux since 1996, and even tho Win11 Pro is my primary OS I still enjoy piddling wid, testing, and learning about Linux. In this modern world most of us already use 2-3 OSes – maybe without even knowing it, so checking out one more OS isn’t going to be that difficult, IMHO. 👏👍👌🙂

It’s FOSS has a great article by Ankush Das – “Meet the Techs of Tomorrow Where They Are Today”: A Conversation With Stu Keroff:

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