Subj : Re: Too many? :) To : Barry Martin From : Ky Moffet Date : Mon Sep 21 2020 00:52:00 BARRY MARTIN wrote: > Hi Ky! > > > > > |-- !Unsorted > > | |-- 4MLinux-31.0-32bit.iso > > | |-- ALive-15.0.iso > > | |-- AVLinux-isotester-x64-2019.4.10.iso > > > > Too many 'Unsorted', yes! > KM> Haha... yeah, the debate is whether I should sort 'em purely by > KM> distro, or make a tree hierarchy by family, which appeals to my > KM> sense of organization, but I'd never find half of 'em again, cuz > KM> who remembers that Some Obscure Distro was based on a derivative > KM> of Debian by way of Ubuntu via Mint? and then there's the ones > KM> that jump ship, like LMDE. > > My initial thought was to follow that which appeals to your sense of > organization -- after all, your compilation! Yeah, and then I realized I'd run the pathnames out to a day's hike from the prompt... and then what do you do with something like DebianDog (or worse, DevuanDog) which is really Debian but lives in the Puppy ecosystem? Bah. "Unsorted". :D > As for the 'never find again' aspect, simply use a Find or Search > option? Start from near the top and have computer drill down and locate > for you. Oh, but when you can't remember what some obscure spin called itself... This actually happened with ... I believe it was JULinux (Just Use linux) or possibly a variant that remains unrediscovered... All I could remember is that the default wallpaper had Tux as Jesus. Which was extremely funny but not enough to make the NAME stick in my head! That's why the durn ISO is appended "Jesus linux". (Or should be. I need to download another for my collection.) > Another option might be a 'Map' file. Might be a big spreadsheet -- use > an actual spreadsheet utility of just columns in a (landspace oriented) > text file. Thinking something like a listing of the filename, > derivation information, bits (16, 32, 64, etc.), possibly notes ("works > up to 386", "Died with Y2K"). I've tried a few of those antiquities... for the most part they give me hives. Interesting conceptually, tho... KM> Have you SEEN the family tree? it's... astonishing.... > KM> https://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=family-tree > > It looks just like the one in Chemistry classes! Funny, that... > The 'curvey' one at the bottom looked neat -- I did click to view and > the original was more legible; just couldn't expand sufficiently. Turns out that one is more up to date... === So a couple of install adventures.... let's use Fireball, who has lots of horsepower and nothing better to do, and some random blank HD... Mageia would not run live. 40 minutes to install, and then ran not very well. Lots of stuff does not work. They've made it worse. Stopped paying attention after about the third nonfunctional annoyance and made it go away. So there's finally a KDE-on-Debian that at least looks decent live. Let's try that... if we can figure out the damn partitioner. Not sure what took it so long but it didn't actually do anything; here's Mageia's /home still intact (well, at least I didn't have to redo my KDE settings), in part because it wouldn't let me change it. Two hours later it's finally installed.... at first it was really sluggish; seems to have gotten better. Letting it run updates, but I don't see anything to induce me to switch. Only reason to not nuke it is that the installer is a major PITA and I don't want to do it again, ever. Makes Windows installs look simple. PCLOS has spoiled me. Installs in 5 minutes flat (even with my 3GB of added stuff) and a handful of clicks, nothing to configure and all works OOTB. þ RNET 2.10U: ILink: Techware BBS þ Hollywood, Ca þ www.techware2k.com --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .