Suggestion for XFCE Live DVD
Posted: 3. Jun 2016, 03:18
Hi guys. I almost can't believe that my last visit here was last June 2011. That's five years ago. I have a new laptop but my old one just refuse to die (Acer Pentium Dual-core with 2GB RAM). I gotta admit I've ran newer distros here but the hardware shows its age. So instead of it just barely keeping up with the new distros, I thought I'd revisit Salix and revive my old laptop using this lightweight OS. One of the best moves I've made lately.
But in my haste, I installed the XFCE 14.1 Live 32 bit only to be stumped with the inability to choose the home partition. My fault, I discovered later that this was explained in the wikis. No matter, installation went without problems and I just used the vacant partition as a data repository to be shared with another lightweight distro I'm dual booting this with: Linux Lite 3. May I suggest that the updated sli and salix live packages be included in the Live CDs? This would help smoothen the installation of those who wish to have a separate /home partition.
So far so good. Movies play fine. Sound ok. No surprises. Perhaps my only gripe is that Google Chromium takes a great deal of time to install since it has to be compiled first. I maybe asking too much but may I suggest also that Chromium be made available as an installable package just like Firefox? In the end I just installed Firefox. I've also installed dropbox and youtube-dl using their websites' methods just fine. Overall, I'm impressed with Salix XFCE 14.1. I have pretty much what I needed for this laptop which is once again performing fast. Thank you. This is a wonderful distro!
But in my haste, I installed the XFCE 14.1 Live 32 bit only to be stumped with the inability to choose the home partition. My fault, I discovered later that this was explained in the wikis. No matter, installation went without problems and I just used the vacant partition as a data repository to be shared with another lightweight distro I'm dual booting this with: Linux Lite 3. May I suggest that the updated sli and salix live packages be included in the Live CDs? This would help smoothen the installation of those who wish to have a separate /home partition.
So far so good. Movies play fine. Sound ok. No surprises. Perhaps my only gripe is that Google Chromium takes a great deal of time to install since it has to be compiled first. I maybe asking too much but may I suggest also that Chromium be made available as an installable package just like Firefox? In the end I just installed Firefox. I've also installed dropbox and youtube-dl using their websites' methods just fine. Overall, I'm impressed with Salix XFCE 14.1. I have pretty much what I needed for this laptop which is once again performing fast. Thank you. This is a wonderful distro!