Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Kohlbach Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: MX Linux has an old-school look and feel. Here's why it's so popular Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2022 09:26:13 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: <87sfm2gbd6.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> References: <87wnbhgv6n.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> <87edxoggs4.fsf@usenet.ankman.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: reader01.eternal-september.org; posting-host="684bd47b459eeed4c76547ca4a283055"; logging-data="2300914"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/LBB2QuM2qeJVt6BiB2zbD" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:X0Rw8jzMPTLBmaDbSAmTUtAdPMs= sha1:yXJiu1dc0j80E190wVIN7jlw8aA= X-No-Archive: Yes Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:35433 On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 01:16:48 -0400, 25B.Z969 wrote: > > On 8/10/22 1:16 PM, Andreas Kohlbach wrote: > >> Strangely I not get any eye-candy, like animated windows in MATE, >> although the function is checked. > > Hmm ... an obvious defect. They'll fix it. I doubt. I may just miss a package or messed up a config. [...] >> I try to remember what "Linux on a floppy" I used around 2003/2004.a > > They were selling an early Red Hat WAY back on retail > shelves. VERY early, crude, Xorg GUI. Really fun getting > the mouse and keyboard to work right. A SUSE appeared > a year or two later, green box with Gecko. It was much > better. I used SUSE/OpenSUSE for a long time (still do > to some extent) - a "Cadillac" distro. Recently it > screwed me by taking away some common hardware-info-related > commands and using an inferior version of ffmpeg. Still > have an OpenSUSE on a VM, but ... The floppy Linux I meant had no GUI. Looking for "tiny" "Linux" and "floppy" there seems to be a recent development called Floppinux. Now found what I had. It was tomsrtbt. -- Andreas