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Re: Linux screensaver

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  Thanks for the info. At this point, all I need to add is a printer small
enough to carry in the car when I'm travelling. Maybe one that
scans pages too. Then would be the time to look at other linux's that
are a little handier. 
  Any recommendations for a printer?

Hul


Rathbone <please@replytolist.com> wrote:
> On 2020-06-18, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> > On 6/17/20 1:12 PM, Hul Tytus wrote:
> >> After reading the remarks here it's apparent "screensaver"s save the
> >> screen from the results of continued and needless display of the same
> >> image.  Ah so...  I was looking for a program enabling pressing a key
> >> & having the screen's image placed in a file for later recall.
> >> Snapshot maybe? Imagesave? What's the suitable term?
> >>
> >> Also, any suggestion on a Linux system that isn't hindered with
> >> ubuntu's sudo or ubuntu's witholding the administrator's password?
> >> One that has the "snapshot" (...) capability, too. And one that can
> >> be "housed" in a usb flash and booted when needed.
> >> 
> >> Hul
> >> 
> > I started on Mandriva in 2006 and graduated to PCLinuxOS (a rolling
> > release) in 2013.
> [snip]

> Based on your description of PCLinuxOS, it sounds like it was cut from
> the same cloth as ArkLinux, a discontinued distro that I used in the
> early 2000s. It was really great for a small distro and was quite ahead
> of its time in many ways. I believe its main developer, bero, is now
> with OpenMandriva.

> To Hul's question, once you've distro-hopped for a while, you start to
> get to know the system and realize that Linux is Linux to a certain
> extent. If you know how the system works under the hood, you should be
> able to get any Linux system to do what you tell it to do.

> I prefer Slackware because it stays out of my way and provides mostly
> vanilla packages. It's something close to Linux from Scratch except
> pre-compiled.

> The only issue is, its stable releases have become fewer and further
> between; the latest stable release came out in 2016.

> OHOT, its -current is updated so frequently that it can frankly be a bit
> hard to keep up. I wish the stable releases would be as frequent as they
> used to be, but I still think it's a system worth trying for those
> looking to try something new but want a Linux system that will stay out
> of the user's way.

> Other good contenders are Arch if you don't mind a pure rolling release,
> Debian, Gentoo... I've heard good things about Void as well.

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Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-17 20:12 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2020-06-17 15:37 -0500
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:48 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2020-06-17 21:05 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2020-06-17 21:54 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:54 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2020-06-17 23:26 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:55 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:52 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-06-17 23:37 -0700
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 18:59 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Bobbie Sellers <bliss@mouse-potato.com> - 2020-06-18 10:15 -0700
    Re: Linux screensaver Rathbone <please@replytolist.com> - 2020-06-20 21:03 +0000
      Re: Linux screensaver Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2020-06-21 09:29 +0200
        Re: Linux screensaver Rathbone <please@replytolist.com> - 2020-06-22 20:20 +0000
          Re: Linux screensaver Aragorn <thorongil@telenet.be> - 2020-06-23 10:07 +0200
      Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-22 20:15 +0000
  Re: Linux screensaver Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2020-06-18 17:57 +0000
    Re: Linux screensaver Hul Tytus <ht@panix.com> - 2020-06-18 19:01 +0000

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