Groups | Search | Server Info | Keyboard shortcuts | Login | Register [http] [https] [nntp] [nntps]

Groups > comp.os.linux.misc > #30154

Re: Linux screensaver

Show all headers | View raw

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.

Back to comp.os.linux.misc | Previous | Next — Previous in thread | Next in thread | Find similar | Unroll thread

Thread

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

csiph-web