Just a note that the latest Chimeara and Daedalus ISO's have been uploaded over the past couple of weeks, presumably by @aitor. Very much appreciated, I am downloading and installing now.

I had a bit of fun re-spinning antiX Linux 32-bit recently, with Devuan forum member @JWMKIT's assistance. @JWMKIT recommended the wallpaper, and the old buuf icons seemed to fit, so it's been taking on a fun personality.

It's a demonstration of the power of JWM-KIT (the JWM project) to give you pretty much a full desktop experience with only 83mb of memory used at first login. @JWMKIT has also made his own version which has more features, hopefully he'll continue to develop it.

Downloads are here if anyone likes to give it a spin: https://archive.org/details/snapshot-20220301_2142
Logins are antix / antix and root / root. Be safe and backup any valuable data before letting it touch your system.

Trisquel's abrowser, to my understanding, is pretty much the same as Icecat, but applies the build configs of Icecat to the latest version of Firefox. Icecat only rarely releases an ESR build of Firefox. abrowser has always worked great for me on Devuan, zero issues.

A bit dark and moody, but in their favor they play some actual musical notes and don't have any obvious goat skulls on stage in their concert pictures. And not much screaming in their music from the brief piece I heard. They are like the London Philharmonic of death metal bands I guess.

You have to wonder who the losers were that agreed to be hung nude on crosses with bags over their heads throughout their live concerts: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Ji8RGi4cmrI

I hope they got paid well.

I think the hardest thing about being a Gorgoroth musician must be not stabbing their own eyes out with their spikey wristbands and armbands. Certainly nothing even slightly difficult about their music. Just feed a bunch of scratchy noise through amplifiers and play the same guitar note a million times.

Loved the goat skulls on the stage. That was a very nice touch.

I guess I've been Gorgoroth'ed. God seed, or whatever.

I've got a friend who has fallen in love with the badwolf browser, another WebKit front-end. Might be worth a try for you. He downloads the adblock lists in a version that's ready to paste into your /etc/hosts file, there's a few preformatted lists like that available on github.

My experience with qute and surf wasn't great, but then again I didn't compile them like you are. I think if I would try them again I would spin up an Arch distro in a vm and see if the AUR had a template for building the latest git version of the browser and the latest git version of the underlying WebKit engine.  If I was satisfied with the results then I would manually compile them on Devuan, tinkering with their configs to suit my tastes. That's a lot of extra time though for something that ultimately probably won't satisfy my needs.

For me, it speeds up to an acceptable speed if I've got adblock filters in place and if I'm using noscript in the "disable javascript" setting by default (toggle it to enable js). But, yes, otherwise it suffers from the slowness and limitations of all the webkit-based browsers. They seem particularly slowed down by ads in my experience, moreso than other "major" browsers.

I've been on a similar quest, looking for an independent browser. Seems like I've tried them all at this point. The three that I use most frequently are Luakit, Links2 and Pale Moon.

Luakit is a very capable browser if you configure it correctly and learn enough of the keybindings. If you love Vim or NeoVim for your text editor, you would love Luakit. I wrote up some tips for configuring it for maximum usefulness here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/configur … it-browser

Links2 is a simple terminal-based browser with no ability to run javascript, but it has a graphical mode and I've gotten a lot out of it. I still use it daily for a lot of my tech forum reading online. I put some tips on making it more useful and making it better looking here: https://trisquel.info/en/forum/graphica … 5mb-memory

Pale Moon is the best of these three. It is a fork of an old version of Firefox, and has changed so much that it is now its own independent browser engine called Goanna. It is quite capable, and has a lot of useful extensions.

Any luck Ron? I'm thinking with double the memory you'll be getting a better experience all around.

zzzfm is an updated fork of spacefm that's maintained by one of the antiX devs. And the multiple window managers are put in place by the antiX devs upstream - I'm just making a simple respin primarily designed to offer a version of 32-bit antiX without any non-free software or firmware.

The icons that are missing are all because they are menu items pointing to bash scripts or terminal commands. I used Freedesktops from the JWMKIT menu and was able to get all the regular programs together with their icons, but none of the scripts or terminal commands would take an icon, even though icons were available for them. Do you know if this is a known limitation with JWMKIT, where you cannot assign an icon to a menu item representing a script or a terminal command? I wasn't too worried about it.

I will add the icon paths you mentioned in the config, that would make it much easier than assigning the icons to the antiX programs each by hand like I was doing with Freedesktops.

Thanks for your help!!!! I'm really liking JWMKIT the more time I spend in it, and I'm feeling like I'm starting to understand a bit about how it works and it's put together. My first hour with it I was lost, but your wiki pages spell almost everything out.

EDIT: Sorry, you are right - once I added the icon paths, all the icons showed up in the menu, even for the scripts and the terminal commands. OK, this is great!! Looking really good.

You've got a lot of errors. In the first picture, you have 8,192 errors, 2nd picture 12,288, and 3rd picture you have 30,464. You can see the # of errors count on the far right side of the display, kind of in the lower part of the blue box on top. You did 4 passes (when running memtest86+ just run it for one full pass and then hit the Escape key to exit), so you were averaging about 7,000-8,000 errors per pass.

Did you determine if you have 1 or 2 removable sticks of memory? As I said before, if you have 2 removable sticks, you could test each stick one at a time by itself and determine if you only need to replace one of them.

On the positive side, you have a nice CPU and your temperatures were looking good, so if you get some new ram you should notice a nice overall improvement.

I'm not sure, I'm no expert with memtester. I ran it on my machine today to get a better idea of how it works, and I did not get errors.

Hopefully HOAS will pop back into the discussion and give you some advice.

In the meantime, if you have 2 removable sticks of ram, you might want to power off and remove one and run memtester on the other one, then switch them, testing each stick by itself. That's what we used to do to find a bad stick. Remember to run 'free' first each time to get that "available" number.