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fsmithred

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Registered: 2016-11-25

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New Refracta ISOs

I uploaded new isos based on Devuan Daedalus. I haven't decided if these are final, so this is not an official release announcement.

refracta_12 (daedalus) xfce and no-X isos:
https://get.refracta.org/files/daedalus/
The no-X isos are incidentally also no-dbus.

I also made an i386 build with a lightweight lxqt desktop for my ASUS-EEE netbook. It previously had refracta-jessie with xfce, but daedalus with xfce is too much of a resource hog. It was using somewhere around 400MB just to bring up the desktop. The netbook only has 2GB RAM. A full lxqt desktop uses around 360MB. Still too much. So I was selective with the packages, and this one uses around 210MB for the desktop. NOTE: I did not consider disk space when I built this. My EEE has a 128GB ssd. The installed system takes up around 3.5GB. It's not really specific to EEE, but I did not include any firmware packages.
https://get.refracta.org/files/experimental/

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

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Re: New Refracta ISOs

Maybe try using JWM or IceWM instead of a 'desktop', both are quite lightweight in use, but look like a desktop....

fsmithred

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Re: New Refracta ISOs

I have used icewm in the past, and there were even some early releases of refracta that had icewm, either as the only graphical ui or in addition to xfce. Some of those were before I had the project. I've tried jwm but never stuck with it. Both of those are very good and give you more than just a window manager.

I tend to use openbox with lxpanel on my non-xfce builds, but even that uses more ram than icewm or jwm. I wanted to try lxqt. Part of the reason for that is to start finding alternatives to gtk for the likely event that it will become too ugly to look at and maybe too difficult to use.

Oh, and I probably should have mentioned that the EEE iso does not have a display manager. The desktop comes up automatically when running live media, but if you install it, you'll have to run startx to get the desktop.

Camtaf

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Registered: 2019-11-19

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Re: New Refracta ISOs

Ah, don't get me wrong, in no way am I criticizing your distro....... I was just putting forward alternatives for your little netbook.....

It would be nice to see a distro using LXQT though....

(P.S. Have downloaded EEE-lxqt & no-dbus to take a look.)

Last edited by Camtaf (2023-09-07 08:48:07)

rhtoras

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Registered: 2020-12-25

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Re: New Refracta ISOs

i am trying again refracta...
one of the better distros out there...
there are no experimental iso's as i see...
i could make something using the tools provided because i like light systems on resources
i also sent a week ago message to distrowatch so they can inform us about refracta news and on various sites
can you please send them too...
i have saved so many people with refracta iso...
only downside is on some cases refracta installer could not work and i had to use devuan net installer