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Run latest SlackEX (Slackware) – Build 201105 – 64 bit live and create your own live installable Slackware system with Refracta Snapshot!

Posted 11-05-2020 at 12:37 PM by exton (Exton's Blog)

Slackware is the first widely-used Linux system, which is still developing. Slackware has existed since 1993. In comparison with for example Ubuntu and Linux Mint, many people believe that Slackware is “difficult”. Any novice can quickly learn to use Ubuntu they say. My remaster of Slackware Current (14.2), which I call SlackEX 14.2/Current 64 bit Linux Live DVD, is however just as easy to use as Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint. Some tend to complain that the Program Management in Slackware is awkward....
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Workaround for the GTK file dialog causing segfaults or something on appimage versions of Inkscape

Posted 11-05-2020 at 08:46 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Tags gtk, inkscape

https://gitlab.com/inkscape/inkscape...note_423123594

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Originally Posted by Mike Neilly
[...] Downloading the newer schema file from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-...er.gschema.xml and installing it in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml, running "glib-compile-schemas ." in that directory and using Alt-F2 r to restart gnome-shell seems to resolve the issue with Inkscape 1.0.1.
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MeX 64 bit Linux – Build 201031 – based on Ubuntu 20.10 with Cinnamon 4.6.4 Desktop environment and Refracta Snapshot :: Create your own ISO

Posted 10-31-2020 at 03:29 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)

MeX 64 bit Linux – Build 201031 – based on Ubuntu 20.10 with Cinnamon 4.6.4 Desktop environment and Refracta Snapshot :: Create your own installable live Ubuntu system!

NEWS/CHANGES 201031
Mex Linux is no longer based on Linux Mint. MeX Build 201031 is based only on Debian and Ubuntu 20.10. I have replaced the original kernel with “my” special kernel 5.9.1-exton. All installed packages in MeX Linux have been upgraded to the latest version by 201031. This version of MeX uses...
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Apparently Linux works in a way that makes perhaps a bit more likely for one to think an USB hdd is going bad

Posted 10-30-2020 at 07:10 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 10-30-2020 at 07:14 AM by the dsc
Tags lunux, usb

I was googling a lot to figure out what could be happening, but already under the assumption that one of the HDDs I have in a USB dock station was about to fail definitively. In fact, part of my reading was around trying to understand if maybe Linux itself doesn't deal well with this kind of set-up, in ways that could be perhaps more damaging than the normal internal usage of the HDD.

But then I found a piece of information suggesting that maybe what happened was just that the USB...
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Run Android 10 on your PC :: AndEX 10 (Android-x86_64) with GAPPS (Google Play Store etc.), F-Droid, Brave Browser and Computer Launcher 2

Posted 10-27-2020 at 12:29 PM by exton (Exton's Blog)
Updated 10-29-2020 at 04:28 AM by exton (MORE INFO)

NEWS 201027 – A new version of AndEX 10 is ready!
I’ve uploaded a new upgraded version of AndEX 10 – android_x86_64-10-exton-gapps-aptoide-fdroid-spotify-1330mb-201027.iso. All included apps have been updated to the latest version. Also Google Play Services and Google Play Store. The ISO file is of only 1330 MB! Makes it easier to run AndEX on computers with low RAM. The very nice launcher Computer Launcher 2 is used in this AndEX version. Make it your standard Launcher. (Surprise your friends...
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