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« Reply #75 on Apr 11, 2011, 10:05pm »

Welcome Paul. Hope the Satellite is aligned for you tonight and the skies are clear.

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« Reply #76 on Apr 12, 2011, 4:37am »

Welcome Casey and Paul.

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« Reply #77 on Apr 12, 2011, 8:44am »

Hello wh7qq,
SalineOS, normally, requires smaller downloads for upgrade & dist-upgrade
which should reduce the load on your dish.

We seem to have followed a similar path to the present; although I started with muLinux, SuSE7.2, Mandrake, Mepis, Kanotix, sidux, testing, Mint, Peppermint, then SalineOS. I have found the stability and speed I was looking for. It sometimes seems like I need to break something to break the monotony.

saludos,
Richard.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #78 on Apr 12, 2011, 11:00am »

Richard perhaps you should take up the personal quest of writing good code

http://xkcd.com/844/

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« Reply #79 on Apr 12, 2011, 11:14am »

Yeah, that would sure satisfy the breaking part.

But debugging is such fun!

PS: That's a great site. More fun than actually working or reading.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #80 on Apr 12, 2011, 12:44pm »

Apr 12, 2011, 4:37am, fanch wrote:

Welcome Casey and Paul.

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Salü ! ... ' fanch ' ! ...

merci pour ton ... ' bienvenue ' ! ...

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a part de la ' Martinique ' ! ...

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« Reply #81 on Apr 22, 2011, 2:50am »

Just wanted to say hello.

I use Linux for about half a year; started with OpenSUSE (very pleasant newbie experience), then switched to Arch (to learn linux - and i learned a lot!) and later Fedora, but due to my distro hopping i tried many others - up to Slack or SourceMage.

Recently i was searching for some good, hassle-free, Xfce4 based distro (you can say that i retired from learning

). I was skeptical with the Saline, not sure about how it differs from Debian, but now i'm very impressed. It's nice, quick, Xfce tuned and everything works (even things that didn't work in Debian!

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I think i will stay for a while.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #82 on Apr 22, 2011, 3:49am »

Hi emanresudesrever,

Welcome aboard SalineOS !

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #83 on Apr 23, 2011, 11:12pm »

Newbie here, not just to SalineOS, but to Linux in general.

I've been distro-hopping ever since I switched to Linux. Had some bad experiences with Ubuntu and Linux Mint Debian. I'm running on a netbook so I need something speedy (Ubuntu runs like a dog) and stable (too many breakages with Linux Mint Debian). So far, Xfce is my favorite desktop environment so SalineOS looks like it fits the bill. I haven't actually downloaded it to try it out yet, but I plan to do so over the weekend.

This looks like a good place to be with a lot of friendly people, so I hope to stick around for a while. Please have patience with me if I ask too many dumb newbie questions.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #84 on Apr 23, 2011, 11:18pm »

Apr 23, 2011, 11:12pm, pawntakesking wrote:

Welcome to the boards. No question is too dumb, but for the best experience I would recommend having a read over the user manual. It goes over all the basics I could think of that most people new to Linux should know. And, all the common questions people have when changing distros (I did a lot of distro hopping in my day).

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #85 on Apr 24, 2011, 12:57pm »

Family man in the north-coast of the Dominican Republic, fix Windows PC for a living... Enjoy Debian Stable... Try to re-use whatever laptops/hardware comes my way...

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« Reply #86 on Apr 24, 2011, 4:33pm »

Hey Caraibes,
Amazing how many who fix them use Linux on their own computers.

I'm sure you will have a livlihood for many years.
People strongly resist change, even when it's good for them.

Bienvenidos.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #87 on Apr 29, 2011, 10:14pm »

Yeah ! ... that's realy some fun ! ... to fix those broken computers ! ...

mostlikely is the software which is mashed up ... of course the hardware is mostlikely too hard to be broken ! ...

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #88 on Oct 29, 2011, 5:45pm »

Well, it has been 6 months since the last post so let me add a new one.

I am a new user of SalineOS but have been using Linux for a long time. My current distros are LMDE and CrunchBang 10, both in XFCE versions, and LM10 LXDE. They have slight differences but all are light, fast, and reliable.

A little while ago, I tried SalineOS 1.4 and was not happy with the wireless tool implementation. I could have made it to work but I did not pursue further because CrunchBang was detecting all the different wireless cards.

Then I saw the release of SalineOS 1.5 and read the release notes about using the network-manager so I downloaded again.

It is much better but I still had to hunt down the (nonfree) firmware files for my wireless cards. The Debian wiki has good information.

So I got 1.5 finally running the way I wanted and I have to say that this is a great release. There are still some annoyances here and there but overall I like it.

The best part I like is the truly live installer so there is really not much of a need for remastering, etc unless it is for specific purposes.

Downloaded the iso and (dd) wrote it to a USB drive.
Booted up the USB drive and installed SalineOS to an 8 GB USB drive with swap, etc.
Spent a lot of time customizing, updating, installing software, languages, input methods, etc, etc,
Then use this 8 GB USB drive as the truly live install source and installed onto a 200GB USB drive.
Every little change I made in the 8GB drive has been retained in the 200GB install.

I will be testing more in the coming days and this has the potential to be my everyday distro.

Thank you, Anthony, and all the members.

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Re: Introduction
« Reply #89 on Oct 29, 2011, 8:25pm »

@loubapache, Welcome. If you find any problems you cannot sort out we will be glad to help. Lately our newest members have just introduced themselves with a question or two. Either way is great, all are welcomed here.

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