My vote goes to Ubuntu-MATE, and its what I install to others in oem mode, so they can pick their own language/user/password on their own later.
Many people have used and loved gnome2 as a linux desktop, MATE is this, with bugs fixed and gtk3.
For newcomers the question comes: How you want your desktop to look like?: Windows like, Mac like, "linux" like? You just launch mate tweaks and have the desktop appearance rearranged with a single click (similar to Zorin).
There is also the Welcome screen; the must have things you need to do right after install. Proprietary drivers? Codecs? Language?, some extra app?, just click the green button and it takes you by the hand step by step. From it, you can single button install things like Chrome, Minecraft or Whatsapp.
Ubuntu-MATE only uses the normal Ubuntu repositories and can optionally use any PPAs you might need, so your support and access to software is the biggest. Unlike Mint, there is no extra layer on top and you don't need to deal with the dangerous Mint updater and certain "features" that make Mint too easy to break for a newbies. It also helps that you get updates immediately from Canonical and not after Mint reviews, and (hopefully) test them against their own changes from Ubuntu.
Thats not true either, it will go to zero once quantum computing makes current crypto algorithms obsolete. By then new quantum crypto currency will replace it.
Give it some decades and always pay attention to the development of quantum computing to take a good guess when to leave. For the short/middle term it should be fine tho.
In the meantime you may avoid using systemd as init in Debian by installing sysvinit-core or in Ubuntu by installing upstart-sysv in your transition to a systemd-less distro such as Devuan.
If you are using Debian Jessie, you can switch to Devuan by simply changing repositories. Its still in beta so don't do it on production servers yet. But do plan your migration, before this gets out of hand.
When ram is less than 4gb, i use i686. Of course you could also ask: Is there anyone with less than 4gb of ram? And the answer is: yes, and they should stick to i686 simply because 32bit apps consume less ram.
To avoid throwing away old gear, even if linux drops support for the older 32bit cpus, you could always use something like Netbsd, which still officially supports i486. I particularly use OpenBSD with very old machines, simply because you can (net)install it using a single floppy.
A typical Pentium might not have usb, but usually has a floppy drive.
And if you still thinking why?, well there are enthusiasts, and there are people living in poverty or in countries with serious problems.
These computers used to run w9x which has long been abandoned, and yet they can still be useful with a modern *nix like OS. If it works, and getting Raspis is impossible; why not?
I rather go with Ubuntu Mate these days, it avoids the delays (and mistakes) of the Mint cycles, among other benefits. For newcomers it eases post-install actions with the "Welcome" app (not just codecs, but proprietary drivers, etc).
And more important, the support in Mint is lacking and very unfriendly if you happen to bump into certain someone on irc, Ubuntu keeps their code of conduct to prevent those abuses.
For the other flavors, Xubuntu and Kubuntu should do just fine.
For you there is Ubuntu MATE. I consider it the first choice for others to try linux first.
Gnome2 was abandoned by the gnome devs, but others took the code, fixed bugs and kept developing on. That is what the MATE Desktop Environment is. Anytime you miss Gnome2, think of MATE.
Plus Ubuntu MATE happens to have some of the MATE developers directly involved, they have a goal of friendly and familiar first, just like Ubuntu used to.
The mac address thing is largely obsolete now, with most OSes providing mac spoofing by default, and sniffing the connected devices to copy their mac address is the first step before attempting any passwords anyway.
The thing with scada is most terminals run windows, and its those terminals who are largely targeted.
Also you don't need to have exposed USB ports anyway, something behind (physical) lock could do for occasional updates.
You should check this: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/inde... (Do note these instructions are a bit different for Xubuntu, your flavor may need specific treatment).
In short run sudo pm-hibernate in a console and see if you can go back to your desktop when turning it back on, if so enable it following instructions.
It is disabled by default due to many chipsets acting erratically so its unsupported as well, unless your's has the ubuntu hardware certificate.
The same can be done with pm-suspend. It works with some hardware, fails in others, you have to find for yourself.
If both work you can do pm-suspend-hybrid which gives the fastest return + fallback in case you run out of battery while suspended.
Is it faster to hibernate than restart? Some desktops can save their "session" on their own, but hibernate requires enough swap to dump all your ram and it takes time to load/unload this.
Since "SteamOS" is just Debian (Wheezy?) plus fancy kernel, YMMV but I'm guessing you could just do the same tests.
I stopped caring about the Battlefield franchise after 2142, not because of the bundled content, but because of the rich community of modders around it.
I spent countless hours playing fun things like Pirates, or the "starwars" clones Galactic Conquest & First Strike, and even some mods that later spawned official content such as Eve of Destruction (Vietnam) and Desert Combat (2). When you got bored of mindlessly shooting others, you could race with cars in fantastic impossible "stunt" like racetracks with IS1982 which also had a "cars with guns" game mode.
You could also play a better WWII (go figure) theme with Forgotten Hope.
The current BF games are the same thing over and over again. I have been waiting for some killer (open?) 3d engine where a large mod community emerges again.
The source mods community had some nice titles such as the abandoned Age of Chivalry (don't mention the lame retail game).
Interestingly Star Citizen from another genre promises to allow complete and total modding for private servers, which is the exact opposite the "industry" wants to go. $50million crowdfund? Gotta be doing something right...
A good game has to be made away from the large publisher industry. It is seriously a stain to have the EA brand now.
A web worth saving is a web without ads or DRM, just like it used to be. In the meantime the excellent addons to block trackers, scripts, cookies, referrer and ads will do.
Those games were moddable and were the best. I couldn't care about the main game, its the mods where the fun was.
Stuff like Desert Combat, Eve of Destruction, IS1982, Pirates, Galactic Conquest, most of which had sequels for BF2 and 2142.
I couldn't care less for "yet another CoD" clone, but removing mods and forcing the origin drm made me skip the later ones entirely. And of course, this was a game about 64 players battling each other with vehicles and stuff, just for fun.
I'm sure the only reason there were BF:V and later BF2 was because of the massive popularity of Eve of Destruction and Desert Combat back in the days of BF1942. Even Codename Eagle was more fun than the recent crap they now make.
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It is worse, there is no neutral equivalent to "they", the translation ends either male or female: ellos/ellas.
But the rule about "male" implying neutral also exists, and feminists also hate it. Some people incorrectly use @ to imply both, ie: ell@s.
My vote goes to Ubuntu-MATE, and its what I install to others in oem mode, so they can pick their own language/user/password on their own later.
Many people have used and loved gnome2 as a linux desktop, MATE is this, with bugs fixed and gtk3.
For newcomers the question comes: How you want your desktop to look like?: Windows like, Mac like, "linux" like? You just launch mate tweaks and have the desktop appearance rearranged with a single click (similar to Zorin).
There is also the Welcome screen; the must have things you need to do right after install. Proprietary drivers? Codecs? Language?, some extra app?, just click the green button and it takes you by the hand step by step. From it, you can single button install things like Chrome, Minecraft or Whatsapp.
Ubuntu-MATE only uses the normal Ubuntu repositories and can optionally use any PPAs you might need, so your support and access to software is the biggest. Unlike Mint, there is no extra layer on top and you don't need to deal with the dangerous Mint updater and certain "features" that make Mint too easy to break for a newbies. It also helps that you get updates immediately from Canonical and not after Mint reviews, and (hopefully) test them against their own changes from Ubuntu.
Thats not true either, it will go to zero once quantum computing makes current crypto algorithms obsolete. By then new quantum crypto currency will replace it.
Give it some decades and always pay attention to the development of quantum computing to take a good guess when to leave. For the short/middle term it should be fine tho.
Ah, do you mean something like this?
Nokia already did "waste millions of Euros in R&D to develop a Linux phone distribution". They would just be returning to their own project.
Yes, its called Devuan.
"Devuan GNU+Linux is a fork of Debian without systemd."
In the meantime you may avoid using systemd as init in Debian by installing sysvinit-core or in Ubuntu by installing upstart-sysv in your transition to a systemd-less distro such as Devuan.
If you are using Debian Jessie, you can switch to Devuan by simply changing repositories. Its still in beta so don't do it on production servers yet. But do plan your migration, before this gets out of hand.
SteamOS is based on Debian, and yes you can use any desktop you want with it.
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What is stopping Argyll CMS from running in a tablet?
When ram is less than 4gb, i use i686. Of course you could also ask: Is there anyone with less than 4gb of ram? And the answer is: yes, and they should stick to i686 simply because 32bit apps consume less ram.
To avoid throwing away old gear, even if linux drops support for the older 32bit cpus, you could always use something like Netbsd, which still officially supports i486. I particularly use OpenBSD with very old machines, simply because you can (net)install it using a single floppy.
A typical Pentium might not have usb, but usually has a floppy drive.
And if you still thinking why?, well there are enthusiasts, and there are people living in poverty or in countries with serious problems.
These computers used to run w9x which has long been abandoned, and yet they can still be useful with a modern *nix like OS. If it works, and getting Raspis is impossible; why not?
I rather go with Ubuntu Mate these days, it avoids the delays (and mistakes) of the Mint cycles, among other benefits. For newcomers it eases post-install actions with the "Welcome" app (not just codecs, but proprietary drivers, etc).
And more important, the support in Mint is lacking and very unfriendly if you happen to bump into certain someone on irc, Ubuntu keeps their code of conduct to prevent those abuses.
For the other flavors, Xubuntu and Kubuntu should do just fine.
They are not dropping 32 bit support, only pre-pentium pro support, ie. 486 and Pentium.
For you there is Ubuntu MATE. I consider it the first choice for others to try linux first.
Gnome2 was abandoned by the gnome devs, but others took the code, fixed bugs and kept developing on. That is what the MATE Desktop Environment is. Anytime you miss Gnome2, think of MATE.
Plus Ubuntu MATE happens to have some of the MATE developers directly involved, they have a goal of friendly and familiar first, just like Ubuntu used to.
The mac address thing is largely obsolete now, with most OSes providing mac spoofing by default, and sniffing the connected devices to copy their mac address is the first step before attempting any passwords anyway.
The thing with scada is most terminals run windows, and its those terminals who are largely targeted.
Also you don't need to have exposed USB ports anyway, something behind (physical) lock could do for occasional updates.
I get that error sometimes, always blame it on youtube and just hit reload when it happens.
There is anti-antiadblocking, but it is not yet necessary for youtube.
I think you should read this: https://www.torproject.org/doc...
You should check this: http://ubuntuhandbook.org/inde...
(Do note these instructions are a bit different for Xubuntu, your flavor may need specific treatment).
In short run sudo pm-hibernate in a console and see if you can go back to your desktop when turning it back on, if so enable it following instructions.
It is disabled by default due to many chipsets acting erratically so its unsupported as well, unless your's has the ubuntu hardware certificate.
The same can be done with pm-suspend. It works with some hardware, fails in others, you have to find for yourself.
If both work you can do pm-suspend-hybrid which gives the fastest return + fallback in case you run out of battery while suspended.
Is it faster to hibernate than restart? Some desktops can save their "session" on their own, but hibernate requires enough swap to dump all your ram and it takes time to load/unload this.
Since "SteamOS" is just Debian (Wheezy?) plus fancy kernel, YMMV but I'm guessing you could just do the same tests.
LMDE XFCE/KDE was forked into SolydXK and that is the distro you should try instead.
For Xubuntu this nice PPA should do.
I would change major when features change, and minor for bug fixes only.
That way you can quickly tell if your kernel has the exact same features than another one, and if you have got the same bug fixes.
Then yes, it would be a good moment to start with 4.0
Why the hell people keep playing minecraft when there is the open source free alternative available? http://www.minetest.net/
You go all the trouble of getting a completely different OS but can't get rid of a microsoft java game?
Minetest with addons is doing everything the proprietary game does and more. Plus, it doesn't need java and performs much better.
Leaving games aside (steam), Freebsd is perfectly suited for a desktop. Yes, lets get rid of systemd once and for all.
Ever heard of, youtube, vimeo, dailymotion, etc? Just saying,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you don't care, well; your loss.
I stopped caring about the Battlefield franchise after 2142, not because of the bundled content, but because of the rich community of modders around it.
I spent countless hours playing fun things like Pirates, or the "starwars" clones Galactic Conquest & First Strike, and even some mods that later spawned official content such as Eve of Destruction (Vietnam) and Desert Combat (2). When you got bored of mindlessly shooting others, you could race with cars in fantastic impossible "stunt" like racetracks with IS1982 which also had a "cars with guns" game mode.
You could also play a better WWII (go figure) theme with Forgotten Hope.
The current BF games are the same thing over and over again. I have been waiting for some killer (open?) 3d engine where a large mod community emerges again.
The source mods community had some nice titles such as the abandoned Age of Chivalry (don't mention the lame retail game).
Interestingly Star Citizen from another genre promises to allow complete and total modding for private servers, which is the exact opposite the "industry" wants to go. $50million crowdfund? Gotta be doing something right...
A good game has to be made away from the large publisher industry. It is seriously a stain to have the EA brand now.
You don't even need a tracker or .torrent, a mere magnet link would do, and dht can take care of the rest.
Of course for a project like Gimp, it would be prettier for them to host their own tracker.
Use Adblock Edge.
Never forget, Plus allows "some ads" by default...
A web worth saving is a web without ads or DRM, just like it used to be. In the meantime the excellent addons to block trackers, scripts, cookies, referrer and ads will do.
Those games were moddable and were the best. I couldn't care about the main game, its the mods where the fun was.
Stuff like Desert Combat, Eve of Destruction, IS1982, Pirates, Galactic Conquest, most of which had sequels for BF2 and 2142.
I couldn't care less for "yet another CoD" clone, but removing mods and forcing the origin drm made me skip the later ones entirely. And of course, this was a game about 64 players battling each other with vehicles and stuff, just for fun.
I'm sure the only reason there were BF:V and later BF2 was because of the massive popularity of Eve of Destruction and Desert Combat back in the days of BF1942. Even Codename Eagle was more fun than the recent crap they now make.