seeking comprehensive guides to software sources and software installation guides

geniuspenguis · 11-20-2014, 02:37 PM

I'm a bit of a refugee from certain distros that split off from debian: ubuntu, mint, and solydxk.* I am sick and tired of limiting myself to a rolling "distro" and their limited software repositories. I've tried multiple times to tell the forum moderators of this intent on my very own computer to do what I want to, but they are categorically anti- fsf.org and don't seem to give a damn about principles, but would rather make users their guinea pigs:

I can think of one website where they offer comprehensive amounts of alternative repsositories,
http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/ but I seriously doubt these are not enough.

Maybe it would be better to install favored software from scratch and compile?

What else does anyone suggest about finding comprehensive full ability to install software, while preferring the free software foundation principles?

I have the latest greatest home edition of solydx with a few extra software I got from here:

http://debgen.simplylinux.ch/

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About this tool

The Debgen is a tool that allows the user to create /apt/sources.list file by adding some extra repositories beyond the standards.

This version of the tool is in beta. So I would appreciate to receive feedback on its use so that I could improve the service.

-Jonhnatha

Keith Hedger · 11-20-2014, 06:18 PM

If you want full control of what goes into your os and don't mind getting 'down and dirty' head over to linux from scratch you wont look back

fatmac · 11-21-2014, 06:55 AM

Debian has the largest repository of programs than any other distro, so it would just be a case of either using Debian or a Debian based system to have full access to all those programs.
(I use AntiX, http://antix.mepis.com/index.php?title=Main_Page a lightweight distro that is fully compatible.)

geniuspenguis · 11-21-2014, 05:16 PM

thank you everyone. You all showed good information, or at least you mean well if I discover otherwise. If only I had enough computers and enough access to the internet and another 100 years here in a secret bunker to experiment and tinker, but I don't!

sgosnell · 11-21-2014, 06:05 PM

If you want pure fsf, there is no substitute for Debian. Just don't add the non-free and contrib repositories, and you have only free and open software available. Every fork of Debian that I know of adds nonfree software, but I certainly haven't investigated nearly all of them. It's a way to attract users, because without it you can be limited on media operations and graphics performance. My choice is straight, old-school Debian. YMMV.

geniuspenguis · 04-29-2015, 02:31 PM

To make a long story short in a nutshell, since I have a multi partition 1 Gigabyte Hard Drive, and I had a blank ext4 partition (about 100 Megabytes), I thought it would be no big deal to erase it and change the UIDD or whatever it's called. I tried many times to change fstab and make sure it was consistent. I looked at all the Grub configuration crap. And basically this problem is this problem:

"Dependency failed for local file systems"
https://www.google.com/search?q=%22D...ile+systems%22

I'm not so much posting this here to find the solution to this problem, but to warn others that it's really stupid to install any distro that demands updates and makes threats to your computer if you don't do all the updates, or demands you keep some identification of your hard drive consistent. It's another bunch of big brother surveillance b.s. IF IT AINT BROKE don't fix it.

http://fsf.org Free Software Foundation Free Software by every and any means necessary.

https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...te=1&p=5273123

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Since Manjaro

[AND SO IS SOLYDXK!]!

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is a rolling-release Distribution with quite a frequent Update-cycle, it is adviced to AT LEAST install updates every two weeks. If you don't, the risk of breaking your system rises dramatically (which in your case happened). What you could try now is booting in a different kernel (preferably, the one used before you did the updates). Just select it at your GRUB-screen. If that one works, we can try to re-install the new kernel.

BOYCOTT THESE SCUM BY EVERY MEANS AVAILABLE! Please don't install their crappy software or use their repositories. You're proabably not much worse off with Windows 8.1

rtmistler · 04-30-2015, 06:14 AM

So what you're saying is that anytime you try something and happen to not be able to accomplish it, that it's the fault of big business, big brother, international conspiracy, aliens, or whatever.

Firstly, no one says you have to install a rolling distribution. No one further says you have to accept upgrades or use package managers. There are a very many Linux distributions. And finally, you can go to kernel.org, download the kernel source, and build your own kernel. Next you can choose a bootloader, and note that you can build one from source, or write your own. Lastly you need to make your root file system. Any case, all these things can give you a fully customized system, entirely of your own design and preferences.

Complaining that there are nefarious things out there which one can install is OK if people wish to listen, however if once you bark out and then fail to do anything, when you clearly have the available capability to do plenty makes the whole argument nil.