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Is a Trinity Desktop spin being developed for AntiX? Just curious. Thanks.

not by the dev team, but I imagine such a thing could be built on top of antiX-core and then the snapshot utility used to make an iso.

you would need a source for trinity deb packages.

Official antiX is all about window managers.

Trinity is a DE so it won't fit in with that group of WMs.

Have you asked on the antiX forum? Or tried respinning it yourself?

this one is perfect

https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz ... tydog.html

another alternative is: http://exegnulinux.net/
It's Debian -based (devuan, actually). I've booted it & found it to be solid (no crashes, no noticeable memory leaks across a 3 or 4 day session)

@bled, would you skim this this page https://github.com/DebianDog/Jessie/wiki/Porteus-boot
and comment whether it still seems accurate, still applicable when using the stretch-based TrinityDog?
From test-driving the jessie version a while back, I foggily recall using something like
porteus-boot changes=EXIT along with "save2flash" terminal command to perform mid-session waypoint save operations
to acheive a result similar to antiX "semi-automatic mode persistence".

Ah, reminds me to mention:
someone in the MX forum asked about the possibility of getting frisbee networking program into MX.
The version shipped in TrinityDog might be the most likely compatible candidate.

I checked frisbee a while back, but there wasn't any source code available, just a deb

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64472
^----- a tar.gz containing "source code for the binary parts" is here, but...

In linux "everything is a file"

In PUPPY LINUX "most everything is a symlink pointing to a file which points to a smokey01 -hosted .pet which, when converted/extracted, contains a file mentioning (via an inline comment) revision of the symlink in version suchandsuch authored by soandso on a given date along with what the local weather was on that date and the brand of tea the author was sipping..."

Yeah. And the frisbee files (bash+gtkdialog) are laden with references to wonky-named (and wonky pathed) external files presumed to be present in any puppy installation... and some of the user-facing frisbee parts are AppRun files (which presume use of roxfiler)
so, basically... this: https://i.imgur.com/h7G0HND.gif

bled wrote:this one is perfect

https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/zz ... tydog.html

Could you elaborate on what you mean when you say it is perfect?
I'll go try to find some reviews on it in the meantime. Thanks.

or just be a sport, go download it (262MB) and testdrive it

So, I imagine you could add the Trinity distro's stretch repos to antiX or MX, install the desktop, and see how much fire and smoke come out.

The repo does have source files, but porting them over to our repos would involve a lot of work. Any volunteers?

So... the original question was about adding Trinity Desktop to MX. Then it went to AntiX, and then to DebianDog.

Could someone answer the original question? I do see pages for this, but they are far above my head. I try to edit a repo file and it won't save.

I had zero trouble getting MATE to load as a desktop. Saying AntiX is all about WMs, not DEs, is dodging the question.

I may have missed it in a previous answer, but trinity itself has installation instructions for debian:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall

zaivala wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:47 am So... the original question was about adding Trinity Desktop to MX. Then it went to AntiX, and then to DebianDog.

Could someone answer the original question? I do see pages for this, but they are far above my head. I try to edit a repo file and it won't save.

I had zero trouble getting MATE to load as a desktop. Saying AntiX is all about WMs, not DEs, is dodging the question.

Did you read the first reply to the first post? It clearly answers the question.

Stevo wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 3:29 pm Any volunteers?

Good approach; I see no reason in the world why we would want to do the work to have it here...

zaivala wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 4:47 am So... the original question was about adding Trinity Desktop to MX. Then it went to AntiX, and then to DebianDog.

Could someone answer the original question? I do see pages for this, but they are far above my head. I try to edit a repo file and it won't save.

I had zero trouble getting MATE to load as a desktop. Saying AntiX is all about WMs, not DEs, is dodging the question.

Pedantically speaking, the original question was actually

Is a Trinity Desktop spin being developed for AntiX? Just curious. Thanks.

And the original answer was actually

not by the dev team

skidoo wrote: Tue Apr 24, 2018 4:27 am another alternative is: http://exegnulinux.net/
It's Debian -based (devuan, actually). I've booted it & found it to be solid (no crashes, no noticeable memory leaks across a 3 or 4 day session)

@bled, would you skim this this page https://github.com/DebianDog/Jessie/wiki/Porteus-boot
and comment whether it still seems accurate, still applicable when using the stretch-based TrinityDog?
From test-driving the jessie version a while back, I foggily recall using something like
porteus-boot changes=EXIT along with "save2flash" terminal command to perform mid-session waypoint save operations
to acheive a result similar to antiX "semi-automatic mode persistence".

Ah, reminds me to mention:
someone in the MX forum asked about the possibility of getting frisbee networking program into MX.
The version shipped in TrinityDog might be the most likely compatible candidate.

One of my favorites is q4os ( debian based trinity - desktop). I downloaded the exegnulinux to give a try. But... seems that live USB does not know wifi and audio drivers.
@Skido have you installed in vbox ? Have you arrived to have wifi and audio ?

Sparky Linux offers in his repos the Trinity Desktop. Installed times ago in Sparky Linux and I have played around with it.


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I played a little bit exegnulinux. I managed to install wifi and audio drivers by debian firmwares (non-free).
I fixed some thinks inside during my adventure. First need to add PATH of /opt/trinity/bin ... another fix. Another fix....but I never arrived to start wicd-gtk --tray and some other thinks.... Lean distro but needs testing and reports to maintainer to resolve and fix things.

I am removing it from my hdd as we spoke. I like to much Trinity but , xfce is really lean desktop that needs very few thinks/fixes for being on top.Probably some utilities similar of MX Tools , are really what xfce miss.

baldyeti wrote: Wed Feb 27, 2019 5:37 am I may have missed it in a previous answer, but trinity itself has installation instructions for debian:

https://wiki.trinitydesktop.org/DebianInstall

i.e., add the Trinity repo to MX, install the DE, test it, do a respin, upload it to archive.org, and let people know what you've accomplished! You also might to make it the default desktop the Live version boots up with, this can be done by editing one of the lightdm greeter config files, I think.