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Browsers are insecure by their very nature. The totally secure browser simply doesn't exist; it's an oxymoron in real terms, 'cos the only 100% secure browser is one that NEVER goes online. Which makes it at best an ornament.....as much use as a chocolate teapot.

@greengeek has hit the nail on ...

Well yes, the only time I'm really cautious is with banks and even then I don't feel much danger just don't want that risk. Probably just a bit paranoid since I don't see any reports here of anything dodgy ever happening. Case of better safe than sorry.

Maybe the best pratice for those with concern is to only access important sites such as banking with dedicated boot sessions using pupmode 5

Maybe so, but it provides no great security really anyway if the underlying system components are not up-to-date security-wise. I would therefore advise ...

The comparison between distros using Wayland and those using the likes of great little XFCE is certainly interesting and KDE Plasma is pretty speedy nowadays too for those who don't like tiling per se.

I can't say that I notice any difference at all between the xorg based distros I run and ...

In terms of whether it matters or not, security also depends on what you use your computer for. Most stuff I use my computer for is so general purpose unimportant I don't feel particularly vulnerable. I certainly no longer would use the likes of Puppy Linux for banking - save files/ save folders ...

Alternative:
Porteux v2.0 kernel 6.14.0, under 750MB-ram, under 500MB-iso
Frugal or direct isobooting with persistence.

Porteus is okay. It's a clever design, and I've often given it a try as the years go by, but it is not quite ever what I myself want, but fine if you do.
Having said that ...

Please tell me. I am trying to migrate from Linux Mint dominance. I thought Peppermint OS was the solution.

Depends why you want to migrate from Linux Mint; I use the xfce variant of that much of the time and find it a great distro.

However, by default it is large and a full install and we can ...

I wondered if the issue is something to do with the way your partition is being mounted.

If you run the command mount by itself, you should be able to see the mount status such as if it is ro or rw or nosuid and so on.

I don't know if the partition could be remounted with different status from the ...

Why would the partition created full install be a read only filesystem? It isn't an iso... sounds like hard drive issue. Otherwise, that old saintless advice talked about using a patched initrd so as to allow a frugal install with save persistence. That save mechanism won't be read only either ...

I use Viber everyday and for years now (in fact using it right now to keep in touch with staff in the office while out for lunch). It is the principle communication app we and many others use for business hence us choosing it too. We always use the official AppImage, but I've never tried that with a ...

I agree with you Clarity. The underlying problem is quite simple, really: greed.

Whenever we oppose that greed we are immediately labelled by some as 'Communists', which is just a trick use of language to effectively prevent opposition to greed.

In capitalism the biggest source of greed is how ...

For example, I'm just exercising my legal right not to participate in the elections.

Not all countries have that as a legal right. Some seem to make it necessary to vote for one particular candidate, even if there are many, or face dire consequencies (like finding yourself falling out of a ...

Looking at the screenshot of Gimp 3.0, I can only say I wish they would change it to be a bit more like Krita, which I find much easier to use because of the way it is presented. However, Gimp is pretty good and no doubt very good if you take the time to learn it well. Actually, vector-graphics ...

Europe needs to break ties with the US and become a self-protecting superpower.
our own more civilized democracies,
is nonsense has gone back to the ideology where the powerful take the 'right'

You're not a boy anymore, you're a grown man. But remember what is written in the biology textbook ...

The way the world is being turned upside down by trump/putinism, Europe needs to break ties with the US and become a self-protecting superpower. Individuals need to embrace everything opensource and definitely opensource AI. We are becoming effectively at war with that old Ally and need to defend ...

Using my pattern-matching eyesight (hahaha) I would however definitely say that these photos are of DJ Sandra Bass. Of course anyone can send any photo claiming to be a person - it is very common; plenty of people probably using photos of models to represent their less than perfect selves!!!... and ...

The hosting prices have soared upwards in the last 2 years. rockedge.org started 15 years ago with around $60 a year for unlimited bandwidth and unlimited storage on a shared server. Same with puppylinux.com which also started off with registration and the shared host server costs being around $70 ...

Personaly I was delighted to escape from work life, but alas I was kidding myself - I have been dragged back in and very much to an office where I am busier probably ever before in my life. At least a lot, but not all, of it is directly IT/network-services related, but thus far my hobby forum ...

A firstrib version of that would be identical in size but provide all the usual KL functionality (assuming the tiny KL utility scripts were added). But FirstRib (with some KL utilities) produced a commandline (non-GUI) Ubuntu FossaFocal distro that was also 78 or 79MB in iso size, and could be ...

@wiak and @rockedge
Too much easy talking IMO, how should a new KL user know that he/she has to add w_addmodule="sdhci_acpi " to the kernel boot line, ok, from this thread, yes, if lucky enough reading it.
Btw, if the initrd.gz that I provided to test didn't work for @JusGellin it's very ...

@wiak and @rockedge
Too much easy talking IMO, how should a new KL user know that he/she has to add w_addmodule="sdhci_acpi " to the kernel boot line, ok, from this thread, yes, if lucky enough reading it.
Btw, if the initrd.gz that I provided to test didn't work for @JusGellin it's very unlikely ...

Probably some small addition to the initrd to deal with the emmc type drives. We can examine what Bookwormpup is doing with the emmc types

Exactly. Lot of fuss and criticism about next to nothing. Can easily add in missing module. Different hardware situation, similar problems can arise. Anyway ...

Actually I forgot about this interesting thread, despite it being clearly positioned in the KL HowTo area.

I stumbled across it tonight when seeing if I could remember when I first wrote wd_grubconfig script to see if I said much about that. I expect it was simply originally done for myself ...

I don't know if that info is already present on the forum or not.

I don't know either! I think it might be already detailed someplace by @wiak but I will need to track that down.....otherwise it is a good idea we write some documentation detailing wd_grubconfig and the convenience that it's use ...

I assume this site is just for your KL distros?

Yes seems to specifically be for Sofiya's own spins including some Community Edition releases of distros released earilier by some of us.

In practice, when individuals create a distro or distros as Sofiya does then they are very likely to build ...

I think one can use the partition UUID like this to target the partition holding the upper_changes and boot into RAM2 mode.
Remember that all the UUID and LABEL names are for example purposes only and will need to be swapped with your values.

example using the UUID for /mnt/sdc1/persistence and ...

Note that there are also these two fine KL Arch-based creations by josejp2424:

KLA-Manjaro LXDE
viewtopic.php?t=12671

KLA Manjaro JWM
viewtopic.php?t=12833

It would be appropriate to ask josejp2424 if he wants them on DIstrowatch.

The following (from KL HowTo area) was an example to explain how to build a KL distro.

I cannot myself vouch for all parts of that still to be correct since it refers to some addon plugs provided at the time by others:

viewtopic.php?p=98487#p98487

Funnily enough, one of the facts that makes KL/FR a bit difficult to document is that they are pretty easy to build.

Indeed, part of the documentation issue, is that you build them like using LEGO so there are several (most all relatively easy in practice) ways to build/bolt them together...

But ...

I'd suggest KLV-Airedale and one of Sofiya's recent KDE-based releases, but there are several from Sofiya of interest, and particularly some tiling manager based ones. Sooner or later, we will be more interested in publishing Wayland-based KL distros I feel though (KDE in that mould of course).

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