• Toolz
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Topic: Firefly Linux

I just found out about this today (Monday means Distrowatch newsletter day) and it's interesting. Based on Arch, LXDE, no problems with drivers, ext4 - should appeal to a few round here. I ran it on a Eee and my  HP laptop and it works in an unspectacular kind of way. I feel it could really do with some kind of Crunchbang theming and general inspiration. Or perhaps it's intentionally left like that.

Wicd is the network manager and it has Openoffice - not sure why they squeezed that in a 500MB CD. And it's Unetbootin and Virtualbox-friendly. Even tried installing but there was an error right at the end - I'll see if I can force it to boot up later.

Package Manager is Pacman. No GUI for that and I couldn't get root on live bootup so I didn't investigate more.

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Re: Firefly Linux

I read about this some months ago, I even downloaded the iso but never got in the testing stage.

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  • craigh
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Re: Firefly Linux

I was going to try it on my eee pc because of it being Arch based but then I decided to install Arch with my own configuration.

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Re: Firefly Linux

I tried it once and seem nice. Im just waiting for the next beta and eventually a stable release.

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Re: Firefly Linux

What's the arch-eee connection here?

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Re: Firefly Linux

Firefly runs really nicely on my old Compaq test machine as a live CD, but I had problems with the installer, which seems to fall-over frequently and not necessarily at the same points each time. Once they get that sorted, it could be a very interesting project - anything that makes Arch easier to install has to be a good thing!

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  • omns
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Re: Firefly Linux

red devil wrote:

I had problems with the installer, which seems to fall-over frequently and not necessarily at the same points each time.

I noticed that they said to run pacman -Syu on the live cd to fix the installer issues. Might be worth trying smile

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red devil wrote:

anything that makes Arch easier to install has to be a good thing!

It's like killing people during a crusade to bring them the word of god cool

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  • Kuno
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Re: Firefly Linux

omns wrote:
red devil wrote:

I had problems with the installer, which seems to fall-over frequently and not necessarily at the same points each time.

I noticed that they said to run pacman -Syu on the live cd to fix the installer issues. Might be worth trying smile

Just tried it on my desktop booting from USB. Neither Firefox nor pacman are working for me ....
Maybe i should try burning the iso on CD... ?

  • Toolz
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Re: Firefly Linux

red devil wrote:

I had problems with the installer, which seems to fall-over frequently and not necessarily at the same points each time.

Based on this I tried again. Got two errors after file copying had finished - sure they were the same as before. First was a non-fatal fstab problem, second was a problem unmounting /tmp - then it exited.

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Re: Firefly Linux

I think I'm going to give this a go in Virtualbox today to see what it's all about. Seems pretty nice to me.

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