Mastodawn

Ein #EeePC laeuft bei mit mit #Q4OS https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=q4os

#Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just #Debian #Linux on a Diet for Old Machines fossforce.com/2026/02/q4os...

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Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just Debian on a Diet for Old Machines - FOSS Force

From hand‑me‑down laptops to brand‑new desktops, this Debian-based distro with Trinity or KDE Plasma keeps things fast and familiar.

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ricardo

Mar 2

#Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just #Debian #Linux on a Diet for Old Machines

https://fossforce.com/2026/02/q4os-6-andromeda-more-than-just-debian-on-a-diet-for-old-machines/

Q4OS 6 Andromeda: More Than Just Debian on a Diet for Old Machines - FOSS Force

From hand‑me‑down laptops to brand‑new desktops, this Debian-based distro with Trinity or KDE Plasma keeps things fast and familiar.

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antonej 🎾Mar 1

Alla ricerca di una distro #linux leggera per il mio fiacco laptop mi sono imbattuto in #q4os. Molto leggera e moderna con #plasmakde che non sapevo fosse cosi fluido anche su laptop poco potenti.
Per ora la cosa che proprio non mi piace è questa fedele riproduzione del box di installazione di win. Tremendo!!

Dawn Tåke 🌙

Feb 18

Well that's neat. I've been looking for a lightweight linux distro to try on my potato, (a windows tablet with 1GB of RAM.) and I found that #Q4OS allows you to install it from within the windows screen. That will allow the computer to dual boot. You can even go into BIOS and change it to the default boot.

One of the reasons I haven't converted it yet, (aside from lazy,) is that I might need a windows machine to talk to my printer. This might work out without me having to fight it to do a proper dual boot. The other is it's weird ass processor, am Intel Atom x5 Z8350 .

Thing could barely run windows 10

#Linux #TourmaLinux

Norbi📷🚴‍♀️💻Feb 16

I am looking for a way to do offline backups for Linux filesystems on x64/arm64/amd64 laptops to an encrypted (LUKS) disk.
I tried systemrescue. It works using fsarchiver but I have to manually mount the external disk per several cryptsetup commands.
I have written down the commands for several Linux distros I use but would like to boot from an USB stick on which either the commands are stored in a file or a sort-of automount works out-of-the-box.
I see several choices:
Customize system-rescue. I would have to do it for every new version
or
Use a distro on an USB stick which supports automount of encrypted disks.
Q4OS seems to be a good candidate. I don't know whether both versions of the live images support this automounting.
Any suggestions ?
#q4os #luks #backup #linux

caos Feb 2

@jrp @linux ja, ich habe auch mal Gerätealter 10+Jahre und RAM=2GB eingegeben, Was schlankeres als #MXLinux mit #xfce scheint aber nicht in der Auswahl vom #LinuxChooser zu sein.
Mit 32-Bit-Geräten wird es aber leider auch immer schwieriger. Ich hatte in 2021 mal recherchiert Olden but golden: Aktuelle Linux-Distributionen für 32-Bit, da gab es noch relativ viel Auswahl, aber nun gibt es auch für das aktuellste #Q4OS TDE, was immer eine sehr gute Empfehlung für sehr alte/schwache Geräte war (z.B. Netbooks), keine #32Bit -Variante mehr. Auch #LMDE und MX gehen nicht mehr. Was bleibt noch übrig?

Olden but golden: Aktuelle Linux-Distributionen für 32-Bit

Auch alte Hardware kann noch produktiv genutzt werden. Ein Überblick über 32-Bit-Distributionen in 2021.

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KDE España Jan 27

No siempre podemos estar igual de bien acompañados, pero si podemos traeros una buena cantidad de noticias y novedades en un nuevo episodio de #KDEexpress

https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/posts/kdeexpress/67-kde-express/

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@muylinux @thunderbird @q4os

#RealidadVirtual #KDEPlasma #Q4OS #FreeBSD #Telegram #Firefox #Thunderbird #Dedoimedo

Plasma en modo Realidad Virtual

Estamos de vuelta con vuestro noticiero en audio preferido de KDE en español, tras dos entrevistas muy disfrutadas por ese vuestro presentador, retomamos las noticias de una comunidad que no para. Publicado Plasma 6.5.5 con los habituales arreglos: búsquedas parciales en Krunner. Discover invitará a buscar por internet una aplicación si no la encuentra. Arreglado un bug que afectaba a las Valve Index VR. Dedoimedo consifera que 6.5 es la mejor de la serie. Y nos cuenta como configura desde 0 Plasma a su gusto Plasma 6.6 Beta listo para probar: Nuevos módulos como el Plasma Login Manager, Plasma Keyboard y Plasma Setup. Soporte al proveedor de servicio de secretos oo7. Emulación RandR para KWin en XWayland. Soporte OCR en Spectacle, el portal USB para aplicaciones enjauladas. Contraseñas WiFi compartidas con QR. El ganador del "coche del año" usa KWin bajo el motor. Propuesto un modo Full VR en Plasma. Es Q4OS la mejor manera de probar KDE Plasma en debian, en zdnet opinan que si. FreeBSD está trabajando en tener una opción gráfica en el instalador para Plasma en su versión 15.1. MuyLinux nos dice un truco sobre cambiar como se ve Telegram en Plasma, por si queréis probarlo, o probar Matrix, DeltaChat, XMPP... Firefox 147: Ya tenemos el XDG Base Directory en marcha. Mejora en la decodificación por HW en AMD. Soporte para el protocolo Safe Browsing v5. Activa la Vista Dividida con : browser.tabs.splitView.enabled Thunderbird 147 Mostrar la ruta completa en el panel. Artículo original con los enlaces en https://kdeexpress.gitlab.io/67/

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Malka Beth Jan 10

Looks like there are basically 2 to 4 options depending upon if they have all the old computers (& I get them home) or just the "newest" one, which will be about 10-15 years old

1. #Q4OS - https://www.q4os.org/downloads1.html
Good team, many instructions that look easy to follow & probably the easiest to navigate website of the 3

2. #SlackwareOS - good team, many instructions & an active community, but I'm not sure how customized I really need this thing to be & their website is really confusing in its layout
http://slackbook.org/beta/#intro_comparisons

http://www.slackware.com/

3. #Besgnu - single very dedicated person, might help anything I find run including older computers than are my main goal to find & might collapse from the pressures of doing it all themselves. Beyond which I'd have to fish for programs mostly on my own it seems so???
https://besgnulinux.blogspot.com/p/about.html

& possibly

3. #PsychoOS

4. #VoidOS - might use this for a server management