Seeing how nice Debian was on the G5, I decided to test it out on Triela.
After installing, I was met with GNOME fallback, as GNOME 3 was not able to load because of hardware issues - in other words: I need to install FGLRX (Debian decided to use some "random" VESA" driver instead...)
Needless to say, I didn't really test anything past there, as I couldn't exactly remember how to install FGLRX, nor did I want to have to fiddle around with it again, knowing that the open-source Radeon driver covers all the GPUs I own (the highest being the AMD Radeon HD 6770).
I might test again on a desktop, but I'm sure if I want to.
21 October 2014
15 October 2014
iBook G4 and Debian PPC 1
I was pondering yesterday to put Debian on Sae-chan and Taiga (my best friend's iBook G4 that he's having me use), and I went with testing it on Sae-chan today (albeit, on Sae-chan's original 30GB HDD).
Works better than Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 from what I remember of those, and I remember that 11.04 ran Sae-chan hot and with the fan on most of the time.
Since I didn't want to completely reassemble Sae-chan, I had to plug in a spare mouse to use to get the Bluetooth to work. The Bluetooth is a bit glitchy, and I had to spend a bit of time to get it to work right, but every reboot, I need another HID to accept the Bluetooth mouse's connection before I can use it.
I tested LibreOffice and one of the large stories I'm writing (140 some odd pages), and it seemed to work quite well, though the auto-save seemed to be about the same speed as Mac OSX 10.4 or slightly slower.
I didn't test much else, but I will have to manually install the driver/firmware for the Airport Extreme card (this is where my strong dislike of Broadcom comes from) before I can connect wirelessly to the internet.
The test I'd really like to run is copying files from an external USB drive over ethernet. I remember doing it with Taiga once, and it turned out kinda horribly, either because OSX's built in FTP isn't made for large transfers, or HFS/HFS+ isn't the best file system to use for an external drive (with OSX, I'm pretty limited to what I can use). I think it's because of HFS/HFS+, since when I plug the external into Mei-chan and copy the files that way, I still have a bit of problems; yesterday I had 1 file miscalculate the MD5 from the external, and two bad copies out of 80-100 some odd files, while that doesn't seem bad, it should be a lot rarer. The only problem with testing it is that the files I'd like to copy to test with are on the HFS/HFS+ external drive, so if I copy to an ext4 external drive, it'd have to be in Debian, since using FUSE is a big no-no because that's just extra, unnecessary CPU work. I suppose I could transfer over ethernet to keep the file systems with their respective OS's (ext4 external with Debian, HFS/HFS+ external with OSX) - I'd just need to set up vsftpd to do that.
I will probably do this project soon, I'm just not sure exactly when. I may also migrate Sae-chan to Debian if things seem to be better that way.
Works better than Ubuntu 10.10/11.04 from what I remember of those, and I remember that 11.04 ran Sae-chan hot and with the fan on most of the time.
Since I didn't want to completely reassemble Sae-chan, I had to plug in a spare mouse to use to get the Bluetooth to work. The Bluetooth is a bit glitchy, and I had to spend a bit of time to get it to work right, but every reboot, I need another HID to accept the Bluetooth mouse's connection before I can use it.
I tested LibreOffice and one of the large stories I'm writing (140 some odd pages), and it seemed to work quite well, though the auto-save seemed to be about the same speed as Mac OSX 10.4 or slightly slower.
I didn't test much else, but I will have to manually install the driver/firmware for the Airport Extreme card (this is where my strong dislike of Broadcom comes from) before I can connect wirelessly to the internet.
The test I'd really like to run is copying files from an external USB drive over ethernet. I remember doing it with Taiga once, and it turned out kinda horribly, either because OSX's built in FTP isn't made for large transfers, or HFS/HFS+ isn't the best file system to use for an external drive (with OSX, I'm pretty limited to what I can use). I think it's because of HFS/HFS+, since when I plug the external into Mei-chan and copy the files that way, I still have a bit of problems; yesterday I had 1 file miscalculate the MD5 from the external, and two bad copies out of 80-100 some odd files, while that doesn't seem bad, it should be a lot rarer. The only problem with testing it is that the files I'd like to copy to test with are on the HFS/HFS+ external drive, so if I copy to an ext4 external drive, it'd have to be in Debian, since using FUSE is a big no-no because that's just extra, unnecessary CPU work. I suppose I could transfer over ethernet to keep the file systems with their respective OS's (ext4 external with Debian, HFS/HFS+ external with OSX) - I'd just need to set up vsftpd to do that.
I will probably do this project soon, I'm just not sure exactly when. I may also migrate Sae-chan to Debian if things seem to be better that way.
Apple PowerMac G5 2
I reburned Fedora at x1 speed, and still wasn't able to boot from it, then tried the net install version, which worked, up until I had to type in the root (or maybe user) password, where it asked me to double-click "Done" when using a weak password - it froze.
I then looked at the list of PPC-based Linux/Unix distributions, and was left with Debian, Free/Open/Net BSD, Vine, and Descent|OS (there's also RHLE, and T2 SDE, both of did not sound like a good idea).
I've touched Vine Linux once before, but since it's Japanese-only text (from what I saw for screenshots), I decided to steer away from it.
Descent|OS sounded okay, but with MATE as the desktop environment, I decided against it (I remember having problems with Cinnamon and MATE when testing them a long while ago).
Free/Open/Net BSD I decided to put off, since I think the installation was a bit more complicated than most standard distributions (Debian, etc).
Debian is what I was left with, and I was decently sceptical, since I remembered booting to a command line after installing on the netbook I used to have, but I went with it anyway, since I didn't have much option. At first I was going to download the DVD version, but was off-put by the 4-hour download - during which, I was reading through the documentation. I then moved to downloading the three install CDs, since it equated to under 2GB, compared with the full DVD-sized download of roughly 4.6GB. After reading a bit more of the documentation, I found there was the Xfce desktop environment, and a separate CD-sized disk 1 for it, so I stopped the regular disk 1 download and started Xfce disk 1 instead. The documentation also said that I'd need disks 2 and 3 along with it, so I downloaded them.
The initial test installation passed the test, not breaking/freezing at any point. What I found really strange was that the installation never asked for disks 2 or 3, especially when the documentation said it would, but it did install all the necessary items with just Xfce disk 1, so I wasn't that concerned with it.
I tried to used Aptitude to update the system, but it got weird and I had to eventually kill the process, since it didn't seem to be getting me anywhere (the process was running just fine); Synaptic worked just fine, minus the "Quick search" box being missing. After installing, setting up, and testing vsftpd, I began writing some of the necessities down, along with a bit of instructions before I did a reinstallation to write instructions for the installation process. I reinstalled again (I believe) to mimic the actual set up/use and wrote more of the installation.
My best friend needed a podcast recording from me (I forgot to give it to him before I left on Saturday), and I took it all to his place to finish up and whatnot. I ran a mock test, transferring a large amount of files (55 files), with one of them being quite large) from my laptop to the G5 then back to my laptop. I had 4 sets of MD5 sums (the original source, the copy on my laptop from the original source, the copy on the G5, and the copy from the G5) and they all came out the same, meaning that there wasn't any problems during transfer over gigabit LAN; the speeds were also acceptable.
One thing I noticed was that
After 4 days of working with it, I'm satisfied with the results; it also makes me tempted to migrate towards using Debian instead of openSUSE because of the rolling-type distribution, but I probably won't.
I then looked at the list of PPC-based Linux/Unix distributions, and was left with Debian, Free/Open/Net BSD, Vine, and Descent|OS (there's also RHLE, and T2 SDE, both of did not sound like a good idea).
I've touched Vine Linux once before, but since it's Japanese-only text (from what I saw for screenshots), I decided to steer away from it.
Descent|OS sounded okay, but with MATE as the desktop environment, I decided against it (I remember having problems with Cinnamon and MATE when testing them a long while ago).
Free/Open/Net BSD I decided to put off, since I think the installation was a bit more complicated than most standard distributions (Debian, etc).
Debian is what I was left with, and I was decently sceptical, since I remembered booting to a command line after installing on the netbook I used to have, but I went with it anyway, since I didn't have much option. At first I was going to download the DVD version, but was off-put by the 4-hour download - during which, I was reading through the documentation. I then moved to downloading the three install CDs, since it equated to under 2GB, compared with the full DVD-sized download of roughly 4.6GB. After reading a bit more of the documentation, I found there was the Xfce desktop environment, and a separate CD-sized disk 1 for it, so I stopped the regular disk 1 download and started Xfce disk 1 instead. The documentation also said that I'd need disks 2 and 3 along with it, so I downloaded them.
The initial test installation passed the test, not breaking/freezing at any point. What I found really strange was that the installation never asked for disks 2 or 3, especially when the documentation said it would, but it did install all the necessary items with just Xfce disk 1, so I wasn't that concerned with it.
I tried to used Aptitude to update the system, but it got weird and I had to eventually kill the process, since it didn't seem to be getting me anywhere (the process was running just fine); Synaptic worked just fine, minus the "Quick search" box being missing. After installing, setting up, and testing vsftpd, I began writing some of the necessities down, along with a bit of instructions before I did a reinstallation to write instructions for the installation process. I reinstalled again (I believe) to mimic the actual set up/use and wrote more of the installation.
My best friend needed a podcast recording from me (I forgot to give it to him before I left on Saturday), and I took it all to his place to finish up and whatnot. I ran a mock test, transferring a large amount of files (55 files), with one of them being quite large) from my laptop to the G5 then back to my laptop. I had 4 sets of MD5 sums (the original source, the copy on my laptop from the original source, the copy on the G5, and the copy from the G5) and they all came out the same, meaning that there wasn't any problems during transfer over gigabit LAN; the speeds were also acceptable.
One thing I noticed was that
sudo didn't seem to work at all - I actually had to use su instead (as in logging into root in terminal). I suppose I could've tried su -c, but it didn't strike me at the time; plus, with some of the things that I needed to do, it seemed faster to just use su and stay in it.
After 4 days of working with it, I'm satisfied with the results; it also makes me tempted to migrate towards using Debian instead of openSUSE because of the rolling-type distribution, but I probably won't.
openSUSE 13.1/13.2 "Beta 2"
Anyway, after updating packages on Mei-chan yesterday (which included VLC), I was watching a movie, since I didn't feel like doing much at all. I decided to hit the subtitle hot key for VLC since I had previously clicked on the video window, and it changed the setting; I hit the key a couple more times before testing the space key for play/pause. I was quite pleased to see that it was finally fixed (whatever the problem was), since the only other way to fix it was to compile VLC from source code... Which is something I'd like to avoid.
Now I don't have to make sure to click on the controller window whenever I watch something, and it'll save me a lot of hassle if my controller's buried underneath another window and I need to pause whatever I'm watching.
On a different note, it seems like there wasn't ever 13.2 Beta 2... And during my G5 escapades, I snagged RC1, since I realised that I had missed and forgotten about Beta 2 (not knowing then that it never happened). I've done a bit of testing, but still have a bit of testing left, along with taking some screenshots; hopefully I can have the 13.2 RC1 post up by tomorrow evening, since I was busy with the G5.
Now I don't have to make sure to click on the controller window whenever I watch something, and it'll save me a lot of hassle if my controller's buried underneath another window and I need to pause whatever I'm watching.
On a different note, it seems like there wasn't ever 13.2 Beta 2... And during my G5 escapades, I snagged RC1, since I realised that I had missed and forgotten about Beta 2 (not knowing then that it never happened). I've done a bit of testing, but still have a bit of testing left, along with taking some screenshots; hopefully I can have the 13.2 RC1 post up by tomorrow evening, since I was busy with the G5.
Finnix and SystemRescueCd
I stumbled upon these as I was looking for PPC-based Linux distributions (well, SystemRescueCd is strictly x86) and decided to give both a whirl. I was hoping to find something that stayed updated with GParted, fast to load, and hasn't any annoying setup options (boots straight to X).
Finnix was fast indeed and had no setup, but the major thing I found was that it's strictly command line. No X to get into to use GParted. I also found this site that told me what I needed to know about Finnix (though the article was on a slightly older version). Needless to say, it was not a viable candidate.
SystemRescueCd uses X and GParted, however, while booting, I saw the textual setup that's in GParted Live, so at the first question (I believe the keyboard map), I ejected the disk and did a hard shutdown. While I can understand the point of SystemRescueCd, I'd rather use GParted Live If I'm going to have to set up the language, keymap, etc. SystemRescueCd is not going to be something I use either.
Since my GParted Live is old (0.17.x vs 0.19.1), I'll have to test it out, but I'm expecting it to be not much different than before with the setup options. At some point, I may spin my own distro where it boots directly into X and opens GParted, just like GParted Live, but without all the annoying setup questions; however, that will be when I learn how to do so... Heck, I may just respin GParted Live to use the default options to make it how I'd like and finally kill off PartedMagic.
Finnix was fast indeed and had no setup, but the major thing I found was that it's strictly command line. No X to get into to use GParted. I also found this site that told me what I needed to know about Finnix (though the article was on a slightly older version). Needless to say, it was not a viable candidate.
SystemRescueCd uses X and GParted, however, while booting, I saw the textual setup that's in GParted Live, so at the first question (I believe the keyboard map), I ejected the disk and did a hard shutdown. While I can understand the point of SystemRescueCd, I'd rather use GParted Live If I'm going to have to set up the language, keymap, etc. SystemRescueCd is not going to be something I use either.
Since my GParted Live is old (0.17.x vs 0.19.1), I'll have to test it out, but I'm expecting it to be not much different than before with the setup options. At some point, I may spin my own distro where it boots directly into X and opens GParted, just like GParted Live, but without all the annoying setup questions; however, that will be when I learn how to do so... Heck, I may just respin GParted Live to use the default options to make it how I'd like and finally kill off PartedMagic.
11 October 2014
Apple PowerMac G5 1
My best friend wanted to essentially turn it into an NAS (or FTP server, essentially the same thing), but there's a couple problems. First problem is that it's missing a temperature sensor, so the fans are at full blast; and second, the highest it can take is OS X 10.5.8. While I'm not sure when updates to 10.5 will end, I'd rather it stay updated than not - even if it's not going to connect to the internet very often, if at all. Also, with his iBook G4 that I'm using, the file transfers via OS X's built-in file sharing (which essentially makes it an FTP server) didn't seem to transfer the files correctly, so that is another additive to why I'm weary about using OS X. (Though the iBook has 10.4.11, but nonetheless, it doesn't make that much of a difference, since I don't think Apple updated the FTP "package" at all).
I started with installing 10.4 since I had the disks and I wanted to get more info about the machine itself from the horse's mouth. I had forgotten to look at the sticker that has the model's specs that's usually somewhere partially hidden (on the inside of the G5's case, near the groove for the side panel) which would've given me the info I needed quicker.
Obviously, the only other option is a Linux distro, to which I started with Ubuntu (technically Lubuntu) 14.04. I booted into the live and was met with a weird graphical glitch, and eventually tried the suggested
When I was moving it from the loft into the other room (which has my entertainment centre), I decided to swap the Dell's monitor with a Dell monitor I had refurbished (but left to the side) which I was using as the monitor for the G5, and when I was going to boot into Ubuntu 12.04, I missed the timing for the boot from CD command (holding "c" at the startup sound) and booted into Lubuntu from the hard drive without any problems. I was very confused (since I didn't realise that I had missed the timing) and looking for the install shortcut. After rebooting into the Ubuntu disk, I was still a bit confused, but started the install process anyway, which is when I realised that I was actually in Lubuntu when I missed the timing; I finished with the install anyway and tested out how it was before reinstalling Lubuntu. I couldn't find vsftpd in the software manager, so I decided to update to see if that made any difference, and in a way it kinda did: it froze. Trying it again yielded the same results, and I did it one more time with a different hard drive just to see if it was the drive or not ("luckily" it wasn't the drive). I installed Ubuntu and began updating it, which also resulted in the crash - needless to say, I was quite off-put about it.
Gentoo was next, which I began installing, but after taking 3-4 hours to get halfway through the installation process (not to mention it was 3 in the morning), I decided to go to bed instead. (For those who are unfamiliar with Gentoo, you must manually install it, which gives greater compatibility with the programs you install later.) Gentoo will be one of the last few I try, since it'll take quite some time to install (I think the BSD bunch are also "manual" install types, I don't know yet).
I recently tried Fedora, but it wouldn't boot from the DVD for whatever reason. I've just recently reburned it, so maybe it'll work... If not, one more reburn at x1 speed, then I'll have to try the net install... Which always seems to give me troubles.
For now, I will say that I'm quite determined to get a Linux distro on this thing, as it's probably going to make it a more reliable FTP server than OSX will. My best friend will be getting a replacement sensor, so hopefully that will help the fan speed problem (when he gets it) and a couple of large hard drives (hopefully it reads the entire size). I will also make another update, but I'm sure you've already expected that.
I started with installing 10.4 since I had the disks and I wanted to get more info about the machine itself from the horse's mouth. I had forgotten to look at the sticker that has the model's specs that's usually somewhere partially hidden (on the inside of the G5's case, near the groove for the side panel) which would've given me the info I needed quicker.
Obviously, the only other option is a Linux distro, to which I started with Ubuntu (technically Lubuntu) 14.04. I booted into the live and was met with a weird graphical glitch, and eventually tried the suggested
live video=ofonly, which cleared it up. (Though this was after I became more patient with it booting from the DVD.) After installing Lubuntu, I had a lot of troubles getting it to go to the desktop - if I left it alone, it'd hang; if I used radeon.modeset=0, it'd boot into the system but corrupt the video so bad I didn't know what was going on (only way I could tell was that when I hit the power button, the broken video would change a bit and hitting enter would shut it down). I tried a lot of things - even putting the hard drive I was using in the Dell to read the logs - but eventually just took a break and left it alone.
When I was moving it from the loft into the other room (which has my entertainment centre), I decided to swap the Dell's monitor with a Dell monitor I had refurbished (but left to the side) which I was using as the monitor for the G5, and when I was going to boot into Ubuntu 12.04, I missed the timing for the boot from CD command (holding "c" at the startup sound) and booted into Lubuntu from the hard drive without any problems. I was very confused (since I didn't realise that I had missed the timing) and looking for the install shortcut. After rebooting into the Ubuntu disk, I was still a bit confused, but started the install process anyway, which is when I realised that I was actually in Lubuntu when I missed the timing; I finished with the install anyway and tested out how it was before reinstalling Lubuntu. I couldn't find vsftpd in the software manager, so I decided to update to see if that made any difference, and in a way it kinda did: it froze. Trying it again yielded the same results, and I did it one more time with a different hard drive just to see if it was the drive or not ("luckily" it wasn't the drive). I installed Ubuntu and began updating it, which also resulted in the crash - needless to say, I was quite off-put about it.
Gentoo was next, which I began installing, but after taking 3-4 hours to get halfway through the installation process (not to mention it was 3 in the morning), I decided to go to bed instead. (For those who are unfamiliar with Gentoo, you must manually install it, which gives greater compatibility with the programs you install later.) Gentoo will be one of the last few I try, since it'll take quite some time to install (I think the BSD bunch are also "manual" install types, I don't know yet).
I recently tried Fedora, but it wouldn't boot from the DVD for whatever reason. I've just recently reburned it, so maybe it'll work... If not, one more reburn at x1 speed, then I'll have to try the net install... Which always seems to give me troubles.
For now, I will say that I'm quite determined to get a Linux distro on this thing, as it's probably going to make it a more reliable FTP server than OSX will. My best friend will be getting a replacement sensor, so hopefully that will help the fan speed problem (when he gets it) and a couple of large hard drives (hopefully it reads the entire size). I will also make another update, but I'm sure you've already expected that.
25 September 2014
openSUSE 13.2 Beta 1
Quite a bit of noticeable changes, and from what I've seen, it's between a mix of under-the-hood and graphical.
Nautilus has tweaked a bit and looks a bit different, but mostly with the file save/open dialogue - the open/save buttons that used to be at the bottom of the window are now at the top (possibly to make it a bit more accessible?).
The combined menu (top right one) now has a "Location" entry, which I assume is for any sort of ARM install (phones/tablets/etc) that has a GPS and/or cell connectivity.
Hitting the "Activities" after a cold boot no longer takes the time it used to and appears instantly; however, the trade off is that hitting "Show Applications" now takes a bit of time to load. This is good for those who have things to quickly get to in the favourites bar right after booting, and bad for those trying to use this with a lower-end system (more on this in a bit).
The installation screens to install have also changed (mostly graphical), along with the suggestion partitioning scheme. With 13.1, it used to be that it'd suggest "x" amount of space for swap (since I've almost always had a swap partition, I don't know what the default suggested swap space is), "y" amount of space for "/" formatted as Ext4, and nothing more. Now it suggests "y" amount of space for "/" formatted as BTRFS, and "z" amount of space for "/home" formatted as XFS. While I'm not sure if this change will continue to carry over to the actual 13.2 release, it's a just different from what I expected.
While I'm on the topic of BTRFS, I searched around a bit and found a comparison between it, Ext4, and another commonly used Linux file system (might have been XFS?). From what I remember, BTRFS has the reliability, while Ext4 has the file-access speeds, and this is why I've decided to stop using BTRFS for testing. Though it honestly doesn't matter what file system I use to test with, why not test what I'm going to actually be using? Though I could test twice, but it's a bit out of my league to test the file system, as I haven't a clue how to properly test it - it'll be something I'll have to look up.
Unfortunately for me, I was unable to test VLC like I usually do, seeing that the H264 codec was missing from the repository. I may use a different file format to test, but I'll probably just see what happens in beta 2.
Rhythmbox is updated, and doesn't seem to exhibit the "album art crash". The other crash I can't immediately test for, as it requires me to play hours of music (Rhythmbox crashes after quite a few hours of music, so I'm not sure if it's a specific song/artist/album or just a random occurrence).
While I've technically given up on the Iris icon set, I did test it, as I found it on Triela's drive; however, results weren't any different - it still doesn't work. One thing different is that instead of replacing the window icons (close, settings, etc.) with icons to show you that it's broken, it just uses the default GNOME ones.
That was all the changes I noticed that I could find under my normal "usage". I'll need to do a bit more testing, but I'm thinking I may upgrade to 13.2, seeing I really like not having to wait for the "Activities" screen thing to load.
On the Dell, it operated decently fine; however, "Show Applications" causes 13.2b1 to crash and force a log out. I'm assuming I'm probably going to have to upgrade the processor to a dual-core, since it seems like it's unable to load the applications list correctly. I can, however, search the applications I want to run to start them that way, but that'd be something to get used to.
On Triela: 13.2b1 is fine in itself, and is how I was able to test my "usage". The actual problem I had was with the installation and myself. I was a somewhat tired while installing 13.2b1 to the test partition and didn't thoroughly look over the partitioning summary, which caused it to format my 13.1 partition to XFS to use as "/home". So what was supposed to be a quick 1-2 hour test, turned out to be a 3-4 hour ordeal to reinstall, update, and setup 13.1 close to how I had it. At this time now, I've got it even closer, but I need to use Firefox sync to partially set up Firefox without having to do much. While I'm lucky I didn't lose anything important (if anything at all), it's still annoying. Needless to say, I'll be more careful next time.
I might update if I find anything more after a bit more testing, and if not, I'll be back for 13.2 Beta 2!
Hitting the "Activities" after a cold boot no longer takes the time it used to and appears instantly; however, the trade off is that hitting "Show Applications" now takes a bit of time to load. This is good for those who have things to quickly get to in the favourites bar right after booting, and bad for those trying to use this with a lower-end system (more on this in a bit).
The installation screens to install have also changed (mostly graphical), along with the suggestion partitioning scheme. With 13.1, it used to be that it'd suggest "x" amount of space for swap (since I've almost always had a swap partition, I don't know what the default suggested swap space is), "y" amount of space for "/" formatted as Ext4, and nothing more. Now it suggests "y" amount of space for "/" formatted as BTRFS, and "z" amount of space for "/home" formatted as XFS. While I'm not sure if this change will continue to carry over to the actual 13.2 release, it's a just different from what I expected.
While I'm on the topic of BTRFS, I searched around a bit and found a comparison between it, Ext4, and another commonly used Linux file system (might have been XFS?). From what I remember, BTRFS has the reliability, while Ext4 has the file-access speeds, and this is why I've decided to stop using BTRFS for testing. Though it honestly doesn't matter what file system I use to test with, why not test what I'm going to actually be using? Though I could test twice, but it's a bit out of my league to test the file system, as I haven't a clue how to properly test it - it'll be something I'll have to look up.
Unfortunately for me, I was unable to test VLC like I usually do, seeing that the H264 codec was missing from the repository. I may use a different file format to test, but I'll probably just see what happens in beta 2.
Rhythmbox is updated, and doesn't seem to exhibit the "album art crash". The other crash I can't immediately test for, as it requires me to play hours of music (Rhythmbox crashes after quite a few hours of music, so I'm not sure if it's a specific song/artist/album or just a random occurrence).
While I've technically given up on the Iris icon set, I did test it, as I found it on Triela's drive; however, results weren't any different - it still doesn't work. One thing different is that instead of replacing the window icons (close, settings, etc.) with icons to show you that it's broken, it just uses the default GNOME ones.
That was all the changes I noticed that I could find under my normal "usage". I'll need to do a bit more testing, but I'm thinking I may upgrade to 13.2, seeing I really like not having to wait for the "Activities" screen thing to load.
On the Dell, it operated decently fine; however, "Show Applications" causes 13.2b1 to crash and force a log out. I'm assuming I'm probably going to have to upgrade the processor to a dual-core, since it seems like it's unable to load the applications list correctly. I can, however, search the applications I want to run to start them that way, but that'd be something to get used to.
On Triela: 13.2b1 is fine in itself, and is how I was able to test my "usage". The actual problem I had was with the installation and myself. I was a somewhat tired while installing 13.2b1 to the test partition and didn't thoroughly look over the partitioning summary, which caused it to format my 13.1 partition to XFS to use as "/home". So what was supposed to be a quick 1-2 hour test, turned out to be a 3-4 hour ordeal to reinstall, update, and setup 13.1 close to how I had it. At this time now, I've got it even closer, but I need to use Firefox sync to partially set up Firefox without having to do much. While I'm lucky I didn't lose anything important (if anything at all), it's still annoying. Needless to say, I'll be more careful next time.
I might update if I find anything more after a bit more testing, and if not, I'll be back for 13.2 Beta 2!
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