If someone has need to try a 32-bit 6.12 kernel, I've been building/running them for months for testing.  Everything works (on real hdwe) for me _except_ building modules for vbox guest additions (vbox code too old).  The down-side is that they're fatter regarding ram usage (5.10 still best, 6.1 close behind).  As video support trickles back into the kernel for things which have been modded/deprecated, etc, sometimes that might help someone.  Alternatively, sometimes theres some hotplug hardware that's too new for the 5.10 series or 6.1 series, etc.  For that reason, the post with links to my "best-effort" antiX-configged vanilla kernel.org kernels are here

By all means, continue to use the official antiX kernels -- they just have so many to build that they cannot possibly begin to support the experimental things until closer to year-end while supporting everything else.  FWIW.

Installed DSL2024 rc7 to formatted partition that had rc5. Thought some of the issues have had might have been resolved. Have another issue: computer with rc5 always had static ip network. rc7 boots to DHCP even when /etc/network/interfaces has the static ip information in it. Where is DHCP set that ignores the interface file?

Anyone doing any gaming using DSL 2024?  I am loving retro gaming through Dosbox with the files from my GOG.com Quest For Glory 1 purchase.

Has anyone done other retro or new games?

If anyone is wondering how I extracted QFG1 from a GOG.com exe, here is what I did:

I installed dosbox, innoextract, and p7zip-full from the terminal:
sudo apt install -y dosbox innoextract p7zip-full

Then I made a directory:
mkdir -p ~/games/qfg1

Then I extracted the files from the GOG exe:
innoextract --gog -d ~/games/qfg1 "setup_quest_for_glory_-_so_you_want_to_be_a_hero_2.00_(28045).exe"

Then I used DOSBOX as normal to mount the drive then run the game


Have a great one any other gamers,
Will

Thanks for building DSL 2024!

Here are a few more ideas and issues I have had.

1.  Polish spam-bots on the forum -- can you please zap these guys?  I get emails from every time one of these things post.

2.  It is pretty manual to change the screen timeout.  I wish this was part of the menu GUI system

3.  I have a laptop hooked to an external monitor, even after disabling the laptop monitor through Control Centre/Session/Set Screen Resolution (ARandR) the wallpaper image I selected is stretched in a strange way.  I wish there was a more robust wallpaper GUI to stretch and center the image I select from Control Center/Choose Wallpaper.

4.  When I reboot, the laptop goes back to the laptop screen.  I wish it remembered what to do when the laptop is connected to an external monitor.

Thanks for your work,
Will

All is well.  Installing dosbox was easy (through apt) and installing Quest For Glory 1 from a Gog installer went smooth (with the help of innoextract).  I then went on to set up NordVPN.  All is well and Im ready to retro game in the airplane.

Having tons of fun so far.  Is John doing all the code himself?  I have some programming experience.  If John is not doing all the code himself, how does one sign up to fix small problems (GitHub repo?)?

Have a good one,
Will

Howdy,

The login background still says AntiX.  It shows up right after I log in with my username and password, before the desktop is visible.

My suggestion, come up with a new background that says DSL 2024 that appears, instead of AntiX.

Regards,
Will

Small idea:

Many distros use the shortcut Cntl-Alt-T to start a terminal window.  My suggestion is to add this shortcut by default

Regards,
Will

When I right click, in the file manager, the image that I downloaded from the below link, I get the following error:
Link to Image : https://wallpapercave.com/w/wp6099242

Error I received:

cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/desktop-session/desktop-session-wallpaper/wallpaper.conf': No such file or directory
cp: cannot stat '/usr/share/desktop-session/desktop-session-wallpaper/wallpaper-list.conf': No such file or directory
cat: /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf: No such file or directory
cat: /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper.conf: No such file or directory
sed: can't read /home/willz06jw/.desktop-session/wallpaper-list.conf: No such file or directory
There was no valid style for wallpaper setting found, defaulting to grey background

When I used the Control Centre/Use Wallpaper menu it worked fine

When i first opened my dsl 2024 computer, a screen came up showing me all the wireless networks my wifi adapter could see.  I clicked on them, I then double clicked on them.  I pressed Enter -- and it just unhighlighted the selected network.  I took a moment and then found that there was a tab at the top that had setting to connect to the network.  The first screen was just a list of networks that the adapter could see.

I think it would help adoption if the initial wifi screen allowed a user to double click on the wifi network shown to connect to it.

Will

Hi,

Let me start by saying that the installation succeeded. 

I wanted to mention that at one part of the installation it seemed like it hung at 97%, with a close button at the bottom of the screen.  I waited a minute or two and then it finished the installation.  I expect that if I had hit that close button it would have screwed up the installation.  I just wanted to mention that.

Will