Linux tinkering
Posted: Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:57 pm
Periodically, I get the urge to play around with linux again. I normally use the VMware player and run linux in a virtual machine. I have finally figured out how to install VMware tools. This allows me to print and run several monitors.
I was testing Mint, but ran into a problem that no one seemed to know how to fix. It's keyring wouldn't shut down so you had to force a shutdown to get out. I've also been trying out Solus the last year or so. It's a distro written from scratch (using the standard kernel) and shows real promise. But its a bit rough around the edges yet.
So I finally loaded Ubuntu again this week. It runs nicely, right out of the box, except for printing. And I picked up a new distro called Peppermint, which is a Kubuntu derivative. It's intended for migrating Windows 10 users. I like it so far, though it had a few oddities during installation.
I sysbench cpu prime test on both Ubuntu and Peppermint. Ubuntu took twice as long (10 seconds) to run as Peppermint. That seems odd. I'll have to do more experimenting sometime.
I was testing Mint, but ran into a problem that no one seemed to know how to fix. It's keyring wouldn't shut down so you had to force a shutdown to get out. I've also been trying out Solus the last year or so. It's a distro written from scratch (using the standard kernel) and shows real promise. But its a bit rough around the edges yet.
So I finally loaded Ubuntu again this week. It runs nicely, right out of the box, except for printing. And I picked up a new distro called Peppermint, which is a Kubuntu derivative. It's intended for migrating Windows 10 users. I like it so far, though it had a few oddities during installation.
I sysbench cpu prime test on both Ubuntu and Peppermint. Ubuntu took twice as long (10 seconds) to run as Peppermint. That seems odd. I'll have to do more experimenting sometime.