Pardus-Anka 2013

[Yoyo]

Better than pardus? No one!

LOL

[Anglo]

And I thought it was chat talk for "me, too!".  Shows you how much I know.  I don't chat, though.

In the meantime, I have been pulling hair over Mint Maya KDE that my husband put on his laptop and gave me a copy of.  I put it on one of our older computers that to me isn't that old, but maybe to some folks that buy computers (er, or hand held devices) every few years like they do new cars.  He later warned me of over 500 updates upon install.  Not just that, but akonadi starts up in taskbar and no way to keep it from coming up on reboot, printer-applet starts up, even though I don't have a printer connected. Opened up Kontacts and disabled any and all plugins that are connected to akonadi, but still akonadi showed up in taskbar.  Update notifier crashes, I eventually purged it and the software manager, besides opening up dolphin as root and going through all of the akonadi bins and unticking "executable".  Before doing all of this 'house cleaning', while surfing the internet, the display went funny, mouse cursor stopped working and I had to do a hard reboot.  Erggh.  Which is why I don't mind the developers of Anka to take their time, and get it mostly right upon release.  Reminds me why I don't use Mint anymore, especially the KDE Mint versions. 

+1

[atolboo]

...... but akonadi starts up in taskbar and .....

In System Settings > Desktop Search > umark (translated from Dutch) Nepomuk Desktop File Indexing (second one from the top)
It has to do with the default Mint settings.
It's the solution om my current PCLOS

Another good reference is http://www.tweakhound.com/2011/11/25/opensuse-12-1-taming-akonadi-nepomuk/

[Lisa]

Thanks atolboo.  That's one of the first things I checked when the problem occurred and by default Semantic, Index, and Email were all unticked.  I began to think it was how the Mint KDE developers built KDE 4.8.3.  I disabled all under Kontact as well as right clicking on Digital Clock>Calender>View Events unticked that, and then on to krunner (Alt + F2) and unticked anything that had to do with akonadi there as well.  (calender events, contacts, kopete, nepomuk search runner), it  still it kept appearing on reboot. 

I've saved the page you shared as it will come in handy to totally disable it.  What I ended up doing was removing file:
/usr/share/applications/kd3/akonaditray.desktop 

I see the file is in Pardus Anka KDE 4.8.2 so it isn't causing problems in this distro. 

I agree with the post writer, that it is a resource hogging abomination. 
Lisa
P.S. On the advice of this forum's members, I downloaded solusos, chakra, and pclinuxos, and makes me so mad, I accidently deleted pclinuxos (downloaded these distro's during Thanksgiving holiday at my in-laws using their fast connection and my husband's lap top.)  I'm hoping to try pclinuxos someday.  Maybe I can recover the file if it hasn't been overwritten.     I haven't tried the other two as they are Gnome-based.

[daves]

some news about the iso images?

[Anglo]

I haven't tried the other two as they are Gnome-based.

Just a FYI , I tried solus os using a different Desktop Envoirement , quite easy and no more difficult..

Anglo

[Yoyo]

some news about the iso images?

Anka isos should reach the end of this year or during the first half of January. Work is slow for you who do things well and give a robust and stable Anka

[my english google translate sorry]

[daves]

Anka isos should reach the end of this year or during the first half of January. Work is slow for you who do things well and give a robust and stable Anka

I won't make you hurry. I want just know how work is going on. Stable things are just awesome!

[pantera]

[zvacet]

Are you trying to say it is finished?Where is link for download? 

[Lisa]

zvcavet,  I believe those are screen shots of current work that Anka team has thus far to share with us.

Well, two days ago I deleted Pardus 2011.2 and installed solusos with gnome 2 desktop.  It is very nice in overall appearance, but I still prefer KDE desktop.

To give you all a good laugh. my husband and me were at a local fast food restaurnat, one, for my husband to look for work using a faster connection than what is available at home (dial-up) and two, to download, again, pclinuxos - KDE version. He started the download with Firefox using its downloader, and I told him wget is a better download manager to use, so we canceled the download after just a few minutes of starting it, then switched to wget to continue the download.  It took about 3.5 hours and I had a chance to run to the hardware store while he surfed. The download finished, we were ready to leave, and I had asked him what he meant earlier when he said he has his his download folder set up to delete after downloads are finished.  I shouldn't have asked.  He then brought up Firefox's downloader to show me that it doesn't keep a history of downloads finished.  The pclinuxos link was still in the list of downloads and he clicked on the blue swirly icon while I said, NOOO, and he said, what? and stopped it.  I said he just overwrote the complete 1.3G iso.  He then looked in his Downloads folder and sure enough, it was back to a couple of megabytes in file size.  A big whoops!  We both learned a lesson.  I for one will never
cd Downloads
to use wget to download a file, but use a separate directory.  And, he now knows that clicking on that blue swirly icon will not ask you,
File already exists, are you sure you want to continue and overwrite it?
I told him maybe I am not meant to use pclinuxos, as I accidentally deleted the iso when we got home from visiting his folks in November, and now he accidentally deletes it.  Made us laugh in the end.
When we got home, he started downloading it again using ktorrent, though it will take a few days to get it all, but no big deal as we are patient and used to dial up speed.
Lisa Marie

[atolboo]

There is nothing wrong with the download option in Firefox.
And I am happily using PCLOS
After installation do these changes as their mirrors have changed.

[Hunter]

Lisa Wrote:

Well, two days ago I deleted Pardus 2011.2 and installed solusos with gnome 2 desktop.

For myself - nothing presently installed, I'm patiently waiting for Anka 

I think the Pardus gods are looking in on you Lisa, deleted downloads and all that, you need to appease them and go back to the big cat (Pardus) 

-Hunter

[Lisa]

Hi atolboo, yes, no problem with Firefox download tool, but I find if I get disconnected from the server a lot, then wget is better and can resume with less problems.  An example is when I was downloading third-party software from Sourceforge, the download would not complete the entire file size, even though the FF download tool showed it finished.  I ended up with broken software installers (for windows), and in the end, used wget which will retry when server disconnects. 

This week we did go back to restaurant (Hardees, for their double-cheeseburger, two for price of one special) and my husband used FF download tool to get pclinuxos, taking a bit less than three hours. 

Hi Hunter, well, I had an extra partition at the end of my hard drive, waiting for some os to fill it, and today installed pclinuxos on it.  I'm very impressed, especially as pclinuxos has its own Network Centre that actually shows my dial-up connection.  Very nice. 

Thanks atolboo for the link!  Doing the suggested repository correction/update as I type. 

All this trying out of different os, but still look forward to a release of Pardus Anka.
Lisa Marie

[atolboo]

... double-cheeseburger... used FF download tool to get pclinuxos, taking a bit less than three hours. 

I guess it was for the burger.
And 11 minutes from here with my 20€/27$/month home ADSL connection.