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GeckoLinux bug tracker and documentation
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Can you please add Mirror/Torrent files for the Geckolinux as Sourceforge is quite slow. #320

Closed rokfrog closed 2 years ago

rokfrog commented 2 years ago

I was trying to download GeckoLinux_NEXT_Pantheon, but it's so slow. And I couldn't find a single torrent option for any of the variants. Kindly please add torrents for each of the types so that it be easy to download as Sourceforge is quite slow.

The one I found here is not seeded https://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=eeb0ae22462183d96595fa259b7166569caf59be

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Hi there, I don't really do torrents and I'm not too familiar with the process of creating and seeding them. I'm sure that Linuxtracker will post them soon. Also I would recommend a multi-threading download manager for Sourceforge downloads, for example aria2c -x10 https://xxxxxxxxx

rokfrog commented 2 years ago

Hi there, I don't really do torrents and I'm not too familiar with the process of creating and seeding them. I'm sure that Linuxtracker will post them soon. Also I would recommend a multi-threading download manager for Sourceforge downloads, for example aria2c -x10 https://xxxxxxxxx

Thank you @geckolinux . I wish Gecko is put up in https://fosstorrents.com/ as well. It would be useful. Thank you. And also, please share any article related to dual booting alongside Debian/Ubuntu. I couldn't find any other than just directing for using VM. It would be great if there is a video on how to dual boot Gecko alongside Ubuntu or Deb OS which helps for people to use this parallel.

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Hi @rokfrog , thanks for your patience. Regarding dual booting with any other Linux distro, it's extremely simple with Calamares. If there's another Linux distribution taking up the entire disk it will give you an "Install alongside" option to shrink that partition and install GeckoLinux next to it. Or if there are multiple partitions there will be a "Replace" option that lets you install directly to that partition just by clicking on it.

rokfrog commented 2 years ago

@geckolinux Will try it again. I have tried Rocky Linux as well as FreeBSD and it sort of messed up my boot-loader. Drive Gparted image: https://ibb.co/7VjzrJ1 I got an empty drive sda3 which I kept trying to install any RedHat version distro or BSD variant , either Rocky or OpenSuse or FreeBSD or GhostBSD, but than I saw Gecko which got Pantheon which is quite amazing with OpenSuse base so I wanted to download and install. For Rocky somehow it didn't work. May be I missed out few steps in hurry and even Rock has calamares which shows bootloader, so is why I was checking any info online which has steps to follow through(just in case). Will try again and update. Thank for this now.

rokfrog commented 2 years ago

@geckolinux I'm dual booting from #geckolinux . Calamares did work! :-) Thank you again.

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

Great! Thanks for confirming that @rokfrog .

geckolinux commented 2 years ago

https://linuxtracker.org/index.php?page=torrents&category=2214 Looks like they're starting to release some torrents of the latest release. Feel free contact them to request others if they don't put up the entire array of ISOs.