BudgieDesktop RPM for Mageia-9(Cauldron) + Live flash drive

[mgauser]

Hello friends. For fans of everything new, I decided to publish a live flash drive based on Mageia-9(Cauldron), the system with which is installed and running on my home computer. Perhaps the version MgaRemix-9-Budgie-10.6.4-EN.7z will be of interest to you for review and also for testing purposes Mageia-9(Cauldron). File readme.txt contains a brief instruction on how to create a flash drive (3 actions).

Contents of the flash drive:
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Kernel: 5.19.7-1
Desktop: Budgie-10.6.4 (+Nemo)
Browser: Google Chrome 105.0.5195.102 + UBlock
Image Editor: PhotoFlare-1.6.10
LibreOffice - 7.4.0.3

Working with a VPN:
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WarpGUI-v0.4-1 - GUI for Cloudflare ™ WARP (all in one)
Luntik-v0.5 - OpenVPN connector (password free)
LuntikWG-v0.6 - WireGuard connector
OpenVPN-GUI-v0.6 - classic OpenVPN client
ProtonVPN-GUI-v0.9 - client for ProtonVPN
XRayGUI-v0.9.1 (Proxy connector) - bypass locks; protocols: vmess, vless, ShadowSocks and trojan
DNSCrypt-GUI-v0.7 - dnscrypt-proxy management, protection from MITM and listening

Encryption:
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Encrypt-Decrypt-v1.0 - context menu, encryption/decryption of files and folders, AES-256

Smartphones:
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ADBManager-2.6 - working with smartphones; the latest android-tools-v31.0.3p2 and android-udev-rules-20220903 are installed

Hot Patches:
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adwaita-mime-patch-v1.1, shared-mime-info-patch-v0.1, drakclock-patch-v0.4

Other:
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PChanger-v1.4 - Plymouth theme changer
GChanger-v0.2 - GRUB2 theme changer
SnappyCleaner-v1.8 - system cleaner (old kernels, package dependencies, etc.)

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BudgieDesktop RPM-Packages:
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There are two types of Budgie Desktop rpm-packages on GitHub (in the archives rpmbuild*.tar.gz): with Nemo file manager (rpmbuild+nemo.tar.gz) and standard (rpmbuild-standard.tar.gz).

Note: MgaRemix technology is not supported by Mageia developers and is a completely free development. The name was agreed with the administration in accordance with the rules: Logo and trademark policy. The additional software is also completely free (GPL).

That's all for now, have a nice job.

Sincerely,
Alex

[Germ]

Sounds interesting, but why not just an .iso?

[mgauser]

Sounds interesting, but why not just an .iso?

Hi, Germ. Distribution in ISO is, of course, an established and reliable thing. However, to write ISO, you need either a DVD-disk + disc drive, or you need to write it to a USB flash drive. But after writing the ISO to the flash drive, all its space will go under the ISO and the flash drive will have to be reformatted again, clean the bootloader, etc. I believe that the distribution should be fully mobile and portable from Linux to Windows and vice versa without data loss on the flash drive itself and without violating the default file system (FAT32).

After all, in addition to operating systems, there are also all kinds of devices: TV, all kinds of set-top boxes, other devices that understand only the native format of flash drives.

p.s. I'm sorry for my bad English, I use an online translator.

[Germ]

The english is good. You make some good points.

Thank you for explaining!

[mgauser]

upd: 10/08/2022 (Kernel-6.0.0-2)
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MgaRemix-9-Budgie-10.6.4-1-EN.7z

rpmbuild+nemo-1.tar.gz
rpmbuild-standard-1.tar.gz

Notes:

• gnome-screensaver package was removed from the new GNOME, had to rebuild BudgieDesktop rpm-packages
• Among other things, draklive-install has been updated. Now, at the end of the installation, you need to tick "Install in /EFI/BOOT (removable device or workaround for some BIOSs)"

Forgot to mention...
If the checkbox "Install in /EFI/BOOT (removable device or workaround for BIOSs)" not installed, then an error occurs:

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The "draklive-install" program has crashed with the following error:

  grub2-install failed: Installing for x86_64-efi platform.
  EFI variables are not supported on this system.
  EFI variables are not supported on this system.
  grub2-install: error: efibootmgr failed to register the boot entry: No such file or directory.
     ...propagated at /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm line 278.
  Perl's trace:
  drakbug::bug_handler() called from /usr/lib/libDrakX/any.pm:278
  any::installBootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:409
  main::setup_bootloader() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:109
  main::install_live() called from /usr/sbin/draklive-install:72


In other words - the mode "Probe Foreign OS" - does not work. Probably something else has not been completed.

[mgauser]

upd: 11/07/2022 (Kernel-6.0.7-1)
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MgaRemix-9-Budgie-10.6.4-2-EN.7z

rpmbuild+nemo-2.tar.gz
rpmbuild-standard-2.tar.gz

+ draklive-install is working again (Bug 31008; Martin Whitaker-Mageia 1:0)

Update:
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+ All vpn clients - improved protection against possible DNS leaks; tests passed
+ ProtonVPN-GUI - multiple loading of vpn provider configurations similar to Proton VPN (from *.zip), for example - ZoogVPN

Added:
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+ SSHProxy - GUI for connecting to an external proxy through an SSH tunnel
+ SSTP-Connector - Simple SSTP (Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol) VPN connector
+ SS-Obfuscator - Shadowsocks client (with GUI) and server (for VPS) with obfuscation