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This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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The Violence That Helped Spark the NAACP

In August 1908, a white mob attacked Springfield, Illinois’s Black community, destroying homes and businesses and lynching two Black men. National outrage over the violence helped spur the movement that created the NAACP the following year.

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Dreamlinux

Dreamlinux
Dreamlinux logo
Dreamlinux screenshot
Dreamlinux 5.0
OS familyLinux (Unix-like)
Working stateDiscontinued
Latest release5.0 / January 1, 2012 (2012-01-01)
Available inEnglish and Portuguese
Supported platformsIA-32
Kernel typeMonolithic
LicenseMainly the GNU GPL / various others
Official websitewww.dreamlinux.info

Dreamlinux was a Brazilian computer operating system based on Debian Linux. It can boot as a live CD, from USB flash drive, or can be installed on a hard drive. The distribution's GUI aims to have a centered animated toolbar. As of October 2012, the Dreamlinux Project has been discontinued.[1]

Editions

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Dreamlinux 2.2 MM GL Edition (2007)

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DreamLinux Multimedia Edition 2.2 with AIGLX provides Beryl-AIGLX by default, which can be utilized after the initial installation. One of its key features is its ability to configure AIGLX for NVIDIA and ATI cards automatically. The distribution received a favorable review for its appearance and functionality.[2]

Dreamlinux 3.0 (2008)

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Dreamlinux Desktop Edition 3.0 features a complete redesign. It supports a totally independent architecture named Flexiboost, based on overlaid modules. The feature allows the co-existence of two (or more) separate window managers[3] (currently GNOME and Xfce), sharing the same customized appearance. Both working environments share all the applications available.

In addition to the 700MB iso file (CD image), a 130MB Multimedia Module is also available, including DVD support. This is primarily intended for use when running from USB flash drive, rather than from live-CD mode.

New applications

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The following applications were not included in previous releases:

  • Gthumb (replacing GQview)
  • Pidgin instant messenger;
  • Ndiswrapper module
  • WineHQ + Wine Doors installer

Other improvements

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  • Now booting from any CDROM or DVD-R/W unit
  • Improved Dreamlinux Control Panel
  • Improved Dreamlinux Installer
  • Improved Easy Install application
  • Theme-Switcher on Gnome changes theme without the need to restart X
  • Setup-Network Manager for stop, start, restart, stop network on booting, start network on booting. Network is now set up to automatically start during boot.
  • Cupsys also starts on boot
  • New wizard for emerald-themes
  • New wallpapers
  • New icons
  • New Avant Window Manager themes and AWN-Dock (check AWN Manager on DCP)
  • CompizFusion enabler in DCP switches default Engage dock to AWN Dock.
  • New GDM themes, now featuring countdowns

Dreamlinux 3.5 (2009)

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Dreamlinux 3.5 is an update to the original Dreamlinux 3.0 desktop. This release features the XFCE desktop with the Gnome Desktop as an additional option in the form of a module. This release uses the Debian Lenny desktop. It features the Linux kernel version 2.6.28.5 as well as new icons and a new GTK+ theme.

There is also the option to install directly to a USB Memory Stick in two modes.

Live Dream

This runs the same as a Live CD, and does not save changes.

Persistent Dream

This runs as though Dream is installed onto the hard drive, and saves any changes to configuration that are made. It is only recommended for use on USB drives that are 2 GB.

DreamLinux 5.0 (2012)

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DreamLinux 5.0 is based on Debian Wheezy 7.0 with Linux kernel 3.1. The only edition available is an ISO image around 956 MB. It features:

  • Xfce 4.8 desktop with quite similar look to MAC OS X user interface.
  • Programming environments for Ruby Lua, Vala, C, C++, Python and Perl
  • Server and network applications: Apache2, PHP5, MySQL, Samba, Netatalk, TorrentFlux, SSH, Bluetooth, Network-Manager, Avahi-Daemon (Bonjour), Preload, Fancontrol, Cpufreqd.
  • Pre-installed applications for end-users:[4]
  1. Chromium web browser.
  2. Audio, video codec for playing many multimedia formats,
  3. SoftMaker office suite Textmaker, Planmaker and Presentations.
  4. Graphics editors “Gimp and InkScape“, along with shotwell photo manager and FoxitReader PDF reader application.

Dreamlinux 5.0 offers new installer called FlexiBoot which allows users to easily install Dreamlinux 5.0 in USB external hard drive and use it anywhere, or install it to the internal hard drive. MKDistro is a simple utility that allows users to build their own customized Dreamlinux and Debian-based distribution.

Live USB

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A Live USB version of Dreamlinux can be created manually or with UNetbootin.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Toulas, Bill. "Dreamlinux is no more". Unixmen. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  2. ^ McGrath, Ben (27 March 2007). "Review: Dreamlinux 2.2". linux.com.[permanent dead link]
  3. ^ Lynch, Dan (16 April 2008). "Review: Dream Linux 3.0 – Is It Really A Dream?". Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  4. ^ "Dreamlinux 5 review - Splendid". Dedoimedo. 30 January 2012. Retrieved 15 June 2013.
  5. ^ "UNetbootin - Universal Netboot Installer". SourceForge. Retrieved 12 September 2008.
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Dreamlinux

Dreamlinux was a Brazilian computer operating system based on Debian Linux. It can boot as a live CD, from USB flash drive, or can be installed on a hard drive. The distribution's GUI aims to have a centered animated toolbar. As of October 2012, the Dreamlinux Project has been discontinued.

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Knoppix

Knoppix, stylized KNOPPIX ( KNOP-iks), is an operating system based on Debian designed to be run directly from a CD or DVD (Live CD) or a USB flash drive (Live USB). It was first released in 2000 by German Linux consultant Klaus Knopper, and was one of the first popular live distributions. Knoppix is loaded from the removable medium and decompressed into a RAM drive. The decompression is transparent and on-the-fly. There are two main editions, available in both English and German: the traditional compact-disc (700 megabytes) edition and the DVD (4.7 gigabytes) "Maxi" edition. Knoppix mostly consists of free and open source software, but also includes some proprietary software, as long as it fulfills certain conditions. Knoppix can be used to copy files easily from hard drives with inaccessible operating systems. To quickly and more safely use Linux software, the Live CD can be used instead of installing another OS.

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Kanotix

Kanotix, also referred to as KANOTIX, is an operating system based on Debian, with advanced hardware detection. It can run from an optical disc drive or other media i.e. USB-stick without using a hard disk drive. Kanotix uses KDE Software Compilation as the default desktop environment. Since 2013 the newer releases ship with LXDE as a second lightweight desktop environment. Unlike other similar Linux-distributions Kanotix is a rolling release. Nightly builds are automated builds every night of the latest development code of KANOTIX and with the latest packages from the repositories. The name "Kanotix" is derived from the founder's nickname "Kano". Kanotix's mascot is a fangtooth.

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AntiX

antiX () is a Linux distribution, originally based on MEPIS, which itself is based on the Debian Stable distribution. antiX initially replaced the MEPIS KDE desktop environment with the Fluxbox and IceWM window managers, making it suitable for older, less powerful x86-based systems. Unlike Debian, antiX does not use the systemd init system; instead, it provides an ISO image in which Runit is set as the default init system. The declared goal of the developers is to significantly extend the useful life of existing old & new computers by specifically selecting efficient software and operating system components. antiX reflects technical influences from distributions such as sidux, TinyMe, Puppy, Absolute, and SliTaz. These influences are incorporated into current versions of the operating system.

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Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Black woman became the first elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.