Wow, this really works, and I'm running it on an ATI Radeon 7000 GPU from the year 2000.

*edit* Although, scrolling pages that contain activated flash elements is now slower.

Puppy and Mint are about as user-friendly as Linux gets but that comes from different things: Puppy from its vibrant community and encompassing nature, Mint from its refinement and emphasis on traditional UI metaphors. I will argue that the Mate desktop (read:Linux Mint) is pretty speedy on some old...

Thanks for this; the latest Dillo compiled in Wary is something like an essential .pet

...it gets more usable with every version.

What's up with LMDE 201403? I can't get it to boot the squashfs directly from hdd as I described with earlier versions...

Sky Aisling wrote:Intel Pentium 4 and M seem to like Precise.

Yes, this seems true.
Note that I'm using retro version, only because it supports slightly more hardware on the target device.

Unlike mainline Puppy distros, Quirky can more easily install and run from a hard drive. It does not require a limited frugal installation to run. ... ... ... Installing Quirky is much easier and takes almost no fiddling compared to other so-called portable Linux distros like Puppy, Knoppix and Por...

Changed for the new year; another personal shot from Camelback Mtn.
I finally got around to using a dark wm theme...

Like all distributions I've tested that use X server 1.14, Quirky 6 on my PC with the Rage 128 card gets unsupported video modes with modesetting; I've only gotten a 800x600 display in vesa.

It works nicely on the other PCs...

Using grub4dos, can I boot a Debian-based distribution from the hard drive (extracted from iso or not)... This will do it, with filesytem.squashfs, initrd.lz, and vmlinuz in the live media path: title LMDE extracted kernel /frugal-debian/vmlinuz boot=live config live-media-path=/frugal-debian initr...

It turns out you can easily load this release from an ext hard drive with grub4dos. grub4dos loads vmlinuz and initrd.img just fine, and then debian is unable to find a medium containing a live filesystem. I kept renaming the "live" folder for the sake of organization ( other variants of d...

smokey01 wrote:Session, have you considered using Virtual Box?

No, because my primary computers lack the horsepower to adequately test the guest system's snappiness.

Thanks everyone; testing from a usb drive will have to do.

What I mean is, grub4dos loads vmlinuz and initrd.img just fine, and then debian is unable to find a medium containing a live filesystem. I am aware of workarounds such as ISObooter, I was just wondering if I could test live-debian with the same simple grub4dos stanza I've been using to try out othe...

How do I boot it via grub4dos alongside with my other puppies? Hi, Anikin, extract live folder on top of a partition. Here is my boot code (live folder is on /sda1): title Light-Debian-Core-Test root=(hd0,0) kernel /live/vmlinuz boot=live config persistent swapon quickreboot noprompt autologin init...

oldyeller wrote:I have built the retro with the 3.2.48 kernel so this should be close to what Barryk did...

A retro kernel is much appreciated; 3.2.48 is relatively new and supports lots of old hardware, I wish more puplets were built with it.

What does "much faster" mean? Are you having noticeable problems with applications lagging? Text browsers are much faster...how many people want to use one? Well, for me anyway, "much faster" means application menus in gtk1 behave like application menus in Windows 98: no lag on ...

My 2cents: I've been a big Wary supporter as it has worked well with the various hardware I have... but Precise 5.7 Retro (LTS kernel 3.2) works just as well, and allows for newer software. A part of me doesn't mind that woof is in "maintenance mode," because I could use the current versio...

I'm running a full install of puppy on a hard drive with a single ext2 partition. title Precise Puppy 5.7.1 Retro uuid 557f5f5b-a96f-4dc3-92e9-1276733a5d23 kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1 ro Using grub4dos, it's easy to try out different puppies frugally: title Frugal Puppy kernel /frugal/vmlinu...

Personally, I *like* Puppy's vague whiff of chaos. I *like* seeing the range of different ideas that come from a diverse community of developers who aren't cat-herded into some corporate business plan. Well said, ahoppin. There are plenty of light distros out there, but Puppy's friendly hodge-podge...

I'll take this forum over customer service any day; the "regulars" here seem to offer more thoughtful solutions than the cookie-cutter answers you often get from tech support. As for the article, mini-jaguar's right, Linux with all of its flavors can be extremely user-friendly; some would ...

5.7.1 (main - pae) For the record. Upgrade of FULL from 5.7.0 did not go well. Most things are working from Menu, but all icons are apex-down red triangles with '?' inside, although their legends are correct. Did not respond to alternative icon selection. Yes, full installation with Precise 5.7 is ...