As long as you've found something you are happy with that's the main thing. People used to desktop processor temps often freak out when they see some laptop temps. Temps well above anything that would fry a typical desktop processor are not unusual. Like I said your chip itself won't really panic un...

Thank you guys for the replies. It is very nice to count on this community. I'll monitor the points that you highlighted. A BIOS update will also be fine. Only once the laptop reached 100º Celsius (212º F) and the fan still was not triggered, that's why I decided to post the issue here. But most of...

Meanwhile, Precise in its current state of development can be used until 2017 because Ubuntu will be updating packages until then. It can be used forever. It's not like your Precise install is going to self-destruct in 2017. For me, the more pertinent question is what the community will do about Pr...

It already runs Linux. Android runs on top of Linux. You can root the device and get shell access (using apps available in Play Store for rooted phones) if you want. You could then build up the minimal linux system by adding more ARM binaries. Busybox for Android will get you started once you have r...

The fan in a Compaq nx6120 is not supposed to run constantly. It should not normally be running after leaving the bios from a cold boot. If the fan is running constantly in one of these laptops when cpu is idle then there is something wrong. Some bios/motherboards spin the fan up during startup but ...

Agree with answer above

On the old laptop of similar vintage I'm using now the fan virtually never goes off under Windows. It's off most of the time under Linux. Try playing a few youtube videos full-screen at decent resolution and the fan will come on if needed.

Thanks, Raring Puppy worked out great. By the way, is there anyway to get the right touch pad button to work like a right button click? Menu=>Desktop>flSynclient allows you to configure a Synaptics touchpad. Normally though I'd expect the right click to work by default. I tend to use two finger tap...

I noticed Raring is listed as version 3.9, whereas Precise is listed as 5.7. Does that mean Raring is a much older version? Just edited my previous post to make that clear but I was Just too late. Here's your answer. Btw, don't be put off by the 3.9.9.2 version number. It's built on top of 3.9.9 Li...

If you are willing to switch puppies upup raring 3.9.9.2 ( http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=87374 ) will do this. Otherwise try searching the forum for "acpid precise sleep" and "laptop tool" The power handling code is in the kernel of precise puppy but not with full ...

There were some official (Barryk) 5.3 Precise series beta releases.

There was also this http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=80431

Post about confusion of the variants here http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02958

Just installed this on upup raring 3.9.9.2. All I can say is "wow" an entire LAMP(P) stack downloaded, installed and started in about 30 seconds from beginning to end. And that on an 8 year old laptop. The mini gui control console doesn't seem to be able to start everything up (as mentione...

I've had a go at getting Moonlight running in Precise Puppy. Managed to get Moonlight 2 to work with latest Firefox (seems it no longer blocks it) but it is not able to display the Ryan Air app because it needs a later version. Eventually found a copy of Moonlight 4 and tried that. Plugin installs b...

hey Hogweed, I've got the latest java (1.7.0) which should be good enough to run this website, however its still not downloading/running for me here As I said above you cannot play a Silverlight application with Java. It will never ever work. Also Java 1.7.0 is old and dangerous. Latest version ide...

To get the official full package go to https://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp If there's a PET or SFS for the latest version then you can use that but I don't think there is yet. And download the Linux RPM version then just click on it and let Puppy install it. You will then have to link the pl...

I was wondering if I updated my java version, would that work? No. Java and Silverlight are completely unrelated. Silverlight was really Microsoft's (incompatible) version of "Flash". However you should always update Java to latest version as otherwise it is just one large security hole i...

I did have Moonlight (Linux variant of Silverlight) working on Lupu. Worked well for all but encrypted streams which it didn't support. Then Firefox disabled the plugin as not compatible. I used a Firefox addon to over-ride the version checking and it again worked. Then Firefox blacklisted the versi...

Do I understand correctly that there is no more "Retro" Precise Puppy? That is those of us on non PAE hardware have just been dropped? Well told that there might be a release sometime by somebody (no offence but not an"Official" release) that might be a Precise based Puppy based ...

As a general point, a laptop should not really shutdown due to overheating even if it is running flat out. I'd think of checking the fan and air pathways even if you can get it to run more efficiently. Also, even without dynamic downclocking, the cpu should be in a relatively low power mode when in ...

Nooby, as I have an Android I can comment on that. Androids are primarily developed on Linux systems. The phone runs Linux, all the phone/PC commuinication software runs on Linux (actually though official updates are usually "Over The Air" or initiated from the SD Card). You certainly don'...

Just tried installing V7 SFS and also got "No handler". Did a web search and found suggestion to try installing python-mock and python-unittest2. Did so via package manager, rebooted and it now works. Now to play with it. Suggestion to try installing these packages found at http://forum.op...