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by meddler
Thu 10 Oct 2019, 11:16
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020
Replies: 2577
Views: 926752

Buster 2.1.6

Thanks Barry - all working well for me now. FF now runs from package manager too. This makes it difficult to decide whether to use 2.1.6 or the older Easy Pyro (1.0.14) with Rufwoof's suggestions for using a single desktop ( zephyr ) for home banking. I was interested to see Rufwoof's references to ...
by meddler
Thu 05 Sep 2019, 17:31
Forum: Puppy Derivatives
Topic: EasyOS version 2.3.2, June 22, 2020
Replies: 2577
Views: 926752

running off usb sticks

Have had to use SD cards to run Easy since 0.4 on both my Dell Inspirons 1545 (2 and 3 gb respectively). That's been absolutely fine with both machines being pretty fast. Now since recent fix I can use usb sticks to run Buster 2.1.1 ! Magnificent - very many thanks.
by meddler
Sun 17 Apr 2016, 11:43
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Replies: 802
Views: 681901

Thanks again for very usable and useful pups. Have frugal installed on a 250gb hard drive on a couple of 2009 vintage Dell Inspiron 1545 machines, one single core other dual core. No real problems, but seems to run about 5deg C hotter than Trusty. Battery icon seems stuck at 95% capacity on mains or...
by meddler
Tue 27 Jan 2015, 21:02
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: tahrpup 6.0.5 CE
Replies: 1787
Views: 1396805

parallel printer

Hi 666philb
A big thank you for the impressive 6.0.1

One minor point is that although usb printers are ok, my ancient parallel printer did not work. Adding a missing inode/chardevice lp0: to /dev did the trick for me. (parport was ok)