it says in the paragraph above that I am using PUPMODE=12, what does that mean? That means that you are using a conventional frugal install with a save file/folder. It is NOT loaded into RAM and your data is constantly written back to the hard drive. If you shut down improperly, you may get an erro...

Don't let grammar stop you. ;) What you say is the behavior many of us like and use primarily. Puppy has a setting in event manager which controls the save interval. Which is after how much time the files in RAM will be written to savefile. So basically you can set it to 1 sec and lose only one sec...

Hi, Since everything is loaded into RAMDisk, doesn't that mean that if the system shut down incorrectly, Puppy wont be able to save the changes made to the files in /root such as documents, etc...? So if I was working on a document saved in /root/my-documents, what would happen to it if power went d...

Hi, I guess this has been discussed earlier, but I want to know how secure Puppy is in comparison to other general use distros such as Ubuntu and OpenSUSE. To begin with, I really like the concept of Puppy, and how it works in general, how it uses a squashfs for system files, how it is not a multius...

Puppy is a great distro, its not the end-all-be-all that some OS's try hard to be. If the word compromise is still in one's dictionary, Puppy is a great compromise. Still, the end-user determines whats added and whats removed. Like all packaged distros Linux or otherwise, the end-user needs to impr...

After all these posts, we find that the REAL problem is the X11 update, which was pointed out after you discovered it. Now that we offer a solution, you don't want it. I'd almost guarantee that the X11 file order is the culprit. A simple reversing the download-order will keep Puppy from breaking. A...

No one believes in the simple rule. If it is not broken, do not try to fix it. :shock: Updating, just to update, is trying to fix something that does not need fixing. I just got a very new computer. The only update I needed was the driver for the WIFI. The version of Puppy, I was using, did not hav...

If you must update, continue from here . Nah, its just not worth it, I mean even if I fix this problem by spending so much time on it, other similar problems in the future would happen and their fixing would also be difficult, that is all because of the package manager being so limited, if we can e...

One of the problems with a "full" install is that any file changes are saved immediately to hard drive and will over-write all files, even system files. :( The frugal install method creates a container that contains all file changes and overlays the changes onto the file system after the ...

Slacko64 6.3 How is it installed? Frugal or full? If frugal what type save? Save file or save folder? Installed on what device? Is it booted by a boot loader? If yes. Which one? That update feature of Slacko was a good idea, but it gets stuff from Slackware repository and the stuff was compiled for...

My puppy knowledge is getting rusty, but unless you want to just reinstall puppy, for starters you probably need to try things like running `fixmenus`, `xwin rxvt`, and `jwm -p` (Have I remembered that last one right? None of those commands worked, the XOrg log shows errors regarding xkb (xkbcomp) ...

Hi, So I have installed Puppy Linux today and I was using the Update Manager to update packages (Why do we have to do them one by one by the way?!), and as I was updating I suddenly couldn't start any application, if I click on an app icon nothing happens, however the applications already open such ...