I'm quite sure the drive is not spinning down. The heads are just continuously loading and unloading. This is a new laptop hard drive and the latest stable Puppy, all on default settings. I know what is happening is wrong and stupid. I don't know if it is a newer problem or a been-around-for-many-ye...

Hmmm... This reminds me of something very similar I experience at least a few times a week, for the last months or years. I suspect in both Firefox and Seamonkey etc. I think it is a combination of two "normal" things that add up to annoyance. One factor is, when you are on the first tab i...

I just did a normal hard drive install of Ubuntu 9.04 on the same laptop and hard drive. Everything went pretty smoothly, and the hard drive has been almost too quiet (aside from some serious momentary isolated hard clunking-type noises while it was working hard to install to the hard drive). It see...

There is a potential danger if Puppy Linux or many other OSes are installed on a laptop hard drive (2.5-in hard drive), of exceeding the rated life-time Head Load/Unload Cycle Count rating of the hard drive. Modern laptop hard drives are typically rated for 200,000 to 600,000 head load/unload cycles...

Please add smartmontools to future versions of Puppy. Everyone is advised to use smartctl from time to time to check on the health of their hard drives by logging and inspecting the SMART data. At least, let's have an official smartmontools PET package in the official PETget package manager. See als...

TEENpup 2009 is a very impressive bundle, a wonderful big fat pup, filling a 700MB CD. (Is there a good over-view summary guide to the Big Pups? There are so many puplets that we need a pupletwatch to sort them out...) I tried it out on a fairly modern computer: 2800MHz Pentium 4 ASUS P4PE (2003?) 1...

Has anyone submitted HairyWill's wonderful patches to the upstream maintainers? If not, lets do that!

GPicView 0.1.11 in Puppy Linux 4.2.1 is wonderful! It makes it so easy to start showing all the files in a directory as an automatic slideshow!! Just open one picture in GPicView, click on the triangle or type W, and a fully automatic slideshow starts, a new picture every 5 seconds!!! It is then eas...

This nine-page 133-posts thread dating back to 2007 is getting unwieldy, particularly for the top-main thread in this Suggestions section. Could an admin restart the thread, or archive the pre-2009 material, or make the thread come up last-page-first, or put the thread in most-recent-first display m...

(Hoping this thread is read by developers, and still a "wish list for next puppy release" -- if not, please move to right place, or tell me where the right place is.) Pctorrent-1.4 in Puppy 4.1.2 (and 4.2 seems the same) is a little too bare-bones and confusing for this new torrent user. T...

Yes, I do care -- I want Midnight Commander! I just tried to install mc on MiPup2 LiveCD. I got lost in outdated repositories, missing dependencies, claims that things would be queued that were not, suggestions to reboot (which is not applicable in pure LiveCD mode)... Please, someone, add some real...

More recent 5.38 version:
*** smartmontools-5.38.pet ***
was made available here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=33610

in 2008.

The dotpups page:
http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/developm ... al/dotpups

is still pointing to an old 5.33 version of smartmontools. How can we get that page updated, or redirected to a more recent collection of pups and pets?

Thank You! The MiPup2.6-412.iso MD5 Checksum matches: 382cc21fb2acccc030c4ea10fcc90af5 How can we get the MiPup and MiPup2 puplet pages changed with these new download locations? (Also, those official pages would be even better if they included the dates of origin/creation of the download iso files ...

Thanks for that speedy reply, dejan555!
It's good to have a source of original MiPup.
Can you find a copy of MiPup2 somewhere?

I wanted to try MiPup because it includes Audacity. But the download links: ftp://puppy:puppylinux@ftp.servage.net/../MiPup-410.iso ftp://puppy:puppylinux@ftp.servage.net/../MiPup2/MiPup2.6-412.iso that appear on the official pages: http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/mipup http://www.puppyl...

It just ran Knoppix v3.3 LiveCD fine (after whining about the 96MB). I hope I someday understand Puppy internals and Knoppix well enough to be able to help transplant some auto-config DNA!

mpd,
Thanks for making this available! Hope someone will offer you hosting space for your larger files, so they can stay in one piece!

I think this test was with LiveCD boot option 4.
The hard drive is broken on this old laptop. (Which would be why I needed to test with a LiveCD!)
The Trident might be sharing 2MB of main memory, for video.
ACPI -- sorry, that is a detail I don't understand well enough...

I still wish the standard Puppy desktop told the version, plain. Could be this trick: Instead of "Help", the icon be be labelled "109 Help". I am kind of attracted to the distros that just gen version numbers from the release date. But that gets a little complex in the current Pu...