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darry19662018 · #21 Post by **darry19662018** » Mon 03 Jun 2019, 09:00

Ok Guess the Pup from the obscure picture?

Clues: Obviously an older Pup and it is not an english pup.

Kernel: kernel 3.9------- August 2013.

Mike Walsh · #22 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Mon 03 Jun 2019, 14:30

Never really tried many of the older Pups. Not yet..!

My all-time fave for a solid, day-to-day Pup which will do everything I need has now switched from Micko's Slacko 5.7.0 to its predecessor, Slacko 5.6.0. But I have to agree with the comments about pemasu's stuff. UPup 'Raring' 3.9.9.2 (2013-ish?) comes a very close second, despite being one of the '9-month wonders' whose repos shut down months before I even joined the Forum.....

My own has been set-up entirely with .pets and SFSs.....and a few items I've installed manually, by 'borrowing' the necessary deps'n'stuff from other Pups. (Like gnome-system-monitor, which was a real bitch to get working; most of the necessary items came from Barry's last 'official' Pup, Precise 571, though I found odd bits & pieces from a variety of sources).

I keep looking at various 4-series Pups, though many seem to be missing basic stuff like the ability to recognise a USB 3.0 adapter card.....or to load SFS packages.

Mike.

darry19662018 · #23 Post by **darry19662018** » Mon 03 Jun 2019, 19:11

about pemasu's stuff. UPup 'Raring' 3.9.9.2

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Yep thats the one.

Mike Walsh · #24 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Mon 03 Jun 2019, 22:53

@ darry:-

Hah! That was a good guess, wasn't it? (And at that point, I wasn't even thinking about answering your question, TBH....

)

I still stand by my comments, though. Here's my current 'take' on Raring:-

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One of Mike's usual 'busy' desktops!

Mike.

darry19662018 · #25 Post by **darry19662018** » Tue 04 Jun 2019, 06:42

Mate thats a bloody lovely desktop.

So far Raring has proved real nice.

Mike Walsh · #26 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Tue 04 Jun 2019, 14:10

darry19662018 wrote:Mate thats a bloody lovely desktop.

So far Raring has proved real nice.

Yeah, it's not too bad, is it?

I think the deep red background 'base' colour, along with the gold pinstriping around my home-made 'docks', gives it a real touch of class. Rather like some of the old steam railway engines had with their company liveries.....

All courtesy of MooiTech's PhotoScape 3.7, running in Racy 5.5.

(Stupid thing is - and I've never figured this out - although PhotoScape runs in every one of my Pups, for reasons that escape me some of the more esoteric functions (like the pinstriping utility) seem to work far better under Racy than they do anywhere else. And that's the oldest Pup in the kennels. Weird.)

You can see I have way too much time on my hands, can't you?

Mike.

rufwoof · #27 Post by **rufwoof** » Tue 04 Jun 2019, 19:11

Guess you already know Mike, but just in case, in gkrellm you can define names for the temperature readings, such as core and gpu (or radeon/whatever)

Mike Walsh · #28 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Tue 04 Jun 2019, 22:11

rufwoof wrote:Guess you already know Mike, but just in case, in gkrellm you can define names for the temperature readings, such as core and gpu (or radeon/whatever)

A-ha. No, I didn't.....but I do now. Good to know, 'cos for some daft reason my two cores are marked temp1 and temp3 ???

Now I can mark 'em Core1 and Core2, the way I want them. Cheers, mate!

Mike.

8Geee · #29 Post by **8Geee** » Thu 06 Jun 2019, 00:54

Iguleder's GuyDog-5.0.1 that was quite a wonderful pup from 2011.

The 21 pages of postings from 5.0.0 --> 5.0.1 are here. There are some stunning wallpapers offered.

I was drooling about this one, but didn't have a reliable portable CD/DVD burner at the time.
For the security minded... kernel 2.6.39.4 so theres NO TLS1.2 AFAIK.

Regards
8Geee

8Geee · #30 Post by **8Geee** » Thu 06 Jun 2019, 02:00

Posting from GuyDog-5.0.1. (Atom n270/i915 2Gb mem)
Needs ROX to access internal HDD(SSD) but as CD operated... neat.

Regards
8Geee

darry19662018 · #31 Post by **darry19662018** » Thu 06 Jun 2019, 06:21

Yep used that for awhile based Dpup squeeze.

You should try Dpup 009 as well also from Iguleder.

Colonel Panic · #32 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 06 Jun 2019, 15:50

I've just tried Midnight Sun Pup. It looks great (and very appropriate since we're in June now) and came with a Firefox which could be updated as far as FF45, but it wouldn't run Pale Moon or install Softmaker FreeOffice 2018 (I didn't try it with 2016).

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=69353

darry19662018 · #33 Post by **darry19662018** » Fri 07 Jun 2019, 09:21

Another great work from Pemasu:)

Mike Walsh · #34 Post by **Mike Walsh** » Fri 07 Jun 2019, 14:21

Colonel Panic wrote:I've just tried Midnight Sun Pup. It looks great (and very appropriate since we're in June now) and came with a Firefox which could be updated as far as FF45, but it wouldn't run Pale Moon or install Softmaker FreeOffice 2018 (I didn't try it with 2016).

@ Colonel Panic:-

Give the SSE-only version of Palemoon 27.9.4 a look. Watchdog did a build with a glibc-2.19 'tweak' built-in, and I turned it into a 'portable', along the same lines as Fred's FF-Quantum portable.. Ten to one your problem is the glibc being too old, though you could be having issues with too-old 'deps', too.....

My 'portable' version:- http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 06#1022606

Or there's jrb's 'installer' script for the same:- http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=116108

Yes, you could use watchdog's original .pet package, but what with you being an inveterate 'distro-hopper', I think the portables are simply the easier option for you....and they work on a lot of non-Puppy distros, too; I've had Fred's FF-Quantum portable running happily in AntiX, back when I still had it installed.

(You could put this in one 'permanent' location on your machine, and just access it via the launcher script whenever you want to use it. Or stick it on a flash drive; they run just as happily from one of those.)

Mike.

Colonel Panic · #35 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Wed 12 Jun 2019, 19:07

Thanks Mike; this will be good if or when I'm using older versions of Puppy such as that one. I generally install the Debian package of Palemoon or Vivaldi when I'm in Debian or a Debian-based distro (such as Liquid Lemur, the one I'm posting this from).

Distro-hopping? When I'm not using Puppy, these days I tend to use Debian-based distros more than any others because they work better with old computers like mine and are also very easy to update. I could be accused of flitting around between distros (if it is an accusation?), but the distros I flit (or hop) between are getting fewer and fewer. This is at least the third time I've installed Liquid Lemur, for example.

Colonel Panic · #36 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Tue 20 Aug 2019, 20:42

I'm posting this from Puppy 4.20 SUE, using Opera 11.11 which works well in it. It's still usable in 2019 though it probably helps that I've got a thirteen year old computer.

Colonel Panic · #37 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Fri 23 Aug 2019, 17:50

Posting this from another of my faves - Puppy Lighthouse 4.12.

Seamonkey 1.1.11 is really old though and not really adequate for most of the Internet any more (though it's still good for this site).

nic007 · #38 Post by **nic007** » Sat 24 Aug 2019, 07:45

Colonel Panic wrote:I'm posting this from Puppy 4.20 SUE, using Opera 11.11 which works well in it. It's still usable in 2019 though it probably helps that I've got a thirteen year old computer.

Upgrade to Opera 12, slightly newer and the last of the old Opera's.

Colonel Panic · #39 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Sat 24 Aug 2019, 08:26

nic007 wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:I'm posting this from Puppy 4.20 SUE, using Opera 11.11 which works well in it. It's still usable in 2019 though it probably helps that I've got a thirteen year old computer.
Upgrade to Opera 12, slightly newer and the last of the old Opera's.

Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but Opera 12 needs a later version of glibc (2.8 ) than this pup has got.

nic007 · #40 Post by **nic007** » Sat 24 Aug 2019, 09:15

Colonel Panic wrote:
nic007 wrote:
Colonel Panic wrote:I'm posting this from Puppy 4.20 SUE, using Opera 11.11 which works well in it. It's still usable in 2019 though it probably helps that I've got a thirteen year old computer.
Upgrade to Opera 12, slightly newer and the last of the old Opera's.
Hi,

Thanks for the advice, but Opera 12 needs a later version of glibc (2.8 ) than this pup has got.

I don't think so. Here is a download link from the puppy 412 collection site:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/bvwcg0hvim1if ... 6.pet?dl=1

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