(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Shep]

I'm using dpup477. I'd like to add on something so I can read the
newsgroups on USENET.

Will the standard seamonkey email/news .pet work on Dpup, or do I need
something specifically packaged for Dpup? Any other alternatives?

Thanks.

[gposil]

There is a usenet newsreader called Pan in the Dpup repository at ibiblio, it was packaged for 48x series dpup, but should work in 47x.

Try it

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/pet_packages-5/pan-0.132-dpup.pet

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[Shep]

[otropogo]

does dpup have multi-use support?

[01micko]

Hi otropogo

Not as yet (er, multi-user?).. it has been briefly discussed. It is probably a future thing once other problems are sorted.

Cheers

[otropogo]

[dejan555]

otropogo, latest dpup beta has "SafeBrowser" which starts firefox as user "nobody" after you quit it nothing is saved, session runs and removes from /tmp after exit

[dejan555]

If you're using another dpup version and don't feel like switching to latest, you can always run as spot:

[otropogo]

If I understand Pizzasgood's latest post about the false security of going online after booting Puppy with pfix=RAM, neither SPOT nor the safebrowser can stop a knowledgeable hacker from covertly gaining control of a Linux system running online as root.

OTOH, the limitations of both approaches are enormous.

It's not the browser that's the problem, it's running online as root, as xfprot is at pains to remind users.

As I understand it, If one's system is modified during an online session, deleting items downloaded by the browser won't fix it.

I suppose I could safely navigate the Internet by simply booting Puppy from a LiveCD on a system with no volatile storage other than RAM and removable flash. memory. But then I'd have to remaster the CD or DVD every time I needed to add an application or make any system modification, and I'd have to save bookmarks and passwords to the flash media and load them back into memory every time I start up.

The system would need to have at least a Gigabyte of RAM, and be entirely dedicated to this one task, or have some method of physically powering off all of the drives except for the burner.

But that doesn't seem practical...

[gerry]

I couldn't remember whether or not I tried dpup477b1, so I downloaded it, burnt a cd, and tried it. Powered down, creating a pupsave on the way, and rebooted. Now I remembered- won't boot a second time, get a kernel panic message when it switches to the layered file system. Is there a patch for this? If not, how come people are using it? How are they doing it? (Yes, I know- I haven't read all 52 pages of this topic.)

gerry

[Shep]

[gerry]

@shep... live cd, frugal, or full install? I'm using live cd.

gerry

[Shep]