Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

LarryHenry

Hi folks ...just burned a live CD and created a USB "live" drive. Puppy5,xx.xx. It rund nicely on my 2005 eMachines W3410 with an AMD Athlon 64 processor and a ATI Radeon Xpress 200 video card....what i wonder is how old a pc this version of Lucid Puppy will run on and if I have an older PC with say 64MB of Ram or 128 MB of ram which version should I use? I have tried Ubuntu Kububtu and Mint...puppy is the one I like. Thanks to the creators...it's almost seamless compared to the other distros i have looked at and easy and intuitive for "newbies" to learn. Thanks for any advice...i have an old windows "Me" PC coming my way but know nothing about it except it runs "Me"...suggestions please for the correct version of Puppy! -- Larry - Austin Indiana...

session · Joined: 07 Feb 2011 Posts: 44 Location: Valley of the Sun

Wary is noticeably faster than Lupu on my 2001(?) Celeron... in fact it’s the snappiest Linux distro I’ve tried, ever--on modest hardware it’s easy to tell. Wary uses an older version of X.org, and I’m sure that plays a big part. It also has excellent winmodem support; I currently don’t use dial-up but I did alot at one time, and it’s nice to know I can always go back to it in Wary hassle-free.

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4350 Location: merriam, kansas

Wary 5.1.3.4-uni iso is my favorite on my present computers.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/test/wary-5.1.3.4/

Used Wary 5.1.2 on my old millenium p3 laptop.

I use full installs or live usb and cds.

LarryHenry

Thanks guys....i think i'll burn a copy....

LarryHenry

tried wary on my PC with 2GB of ram and it ran...supersonic...so does "Lucid Puppy"...running off a USB stick right now...this may be the Linux distro (Lucid Puppy 5.2. Cool

that makes me change from Windows-XP to Linux....Puppy is so simple and intuitive I think even my ex wife could learn it...LOLReminds me of changing from Windows 3.11/dos 6.20 to Windows 95.....

LarryHenry

Even my DVD reader which refuses to read a DVD in Windows-XP-(sp3) works in Lucid Puppy...I love this Distro...

LarryHenry

I was boored after work the other day, and downloaded IceWm from the reopsitory and installed it. My Cuzzy Ronda came over and got on my pc set up with IceWm to look like XP. She said What did you do to XP? She didn't even realize it was NOT XP...when i showed her what I'd done she was VERY impressed. She lived "upstate"ab out 125 miles away and has to move to Nevada and offered me her seldom used Emachines with Windows 7 Pro and a much bigger monitor then this PC has...i think it's worth the gas to drive up there for a free PC. Of course after investigating Win-7-Pro i'll probably wipe it and install Puppy Lucid on it as Lucid has become my mais OS of late...[img][/img]

starhawk · Posted: Wed 02 Nov 2011, 16:00 Post subject:

WinXP = ~1gb installed size
WinVista = IDK, not goin near that pile of stank.
Win7 = ~5gb installed size (little less, like 4.8...)

Ubuntu 7.x, 8.x = ~3gb installed size
Ubuntu 11.04 = 4.5gb installed size (that's what they tell you, not sure if it's actually that big)

Puppy is almost never more than 300mb, and does at least as much as all of 'em.

Think about it.

LarryHenry

Lest I be misunderstood...I have Windows-XP and Puppy Lucid 5.2.8 dual booted using Grub4Dos. I seldom boot back into XP but am finding Lucid to be all it was bragged to be...I love it..... 1/2 split between both.

Athlon 64 3200, ATi Radeon-Xpress 200, 2 GB of RAM, 100GB hard drive...PC is eMachines W3410 from 2005 Walley-world special...