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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8656 Location: qld

Live to the world.. Smile

p310don · Posted: Tue 25 Oct 2011, 09:36 Post subject:

Torrent for download...

Unzip and open with Transmission, or similar bit torrent downloader.

Note: zip and tar.gz have the same file inside

2byte · Joined: 09 Oct 2006 Posts: 357

Which kernel is in slacko-5.3-SCSI-PAE_HIGHMEM-ALT.iso?
Is it also 2.6.37.6 or a different one?

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5265 Location: GB

Flashplayer 10.2.151.49.pet:

Lobster · Posted: Tue 25 Oct 2011, 11:30 Post subject:

Slacko announcements continue . . .

http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Puppy-Linux-5-3-Slacko-based-on-Slackware-13-37-1366512.html

caieng · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 30

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2544 Location: near here

It might be worth testing Pussy Puppy as well - it may be a better performer. Also, there is GuyDog ; -)

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5265 Location: GB

Five boards tested so far including an Armada; only an old Soltek A1600+ ATI came up with Xorg, sound (inc. woofwoof), Flashplayer and all the other variables working at first ask! One, a PIII/833 refused to run an RTL8139C that had just worked on an older i633 board, but that one had serious sound and video issues. The others showed at least one of the previously reported 'features'. One more tomorrow - an unusual 939...

Installing Slackware may take hours and end up with LILO, but never had a moments lost sleep with it. Does it still run 386?!

caieng · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 30

Thank you, very much dark city.

I did not realize that this distro existed. Perhaps the name is a bit off-putting.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1208220432&t=69475

Yes, I am an enthusiastic supporter of the Debian "synaptic" program. Really works well, in my experience. I prefer it to all others.

I suspect that this "pussy" will turn out to be a big success....
If you will follow my advice, you will jettison all the wretched audio players, associated with traditional Puppy installs (BK is tone deaf) and stick with VLC. Remember, cats, especially the wild panthers, are very clean animals. Dogs are notorious slobs, but not felines. Spif it up, go Mercedes, put in the top audio player, and watch the ratings climb.

My slacko has finished downloading, so, I am off to try and install it. I will be keen to learn if it offers Lilo, instead of Grub. I have always been a fan of Patrick Volkerding, and his Lilo program.

CAI ENG

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

Slacko Puppy 5.3
Slacko Puppy Linux 5.3 is a child, or better a pup, of Barry Kauler's Woof build system. It has binary compatibility with Slackware-13.37, which simply means that it is a Puppy built with packages from the Slackware, Salix and Slacky repositories.

The main version has kernel 2.6.37.6 compiled with Aufs, layered file system support, in the typical Puppy manner.
Some new features of Slacko are a rebuilt gtkdialog, a program which allows bash scripts to run in GUI. A showcase of this is Pmusic and Pequalizer, tiny apps to organise and play your music collection and more.

Slacko Puppy introduces Frisbee Network Manager to connect wirelessly, familiar to Puppeee users. It utilises the WPA_supplicant daemon and is great for laptops and people on the move. There is also Simple Network Setup and Network Wizard to offer choice.

The Seamonkey suite is the default browser and email suite but Firefox Aurora, Chromium, Opera, Netsurf, Dillo and Links are only a few clicks away.
Slickpet is a cut down version of Quickpet to get a few handy apps without diving into the well stocked Puppy Package manager. While on the Puppy Package Manager, apart from Puppy's native PET package format it can also fetch Slackware, Salix and Slacky packages in tgz or txz format.

Puppy's sfs format is supported by a program called sfs_load. Sfs are a way to load layered filesystems so that the filesystems can be unioned and act as one. Read more.
Slacko has Abiword and Gnumeric, latest versions to open those documents and spreadsheets to keep you working.

Lots of types of multimedia are supported so you can play hard.

Slacko is aimed at reasonably modern machines up to six or seven years old. It may run on even older hardware. There is also a later kernel compiled with PAE HighMem support, for machines with up to 64G RAM. This is recommended for the latest machines, less than a year or two old.

Slacko Puppy 5.3 offers something for everyone, whether for work or play, all in under 125 megabytes!
Time to get Slacko!.........http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.3/release-Slacko-5.3.htm

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just have to open your eyes to see. slacko does rock!

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3726 Location: UK

caieng · Joined: 26 Sep 2009 Posts: 30

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

Had you tried editing xorg.conf and adding a line of your preferred resolution?
I seem to recall that I read that on the forum as a way to get the resolution you want when a lower resolution is being used by the xorgwizard and not showing the one you want.

jim3630 · Joined: 13 Feb 2011 Posts: 792 Location: Northern Nevada

3 year member with 26 posts, no mention of what he did on his "install" and crying sounds like a straw man to bait with.

frugal install 5.3+pae to ext4 on dual core p6100 hp

darn it doesn't work on commodore64.

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

It wont work on my Timex Sinclair 1000 either.
I guess 2 kilobytes of memory is not enough. Laughing