Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

aha, so I should google something named speadtest. okay. Thanks

[stu90]

[nooby]

Wow I am on speed here

45.00 Mb/s down and 17.94 Mb/s up and ping 17 ms
I think that is okay for free internet payed through the rent.

But that says nothing about the OS that is the connection to the internet?

What he talked about was to compare OS not connections.

[stu90]

[linuxcbon]

Typing from slitaz frugal.
It can choose a language and be fully translated into it.
It uses vesa, ugly screen.
Midori works good.
Many applications in the menu need to be downloaded : abiword...
It needs password for root, root.

[nooby]

linuxcbon there is much that speak for Slitaz but
sadly if one like me want to boot frugally on NTFS
then Slitaz fail to save changes so I would use Porteus
instead that allow me to save to a slaxdata file.

I am looking into Netrunner just now. Sadly it fail to save changes too
but it is very complete for a noob that want OOTB medial features like
Flash on youtube and so on.

stu90 sadly I live in a small apartment here. What can it be 21 Square
meters? Not even a kitchen. You can not sit and eat in it. It has a Fridge
and a two plate warming up and one Micro oven and a sink and a window
that is it. You have to stand and it is cramp even then. Haha one bed.
We would get to know each other too well Not for us I guess.

Nope but when I lived up north sweden then I had a spare room with a
bed and a real kitchen and a place to sit and eat too. Elevator even

But then the too long distance to the ISP station I was on Dial Up first
but then them could afford to install Nokia Modems so we got ADSL and
about 2MB but then I moved to the outer parts of our biggest city
and them had rising prices on apartments so I could not afford anything
else than this one. Not optimal but I don't care. I could live in a small
wan as long as I had high speed internet.

[linuxcbon]

I don't need a savefile for I use it as a livecd.
Here is what I use for grub for frugal install to /mnt/sda6 with folder /mnt/sda6/SLITAZ-3.0 containing 2 files bzImage and rootfs.gz :

[linuxcbon]

Finished testing :
DSL doesn't find files to boot = 0/10
Crunchbang 684M = 0/10
Lubuntu 658M = 0/10
Slitaz needs to download programs = 4/10
Tinycore is like slitaz and not nice looking = 3/10
Unity needs weird root=/rd?? doesnt boot = 0/10
Vector 700M = 0/10
Puppy 9/10 winner

[nooby]

Thanks your code was much better than mine.

What about this one

root=/dev/null instead of root=/dev/ram0
what is the difference?

How do you get Flash player going so one can look at Youtube?

You posted while me writing.

I can help you with Lubuntu booting.

test this one.


title lubuntu 11.10 desktop version
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /lubuntu-10.10.iso
kernel /lubuntu/casper/vmlinuz file=/cdrom/preseed/ubuntu.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/lubuntu-10.10.iso kmap=se LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8 keymap=sv-latin1 noeject noprompt quiet splash --
initrd /lubuntu/casper/initrd.lz

you need to use puppy and click on the iso to copy casper and preseed
to the hdd on / and there create a dir named lubuntu and then place the
iso there too. Then it boot and one can find isodevice which is their name for the hdd that it booted from and you can listen to music and see pics and change menu.lst too. It accepts to save to that NTFS.

Extremely unusual.

But I use Netrunner instead. That one have more OOTB programs.


title Netrunner 2011 frugal iso boot of netrunner-3.2.iso
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /netrunner-3.2.iso
kernel /netrunner/casper/vmlinuz rw file=/cdrom/preseed/netrunner.seed boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/netrunner-3.2.iso noeject noprompt quiet splash --
initrd /netrunner/casper/initrd.lz

But sadly it is rather big.

[linuxcbon]

I will test if /dev/null works.
Flash player for which distro ? I think you should ask in their forum...
Lubuntu too big for me 658M.
Netrunner 1.32 GB even worse.
I will stay with puppy.
Why make complex when you can make simple ?

[linuxcbon]

root=/dev/null works too, I see no difference ?

[nooby]

Ah thanks okay about the null thing or 0 thing. Maybe means same then.

[linuxcbon]

Slitaz midori, I can't remember if flash works there as I didn't use it much, I only surfed in puppyforum and webmail.
Anyway, I removed those distros, I keep only puppy.
One distro is enough work for me.

[greengeek]

So often the choice of which small distro is best comes down to how well it can handle the constant changes on the internet.

Puppy seems to do extremely well keeping up with the web environment.

Probably this is because there are so many active developers here.

Big thanks to all those (especially Barry) who keep pushing Puppy to be the best and/or the smallest and/or the fastest etc etc.

I keep trying heaps of distros, but to be honest my Linux world always seems to keep spiralling back towards one or other Puppy. (or rather several puppies on each PC...)