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[greengeek]

[dagodemon42]

I recently encountered flash problems with Arch Linux. Flash either wouldn't load or would crash suddenly. Researching the problem, I found that the newest Flash Player(11.2)requires a processor that supports SSE2 instruction set. My Pentium III only supports SSE. The solution isn't perfect, but does work for me. Download an older version of Flash(10.3). Extract file libflashplayer.so, and place in folder /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins(you may have to create this folder). The problem now becomes that you are using an older and less secure version of Flash. Arch Linux offers a package called sandfox, that keeps Firefox(and other programs) in a "sandbox" or limited function. Flash now works. I don't know if sandfox could be adapted to Puppy, or if there are other programs with similar function. Hopefully the Puppy Gurus will be able to decipher this rambling post and apply a similar solution to the World Of Puppy.

[rokytnji]

Specs on my Laptop

[Colonel Panic]

Rant alert.

Is Salix Ratpoison the unfriendliest distro ever? It certainly seems like it to me right now.

I've just installed Salix Ratpoison 13.37, and as usual had to give both a root password and a normal user name and password when the installation was in progress.

All went well until I actually tried to log in at the console (Salix seems to use init 4 by default). At first I got the message that no login manager like gdm or lxdm was installed and I had to use Ctrl-Alt-F6 to change console before I could do anything else (funny, I was never asked if I wanted to install one but still...).

Did that, and then I got the "System respawning - wait 5 minutes" message. After waiting perhaps 4 minutes, I logged again and typed in "startx" to start the window manager and load X11. I was met with a blank screen, apart from the blunt message: "Go away.", with a box to tick to show that I'd seen the message, but no mouse to actually access it (oh well, it is ratpoison I suppose).

I know enough about Linux to be able to edit an inittab file, and so I did this from Wary and changed to init 3 (my usual init setting).This time when I typed in startx I got the message, "Your TV is feeling lonely". That was enough frankly, I gave up.

I'm not without a sense of humour but sometimes I actually want to get stuff done. Apart from the other problems the distro had, messages like that give me the impression that I’m dealing with a bunch of frivolous devs (teenagers?) who don't care about the user experience of people using their distro and would rather have a laugh at their expense instead.

Rant over. It's sad this has happened as I have nothing but praise for the other version of Salix I've tried, Salix LXDE.

[Colonel Panic]

[sickgut]

[Colonel Panic]

[Colonel Panic]

Just to prove the point, I downloaded and compiled the ratpoison source in Vector (6, KDE) and am posting from Firefox in ratpoison now with Amarok playing in the background

So it isn't just me. I don't claim to be a Linux expert and could certainly do with learning some more, but I know a fair amount of the basics.

[nooby]

"Go away!"

Haha I got some similar message when I wanted to startx too.
I wrote about it on their forum and they seemed very upset
with me wanting to be root.

Rude seems to be the best word for how they treated me with too.
Okay I am a very naive noob but now when they treat you the same way
then I trust that you are right. They do this on purpose or why else do they
go to such length measure that they have done here?

[lmemsm]

[Colonel Panic]

[grump]

I came across a reference to ICS Android on a laptop, so went googling and soon found http://www.android-x86.org/ . After some poking around (messy site) I had an ISO for a live CD, burned it and booted, then had a little play on this old Toshiba A200 laptop. It worked about 98% eg detected my home wireless but would not stay connected.

It was good for a play.

[Colonel Panic]

I've just installed the latest version of ConnochaetOS (a distro intended for old computers like mine, or older), and the VTWM window manager too, so my desktop looks like something out of the 1990s. It makes my computer very quiet though since it doesn't test either my CPU or my memory to their limits.

ConnochaetOS is worth considering for people with very old machines who can manage without the "bells and whistles" of a distro like Ubuntu or Mint. The one downside is that the devs are "free software" purists and frown upon running Opera from within ConnochaetOS (as I'm doing now ), although it runs very well in it.

(Seamonkey works well in it too, but don't tell 'em).

BTW, I like some of these old window managers such as VTWM and FVWM. They're usually very lightweight and have all the features you really need to handle windows on your desktop, and have some features even modern window managers don't. For example, in VTWM you can maximize windows either horizontally or vertically as well as both, just from a click on a button.

The trouble with them is that all the configuration usually has to be done by manual editing of a text file, which can get pretty tedious even if you understand what you're doing (hint: look online for someone else's config file instead). Horses for courses I suppose, but also a reminder of a time when most Linux software was written by computing experts for others.

[James C]

Still testing AntiX.....

[Colonel Panic]