Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[frank4360]

The great thing about Linux is the amount of choice!

I have an old (2009) AcerAspireOne with 8GB of SSD - no hard disk.

I have been experimenting with small Linux distros, from EasyPeasy to Puppy, via Xubuntu and others.

I liked the size of Puppy, but have stopped using it after problems with, primarily, the TouchPad (never worked properly) and miscellaneous screen problems.

I also found that the software update procedures were more complicated than the larger distros.

None of this is meant to run down Puppy! Far from it - it is certainly lean, but even 8GB (which exceeds the total capacity of an old Windows system I used to have) is enough to run a distro with more facilities, and dare I say, more elegance.

I am now using Mint, with both the Xfce desktop, and Gnome. I find both systems easy , and while not as fast to load as Puppy, quite acceptable.

In all distros I have a real problem with the size of available screen for some applications - setting up Thunderbird accounts is one of the worst; and Puppy had the same problem. I assume that Puppy works well on old desktop systems with full size screens but slow processors and limited memory.

Good luck to all.

Frank

[Lobster]

m m m . . . First post.
Must be Cat mint . . .

Welcome to the kennels.
Trolls and meow meows are sometimes found here.

Many of our Puppys do like and use Mint
I just use it as a mouth rinse.

[DPUP5520]

[frank4360]

I still don't use Puppy on the AcerAspire One mentioned in the first post (though I have moved that to Lubuntu from Mint) - but I have jjust resurrected a VERY OLD Acer Aspire 1350 laptop with a measly 178meg RAM - and I use Puppy on that.


With such small RAM I have found it impossible to install any of the so-called Light distros of Linux except Puppy - and Puppy has given the 1350 a new lease of life. It is about 10 years old and originally ran Windows XP (like a dog - woof woof) - but it had not been switched on for several years.

Now I plan to use it and its 30 GB hard disk to secure files from my other computers, particularly if I can install Dropbox (the Dropbox Linux install commands seem to fail all the time, but that is another story).

[Lobster]

Glad to hear you are making progress.

Here is some Minty goodness in Alpha that might be of interest
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=641437#641437

[frank4360]

[Monsie]

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