Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jakfish]

Stella looks good, and what a good, thorough review Colonel Panic cites. However, the boot time is a little too long for my taste. The leanness of Lubuntu makes things very zippy.

Though Stella has far better stock apps.

I've thinned Lubuntu even more, going with Midori 0.4.3 (0.4.7 got rid of its MenuBar for some reason) in place of Chromium.

Chromium allows so few visual adjustments to its GUI, it's ridiculous.

Jake

[nooby]

Not Linux but kind of cool to understand what will become of it?

[jakfish]

nooby, that's a great find. I've never heard of plasma active before. Wonder if it works with a physical keyboard, and does it have a working word processor?

I couldn't tell, though it does seem to have KDE PIMs, and KDE has a word processor, right?

Jake

[nooby]

Hehe I have no idea what it is . I am not that bright.
One guy somewhere on internet told that it had borrowed
from BSE and IOS and Android? but that it where independent
of these. Maybe he wanted to create a flame war and just teased?

I trust the links should have all info needed. Reading wikipedia
I got the impression it is just another overlay but that is not how
they present it is it. So I would love that someone really getting it
would explain if it is a new thing or not?

Haha I am a pessimist. There only exist one OS and that is Unix
and variations of Unix? Just teasing.

edit When I where much younger I had a CP/M computer
but the commands did look almost as twin to DrDOS or MsDOS

where these really that much different from Unix?

[nooby]

Distrowatch list a few new ones core17 one of them.
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20121015#waiting
https://sites.google.com/site/corenlightenment/

is that not an odd url? sites.google.com?

[nooby]

Turing OS ? http://turingos.org/

[rokytnji]

Just buggfixing

[gcmartin]

Is it just me or has the community noticed the PCs that are being used by community members. They are using advance/current platforms which have much RAM and enormous CPU/MB capabilities.

This community may need to splinter into 2 groups: Those who have processors since 2006 with RAM all the way to 64GB, and, those who have pre-2006 PCs.

The distro developers must also continue to announce which class of PCs they are building and intend to support with their distros. The world of PCs have become much too broad.

And, lastly, even though I have publish little about it, KVM ability in CPUs have been around commonly since 2006. Maybe we'll need to splinter that off into "Virtual Puppy OS processing with KVM" and "Virtual OS processing without the assist feature".

We are approaching a time when we should begin to anticipate the coming wave of Touch implemented OSes that is changing what we do (whether we like it or not, change is ALWAYS met with resistance.....ALWAYS!!!)

Her to help

[nooby]

Yes I get that I should be able to google KVM
but felt unsure about it. Maybe you can edit
your post to include some explanation?

Netbooks are rather new but they are often
only 1GB at most and cheaper CPU that is
one kernel instead of 2 or 4 and most likely
not KVM eitehr whatever that is.

But they are very new I bought my three 2009 and 2010?
and the oldest maybe 2008?

so will 2006 really help?

and another thing. Each time somebody tell Developers
to do something then we lose then and they almost never get back
so I would prefer that one always praise and cheer them and never
ever tell them what they should do. We can not afford to lose them
that carelessly.

[Colonel Panic]

[Colonel Panic]

[nooby]

DistroWatch announce Slax 7.0

they write
Tomáš Matějíček has announced the availability of a public preview release of Slax 7.0, a Slackware-based live CD with KDE 4 in under 180 MB: "So here it is. A small lightweight KDE, recompiled with as few dependencies as possible. I've partially completed my battle with the KDE desktop environment. There is a lot of work waiting in the queue, since there are no applications yet except Konsole; however, it is ready for wider public testing.

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07512

now suppose you already have Porteus working in frugal install?

Would this code for grub4dos? work for Slax too frugal install
on NTFS?

title Porteus
kernel (hd0,1)/porteusboot/vmlinuz from_dir=porteus/ rw toroot xfce ramsize=60% root=/dev/ram0 fsck changes=/mnt/sda2/porteus12rc.dat copy2ram nocd noeject noswap
initrd (hd0,1)/porteusboot/initrd.xz
boot

One would need to create Dir with slax instead but I mean is it same pattern
or does Slax have their own peculiar code?

Porteus is a modern Slax as I get it.

[James C]

Trying out Zenlive 7.2....... seems pretty good so far.Another Slackware based distro with XFCE 4.10.

http://www.zenwalk.org/

[James C]

Just finished an installation of Vector 7.0 Gold.Seems pretty quick. Sharing the hard drive with Xubuntu 12.04.1, Zenwalk 7.0 and a bunch of Pup's.

[nitehawk]

James C,..
VectorLinux has always been my all-time favorite for a "bigger" distro than Puppy (when I need a bigger distro than Puppy, that is...which isn't too often). However,....my VectorLinux 7 standard install CD seems to have gotten corrupted somehow. It no longer will install <alas>

I have just broke down and installed Slackware 14,....then used a LOT of the apps off of the VectorLinux CD to "flesh out" Slackware. Stuff like Opera,...Flash,...Win32 codecs,...and the Wine package, (from the Salix repositories). Seems to work fine.

Plus,...Doing a full install of Slackware,..with KDE and the KDEgames (then using just the smaller XFCE desktop)...gives me the games for my grandson,....but a smaller DE for me. But I actually prefer VectorLinix over Slackware.