These are the official builds. The SSE builds are contributed packages by Walter Dnes. The last SSE build is the 27.9.4 of which I provided the link. No more SSE support for palemoon 28. There is a glibctweaked package of the SSE 27.9.4 build at:a_salty_dogg wrote:For future reference, if anyone should need it, here's the link to Palemoon's own archive of all prior versions for both Linux and Windoze:
ftp://archive.palemoon.org/palemoon/
Thanks again futwerk.futwerk wrote:new backgrounds.
You're very welcome quirkian2new. What kind of machine(s) are you running it on, cpu, ram, etc.quirkian2new wrote:Thank you, jrb. VERY MUCH appreciated for your excellent job.
Applied the delta1 and gets an +1.iso whose size is 2 MB less.
With glibc 2.20 and gtk3, most modern and recent browsers can be run and many otherwise-been-scrapped ancient machines can be used again.
Thank you again
No hang so far.quirkian2new (in part) wrote:.. ocassionally when i shutdown the machine only displays "Precise-light 5.7.1 .........................." and hangs there. This bugs seems to happen after i close firefox-esr 60.6.1 (but i am not too sure).
Does anyone encounter this hang at shutdown ?
I have one laptop which used to hang on shutdown with every Puppy I tried, except Tahr605. Now every Puppy I use on that machine uses the kernel from Tahr605 (zdrv), sadly that's the kernel you're using with Precise. Other kernels are available at http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/huge_kernels/. Just Uxtract them, change name to zdrv_precise_min-5.7.1.sfs and vmlinuz, then place them in your Puppy directory.quirkian2new wrote:@jrb,
I tested precise-light on a machine with 2GB ram laptop (more than 10yrs old) and all is very smooth, except that ocassionally when i shutdown the machine only displays "Precise-light 5.7.1 .........................." and hangs there. This bugs seems to happen after i close firefox-esr 60.6.1 (but i am not too sure).
Does anyone encounter this hang at shutdown ?
Shouldn't be a problem. I had the 4.9.96-lxpup-32-pae kernel handy so I booted with that and all seems well.davids45 wrote:G'day jrb,
Is there likely to be any problem putting a fairly new huge-kernel into Precise-Light (and Bionic32-Light)?
I have three old desktops on the home network for the grandkids to (ab)use when they visit. These old HPs were ethernetted but I have just switched these over to wifi using cheap usb dongles.
The dongles needed a kernel-specific driver which forum-member perdido made for me and has survived their first attack/visit.
The computers run Bionic32 but I am thinking I could add a Light Pup or two to these 1GB RAM Hyper-threading computers if they accept the dongle-needing 4.9.163 kernel.
Thanks,
David S.
Good Morning quirkian2new, Once upon a time I stripped everything out of Puppies that I could, barebones they were called, so that people could build their own versions. Way too many headaches trying to get things to run again. I have attached an image showing how I decide what to eliminate now. You can right click on a directory, in Precise-light anyway, and choose "Gdmap_Preview". It will show you the relative sizes of all the files in the directory. If you do that for /initrd/pup_ro2, it will show you the entire Puppy.sfs. I have included the Grub4dos directory of the extracted .pet as well. You can see, even expanded it's pretty small 386.03Kb. My motto is get rid of the big stuff, leave the rest, besides I still use Grub4dos and I still partition disksquirkian2new wrote:Thanks jrb for your reply.
I have a suggetion if you can further remove some "seldom used" items so that the main sfs is even smaller. One of the seldom used is "grub4dos/grub/ syslinux" ,that is in /usr directory, which i think is very very rarely used (at least for me i have not used them for more than five yrs). Also i have not done any harddisk parition/re-partition process for more than 5 yrs.
I always run puppy/Fatdog frugally and without any savefile.
Maybe other forum members can suggest/vote what is meant by "seldom used" because i cannot represent all the rest.
Hi Ken, Glad to hear that Precise-light is working for you! I just downloaded palemoon 27.9.4SSE and I'll have a go at building a portable installer for it. I don't think I'll bundle it with the others but will post it as a seperate .pet.keniv wrote:Hello jrb,
I have installed your precise light on my old Toshiba laptop. It might have the poorest spec of any machine using it at p3 800MHz and 320MB though I am ready to be corrected. It seems to be working fine. I have installed palemoon 27.9.4SSE as the browser. I think its the most up to date one I can use on this machine. I also use it with lucid 528 which I also have on the machine. I don't know if there is a portable version of this but if there is would it be possible to include it in your "portable browser installer" if you decide to add it to your update. I would help those with low spec machines to run a reasonable browser from the off. Thanks for all your work on precise light.
Regards,
Ken.
Ken, I just posted Palemoon-27.9.4SSE portable installer. I think it will do what you want.keniv wrote:Hello jbr,
Thanks for that. I hope it works. I don't think it matters if it's not in your package. An easily available gui to download this version palemoon would be good. If it works I'm happy to test.
Regards,
Ken.
