(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Dean wrote:Toshiba Satellite 4070CDS
Processor: Intel Celeron 366 Mhz
Memory: 64 MB
Hardisk: 4GB
OS: Full install puppy 4.31 + 128mb swap partition

wow mister ... good on ya
If I owned that box it would have 2.14R onto it...
If it is workin' for you ... I applaud!
RP

@racepres
Out of topic: What is the difference, advantage/disadvantage of Puppy version 2,3, and 4. I also have old computer in home with 64M memory.

4.3.1 works on emachines em250. I don't think the webcam is recognized, Won't boot from SD card. Otherwise, I'm happy. $228.

BTW, WIN7 starter, included on this netbook, may pleasantly surprise you with startup and shutdown times. And the webcam works.

It's funny, windows is now including a pwidgets style clock.

auriza wrote:@racepres
Out of topic: What is the difference, advantage/disadvantage of Puppy version 2,3, and 4. I also have old computer in home with 64M memory.

When I started w/ puppy it went so good that I decided to "revive" some really old hardware! Didn't go so well... but DSL was working very well indeed! After some experimentation and looking into kernel versions, [learned from trying to put linux onto a Mac] I decided to go w/ earlier versions for use on earlier equipment... Works so good for me that I won't be changing anytime soon...
RP

I see, for really old hardware. Thanks.

I've got a Thinkpad X60 with 1 Gig of RAM and a 500g drive partitioned as half ntfs and half ext2. I run XPPSP2 on the ntfs drive and run 4.12, 4.21, and 4.31 on the ext2 partition. I can choose which of the four OS's I want to run from the XP boot menu.

All OS's work fine with the built-in Verizon Broadband wireless modem as well as the various LAN and 802.11x wireless adapters.


I have a Thinkpad A21m with 196 meg of ram and 40 gig HD that runs a 4.21 full install and runs a linksys wireless pcmcia card.

I have a Thinkpad X31 with 1 gig of RAM and 100 gig HD that dual boots XPP and P4.12.

I've got a MITAC 5033. It runs pretty well with Puppy431. 64MB, 366MHz. I am looking for a manual and the last bios version. I would like to upgrade ram and cpu. Does anybody know the limits?

The computer runs under several names. another one is IPC Topnote K6II-366. Fujitsu Liteline Gericom etc

Sony VAIO vgn-fs920
1.73Gh processor
2Gb ram
350Gb HD - all ext3
DSL modem w/ 802.11x wireless hub

Grub2 Menu:

puppy-431-NOP-r2 frugal install w/ compiz, openoffice. gimp and adobe reader.

All data, scripts, wallpapers etc stored in home (on partition rather than in 2fs file)

Backup Script using rsync to categorized folders on another partition or drive
for data, config, usr, etc, bin, sbin, lib, dev, var and one folder called nos for rsync of
iso, sfs, vmlinuz and 2fs file.

Xine script to turn off compiz before using and on after.
Cleanup script to empty trash, caches etc.

All runs very fast and smooth and I always have at least one complete backup on hand. puppy-431-NOP-r2 has become my main OS I'm happy to say.

Mint 8 Main (work and play - slower but very comfortable to use)

Mint Xfce 7 Host w/ VirtualBox - XP Guest (work station - lean mean and fairly quick) -- Soon to be upgraded to Mint Xfce 8.

I usually keep /home on a separate partition.
Also separate partitions for VirtualBox, virtual drives and virtual swap file.
For backup I keep an external hard drive clone kept in sync with rsync
Always trying new distros as well but will always keep returning to the three above ... work horse, race horse & greyhound (use depends on mood or task).

Only real annoying problem I can think of for NOS puppy is that I can't get VirtualBox to configure it's kernel.
I'd like to try a debian based puppy that uses apt-get and synaptic one day but it's not too high on priorieties right now.
I've found that Xfce is the best DE for me, it seems to have the best balance for speed and customization and is just a pleasure to use, now that I've gotten used to it.

Great idea for a thread CatDude!

timber

Sorry 'bout the double post ...
Technical (er ... I mean user) error.

timber

Just started working with Puppy linux...

• Thinkpad i Series 1300 model 1171 circa 2001.
  Pentium III @ 750 MHz
  184MB RAM
  20.0 GB HDD
  Integrated 802.11b
  8x4x24 CD-RW

Using 1.0.8, everything works straight out of the box, all newer versions freeze at "Loading kernel drivers needed to access disk drives..." during boot process.
Still looking for a solution to get a newer build on this old machine.

Thanks loads for starting the thread CatDude. I'm looking at a new laptop - sorta leaning towards the ASUS eeePC. Need something for heavy reading and writing. I also appreciate your comments jemimah .

One question for the netbook owners out there - 10" screens. How are they for reading? I was considering the kindles - hate reading at the desktop and the trend of books & manuals seems to be increasingly electronic. How are the small screens for extended reading? Ideally I'd like something that lends itself to loafing on the couch - whether reading, writing or coding.

Again, thanks all for experiences.

Regards,
Pat

later edit: Sorry - should have mentioned - early 50's, bifocal wearer.

bee_pipes wrote:Thanks loads for starting the thread CatDude. I'm looking at a new laptop - sorta leaning towards the ASUS eeePC. Need something for heavy reading and writing. I also appreciate your comments jemimah .

One question for the netbook owners out there - 10" screens. How are they for reading? I was considering the kindles - hate reading at the desktop and the trend of books & manuals seems to be increasingly electronic. How are the small screens for extended reading? Ideally I'd like something that lends itself to loafing on the couch - whether reading, writing or coding.

Again, thanks all for experiences.

Regards,
Pat

I have an Acer Aspire One 10" that I read on often, it works very well for me. One thing to look for is to make sure that the netbook has pageup and pagedown keys. Most netbooks combine these functions with other keys, which would drive me crazy when reading books. When I'm just reading I use WinXP rather than Puppy because Puppy doesn't seem to be able to slow down the Atom processor. In XP I get almost 10 hours of battery life reading with the wireless off. With Puppy, I get 5 hours regardless of use and the netbook heats up very quickly.

The answer is the "CPU Frequency Scaling Tool". There is a newer version on the forums btw.

Are there background tasks that can be disabled to bring down processor demand? Things that may be unnecessary, such as bluetooth or other options not in normal use?

Regards,
Pat

abushcrafter wrote:The answer is the "CPU Frequency Scaling Tool". There is a newer version on the forums btw.

I've tried it, but none of the settings support the Atom processor.

arr! Did you try the newer version? I can't help you any more thogh as this is all I know (ant used "CPU Frequency Scaling Tool" yet.) sorry.

bee_pipes wrote:One question for the netbook owners out there - 10" screens. How are they for reading? I was considering the kindles - hate reading at the desktop and the trend of books & manuals seems to be increasingly electronic. How are the small screens for extended reading? Ideally I'd like something that lends itself to loafing on the couch - whether reading, writing or coding.

The bigger question is what you will be reading.

I read a great deal of stuff in electronic format. My primary reading device is an old PalmOS PDA, but I also have an old notebook running Ubuntu and Puppy Linux.

The issue is the format things are in.

The majority of the stuff I have is HTML that has been converted to be used by Plucker, a free, open source offline HTML viewer for Palm OS devices. But I also have material in Mobipocket (used by the Amazon Kindle), ePub (used by the Sony Reader and Barnes and Noble nook), eReader (legacy format for the nook), Word, RTF, PDF, and plain text formats.

I can read all of them on the PDA save ePub, and can convert that to something I can read using an open source product called Calibre.

I can read Plucker, Mobipocket, and ePub documents on the notebook using an open source eBook viewer called FBReader. (A PET of FBReader 0.12.1 exists for Puppy.)

PDF is the biggest problem, as most PDFs are not created with the tagging that lets them reflow to fit smaller screens, and side-scrolling to read documents that don't fit is a pain.

I can read comfortably on both devices. (I use reading glasses, but am not at the point of needing bifocals.)

I'm not interested in a Kindle. Problem number one is that the eInk screen used by the current generation of dedicated reader devices does not support color, and color is a requirement for me. Problem two is vendor lock in. Amazon uses the Mobipocket ebook format (they own them) with a proprietary DRM scheme. Mobi format documents not encumbered by DRM can be gotten from anywhere and read on the Kindle. Current commercial ebook titles for the Kindle can only be purchased from Amazon.

I refuse to be locked in to a single vendor, so Amazon is off my list.
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Dennis

Asus EEEPC 900 Intel Celeron M 900 Hz
2 gig of Ram
4 gig SSD = MacPup Foxy 3.0
16 gig SSD = /home
All formatted as Ext2 file system. Full Install
Webcam and Mic works in Skype. 2.6 gig free on 4gig SSD with tons of stuff added. Touch Pad and Cpu Scaling works also. Macpup Flies on this Netbook. I also run AntiX off External SD Flash Drive on it.

IBM 390E Intel 333 Mhz
256 mb of ram
20 gig hardrive=Puppy 4 Dingo full install/ AntiX 7.5
Wireless via Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA Cardbus
CDRW drive

Amrel RT 686 Rocky II Intel 500 Mhz (passive touch screen)
256 MB of Ram
Touch Pad works. No need for CPU scaling. Has no fan. Just a monster aluminum Heatsink.
Hot swappable 6 gig Hardrive = Puppy 3.01 full install
PCMCIA DVDROM Plays Movies in Puppy
Wireless works via a DLink WNA 1330 PCMCIA G Cardbus
3.01 flies on this Laptop
Update: Running Puppy Dingo 4 now.

Amrel RT786 EX. I have LightHouse 5.03 installed Frugal on 3 gig IDE Hardrive. 512MB of ram. 700 MB of swap partition. 1.9 gig for save. Everything works, Tap, Sound, CDRW,
Flash,Java, No problemos.

Ibm A22 Intel 1000 Mhz
256 mb of ram
20 gig hardrive = Puppy Dingo 4 Full Install/Mint 7 XFCE 4.6
Has the red button in middle of keyboard.
DVDROM Plays Movies.
Wireless using a Belkin F5D7010 PCMCIA Cardbus
Update: Puppy 5.2 frugal install now running on this laptop. Everything works.
Upgraded ram to 512MB.

IBM T23 Intel 1.6 Ghz
1 gig of Ram
80 gig hardrive = Puppy 4.31 Full Install(on 8 gig dedicated Puppy partition)/AntiX 8.2/AntiX 8.5/ Windows 2000 Pro (for tuning motorcycles)
Wireless using Belkin F5D 7010 PCMCIA Cardbus (I have a few of these because ver 6 cards are Linux compatible)
Update: Puppy 5.2 full install works on this laptop.

Panasonic CF-48 Intel 1.8 Ghz
1.2 gig of ram
100 gig Hardrive = LightHouse Pup Mariner Frugal Install on 10 gig partition for just Puppy/Ubuntu 8.04 LTS/ AntiX 8.2
Internal Intel Wireless a/b/g chipset. All Distros work with wireless.
Update:Macpup 5.1 Full install works on this Laptop also. Everything works

My Motorcycle shop Desktop is a IBM M41 running wirelessly with AntiX 8.2 dual boot with a full install of a older version of Puppy 4.6 (back when it was first released as testing)
Update: BrunoPup,Puppy 5.2, TL-Os all frugal installs. Works with Patriot Wireless USB G pendrive.

I have another Amrel RT 686 EX Laptop.
Intel 800 hz. 512 mb of ram. DVDROM. That I can Hotswap the hardrive from the other Amrel RT 686 and use Puppy 3.01 on it also.

All my boxes fly with Puppy Linux. Antix flies pretty fast also on the boxes I have it installed on also. I also run swap partitions on all my installs except for the Asus EEEPC.

Edit again: June 18, 2012

IBM A22M just recieved via UPS. Pentium 3 , 700 hz cpu, 192MB of ram,empty 20 gig hardrive right now. Running Puppy 4.31 posting this right now via live cd session with a Netgear MA 521 wireless B pcmcia card. Wireless and sound works. Details at thread below.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 087#635087

I've got a Dell Latitude Cpi, 192MB RAM, 400Mhz P2 and 6GB HDD. The later kernels don't seem to work too well with it, but I'm running a modified 4.2.1 ' Deep thought '. I've got an Edimax cardbus wi-fi adaptor - Rt61 driver - which worked out of the box, although I've added Pwireless2 for roaming capability, and it doesn't really have the grunt to handle flash, so ' noscript ' is a useful browser addition. Other than that my customisation has been merely personal preference - search engine of choice etc. Not bad for a machine built for Win 98!

G,day

I'm running Puppy 4.2.1 on an Acer TraveMate 8200 laptop made on 2004, which I paid 5 dollars for at the Garbage Recycling Depot in January 2010.

I have found that Puppy is the ONLY operating system that will run this laptop. Windows XP was installed when the laptop left the Acer factory, but due to a conflict between XP and BIOS (I think) the laptop crashes every time I itry torun XP on it. Some poor sod paid a shit-load of money for this thing when it was new. I paid 5 dollars for it, which is about $4.99 more than it's worth.

I've installed Puppy 4.2.1 as a Frugal install to an Ext3 Partition, with a GRUB bootloader in the MBR giving me a choice between Puppy and XP at Startup. XP resides in a 10 Gb Partition and I only have it on the laptop for those rare occasions when I XP will do a specific job. For example, if I need to "reset" my Wireless Internet USB Modem, I will need XP to do that.

But the rest of the time I use Puppy Linux.

Starting this thread was a damn good idea.