Which Puppy for Acer Aspire One?

[Yeniaul]

I've got an Acer Aspire One (1.2 GhZ single-core, 1 GB of memory at 533 MHz, 1024 x 600 WSVGA screen) and don't know what distro to put on this... erm... puppy.

[bigpup]

Welcome to Puppy Land.

Probably a lot of Puppies will work.
With Puppy you just have to try one and see what happens.
If I read the correct specs on your computer. You have Intel graphics hardware.
Support for Intel graphics has gotten better. in the newer versions of Puppy.
One of the newest Puppies would be good to try.
Slacko 5.7 or 6.3
Tahrpup 6.0.5

The No-PAE version is all you need. You only have 1GB of memory.

Keep in mind that Puppy versions, never get completely tested and bug fixed, before release, so none are 100% bug free.
Some issues show up after a lot of people start using it.
So, help out if you run across something as you use Puppy.

[Yeniaul]

Welcome to Puppy Land.

Probably a lot of Puppies will work.
With Puppy you just have to try one and see what happens.
If I read the correct specs on your computer. You have Intel graphics hardware.
Support for Intel graphics has gotten better. in the newer versions of Puppy.
One of the newest Puppies would be good to try.
Slacko 5.7 or 6.3
Tahrpup 6.0.5

The No-PAE version is all you need. You only have 1GB of memory.

Keep in mind that Puppy versions, never get completely tested and bug fixed, before release, so none are 100% bug free.
Some issues show up after a lot of people start using it.
So, help out if you run across something as you use Puppy.

Alright, thanks. I'm actually a long-time user, but I haven't been active much.

[8Geee]

There is Slacko5.7-2016 a modern but compatible version. Just add flash and an Office if you desire.

[s243a]

Welcome to Puppy Land.

The No-PAE version is all you need. You only have 1GB of memory.

Does this apply if one use a large amout of swap memory?

[bigpup]

Welcome to Puppy Land.

The No-PAE version is all you need. You only have 1GB of memory.

Does this apply if one use a large amout of swap memory?

Yes.
Linux swap is different than physical memory and how it is accessed.

This example is a good explanation.

Imagine RAM is like your desk, and swap space/ virtual memory is like a filing cabinet. You can put lots of information into a filing cabinet, but it's difficult to access. Any papers you want to use, you have to pull out and put them on the desk; the problem is the desk can only hold so many papers at once.

32-bit machines can only have a desk that's 4GB (2^32, or about 4 billion bytes) big (4GB physical RAM limit), but they can still have nearly unlimited filing cabinets. They just have to "swap" out papers when the desk is full and they need to look at another page that's in a filing cabinet.

PAE allows a 32 bit Linux operating system to access and use up to 64GB of physical RAM.

With Linux swap. You can reach a point where you are using too much swap and it just slows everything down to a point of not really being useful.
Remember, swap is taking stuff out of RAM. Placing stuff on the hard disk, having to read back from it, and putting it back into Ram. Very much slower than writing to and reading from RAM.

[James C]

I've got an Acer Aspire One (1.2 GhZ single-core, 1 GB of memory at 533 MHz, 1024 x 600 WSVGA screen) and don't know what distro to put on this... erm... puppy.

I'm running Tahr 6.0.5 on mine from usb.Much,much,much faster than Windows. Posted about it http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 973#881973

[Pelo]

i Will no longer use Slacko on my laptops. Since windows 7 has been release, partition MBR is SDA1, don' touch
However some recent Slacko still use process of windows XP and kill the MBR.
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