@ oui:-
oui wrote:why are you using an old version? look at the titel of the internet page of the forum, look for the link Puppy HOME page (ok, tahr pup is on it at the last position, not for nothing - it is the last actual version made out Ubuntu bin's),
in new versions developers did spend a lot of hours or days to eliminate precedent difficulties in all main app's. and you are REFUSING to use the ameliorations and wine in the forum?
i don't understand it!
Oh, for the love of Pete....
Do us a favour, would you, oui? Climb down off that 'high horse' you're precariously perched on, there's a good lad.....and join the 'real' world.
This isn't a bunch of kindergarten tots you're 'preaching' to here, y'know? Our community is mainly composed of mature adults, who are
perfectly capable of making up their own minds as to what they want to do. I'm quite certain Leslie has his reasons; I mean, I'm still pretty 'attached' to Tahrpup myself. After all, it was the very first Puppy that just worked on
all my hardware, and is in large part responsible for my
own Puppy 'journey' getting under way.
I'm afraid your 'logic'
completely escapes me. Just because a newer version of Puppy exists, there is nothing on this earth that says to me, 'Oh, but you
HAVE to use it! If you
don't, you're saying that our developers are wasting their time...'
Huh?? Where
do you get off by making statements like that, eh?
Some folks (like me, obviously!
), just happen to be daft buggers (by your logic) and actually
enjoy still using older Puppies......just for the hell of it, y'know?
In my case, I use a broad selection of Puppies, ranging from Puppy 431, all the way up to and including Bionicpup 8.0. They all have their charms.....and all have distinct 'personalities', I tell you! For the last few weeks, I've been spending more time in Racy 5.5.1 than anywhere else. I probably only practise very 'basic' security - I certainly don't spend my time worrying about it, that's for sure - and in over 5 years of being 'all-Puppy' exclusively, I've never caught a single 'nasty'.
I'm more than willing to give the latest Puppy (whatever it happens to be at any given point in time) a look, and try it out....but I'm definitely not one of these folks who religiously switch to the very latest 'shiny toy' the instant it 'hits the shelves', and immediately throw the rest of my toys out of the pram.....
(I'm a 'naughty' Puppian.....who doesn't 'toe the line' just because he's told to. So sue me.....)
I'm in Slacko 560 at this very moment. One of my favourite Pups, everything just 'works' to my satisfaction, and does exactly what I want it to. I have never,
ever understood this near-paranoia many folks seem to develop concerning computer 'security'; it's only a pile of plastic & electronic junk, when all's said & done. I'm not going to worry myself into an early grave over it, that's for sure....
(I didn't buy my first CD player until 2001, at which time such things had been on the market for almost 20 years, and the prediction of them becoming obsolete was already being bandied about. I like to let tech 'prove' itself, before I invest in it..! )
We
all have different agendas when it comes to our 'Puppy time'. I'm sure there's thousands of other Puppians just
like me....
Call me a 'prat', if you want to. From your viewpoint, and by
your 'logic', I probably
am.
I couldn't care less.
Mike.