Can Puppy be trained for what I want to do?

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panoramix
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Can Puppy be trained for what I want to do?

#1 Post by panoramix »

hello everyone
we got involved in a project about digital tv; we need a pc to show video + some other things (adverts, text, etc).
As to stability and costs, we thought about a linux solution rather than Windows, and I have seen some nice comments about Puppy, so I thought it could be a good distro to use...
Somebody here suggested it would be nice to boot from a CF, he insists it's quicker than from HD (anybody here could confirm this?), because we would need a quick boot time.
To properly work with our DVB card, a latest (2.6.13) kernel release is needed,

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#2 Post by Lobster »

Hi Raul

The 2.6 Kernel was used in Puppy 1.0.2
As the 2.6 kernel was not working with NTFS we went back to 2.4

Barry is attempting to allow Puppy a choice of kernels but I am not sure how that is progressing . . .

I suggest you familiarise yourself with Puppy unleashed and Puppy Sourcer http://www.goosee.com/puppy/development ... cratch.htm

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Hopefully your other questions will be answered too.

Good Luck.
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#3 Post by saintlangton »

Can't really help that much with most of your questions - hopefully others will chip in.

For fast bootup puppy is exceptional - about 15 seconds on my sempron 2200+ 512Mb 80Gb HD system. Booting from a Hard Disk option 2 install (option 2 install simply means having a whole partition dedicated to puppy linux.

Regarding the Compact Flash idea - see here

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Here's a new remastering How-To that looks like it might be helpful to you.

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