Wot I use Puppy for

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Lobster · #1 Post by **Lobster** » Sat 05 Sep 2009, 09:14

When I take pics
http://twitpic.com/photos/tmxxine
I love to boost the colour to make it more vibrant
I use mtpaint for that
effects / transform colour (press reset if you mess up or cancel to begin again)

I installed VLC to view the asf vids I am taking with my new £30 low res video camera.
Next will look at editing . . . m m m . . .

Using window / composer (in Seamonkey)
I can create simple webpages
and upload them with gFTP
for eg.
http://tmxxine.com/web/m/

I like to use the browser the most
watch Iplayer on the BBC or stumbleupon video
http://video.stumbleupon.com/

I am moderator here, on the wiki and use the same wiki software for my wiki
http://tmxxine.com/www/HomePage

xara xtreme is one of my favourite must have add ons. Here is an example from a few years back
http://www.cyber-shaktipat.org/relax/bowl/comic.jpg

What do you do at the moment?

sidders · #2 Post by **sidders** » Sat 05 Sep 2009, 09:43

In the main i install Puppy and try things out on it eg getting CF to work, poking around in some of the scripts, compiling games (kids). Once i break it i wipe the save file and go again. On the rare occasion i succeed i proudly post it. Is great fun.

Oh and 421 on an old Dell CS (384 ram) for everyday web, email etc.

magerlab · #3 Post by **magerlab** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 09:17

i have only linux on my computers
and among those linuxes you'll find only puppy linux in some different versions:)
of course, i had left no choice to my wife:), but 99% of things i did in windoze i do in puppy( the only thing i can not set up is printing landscape layout with samsung printer)
of course, i use browser mostly( now opera 10) and media players( have some of them smplayer and amarok in addition to gxine)
also i read books in fb2, dejuview and pdf( with foxit)

great thing i use is making needed sfs myself for big apps such as java or skype so i do not waste disk space

Bert · #4 Post by **Bert** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 09:44

magerlab wrote: of course, i had left no choice to my wife:)

Be careful with this, wives have been known to escape from their intuxicated partners, climbing through windows, if they have to...

Lobster · #5 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 09:49

compiling games (kids)

Kids games? Are you uploading them somewhere?

and @magerlab any website for your RuskyPup?

Oh yes and I write alchemical poetry with Puppy

http://tmxxine.com/leaf/

01micko · #6 Post by **01micko** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 10:33

Well I do anything I did in windows on Puppy (much faster at copying dvd's and music)... as does my wife.... she was complaining so much about the speed of her windows xp on her 2GHz P4 that she insisted I install Puppy. I haven't heard from her since!

(um... on that topic!)

Sylvander · #7 Post by **Sylvander** » Thu 10 Sep 2009, 10:34

1. Online banking.
(a) It's the reason I sought and found a more secure [Puppy Linux] OS environment from which to do that.

(b) Online banking is REALLY convenient.

(c) e.g. Set up and modify or delete STANDING ORDERS for payment of various bills for example.

(d) Transfer money to the accounts of my children if they have a cash flow problem [that's a euphemism for "they're running low on dosh"].

(e) I use the portable Acerose Password Vault run under WINE to SAFELY and SECURELY store URL's, usernames, passwords, security info.
This is especially important for use with online banking.

2. Buying things online.
One thing I don't have set up in Puppy and really NEED is the Cahoot Webcard program.
This is installed within the OS [Windows only right now], and displays an icon down in the system tray.
When you're at a website buying something, and are asked for your credit card details...
You click on the webcard icon, it contacts the homesite, fetches details of a virtual credit card that is good for one transaction only.
After it has been used the details are no longer any good; cannot be used a 2nd time.
The user specifies a limit to the amount that the card is good for.
So if the item costs £24.99, you can specify a limit of £25 or £30 say, and the amount drawn cannot exceed that for that single transaction.

3. Backup...
Of the contents of partitions that hold operating systems, programs, data files.

(a) I use Pudd, Xfe, and the FREE version of SyncBack->[run under WINE].
All three are good in different ways.
SyncBack is normally the quickest because it only copies over "differences" between the "source" and the "destination".
Xfe might be used to make the 1st copy, and SyncBack used to update it, or check it.
Pudd makes smaller backups due to the applied compression, and it also can be used to write zeros to the "unused" space.
[A nice/easy way to totally eliminate deleted items]

4. Checking emails
SaveMyModem isn't quite as good as Mailwasher, but it comes pretty close and it's FREE.
I wish it would automatically HIDE and delete SPAM, so I didn't even have to see it.

5. Web-browsing...
Puppy is quicker to load and shut down, and also in operation.
And the environment is more immune to attack/hacking I believe.

magerlab · #8 Post by **magerlab** » Sun 13 Sep 2009, 06:23

russian puppy is located at
puppyrus.org

the current version is very nice , but there's a hard work going on the Puppyrus based on puppy 4 and latest betas

sidders · #9 Post by **sidders** » Mon 14 Sep 2009, 14:35

Lobster. Dont get too excited, there are'nt that many. What has been done have been posted.

Colonel Schell · #10 Post by **Colonel Schell** » Sun 20 Sep 2009, 00:25

I have Puppy 3.1 running on and old Compaq PIII in the basement. It's about 3x as fast now as it was when it was running XP. Maybe 5x, considering all the malware that had it bogged down.

But, I take a Puppy CD with me almost everywhere, just in case I have to use a computer. I also tell people with older hardware about their alternatives, using Puppy as an example.

I donate time to a charity which installs different *buntus on old hardware, and I am trying to get them to consider Puppy.

linuxsansdisquedur · Sun 27 Sep 2009, 20:36

puppy permit using my pc after a hard disk crash...
anything i did with windows ran with my diskless pizzapup...
some abiword text composing
reading my email
surfing the net... even bank on line....
listening midifiles and recomposing fine timidity and rosengarden stuff
skyping my son away from home...
watching tv prog from web
missing a webcam chating and flash10 on my puppy2.14 ? =>gonna try adding them...
before thinking to uprgrade to serie 4.

DaveS · #12 Post by **DaveS** » Mon 28 Sep 2009, 05:32

Yeah......... everything. Surprisingly light (enlightened?) in here without Windows...........

Lobster · #13 Post by **Lobster** » Mon 28 Sep 2009, 06:51

Special Puppy software to let in more light
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/BuddhistYAP

YAP is a minority interest. I am trying to use my
Wii for enlightenment training using Cyber Yoga
http://tmxxine.com/yoga/

Soon I will learn to fly.
Not even my imaginary psychiatrist will be able to catch me . . .

Iguleder · #14 Post by **Iguleder** » Mon 28 Sep 2009, 17:10

I use Puppy mostly for programming and Linux experiments. Oh, and internet.

GTK+ programming on C or Pascal console applications programming on Puppy with devx is pure delight.
Also ... it's quite fun to create custom Puppies ... something you won't find in any other distro. Messing with kernels, compiling stuff ... I love that.

When I need to code something complicated that depends on GNOME, edit graphics, video, games ... I use Arch Linux 64 bit. But Puppy is still better for programming, since it has almost no libraries.

ndujoe1 · #15 Post by **ndujoe1** » Mon 28 Sep 2009, 17:42

Pretty much all of my computing:

Financial books.
music
writing music
watching old TV shows.
writing our computer club newsletter.
reading books
browsing the net
talking overseas Skype

mmmrr · #16 Post by **mmmrr** » Mon 28 Sep 2009, 19:35

i use puppy for the usual simple internet stuff, email, browsing
but i spend much more time fooling around with it, finding which
ones will run on bulletproof old laptop==p2,266mhz,160mb-ram,
60gb-hd==then seeing if i can make classic fireballs like 214r or
johnmurga's 202 run the w-less/video which 216 and 412 both do
so well....a form of whittling really, oh making abstract patches of
colour for icons which keeps me reminded whether it's 109,216,
412, or browserlinuxpup i've booted into. presently i'm trying to
persuade 109 and 214r to play with wpa/psk....cheers,mm

Pelo · #17 Post by **Pelo** » Thu 18 Feb 2016, 15:42

2016 : things have changed a lot
I am browsing forum about Amarok, it's the best way to learn,, to check past remarks, problems and suggestions.
But my opinion is that Puppy was better used than now.
Or users have left, or they don't post anymore...

MikefromD · #18 Post by **MikefromD** » Sat 05 Mar 2016, 02:03

Most of the things in life that I have are old junk or I wouldn't have much at all. My main use of computers is the internet and with the continuing advancement of more and more complicated internet websites and videos - now videos everywhere that play by themselves and don't even give you a chance, the less and less I can use the old junk. I discovered the option of Linux that doesnt hog up all the hardware and gives me a fighting chance not to mention it's FREE. Along with that free I don't have to worry about trying to buy expensive virus control ( or worry about navigating dangerously without any ).
I would like to thank all the people involved with these operating systems as they were designed especially for the people of the world like myself.
I have a handful of Y2K era laptops that were just barely able to limp along with stop and go ( mostly stop ) action on Youtube and with the outdating of XP I thought they were done except for offline use. I got a copy of Mint 17.1 and played it off the disc in an old Dell and I could surf and watch video as good as a new one in the store. But couldn't get the wireless to work. Then got copy of Wary Puppy 5.5 and apparently it had the older drivers and got wireless. Now I have to study and figure out the rest of it. Thanks again everybody

cthisbear · #19 Post by **cthisbear** » Sun 06 Mar 2016, 01:00

MikefromD:

Welclome to Puppy mate.

Feel free to ask any questions here.

Just supply your specs and Puppy version and we are happy to help.

Hey! and tell your friends.

There are so many computers thrown out because they are unbootable,
or filled with viruses.
Puppy can fix these issues and recover lost docs.

Maybe you will get lucky and find a trashed PC for free.

Some Windows fixes here...last page.
It may help someone you know out.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 189#892189

Chris.

Pelo · #20 Post by **Pelo** » Mon 02 May 2016, 08:47

My village is full of artists. I use Puppy Linux to edit my pictures,
Installing Puppy is easy. Just choose a Puppy with no complicated process.
I prefer Puppy for what we can do with it, better than how it has been installed.
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