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[playdayz]

[Stripe]

Hi Playdayz

Browser wise I would always go for firefox personaly because of its add ons, but after using my old box for a week, as long as a browser does what is required to do, is light enough on resources (to be run as a live CD or for people with older hardware) and has a small footprint for the overall distro size, I dont think it matters what it is, as everybody has their own favourites and as long as they are caterd for in the PPM they can always change it to suit their own needs.

Hope this helps
Stripe

[DaveS]

After a few days of using:
I TOTALLY LOVE THIS PUPPY
More to come after a bit more use.
At last, Puppy is back on track.........

A HUGE thanks to all involved. This gargantuan effort has paid off in Spades...................

[rjbrewer]

I'm always amazed how fast this 134mb iso Puppy is, even compared
to much smaller 4.xx Puppies.

Installed Seamonkey 1.1.18 and a few older pets on my full install.
Borrowed a few files from Fluppy Pupremaster (based on Dougals remaster script) and created a new iso. The 500mb uncompressed full install became a 187mb iso file.

Used "bootflash" and "burn iso to cd" and both ended up perfect clones of the full install. (all settings saved)

Booted the 187mb cd into Inspiron 4000, 800mhz with just 128mb ram.
Booted slowly but steadily.
Made a 256mb swap part. and did a full install. (slowly)

It runs very well;
A youtube download of Lady Gaga's Bad Romance looks and
runs great at almost full screen.

[CatDude]

Hi

[kevin bowers]

CatDude,

You're awesome! Simply fooling Hotmail into thinking you have the browser they want! Cool trick, thanks! I wonder if it'll work on my older boxes with Puppy 301 installed?

Edit: yes it does, at least back to Seamonkey 112. Gotta love it!

[CatDude]

Hi

[edoc]

Using http://startpage.com (I don't use google) I came upon a couple of discussions of Undelete methods, so far this seems the most user-friendly:
http://amadeus.uprm.edu/~undelete/u_friend.html

Is this available for Lucid 5.1?

[timremy]

hello anyone

i installed lucid 5.10 on a dvd and it went ok. it worked.

then i thought i would try a usb. i went to the universal

installer and selected usb and followed the prompts like

i did with other distros. when i tried to run from the usb stick,

i get a message like not bootable.

is there a special way to run from a usb stick or can

someone show me where i went wrong??

thank you

timremy

[rcrsn51]

Read here.

[timremy]

hello rcrsn51

perfect advice. thank you.


timremy

[stu90]

Cross post this into here in case anyone is interested

Turn Lucid 5.1 in to a Home Media Center with Boxee in 4 easy steps:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=59119

[ragaman]

LUPU was one of the best pups released in terms of ease in use. However, everything went downhill once I installed the NVIDIA driver (173 for FX5500 Video Card). The screen flickered, window decoration became red and I lost the taskbar. No option for refresh rate was available in the screen resolution changer utility.

Using VESA, I uninstalled the NVIDIA driver then restarted. The desktop remained unchanged (flickering, window decoration red, no taskbar). Somehow, I couldn't roll back to the desktop I had before the NVIDIA driver was installed.

Solution was simple: Wipe the drive clean and install TEENPup.

[darkcity]

Still with puppy 5.1 the internet connection will stop working after a certain amount of time. Rebooting or going through setup again will usually get it back up. Im using a desktop athlon 1000Hz computer with a RealTek USB wireless stick. Any ideas?

[rjbrewer]