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by linuxcbon
Fri 13 Mar 2020, 14:32
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: Washing your hands
Replies: 107
Views: 5154

Be aware that Covid-19 is not an "usual flue". It kills 10x or 20x more people than usual flues. Death rate ~ 3% (usual flues are at ~0.5%). Especially dangerous for : 60+ old people, people with high blood pressure, cancerous people, diabetic people, people with heart disease. It spreads ...
by linuxcbon
Fri 13 Mar 2020, 11:27
Forum: Misc
Topic: Who's treated themselves to some new hardware recently?
Replies: 88
Views: 47587

Because many PC stuff broke down, I had to buy : Second hand stuff : - an old USB logitech M90 mouse. (simple, practical) - an old fujistu siemens keyboard. (simple, robust, practical) - an old gpu card MSI GTX 750 2GD5/OCV1 , but it broke after 2 months LOL. - an old 24" HP screen (average ima...
by linuxcbon
Fri 13 Mar 2020, 10:42
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: Washing your hands
Replies: 107
Views: 5154

This virus is bad for older people and for diabetic people. And it is easy to propagate.
In France, they closed schools and universities for at least 2 weeks. And more is to come.
Be careful and stay away from crowdy places.
Wash your hands often.
Stay safe.
by linuxcbon
Fri 13 Mar 2020, 10:19
Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
Topic: Which Puppy for Steam on a BIOS-only computer?
Replies: 7
Views: 924

Try bionicpup64, steam works OK there.
See this : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=117364
It boots on my non-uefi PC , from a USB stick.
by linuxcbon
Sun 16 Feb 2020, 23:05
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: HOWTO choose hardware for a desktop PC
Replies: 24
Views: 13383

Hi If I understand well the first and actualized message, you propose us to buy new fast PCs for 650 $ plus monitor (installed power for it?). for different user is the quality (resolution, sound, stereo) and performance (turnable, variable high, installed power and consumption) of monitor very imp...
by linuxcbon
Fri 14 Feb 2020, 14:36
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

the only reason chromium is fast is because it's an older version, the last version to have hardware acceleration. if you try to update any of the chrome based browsers in quickpet (vivaldi,opera,chrome etc) you'll be bitterly disappointed. On a 16 core cpu with a nvidia 1050ti card 360p videos hav...
by linuxcbon
Fri 14 Feb 2020, 13:59
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

on slow computers i use i install the 'open with' addon in palemoon and then open the video in mpv. this addon (an archive list of old addons) needs to be installed first https://github.com/JustOff/ca-archive/releases Does it work for youtube videos ? Why not chromium as default, cause it's really ...
by linuxcbon
Fri 14 Feb 2020, 13:28
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Re: Compton opacity only works at 50%

hi ProgRob, i've been trying to figure this out for a while with no luck :D i think it may be to do with JWM Hi Phil, there is a problem with compton, I get thousands lines of error messages in xerrs.log with my radeon : vsync_drm_wait(): VBlank ioctl did not work, unimplemented in this drmver? See...
by linuxcbon
Fri 14 Feb 2020, 12:58
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Thanks for not answering my questions. Most of your questions are already answered. And thanks for not testing youtube with a slow cpu and a slow video card on different browsers. So, do not use Pale Moon browser. Your problem solved. It's not my problem, it's many people's problems, with slow hard...
by linuxcbon
Thu 13 Feb 2020, 21:16
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

I think Phil recommends at least a core duo (not the much slower dual core). You should do your testing with a faster cpu to get meaningful and useful results. You can't expect the latest browsers to work well on really old junk machines. Art Stop spreading misinformation. With my dual core, chromi...
by linuxcbon
Thu 13 Feb 2020, 17:49
Forum: Truly off-topic conversations
Topic: nostalgia of old games for PC
Replies: 3
Views: 410

nostalgia of old games for PC

I got an old and slow pc, but at the time, we could play many excellent good games : 8) half life 1 and 2 age of empire 1 and 2 diablo 1 and 2 command and conquer gta san andreas and vice city fallout 2 and 3 and new vegas skyrim warcraft 3 team fortress 2 serious sam first encounter counter strike ...
by linuxcbon
Thu 13 Feb 2020, 14:57
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Concerning hardware acceleration in Linux, read this: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/forums/t/697499/why-no-hardware-acceleration-for-browsers-on-linux/ So I was right ? There is no hardware acceleration in linux for firefox and palemoon ? So bigpup is wrong to tell that settings in palemoon can ...
by linuxcbon
Thu 13 Feb 2020, 10:27
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

You Tube videos in Pale Moon. Pale Moon->Preferences has settings for graphics in several places. Try changing or selecting some of them. I just ran a You Tube video at HD 1080p quality and Pale Moon CPU usage is around 30%. However, actual CPU overall usage is around 10%. What are you using to get...
by linuxcbon
Wed 12 Feb 2020, 20:27
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Bionicpup64 8.0 CE with a slow CPU, I tried palemoon, firefox and chromium for watching youtube videos. I noticed these cpu usages : - very high ~90% in palemoon - average ~20% in firefox - low ~5% in chromium Maybe it's time to change palemoon for another browser ? I would recommend chromium becaus...
by linuxcbon
Wed 12 Feb 2020, 20:22
Forum: HOWTO ( Solutions )
Topic: HOWTO choose hardware for a desktop PC
Replies: 24
Views: 13383

Updated for 2020 :D
by linuxcbon
Wed 29 Jan 2020, 17:55
Forum: Games
Topic: Free games that can work on slow PCs
Replies: 16
Views: 4279

0 A.D.
"A free, open-source game of ancient warfare".
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On bionicpup, you can install it from the "puppy package manager".
by linuxcbon
Thu 23 Jan 2020, 04:18
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Palemoon 28.8.1 sometimes freeezes for some minutes. Weird, it didn't do that with older versions.
by linuxcbon
Sun 05 Jan 2020, 19:53
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Is Steam now working? I just did it and it runs for me. Now I see why it didnt work for me : it's because I ran it from the terminal, but phil included LIBGL_DRI3_DISABLE somewhere, so it works from the menu , and not from the terminal. :) Anyway, that should solve the problem for now. Other stuff ...
by linuxcbon
Fri 27 Dec 2019, 04:47
Forum: Puppy Projects
Topic: Bionicpup64 8.0 CE
Replies: 1304
Views: 577382

Bionicpup64 8.0 CE when I install then run steam on a fresh bionicpup64, I get : /root/.local/share/Steam/ubuntu12_32/steam: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libxcb-dri3.so.0: undefined symbol: xcb_send_request_with_fds /root/.local/share/Steam/steam.sh: line 444: no match: ssfn* This is...
by linuxcbon
Wed 18 Dec 2019, 18:44
Forum: Announcements
Topic: Google Now Bans Some Linux Web Browsers From Their Services
Replies: 30
Views: 9828

Alternatives to google.com : duckduckgo.com , ecosia.org Alternatives to gmail.com : gmx.com , mail.com Alternatives to youtube.com : dailymotion.com , d.tube Alternatives to google chrome : firefox Alternatives to gmaps : openstreetmap.org etc. To block ads from google , add these lines in /etc/hos...