I'm inclined to be in favor of Release Candidates... I don't think we can know the future. So we don't really know that 1.0.9 will be the "end of the line". But please don't go to 1.0.10 -- it is logical, but I fear it confuses people. 1.1.1 might be bettter...

I tried to boot Puppy 1.0.8r1 on a laptop with 96MB. I was surprised that 96 was not enough to load Pup all into RAM -- it just tried to fallback to running from CD. I can understand that RAM would have been rather tight, without enough left to do much real work, but I would have rather been given a...

mpd,
Keep us posted on your experiments -- and post a copy of your CLI-only min-pup when you succeed!

shrdlu,
What exact SOYO mainboard are you having the trouble with? Does any Linux LiveCD work properly with it?

See also:

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=6915
Cdrecord TAO burn glitch - two extra sectors
Puppy seems not capable of burning a perfect CD from ISO!

http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=6796
How to make iso file from CD with readcd

(The problem is not that there is something "really" wrong with the CDs being burned. The problem is that there are "issues", which are so complex they took me days of research/struggle to understand -- and which most people would never bother to go to so much trouble over. They ...

Perfect, simple self-reproduction is a target core competency for LiveCDs such as Puppy... Could future versions please include cdrdao? Then maybe burniso2cd and graveman could use it?

Lobster, Thanks for the Exploring Reports from the Frontiers! Since Puppy only takes up one-tenth of a CD, I'd love a CD containing many multi-boot light-weight live distros. (Could also include multiple versions of Puppy.) The instructions for how to do this are here, in English and Spanish: http:/...

For further tech discussion, see:
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=6915
CD Burn Glitch - two extra sectors

Puppy seems not capable of burning a perfect CD from ISO! Burniso2cd and Graveman use cdrecord to burn in TAO mode. In this mode, two extra phantom null run-out sectors of padding are added at the end. These do not seem to affect most normal uses. But they make readcd think the CD is two sectors lon...

UBCD has some great utilities like AIDA16 and ASTRA, that list in complete detail all the capabilities of each drive (also the latest Memtest86 versions): http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ You need the Ultimate Boot CD if you want to: * Run floppy-based diagnostic tools from CDROM drives. More and more...

The Newegg $100 800MHz VIA C3 sure sounds tempting -- is the USB 2.0? The Livedeal $500 computer is presumably for people not comfortable messing with hardware. I'd say the balance of what is included could be tuned up. I think more than 256MB should come standard -- ramdisk is wonderful! Try for a ...

There seems to be something wrong with Graveman in 108r1. When reading from a CD to make an iso file it is prone to peculiar failures when trying to start: > Cannot create image: /usr/bin/readcd: Bad flag: speed=. The general pattern seems to be that it might work on the first try, and then fail on ...

There are many ways to make an iso file from a CD, using dd or even just cat. Sometimes these work. Sometimes they do not. Graveman can be used to do this, but sometimes it fails with peculiar, frustrating errors. The best way I have found so far is from the command line: # readcd -v dev=ATAPI:/dev/...

The 1.0.8r1 boot process is still defaulting to azerty. If you go with this default, you get weird azerty keyboard mapping within the desktop, but standard qwerty back at the bare command line.

Please change future boot scripts to fully default to some nominal standard qwerty keyboard mapping.

The 1.0.8r1 bootup script now does indeed bark to test that the ALSA sound is working. But it is just one very brief bark, easily missed, or confused with other random noises. Please consider upgrading future test sound files to something like woof-woof, some distintive sound lasting upwards of a fu...

Very interesting, odd-ball project... Could someone comment on what advantages RULE might offer -- what are the situations, if any, where it would be better than Puppy or some other current popular light-weight distro? === http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62562,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_6 Sho...

I think it is entirely appropriate for Standard Puppy to keep growing larger, as long as efficient effective use is made of the growing size. The 60MB goal might as well slowly rise to about 100MB over time. (I read recently about a special project in Japan that speeds up the launch of Knoppix by ab...

Has anyone tried XCPUID in Puppy? Can you tell us how to do it? I'd love to have something to show the actual CPU clock, multiplier, the RAM clock, and all the memory timings. It seems like H.Oda!'s WCPUID is very popular, but requires Windows. But he also offers XCPUID for linux: http://www.h-oda.c...

Interesting two-part series, by Sal Cangeloso, 2005, some mentions of Puppy: http://www.xyzcomputing.com/index.php?option=content&task=category&sectionid=4&id=38&Itemid=26 5 Sep Mini-ITX 15 Oct Mini-ITX Part II My research had led me to believe that the best motherboard choice for my...