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Colonel Panic · #1501 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 05:58

I'm guessing it's copyright issues.

nooby · #1502 Post by **nooby** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 06:35

Colonel Panic wrote:I'm guessing it's copyright issues.

That makes sense indeed.
What if Puppy has such too. I mean can some big firm
sue Barry for some minor infringe thing?

One understand why the "Open Sorfware" community
wants us to stay 100% claear but on the other hand
that makes us lose a lot of musc files that need "flash"?

puppy_apprentice · Wed 16 Apr 2014, 07:30

@CLAM01

1) if i will want to do something against gowerment (or illegal) i will try to do it without use of internet (or everything that it is connected to it)

2) Barry K. doesn't have to describe on the blog every moment of his life (as i know his children live in Perth, if i will be old and retired it will be nice if my own children invite me to their house) - for me is good enough if his code is open

3) if you tried to search phrase "icanhazip" or "how to get public ip in linux console" via any search engine (eg. startpage.com, or duck) u will see that many people use this service and similar to do the same thing - check ip, eg.:

http://blog.strictly-software.com/2013/ ... al-ip.html

Do they all work for goverment? Please find me a site where somebody else is speaking about this service and have eveidence about bot-net.

4) freedesktop/X-serwer (there are more problem with it) isn't perfect solution i hope that Wyland will be better

I'm not speaking that against you, but c'mon, show some links that describe your concerns.

bark_bark_bark · #1504 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 11:24

puppy_apprentice wrote:i hope that Wyland will be better

Wayland could never beta X. Why? Wayland will have less hardware work on it and we don't know what kind of backdoors might be in it. And probably Wayland will never be a stable system.

James C · #1505 Post by **James C** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 18:27

James C wrote:http://forum.porteus.org/ and http://www.porteus.org/ both return...

NOTICE

Porteus has been suspended by developers until further notice.

UPDATE:

https://www.facebook.com/porteus.org

"Hi guys. As some of you probably noticed porteus.org is down as we are struggling with bandwidth related problem and some other things. Will post announcement and explain everything once it's up and running again. Apologize for the troubles and thanks for your patience.
- fanthom."

Our server couldnt handle all the traffic and got nuked by 3.0 release. Now we look like a bunch of amateurs - thanks guys!
- fanthom

nooby · #1506 Post by **nooby** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 18:35

Thanks that was a big relief. They will find badwith support
hopefully from kind supporters.

6502coder · #1507 Post by **6502coder** » Wed 16 Apr 2014, 21:16

Add me to the list of happy LXLE users.

I've been running LXLE 12.04.4 on my old WinXP machine for a full month now, with great results. I chose a dual-boot setup because of a couple of hard-to-replace XP apps, but for the most part this is now an LXLE machine. Performance is crisp, and all the apps I need are there. My usage profile on this machine is web browsing, light word-processing, playing music and videos.

Dell Dimension 8300, 2.8 Ghz P4, 3 G ram
Nvidia Geforce FX 5200
120 GB drive split 80/40 WinXP/LXLE

Moat · #1508 Post by **Moat** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 01:08

6502coder wrote:Add me to the list of happy LXLE users. ... I've been running LXLE 12.04.4 on my old WinXP machine for a full month now, with great results.

And it's especially impressive, as this is their very first release. These guys did just a super job of it!

Bob

Pelo · #1509 Post by **Pelo** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 01:53

Full Puppy plus old games.
Can satisfy everyone, very nice.
New issue 2014.
Themes icons

James C · #1510 Post by **James C** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 03:55

Yes indeed,still running LXLE on this old box.So far everything basically just works.
Besides running various Puppy installs I usually install one "loaded" os..... LXLE on this box,PCLOS Mate on another......plus lots of Pups.

Still run Puppy mostly though.

James C · #1511 Post by **James C** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 04:04

Finally had someone talk me into trying Windows 8 earlier today so I gave in and installed it.I still don't like it but a start menu replacement app makes it at least tolerable.
This old box now has Windows 8 Pro,Windows 7 Ultimate,LXLE, MX-14, Point Linux, PCLOS Gnome 2 and Sparkylinux as well as Slacko,FatDog,Lighthouse and other Puppy frugal installs.
I have to scroll through the Grub menu........

James C · #1512 Post by **James C** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 06:04

Just for informational purposes, Porteus is back online.

http://www.porteus.org/

http://forum.porteus.org/

Billtoo · #1513 Post by **Billtoo** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 12:43

I updated my Ubuntu 14.04 install to the final version.

bark_bark_bark · #1514 Post by **bark_bark_bark** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 18:59

why do some of you guys have billions of OSes installed at a time?

James C · #1515 Post by **James C** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 20:10

Threw together a box the other day out of old parts..... Athlon XP 2000+/ 512 mb ddr ram...... and did a triple boot in honor of the XP EOL. 98 SE,2000 Pro and XP Pro.

James C · #1516 Post by **James C** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 20:11

bark_bark_bark wrote:why do some of you guys have billions of OSes installed at a time?

Variety.Bored.Why not?

rokytnji · #1517 Post by **rokytnji** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 20:24

bark_bark_bark wrote:why do some of you guys have billions of OSes installed at a time?

For the same reason I had a stable of girlfriends when I was single.

Colonel Panic · #1518 Post by **Colonel Panic** » Thu 17 Apr 2014, 23:44

bark_bark_bark wrote:why do some of you guys have billions of OSes installed at a time?

Because so far I haven't found one which "does it all" (though Puppy 4.20 and maybe 4.12 comes closest). Distros which run the latest browsers won't run the old games I like, and vice versa.

James C · #1519 Post by **James C** » Sat 19 Apr 2014, 03:21

James C wrote:Finally had someone talk me into trying Windows 8 earlier today so I gave in and installed it.I still don't like it but a start menu replacement app makes it at least tolerable.
This old box now has Windows 8 Pro,Windows 7 Ultimate,LXLE, MX-14, Point Linux, PCLOS Gnome 2 and Sparkylinux as well as Slacko,FatDog,Lighthouse and other Puppy frugal installs.
I have to scroll through the Grub menu........

Got rid of that silly Metro/Modern/Whatever they call it stuff.....

James C · #1520 Post by **James C** » Sat 19 Apr 2014, 07:02

Same box...... Jessie w/Openbox.......

Code: Select all

james@testing-ob:~$ uname -a
Linux testing-ob 3.13-1-486 #1 Debian 3.13.7-1 (2014-03-25) i686 GNU/Linux

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