(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

@ttuuxxx: Thanks, man. Appreciate it!

@trapster: Nope. Haven't owned a television since 1997, so instead I happily listen to Sox games on the radio. I find Joe Castiglione's play-by-play to be far superior to that of his video brethren.

Thought everyone had one ..

macadavy wrote:I apologized. I hope this link helped you sort things out: http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puplets

Any chance of adding "Most Recent Update" to the Wiki?

There are so many Puplet's, and more every week, that one needs additional ways
to filter which to visit -- a Puplet that has not been updated for more than 6mos is
probably abandoned or neglected.

WDYT?

First, I noticed that Fat Free is not listed on that Derivations list (unless my eyeballs are shot - a distinct possibility). It's good! And it uses the NEW kernel!

Another thing that I would find helpful with the wikki list is, to know which kernel each derivative is based on. Reason: some of the older kernels had "issues" with my SATA drives, or couldn't recognize my cordless USB mouse. If I already know that from one derivative, I can avoid others based on it or test them on a different computer.

The last suggestion is more for whoever manages the main "downloads" page. You see, I think the person making the original complaint/suggestion on this thread had the same problems I did, and still do, in locating and sorting through all those options. There is probably a "pecking order" to whose derivatives actually get listed on that page -- like Barry has to officially approve it or something -- but it would be good to get those lists (which are woefully short) and the wikki ones cross-linked better.

In principle I am in favour of a record of neglected, abandoned, defunct puplets. One persons trash is another persons gold.

A couple of new pages on the wiki.
EeePC
eBoxPup
Regressive Puplets - need advice on this one

A system with AMD Geode GX, 366 speed, 64meg flash in IDE, 128meg ram, lan, sound, VGA, many USB 2.0 even keyboard and mouse, what Puppies would work?
The 64meg flash board could be replaced with a very small IDE drive?
(Edit, small, non standard 40pin and power, socket under flash board?)
The 128meg ram is soldered down and even thou I did repairs like that when I worked a ram upgrade not easy but could be?
Things I do with systems,

Surf web
Print
Scan docs
Mess with my web sites

Do less of
burn CDs
watch movies
download files

Draw to system, super small in size complete. 34x177x121mm

I'd go for Dingo if I were you, earlytv

Board above has just arrived. 512meg flash drive, 256meg ram
Have not tried dingo yet but I have 2.17 on a 1gig usb memory stick setup as a super floppy and that boots right in. I put a usb floppy drive on another usb port and it does show with drives button but dont work with create wakeup floppy or format a floppy. Is this correct USB floppies dont get seen as a floppy drive for these things???????
All this has for I/O is usb?

Puppy runs slow on this thing and has no sound. Dont know what sound chip it has yet.
Trying to watch a movie on this slow board cant be done. Video jerks, jumps.
Its running in RAM so its as fast as it can go. Do any puppies run faster?
Would taking out items like movie player help speed any? Would going from 256meg ram to 512meg help?

big_bass wrote:I can only explain what fat-free-pup is since I built it from packages with unleashed core 3.01 also no scripts have been changed you get the solid 3.01 base without the extra clutter

I have a new way of making fat-free 3.01 cutting edge

fat.free.pup@gmail.com or you can find me daily at irc chat #puppylinux my nick
is big_bass

Hallo bigbass,

why don´t you go the last step and remove Xorg? The fat free would then have only 40MB instead of 62MB! A lot of people are still waiting about of that!
Sorry about my english;-)

Wolfgang

disciple wrote:I'd go for Dingo if I were you, earlytv

I just made up a USB superfloppy memory stick with 3.96 alpha, DINGO, and it boots into the Wyse S90 just fine.

2.17 and now 3.96 runs slow on the S90, but at 1/3 the speed of my 1gig systems I guess?

Open to any ideas on what puppy would be faster or how to make puppy faster?

Right, time to post before back to study. Hopefully my entire University existence will be over in just a few short hours... last essay. What better way to spend it than procrastinating for a few more minutes on Puppy....anyway....

I've created a pupplet called TigerPup, which is still very much under development. Based on wNOP's Compiz-Fusion scripts, it's become a pupplet in it's own right. I've also added launchers and a script to utilize puppy's easy portability on usb flash drives. TigerPup is being created with the novice computer user in mind; the idea is point and click.

For more info and screenshots, go to: http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/archives ... s/tigerpup

Enjoy!
~dinky

Just checking : Is this now the main link for information on derivatives or is there another?

http://linux.wikia.com/wiki/Puppy#Unofficial_versions

setecio wrote:Just checking : Is this now the main link for information on derivatives or is there another?

http://linux.wikia.com/wiki/Puppy#Unofficial_versions

No thats not the main link and the whole page is kind of bias towards Tmxxine 64 lines worth
When others like rudy,teenpup, My Fire Hydrant Series & Living water, and many others are barely touched and are equally as good.

Try this one its better
http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/archives ... ve/puplets

Also if you want more about my own derivatives go to
http://www.ttuuxxx.com
also at that website I have a forum where you can post about those versions and also upload software up to 40MB

hope that helps
ttuuxxx

Hi Folks
which puppy would you recommend for mymodest ThinkPad770X laptop?
I saw couple of topics related to setting up the modem,I am an experienced windows users but from what I've been reading that is useless when using linux,so I would appreciated very much if you can help granny .
my laptop has 128MB ram/8GB HDD/1 partition which has windows98SE (had enough of windows ).
just need to go online email my kids and grandkids and view pictures.offline I use it for bible study and write stuff formychurch group ......and play solitaire...LOL

Great community you guys have here....THUMBS UP.

granny wrote:Hi Folks
which puppy would you recommend for mymodest ThinkPad770X laptop?
I saw couple of topics related to setting up the modem,I am an experienced windows users but from what I've been reading that is useless when using linux,so I would appreciated very much if you can help granny .
my laptop has 128MB ram/8GB HDD/1 partition which has windows98SE (had enough of windows ).
just need to go online email my kids and grandkids and view pictures.offline I use it for bible study and write stuff formychurch group ......and play solitaire...LOL

Great community you guys have here....THUMBS UP.

well If you use it for bible study then try my "Living Water" its small and runs great. you can find it at
http://www.ttuuxxx.com/livingwater/index.html
I'm building a newer version as we speak but it won't be ready for a week or two.
you can read about it at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27513
enjoy
ttuuxxx

Hello Granny
Just till recently I had the same laptop you have.I'm still learning linux but I can help you setting up your tp770x .
let us start with the easy part....

which puppy would you recommend for mymodest ThinkPad770X laptop?

puppy linux version 2.16 worked just fine for me but i might be wrong not spending enough time to try getting the modem to work on later versions. version 2.17 also worked just fine but it has that feature of detecting the modem on boot which for some reason unknown to (still green when it come to linux...)effected my modest printer and when trying to use the modem the system hangs?!!

my laptop has 128MB ram/8GB HDD/1 partition which has windows98SE (had enough of windows ).

do you want to run puppy linux from :
a- what they call "Frugal install" which is by from cd,usb or extracting the system files to your HD.
b- or you want full install to your HD ?
If I may suggest that you keep windows till you become more familiar with puppy linux so if somehow you can have puppy on a cd or if you have a flash drive (512mb did just fine for me).

the third issue you have to consider is making a choice between the modem or sound.....again chances are I am wrong about this but what i noticed is that to get the sound working i have to disable quick boot but the modem will not work and as an experienced windows users am sure you know about resources conflict issues as that mwave modem also works as a sound card with shared IRQ.to get the modem working I enabled quick boot and using the mwave pet the modem was easy to setup just by apply whats in the mwave help document.
by the way if the screen resolution is to big/not clear for you setting up xvesa click on more and type 0x011A
Good luck Lady.

ttuuxxx wrote:

granny wrote:Hi Folks
which puppy would you recommend for mymodest ThinkPad770X laptop?
I saw couple of topics related to setting up the modem,I am an experienced windows users but from what I've been reading that is useless when using linux,so I would appreciated very much if you can help granny .
my laptop has 128MB ram/8GB HDD/1 partition which has windows98SE (had enough of windows ).
just need to go online email my kids and grandkids and view pictures.offline I use it for bible study and write stuff formychurch group ......and play solitaire...LOL

Great community you guys have here....THUMBS UP.

well If you use it for bible study then try my "Living Water" its small and runs great. you can find it at
http://www.ttuuxxx.com/livingwater/index.html
I'm building a newer version as we speak but it won't be ready for a week or two.
you can read about it at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=27513
enjoy
ttuuxxx

Thanks ttuuxxx,how did i missed it when searching the forum?!...it must be that age thing.

Thanks EZ4arabs ,looking forward for your help.
have a lot of reading to do before I try anything,we women read instructions;manuals and ask for directions unlike most men

I think every Puppy should work - I would stick to the original and I wouls choose 4.1.2 (I don't like 4.2 so much)

computerophil,if you don't like the bling and bloat of 4.2,try Turbopup:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40477/