Hi Nitehawk and all, Please accept my apologies if I am butting in where I shouldn't. I was wondering about your old HP Compaq desktop. Would it be an earlier Core2Duo? I am not trying to pry. It is just that I seem to recall that Intel were only going so far back with updating firmware (?) support...

Bumping this several months old thread to say a big "Thank You" to Darry19662018 (and all the other contributors). Phoenix 4.31 (2019) v3 has rescued a couple of old computers of mine. Mostly my old 2005 laptop (HP Pavilion ZE4300), and my 2004 Dell Optiplex 270. These two contraptions hav...

But I actually just tried the latest (Dec.'19) version of "BusterDog" and it's supposed to be a Puppylinux without systemd. It was a total no-go. I just checked the BusterDog thread to see where you reported the problem or asked for help, but I could not find anything. Perhaps you could e...

Hi again nitie; good to see Bionic Puppy's working on it anyway. Just a thought; have you considered running Devuan on it (which doesn't have systemd)? I've got a different problem in that I'm getting beeps from my motherboard for no apparent reason (but not in AntiX, Slackware or in PsychOS, which...

Well Colonel,..guess I spoke too soon. MX 19 (32 and 64bit) won't even load on that computer. It justs starts from the install DVD, then goes into full-blown "Kernal Panic" every time. Other distros do the very same thing. Guess I'm stuck with Antix and wasting part of my ram. Bunsenlabs i...

I'm currently using the latest snapshot, of the 15th January 2020, of MX-19 (patito feo), which is working well. I'm kicking myself though because the first thing I see when I load Firefox is the MX homepage which mentions the forthcoming release of MX Fluxbox, which I would have preferred to have ...

What was the first Puppy to use the Network Manager (that made detecting wifi easier)? I really like the old Puppy 4.31,...but unfortunately, it just lists a lot of the wifi drivers to choose. I have different old computers/laptops and wifi dongles, and I really don't know their drivers (or even wha...

Mandrake and Simply Mepis. Then I discovered Puppy 3.01. I only briefly tried out Mandrake, to see what Linux was all about. Simply Mepis just seemed to work on my old win98 computers. I found Vector Linux, and stayed with that until recently. But from Puppy 3.01, I've always had a Puppy on my compu...

Thanks, bigpup,..for posting this. I "discovered" PuppyLinux at version 3.01. I thought it was magic! At the time I had two very old HP computers (discards from my brother's tech shop). They would tolerate win98 fairly well,...but they really took off and flew with Puppy 3.01. Besides,..I ...

Colonel Panic wrote:H i again Nitie,

http://exegnulinux.net/

ExeGNU is also from my part of the world, being created in Exmouth in Devon in south-west England, whereas I'm in Cornwall which is the next county over to the west

Going to have a look at it right now.

Having been on a lengthy hiatus from Puppy and having been given an ancient 2005 Sony Vaio, 1.73ghz, 80gb HDD and 2gb maxed out RAM, I thought this would be a perfect Puppy Project. I have always preferred the true Puppies. versions 1 to 5 Tuxtoo I am delighted to hear this! I have several old comp...

I've had a few problems recently with ExeGNU (an English distro which is based on Devuan but with the Trinity desktop manager), but I'm happy to report that the latest version from the 13th October installed well and works just fine. Trinity (based on KDE 3 series) looks good too, with a smart and ...

ravensrest wrote:Precise 5.7.1

Yes,...Precise 5.7.1,..(and Racy,...and Puppy 4.3.1)...

You may not know there's been a thread recently about Precise 5.7.1, which made the point that it's still very much a viable option and also made suggestions for software to run on it (I still use Precise 5.7.1 Large); http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114165 Thanks for that link! Ye...

Hello Nite, Have you tried anything Devuan lately should run on your HP Pavillion runs on all my Hp and Compaq stuff. Eh, no,.actually I haven't tried Devuan lately. Very tempting thought. This particular laptop is from 2005,..has 1gb ram with 60gb hd. I just put Precise 5.7.1 Retro on it,...and so...

Hi again nitie, good to see you here again! I tried out a few distros on my Mum's laptop a couple of Christmasses ago until I found one that worked to set up wi-fi for her - X-Slacko 4.4 (I forget what the utility was that did it). Having just praised CrunchBang, I had a problem with (or in?) it in...

Second time lucky with CrunchBang++ 10.1; it not only booted first time but installed on my hard drive without a hitch and is working well. CrunchBang was always one of my favourite distros and it's great to see that someone's taken on the legacy and is working to improve on it (the same goes for B...

Does anyone have experience with Connochaetos Linux? It's based on 14.2 Slackware & Salix (that's all I know). I put BusenLabs Linux on my HP Pavilion dv2000 laptop (and it is doing very well). Now,...I have become the proud owner of a REAL OLDIE ...an HP Pavilion ze4300. Think it has about 1gb ...

This might help, nitie; http://obmenu.sourceforge.net/ When I'm in CrunchBang (which is a close relative of Bunsen), I tend to use DMenu for launching everything; I think it's accessed by Alt-F3. It's much easier than editing the menu file directly. Same with using Openbox in straight *Debian; I ke...

no mate, q4 detected my wifi adapter ootb Well,..Busenlabs seems to be the right fit for that particular laptop. Works like a charm. You're right about small Debian distros...light and fast with all that software! Openbox will take a learning curve for me (haven't used it in a long time, since Crun...