Would this be a possible middle ground between those who favor a big brother distro and those who favor compiling puppy ourselves. How about putting some energy into making puppy easy to compile for? Then, it seems to me, we would have the advantages of both sides, good availability of programs and...

[My devx_400.sfs problem was solved! Yay looking at file sizes and redownloading!]

I'm following the same path as bill in trying to compile amarok.
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So, with the combination of school ending and the ridiculous number of races my friends was running in, I never saw his laptop again <melodramatic tear>. Long story short, he reinstalled Vista from a recovery disc after getting his docs off, and while we planned to meet during the summer to get it a...

Thank you all for the advice! I'll try it as soon as I can.

My friend's computer has three partitions: a ~30 GB ntfs recovery partition, a 1 GB ext2 puppy partition, and his ~140 GB ntfs Vista partition. When I made the puppy partition (foolishly at the far left of the gparted bar) he found himself no longer able to boot into Vista. When I installed puppy th...

I'm new to puppy linux, but my first experiences with it on a CD and flash drive have been wonderful. Next year I'm going traveling, and I've been thinking that an OLPC with handmade solar charger/hand crank would be nothing short of amazing. Thus, I'm currently working on getting an OLPC XO. Negoti...