dr_willis wrote:Testing this out, but not having much luck.
Using Puppy 4, with K4.6.21.7 with Virtual Box 1.5.2 Under Vista.

Package installs, i select the res. I restart the X server, I get a black screen.

Same problem here (with XP). I understand it's a VBox problem.
I'm using XVesa (up to 1024x768).

M.

Considering the hot wave of low-performance ultra portable gadgets we are experiencing, I think Puppy's niche will be shifting from just "older hardware revivor". I just wished Puppy was simpler to install in a hard disk without the filesystem juggling. Why do I need to use Squash? it real...

Sounds interesting.
Any experience remotely connecting to a Puppy?

M.

Here is a small script that picks up a random image from a predefined directory and sets it as the background. It's based on an Ubuntu's howto (http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-328263.html) #!/bin/sh # code borrowed from http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-328263.html # Set your f...

For those who need to "see to believe"

I don't know about you, but the freemem applet works really bad in my instalation, so I use htop to check for memory usage whenever I need to. getting htop is quite stright forward from the project's page , where at the end of the download section you will find the static binaries for 0.6.6 (the sam...