Thanks for the info Disciple. Found posts here on the forum about tweaking the font sizes for firefox. It is doable, but with a 10 inch screen the amount of space is quite limited and the strategy for controls has to be rethought. Firefox's tool bars are feature rich and it would require excessive p...

pupeee came with chrome. Been a long time firefox and mozilla user and was not anxious to switch browsers. But firefox menu fonts, etc. were impossibly small on the 10" screen so I gave chrome a try. It is a nice browser and works well in the small screen environment. Fonts are adequate for rea...

Hi! Just a quick word of thanks for this thread. I had just gotten an ASUS eeePC (1005PE) and have found everything needed on these forums to get the windows desktop to share folders and devices (CD & DVD drives) with this netbook. The last shared device to get up was the printer. This thread wa...

I used a program called XnView. It was excellent for dealing with pictures - maybe not because it is the best program, but one I am used to. They have a beta version for linux that I haven't had a chance to look at extensively or hammer on, but if it gets as good as the windows version I will be hap...

Are there background tasks that can be disabled to bring down processor demand? Things that may be unnecessary, such as bluetooth or other options not in normal use?

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Pat

I had a chance to spend a few weeks in London, back in '99. It was interesting to contrast the differences between a complete government owned TV system and the commercial setup we have here. One thing was the scandals involved with the bureaucracy of the BBC. No offense intended - if it were a gov'...

Thanks loads for starting the thread CatDude. I'm looking at a new laptop - sorta leaning towards the ASUS eeePC. Need something for heavy reading and writing. I also appreciate your comments jemimah . One question for the netbook owners out there - 10" screens. How are they for reading? I was ...

That's setting the bar mighty low. You don't have to outrun the lions, just the slowest gazelle.

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Pat

My wife did not want to learn new programs (browser, email, etc) or a new operating system. She wants her windows. In the interest of domestic harmony, I conceded. I had installed a few windows programs on the puppy partition using WINE, and now have installed VBox on the windows partition and run p...

Preaching to the choir, folks. I tried using WINE to get some of her applications on. Today I added VirtualBox to the XP machine and brought up Puppy Linux as a guest system. Found very nearly complete instructions and a link to a 4.3.1 install for VBox. Now I'm tinkering around with shared folders ...

Man, this place is a goldmine of information. Thanks to all for your time. VBox is up and running like a champ!

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Pat

Man, I love this system. I used to work with computers, and enjoy learning a new system. The problem is my spouse. She started using computers with Win 95 or 98, and to her it is only a tool to access the internet. She likes her email, her games, music, and photographs. She is less than thrilled wit...

....if you installed seamonkey or thunderbird on windows it would import all yer outlook express stuff and the profile could then be copied to puppy assuming a similar version... Exactly what I did. The SeaMonkey on the Puppy partition could not see outlook on th ewindows partition. I poked around ...

Kudos to you folks building and maintaining Puppy Linux! This is a great product and excellent for a first timer. I started out as a tape ape on an IBM 360 and ended up as a clipper programmer for WebMD. Me and the wife escaped to the woods and have been subsisting on dial-up for the last 5 years. D...

I just got up and running with Puppy and experienced some problems with the mouse. It would work fine during the initial set-up, but when the system completely booted and I had the desktop, there was no mouse cursor. The scroll wheel and right button would get responses - pop-up menus and cycle thro...