Nice, thanks! Runs well in Precise puppy, on an old P4 with 500M RAM.

I just found Manjaro-OpenRC which is the easiest and best systemd-free distro I've seen so far. James C posted about it recently, but I got to it via http://systemd-free.org/ Really nice looking and fast. The Xfce desktop uses only 150M RAM (less for the Openbox desktop) on my old P4 laptop. Based o...

Just discovered Manjaro-OpenRC yesterday. James C posted about it recently, but I didn't realize OpenRC meant "without systemd, at all" (it's the default init in systemd-free Gentoo). Really nice looking and fast. Xfce desktop uses only 150M RAM on my old P4 laptop (Openbox desktop also av...

Thanks, jamesbond. It's nice that your EFI bootloader solution can be simply added to a standard BIOS puppy USB stick so it will boot on BIOS or UEFI. Adding EFI doesn't change the stick's MBR, so it still boots normally on a BIOS computer. It works for me booting Precise puppy on a Dell Optiplex 30...

Yes, all of the puppy-reference directories are just links to other directories. Looks like it's just a way to easily get to those commonly-used directories. Delete the links in puppy-reference if you wish (it won't save any space though, since they're just links). But DON'T click the links and then...

Just discovered another nice feature of Evince: custom keyboard shortcuts.

Just hover your cursor over the menu item you want to assign a shortcut to (or change), and press the new shortcut key. If the key is not already in use as a shortcut, it will be assigned and appear next to the menu item.

All the computers on our network here sit behind a router running DD-WRT, which I'm told does not use glibc. And DNS lookups on all computers are directed through the router to OpenDNS servers. Apparently using OpenDNS avoids the glibc vulnerability: https://engineering.opendns.com/2016/02/17/2980/ ...

Windows 10 defaults to using a hibernate state when shutting down (to start back up quicker). This makes it impossible to mount the filesystem from Puppy (or any other linux OS), except maybe as read only. This article explains how to disable this "fast startup" option (remember to "s...

For cross-platform, I'd definitely recommend TeamViewer. I've used it successfully on three linux computers (puppy and ubuntu), two Windows (7 and 10) and a Mac. I only found one computer that couldn't run TV 10, so had to run TV9 on that one. But a newer version of TV can control an older version s...

You could keep troubleshooting the savefile and maybe save it, but building a new one might be faster (it's a good practice to always back up your savefile before installing new software). Since the crash happens in Firefox and Palemoon but not Opera, I'd guess it has something to do with the flash ...

I just tried updating Palemoon in Tahrpup 6.0.5 and 26.0.3 opens Youtube.com and plays videos there without problems. And since Firefox seems to be affected for you as well, it's not a Palemoon problem. Did you try booting Tahrpup without your savefile, then updating Palemoon, to see if the problem ...

I wondered why the latest Tor browser packages are much larger, and it looks like there's a new font directory included. It's /root/my-applications/tor-browser/Browser/fonts and is about 25M. I tried deleting it and the browser seems to work fine without it.

You may be able to just double-click on the SFS file, then select install (that works for me on Precise). Otherwise use "SFS Load on-the-fly." It is probably already installed, but if not, it's here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64354 If you leave the SFS installed when...

With the new version 5.5, Youtube would always use HTML5 for me, even with the workaround (above). That uses considerably more resources that my old computer can't afford, so I tried this addon and it made flash work on Youtube: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-Us/firefox/addon/youtube-flash-video-play...

Probably a Dell Dimension 8300. I have an Inspiron 1100 with P4 2.8GHz processor and just 500M RAM and Precise Puppy runs very well on it (Tahr lags a bit). I like vicmz's Woof-CE build with Openbox and LXPanel: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94954 Lucid puppy would probably run fa...

Thanks. There seems to be something wrong with the launcher, though, at least in the sfs. It tries to run a script that isn't there. If I run the x86 executable directly it works, it's just the menu launcher that doesn't run anything.

These need to be made public files for download; currently you need to sign in and get permission from the owner.

I found I can boot a usb drive on UEFI machines by adding the /EFI/boot directory from refind (which fatdog also uses, I believe). I also had to change the refind.conf settings to make it always look for legacy bios bootloaders (it doesn't do this by default for PCs, only Macs), and enable deep lega...

Tried this on a slightly newer Inspiron 1150 (P4, 500M RAM) with a slightly faster processor and Quake II runs fine. No opening movie or cut scenes, but maybe they were left out intentionally? The opening movie is kinda cool. See it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTb6kEp5GjY Looks like this i...

You might want to try zarfy, here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47603 It provides a gui for arranging multiple monitors. If you want your configuration to persist at every startup, then you'll need a script in the /root/startup directory with the command "zarfy -l" (see...