I am having exactly the same problem: fast, when logged in, extremly slow when not.
Seems the authors of Wikka Wikki are aware of this:

http://wikka.jsnx.com/ExtremeSlownessWorkaround

Played around with Slax, Light Gui edition, a little bit. It is a slackware based live cd-distro. Pros: a lot cleaner and more robust way of installing extensions, e.g. simply cusomize your CD by dropping modules to an directory on the CD and they are installed at the startup, nce integrated interfa...

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Mock-Mainframe/ I've read this, and have been wondering if this could be done with Puppy on the central server. Add support for more X sessions, multiple user accounts. Never been done, but it'll be easier than herding a hundred Puppy CDs. I think using puppy for this is l...

a) Filtering There is a Firefox extension called BlockXXX which promises to block certain sites, but it gets mixed reviews and it is trivial to remove. You can also install a local proxy server which filters the things. See http://software.newsforge.com/software/04/06/23/1521209.shtml for a tutorial...

Possible Explanations: a)http://www.linux-usb.org/ibmcam/ does report that some NetCameras use the same identification string as supported ones, but are not working because of the compressed file format. b) your error suggests that the module is loaded, but is not bound to /dev/videoX. Perhaps some ...

As far as I unterstand antineo, his MB is not able to boot from CD's, but he did not say, he does not have a cdrom. For instructions on booting with a single floppy and then continue to load from a cdrom, look here http://www.goosee.com/puppy/boot2pup.htm If even that fails you could think about cop...

It goes this far, because at the beginning only the hardware (BIOS) is responsible for booting. So, your BIOS apparently supports booting from rhe USB cdrom. The bootloader is started up and it knows where to find the kernel image. After that, the kernel is solely responsible for mounting the root f...

OK, maybe I can beaten here, but there is a special distribution called Lampix (http://lamppix.tinowagner.com/), which maybe helpful to you. It has Apache+MySQL+Perl+PHP already configured.

xine does not support putting the stream directly to your disc, put you can redirect the output to an uncompressed wav-file. (tried this with a recent xine on Arch Linux, but should work in puppy too) gxine -A file http://mystream.adress.ca/stream.asx The output is saved in xine-out.wav in the curre...

Well, yes, partially right. The Bootloader (grunb, lilo, whatever) starts a part of the kernel, which can expand an initial ram disk (initrd.gz). This ram disk contains the modules (like squashfs, ext3 or SCSI, whatever). So, in fact the modules are compressed too, but with a different system.

Puppy does basically the same things. The usr-filesystem from CD is a is a compressed read-only system (name squashfs, I think Knoppix uses the same). The algorithm is optimized for fast decompression with small overhead under these conditions. squashfs is implemented as an kernel module, the same w...

It is not specifical to iPod, and this often seems to confuse people. iPod is just seen as a name for the whole group of portable media players- and Podcasting sounds similar to Broadcasting, and Adam Curry is called the "Podfather". The basic technique is standardized and open (RSS Feeds ...

-geometry takes either pixel or character size, depending on the application. Terminal emulators usually use the second choice.

The problem could be time in this. If you have a larger pupXXX it needs some time to copy the whole thing to an USB stick. Idea: Let not really copy the thing, just check for differences. 1. Poorman's way: do a cp with the -u (update, just copies newer files) 2. Geek's way: Install fam (file alterna...

This program repels coakroaches and mosquitos via your mobile phone. Is there one for Linux that works on fruit flies? (working on an infestation using non lethal aromatherapy sprays at the moment - not only are the fruit flies leaving unharmed, they are feeling very chilled) http://my-symbian.com/...

I have played around a little with Zero Install ( http://zero-install.sourceforge.net/ ), an alternative package management by the Dr Thomas Leonard, the maker of ROX Desktop. The idea is to make it possible for every user to use software without really installing them in the normal filesystem tree....

1. Searching the docs for certain words is a one liner #!/bin/sh grep -rl "$1" /usr/share/doc/* This outputs every name of the files which contains the search expression Search CANNOT BE DONE in plain HTML. HTML is just a page description language - it knows nothing about filesystems or se...

you are missing: 5. Dynamic menu refresh program for Window Managers Not needed for the main WM's as I said. It IS implemented for the most important one's, we just have to activate it. That is the winning point for me. The only one from the core distribution is JWM that needs a script. 6. Search a...

Actually, the tasks are not that big. The first thing: it must be "barryfied". If he does not take it, it is not worth going on Then tasks to do: 1. Define Menustructure (work already in progress) 2. Make a package developer package a) example .desktop file b) Documentation: Tutorial, Defi...

Actually, it should not be a real problem. X-Windows is designed to run run remote applications, it just defines a minimal set of calls for applications, so there there should not be more problems than running console apps. Necessary librariers are seached for in the chrooted environment. The only p...