For now I will Zucker-out of any alpha testing but might give it a go once a beta version becomes available. Key issues for me: 1 - being able to run X as a non-root user (which worked well in FD64 7.2.1) 2 - being able to modify the main sfs file 3 - maintaining the system free of critical security...

@666PhilB BionicPup64 7.9.7 iso file. I have no problem creating a non-root user, setting up permissions and logging in as that user. xwin always failed with permission errors so I only ever used it as root. When I try to start X using /usr/bin/xinit $HOME/.xinitrc -- -br -nolisten tcp or /usr/lib/x...

@Kirk Thank you for your detailed response. The information you provided will save me from heading down many dead-end paths. So it might seem that if one wanted all of the new features of the most updated kernel fixes then one should focus on getting a new compilier & glibc (which would not be a...

First of all Fatdog64 721 is the cleanest Puppy-inspired release I have seen since 2008. It's so easy to create a new user and then surf as that user. Something to bring to the attention of FatDog64 users and the developers. RE spectre flaws - According to linuxtoday.com/developer/linux-4.15-release...