Just how many times is it necessary to tell folks not to buy proprietary boxes - again! If you only work with clone parts you'd never encounter i810 ... haaaaa ho ho haaaa. Let me hold my stomach while I finish laughing. Did you say buy? Why would I buy a computer when minimal linux distros are ava...

DSL is great for older equipment -- especially desktop machines. I was using it prior to moving to Puppy. Yes, they can mount programs as mountable file systems. They even have the ability to mount and unmount applications on the fly whereas with puppy's sfs system, I think you have to reboot. That'...

neighbor wrote:Hello!

I've been browsing the Beginners forum and it doesn't feel very beginnerish to me

You can find some basic manuals here. They take you through a lot of things in a step by step manner.

http://www.puppy-linux.info/en/manual/main.html

When in trouble.
or in doubt,
run in circles,
scream and shout.

It never fails to work. I suppose the screaming and shouting could be on a forum.

macadavy wrote: I went looking for a pup package for Acrobat Reader in the repositories, but no luck - could you point me to it?

http://www.puppylinux.org/wikka/DotPupsContributions

Go down to the section of office and reading. You should find acrobat 5 there.

>>"tell us the make/model/revision of your wifi dongle, and the Puppy version you are using we can help." Currently, all I've tried on the laptop is a borrowed Belkin unit. I've since returned it to the owner. I'm about ready to buy a dongle but I'm not at all sure what to get. I've looked...

In the last section of this article, there is a discussion of using a wireless access point to hook up to a wireless network. http://ian.greenshields.googlepages.com/home Apparently, he runs the access point directly to the network card in the pc. I can't picture how this is working. Does anyone hav...

ecomoney wrote: I came across some very annoying bugs in the puppy pdf reader.

Ghostview chokes on a lot of pdfs for me. I downloaded the Acrobat 5 pet package (or was it a dotpup?) and it works better, but still not perfectly.

>>"Oh, no sir, no sireeee. Voluntary, self-regulation is the only way. BS!" Careful where you're swinging that axe, Sage! You may hit one of the 49.99% of us that ISN'T a right wing wacko crazy nutcase. I started using linux when I realized I had about a half dozen computers laying around ...

Ha ha ha, ho ho, he he. Haaaa haaa haaaaaa. Someone, help me up off the floor. Ha ha ha ho ho. Oh my stomach hurts. Ha ha haaa . . .

Do you have a swap partition? I had similar problems when I first started using Puppy. Check your free memory down in the right hand bottom corner. If during your browsing, you cach enough sites, download a bunch of pdfs, look at some photos, and keep on truckin', the free memory may drop until you ...

Thanks burggraf2. I loaded it up and everything is working like a charm. JRE was a fairly large download as a dotpup, and I was a little worried it would hit my free memory pretty hard, but it looks like I'll be fine. This last piece of the puzzle gives me everything I need. I really like the sfs fi...

I'm a long time Damn Small Linux user running with an old 300 mhz machine, but when I pulled a newer 700 mhz machine out of the trash, I found that DSL didn't handle the new machine's i810 graphics system very well. It could be made to work, but with more effort than I thought necessary. You can ima...