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smiler82 · Joined: 25 Mar 2008 Posts: 12

IBM A22m laptop
PIII @ 866
128 RAM
20Gb HDD

booting 3.00 and 4.00 and both run just fine...

tempted to load the Pup onto my main quad core rig sporting 4 gigs of ram though....

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

@cb88
Gimp? Surely you jest! Mtpaint does everything I'll ever need, thank you very much. And I never divide by zero ... Wink

jellymann · Joined: 29 May 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Pretoria, RSA

My Computer's Information (Everything I know about it):
Age: 6 years, bought second hand from a friend
Manufacturer: Sahara
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1GHz, 133MHz FSB
RAM: 512Mb sdram @ 100MHz
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 5200 FX 128mb
Sound: A pair of budget Creative speakers (very good sound for what I paid for them) coming through a AC'97 sound card
Display: Dell E771p 17" CRT
Mouse: Standard GeniusPS/2
Keyboard: Chicony Electronics AT keyboard that I converted to PS/2
Software (in no particular order):
Standard Puppy 4.00 Dingo with devx
IceWM with Platinum theme installed
Platinum icon theme
Gimp 2.4
Blender 2.46
Eclipse Europa with Java 1.6 update 6
Wine 1.0 rc3
Firefox 2
Flock 1.2
Opera 9.27

KF6SNJ · Posted: Sat 07 Jun 2008, 14:12 Post subject:

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Memory : 223MB (72MB used)
Operating System : puppy
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 07 Jun 2008 11:09:49 AM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : (null)
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : EMU10K1 - SBLive! Value [CT4670]
Audio Adapter : NFORCE - NVidia nForce
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>(Default)</i>
-IDE Disks-
ST340016A
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
DVD-ROM DDU1621
_NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD
-SCSI Disks-
Maxtor 2 F040L0 Rev:

russ · Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 48

It seems like puppy was made on a machine just like mine. Everything wo,rked right "out of the box".

Toshiba M35X-S311 Centrino laptop

768mb memory (added 256mb to original)
60gig hd
Pentium M 1.5gh
Intel 2200 wifi
SmartLink AMRMO modem (winmodem)

I use the liveCD 3.01 with a Cruzer 4gb flash drive for the settings.
The winmodem went bad so had to buy an external modem:
Actiontec EX560LKU external USB/Serial 56k hardware modem. (25 bucks on ebay [modem $8.99 + $15 S&Handling])
I had a little trouble setting the new modem up. This site explains the setup:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29291

106498 · Joined: 18 Nov 2007 Posts: 250 Location: NZ

My computer:

hp e-vectra 700(i think)
256 ram
10gb harddrive

Runs puppy great! Nice and small (and relatively quiet) computer.

markofkane · Joined: 03 Jul 2008 Posts: 314 Location: Kane, IL USA

Dell Dimension 4400

OS= Windows XP Home SP3, and Frugal install Puppy Linux 4

CPU=Intel P4 1.6 Ghz (although Puppy says it's 1.4 Ghz)

Sound Card= Sound Blaster LIVE! LS

Video Card= Nvidia G-Force 5500 PCI video card.

1 GB of RAM (I forgot the type)

2 Hard drives, the 1st drive(160 GB) has 2 partitions, and the Second, (120GB) only one. Both are Western Digital.

4 USB slots, 1.1 (slow)

Sony CDRW CRX230E CD/RW ROM drive.

I have a HP PSC 1315v printer, but only use it in Windows for now, maybe until I figure out how to make it work in Puppy. Cool

(I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 too)

timothyli · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Toronto, Canada

ASUS EeePC 701 (1st generation),
upgraded to 2G RAM,
4G SSD factory O/S (Xandros) untouched,
Pupeee on an 8G A-Data Turbo SDHC card,
XP pro SP3 on Virtualbox on same SD card, seamless mode

I carry this machine around with me where ever I go as it is so flexible and mobile.

timothyli · Joined: 22 Jun 2008 Posts: 65 Location: Toronto, Canada

ASUS EeePC 701 (1st generation),
upgraded to 2G RAM,
4G SSD factory O/S (Xandros) untouched,
Pupeee on an 8G A-Data Turbo SDHC card,
XP pro SP3 on Virtualbox on same SD card, seamless mode

I carry this machine around with me where ever I go as it is so flexible and mobile.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 412

I've since been thru another phase. My "fast" now runs Dingo primarily although it also has my experimental learning Puppy using 3.01 as a base, HurtMePlenty, and Muppy on it as well, all frugally installed. My slow computer still has a stripped down 3.01 on it as the cd drive seems to not work well. We have an e-machine that runs windows but my wife wanted a distro for all the young children to use when they come and visit so I have tried TEEN, Pupeez and now HappyLinux (an amazing, but un-popular Puppy derivative) because my kids need flash to play games online and so far Happy is the only one that comes ready to go. The e-machine has 512 megs of ram with about an 800 mhz processor. All the puppys I've tried has run flawlessly and very fast on even the e-machine, although I must use Xvesa on it. So far, every computer I've attempted to run Puppy with, I've been successful, not me so much as Puppy has just worked.

So I have Puppy running on a computer with 192 megs ram, 512 megs ram, and 1 gig ram.

MattGSX · Joined: 01 Aug 2008 Posts: 2

Computer:

IBM Thinkpad 600X
CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz
RAM: 310 MB
Ethernet: None
Modem: PCI-modem (runs)
Wireless: Nintendo Wi-Fi Adapter (runs flawlessly through rt2750 module, but scan is a bit weak).
video: onboard (runs xorg well, runs xvessa okay)
sound: onboard (sounds fine).
Display: 1200x768 works fine.

Puppy:
I'm running Dingo, but I switched to icewm (xwin icewm), and I commented out all references to rox in the startup script to lower overhead. Puppy has made this old workhorse run faster than my Celeron-D 2.7 GHz, 768 MB Pavillion notebook. I just wish I had a second USB port so I could access external storage while online (external hdd doesn't have external power, so splitting it with a hub doesn't get enough power).

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2008, 14:43 Post subject:

nitehawk · Posted: Fri 01 Aug 2008, 17:00 Post subject:

PIII 384 933mhz 160Ghd & 40Ghd (Intel Vectra with odds n' ends of different stuff put together)........

Win2k Pro & PClinuxOS on 160G....Puppy4 on the 40G

(my PIII 256 500mhz 8Ghd just gave up the ghost! )
Oh well,...I'll be snooping around the thrift stores for another one for Puppy 3.01,..................

Graham72 · Joined: 20 Aug 2008 Posts: 1

DELL INspiron 1720 inc Vista Home Premium Edition
3 gig ram
2.4ghz
2 x 250 gig HDD
Dell 1907FPV secondary monitor

Running Puppy 4 under microsoft virtual PC 2007 6.0.156.0 Wink

, thanks to the excellent tutorial here, that got the mouse running and accessing the 'real' HDD's -= thanks so much!

wayneh07 · Joined: 20 Jul 2008 Posts: 3

Toshiba Satellite 2210CDT
Celeron 500mb
61mb Ram
3.1gb HDD
Puppy Linux 4

Amazingly this once useless (for anything newer than win98) machine is now being used by a complete newbie (my wifes uncle) with very good results.
Basically he'd had a little experience of windoze xp, but not a lot, so the opportunity to get his old lappy up and running with Puppy 4 was too good to pass up.