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[01micko]

This is NOT an official line of Slacko

What it is is the same Slacko built with 2.6.39.3 PAE and xz compression.

That means the iso is only 107 MB

I don't plan on supporting this.. it's a "plaything".. it likely won't work on older P3's, P4's Pentium M's and Athlons.

I'm with Linus on PAE.. (and a few others it seems) but I guess there is demand. I'd prefer Slacko 64, but I have my hands full with Slacko as it is! (and OLPC )

The interesting bit for me is the xz compression. Saves about 12%.. not bad, but it is slower to decompress. Those machines with the horsepower won't notice, but those without could struggle. I don't know for sure, only bothered testing on my workhorse, a fairly modern AMD X2 with 2 gig RAM, AFAIC has plenty of horses!

So.. here it is

http://www.brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/testing/slacko-4.99.2.iso

a794f591e8d672f3a6b30830ffa80669 slacko-4.99.2.iso

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DEVX

http://www.brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/testing/devx_slacko_4.99.2.sfs

df8387a0d2372a5ec31c6db7f91b766a devx_slacko_4.99.2.sfs

Kernel sources are available at bkhome.org/sources.. usual passwords apply.

Have fun!

[James C]

Since you linked to my post I guess my stance on PAE is pretty obvious too.Doesn't mean I won't test this though.
Live pfix=ram......everything working on boot.

VIDEO REPORT: Slacko Puppy, version 4.99.2

Chip description:
oem: NVIDIA
product: MCP61 - mcp61-86 Chip Rev

Driver used by Xorg:
nv

Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: "" Depth: Depth 24

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video


-Computer-
Processor : 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5200+
Memory : 3888MB (172MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Wed 24 Aug 2011 03:36:26 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia

VGA compatible controller : nVidia Corporation C61 [GeForce 7025 / nForce 630a]
Audio device : nVidia Corporation MCP61 High Definition Audio

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 3888080 439172 3448908 0 51272
Swap: 4214780 0 4214780
Total: 8102860 439172 7663688
#

[majorfoo]

just for grins, i d/l iso and booted live cd to desktop
would not boot using xorg - had to use vesa

cannot get firewall to turn on
sound works ok
had to set up internet connections manually (using dsl)

running hp pentium 4 desktop -
2.80 mhz cpu
2 gb memory
ext 4 partition

just thought I would try out the new iso

will continue loading some of software I use daily to see if it will work

regards
majorfoo