Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

As I remember a dvd did boot around 35 to 35 seconds and not 4 minutes.

So I trust you have multisession with many many changes and that takes time to go through.

Why not give a detailed description exactly how you boot and what programs and so on so others can reproduce your results.

Edit when I boot from USB it does take up to 3 to 5 minutes depending
on things like if it is first time or after creating a pupsave and how big it is.

So I take back my surprise. But my memory is that if one have a very standard version of puppy on DVD then it it took at most 45 seconds.

So one would need someone with patience and a watch to do some statistics.

[Colonel Panic]

[nooby]

Vector Soho Delux preview worked very good for me on
the win XP I had some years ago. The Developer on their
forum was so nice that he made a special file for me so
I could make saves to it on NTFS. Then when I tried it on Win7
then it failed to boot. Not sure why. So I gave up on Vector.

I trust it boot if one do like them describe
but I am a fanatic fundamentalistic frugalist (FFF)

[jamesjeffries2]

I currently dual boot between puppy (for quick browsing mostly) and gentoo on my netbook. I also have two servers. One runs FreeBSD and the other runs Debian. I would run gentoo on all of them if it didn't take so long to set up.

Oh and I have a 300mhz thin client that runs puppy. I use is to host a database so I can simulate heavy load by it just being slow.

[nooby]

Gento is one of those linux distros that I totally failed
to boot frugally. I ahve not tested it for a while and
I am too lazy just now.

Today I compared SuperOS and Netrunner Linux OS.
And them are rather alike. Both are close to Ubuntu.
Netrunner to Kubuntu but SuperOS to Gnome Ubuntu I guess
unless it is Unity based now. I am too lazy to find out.

Anyway I like Nettrunner best. It works almost as good as Puppy
if one boot it frugally using iso booting.

It can edit and save on the HDD without being root.
I trust the reason is some mishap that them did when
them developed latest Ubuntu and now every ubuntu
variation does have it except a few that has done changes
to how it boots. Sadly none of the debians work that way.

[Billtoo]

During a lull in the puppy action I installed Vectorlinux 7.0, it's working nice so far.

EDIT: Been using it for a day and becoming more familiar with it, it's good.

[nooby]

How did you install it? Vbox? CD DVD USB Frugal on NTFS HDD ?

[Billtoo]

[nooby]

Yes I have a computer now that I should be able to do full installs on.
Does the boot use isolinux or grub4dos or grub2?

DataPrince. Nevery heard of them so maybe it is some general
Mother board from China that them have put their own bran name on.
AMD Athlon 64 bit 1gb memory? so that is a but on the small side.

Would you say that Vector is pure Slackware. Does it get repos from
their own exclusive repo site or can you take it from Slackware?

Can you log in as root or do you have to do su or sudo or such?

What is it about it that made you chose Vector when you could have been
using some other linux distro. Arch or Linux Mint or whatever.
Just me trying to learn how others relate to free software.

[Billtoo]

[DaveS]

Just spent some time with Xubuntu. Very nice, fast, lovely Xfce/Thunar interface. Everything just worked. I like the new drop down list launchers in Xfce.

[Bert]

[nooby]

I think Zeven is a kind of xubuntu but with all the codex installed
already. Now those that are good at finding and installing only
get upset over such bloat but for us who do frugal iso install
we love such because the iso is ready out of the box it is like
a remix and remaster. Very practical.

[DaveS]

[James C]

I installed Xubuntu on one of my old P3's as a dual-boot with Debian Squeeze.On a 866 Mhz/512 Mb ram/1Gb swap box Xubuntu was much slower and more resource intensive than I anticipated.Already removed it...think I'll try Vector on it next.
Xubuntu does run fine on more powerful hardware though.