Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[harii4]

Testing :
full hard drive install
Absolute linux 13.50

For an lite / small distro it seems bloated in its apps. K3b,GDM....ect.
Big bass's tools works

Not as easy as an puppy - TXZ-pup
you can run as "root"

why is there no lite slackware distros out there?
they all use kde bloat ?

[nooby]

Slackware seems to have their own agenda on how to do things.
A variant or fork of slackware is Slax and them have managed
to make rather small versions. Porteus works great but I am Nooby
so you have to test and decide on your own. My judgement is naive.
http://porteus.org/
"Porteus is a complete linux operating system that is optimized to run from CD,
USB flash drive, hard drive, or other bootable storage media.

It's small (under 300Mb) and insanely fast which allows you to start up

and get online while most other operating systems are left spitting dust.

Porteus comes in both 32 & 64 bit and aims to keep on the bleeding edge.
It also supports several different languages and the user forum has language sections."

They even claim it boots in 15 secons Their forum is helpful and
even accepted my extremely naive questions and lack of good manners.

Other Slax also works rather okay but Porteus seems to have greatest followings.

Slackware fans does not seem to like that Porteus is that popular.
They don't seem to accept it to be slackware despite being compatible???

Oops forgot to tell that Porteus can boot to root and save on NTFS frugal install. AFAIK have poor memory I trust that I gave menu.lst code in their
forum for my install I have handle newbody over there IIRC

[Colonel Panic]

[harii4]

@Colonel Panic
Vector 7 Light and Salix OS are great but use different tools than pkgtools of standard slackware.

I find it weird that Absolute linux mixes all the libs - Qt4,KDE and gtk2 into one distro.

With Big Bass' TXZ_pup tools i can install .pets (pet2slack) to Absolute linux.
Working on adding Pburn - not having the greatest luck with it yet.

Think "pussy linux" but with slackware

[James C]

Mageia 2 was finally released today....at least there's a version besides Gnome 3.

[Lobster]

Thanks guys . . . Mageia 2 . . . promised never to use the duck (Mandrake type OS) after they sacked their chief developer . . .
but I am fickle . . . I even have an Apple tablet (is their no end to my depravity . . . I hear Windows 8 is . . . no . . . even I have limits)

Anyway I got lulled . . .

I downloaded the dual option CD Mageia 2
and the installation was Windows like
. . . was easy, graphical, reassuring . . .
It promised to put the operating system on my Windows partition
- wait a minute I don't have . . . oh OK I have an old NTFS partition
. . . well that failed
OK it gently offered somewhere else.

Impressive!

It was all set up and ready to boot.
I rebooted

Dumped to a command line.
Could I get it to work?
Yes.
Am I gonna?
No.

Back in Puppy
OK gonna try another bloatware installation
. . . so many to choose from . . .
I might even stick to Puppy hopping (like distro hopping
but all done in the kennel)
Have not tried Saluki for a while . . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Saluki

or maybe FatSlacko
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=624110#624110

Puppy Linux
Simply Penguin

[nooby]

Has any of you tested this one from Bell Lab?
The creators of Unix?
This one is named Plan9 and link is here
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9/

[oui]

[Lobster]

Thanks oui, very interesting info.

I did have a go with Perfect Pangolin as Barry is creating a Upup based on this . . .

Excellent simple boot up from the CD started . . .

So I went straight to install mode.
Now in the past I would have a complete HD for the install.

However the install procedure did offer to create an install
on a section of my HD.

Not simple.
In the end from what I remember
is I need to create two partitions
one boot and one swap for the install.

I could not do this efficiently or easily from the Ubintu boot CD.
What I did last time was create these with gparted (and also possibly fdisk) from Puppy and then run the Ubuntu install again.

It is not worth the effort, as I look at Ubuntu,
install a few programs from their excellent package manager
and then use Puppy anyway . . .

The problem with the 'very simple' distros is they are great until
you actually have to take into account your needs. Then you need specialised penguin knowledge.

[nooby]

Interesting to read about Slitaz.
Thanks for sharing that information.

[Colonel Panic]

I've just been trying the latest version of ZevenOS. It looks spartan but clean and runs well on my old machine (hey that nearly rhymed ),but suffers from the usual problem of Ubuntu-derived distros (with the possible exception of Mint, for some reason) - Flash is unstable and doesn't work well.

Also, I've kust downloaded the new version of Quelitu, a distro based on Lubuntu and which I know someone here uses. I haven't installed it yet but it looks promising.

[Swaphead]

I've been using a full install of Xubuntu 12.04 for about a week.
(I've ditched Lubuntu as there is no LTS, whereas Xubuntu has 3 years
support)

Mp3 and Flash played out of the box, but I had to install
the libavcodec-extra-53 package (!?) before ffmpeg would convert to mp3.

The Software Centre has crashed on me a couple of times, but there are
no broken packages. Other than that it's been solid.

It's an excellent O/S for Linux newbies to cut their teeth on IMHO, as I've managed to get it looking how I want it quite easily -
and if I can, anyone can!

I'd be confident of installing this on a friend/relative's computer
and not being called upon often (if at all) to sort out any issues or
cock-ups.

[Monsie]

Hi all,

For those of us who are running Wary Puppy on a Pentium 3... I discovered about a week ago that Mepis Linux 8.0.15 runs very nicely. This was a surprise because debian 5 will not install on my system for some reason... and so I never thought about trying Mepis until just recently. Since I use debian at work, this is a bonus.

This distro is almost pure debian, and uses the KDE desktop. It is the last version of Mepis to include built-in support for my ati Rage video card. It runs well with 384 mb of ram, though after a while, I end up using a very small swap file... < 10mb.

Mepis 8 uses the 2.6.27 kernel which is LTS type, and this particular distro is still under active support even though it is based on debian lenny which was archived earlier this year. It installs the smp kernel by default, so to get full support on a Pentium 3, one must install and switch to the uni kernel... (when I did so, I then had a driver for my Riptide audio card).

It's nice to be able to run a distro on my old computer that includes full help packages and documentation that works with the intended application --Gimp etc.

Monsie

[Colonel Panic]

[Colonel Panic]