Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

conservativetroll · Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Posts: 5

A neighbour who is a member of a loco here in Phoenix installed my puppy. I really like it but whatever version it is, it tends to be rather fragile. Kind of wonky. It's okay for a while, then not, okay then not. Laughing

It's on an older but still serviceable HP, He also installed ubuntu. We tried mint, but the machine didn't have enough horsepower. It is an HP Pavillion dv8000

any answers, my neighbor has been very very generous with this time. Don't want to pester him every time i develop an issue,

Want a version that is a little more stable. However Todd installed lots of stuff that runs reasonably well. It might be 5.2.8 but i'm not sure!!

HOW DO I FIND THE VERSION of Puppy?? (caps only for visibility) this turned into a bit of a ramble, sorry

davids45 · Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 601 Location: Chatswood, NSW

G'day,

There should be a comprehensive listing of version details in a text file called "DISTRO_SPECS" in the /etc directory.

Let us know if this is not what you want to know.

David S.

cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3203 Location: Sydney Australia

http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=2881

AMD Turion-64 ML-32 (1.8GHz/512KB L2 Cache)
512MB 333MHz DDR SDRAM (1x512MB 200-pin SODIMM)
100GB 4200RPM HD
17-inch Ultra Brightview WXGA+ screen
128MB ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M w/Hypermemory
DVD+/-RW/R & CW-RW Combo w/Double Layer Support
Windows XP Home
Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN

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Latest Puppy Precise should be OK.

http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00019

or

DpupExprimo5X327 >>an earlier series....my pick

http://smokey01.com/pemasu/DpupSqueeze5X/DpupExprimo5X327

squeeze-5.X.3.2.7-SCSI.iso 23-Feb-2012 15:36 150M

It uses Frisbee.

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Or

Slacko 533.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76279

Lucid 528.05 that's the newer one

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855

Three-Headed Dog 5.2.8.005 Updated ISO..== newer kernel

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70736

Chris.

conservativetroll · Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Posts: 5

Thanks for the friendly responses. I spent 40-50 minutes looking for the appropriate threads. Appreciate the speedy responses again. Looking now!!

conservativetroll · Joined: 10 Mar 2012 Posts: 5

went looking for DISTRO_SPECS in /etc directory, Can't seem to get the format right!! It's second nature to you guys i'm sure, but it is greek to me. What am i doing wrong??

I've written code, but it is G and M code for machine tools, This stuff is completely foreign to me, sorry!!!

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

PUPPY VERSION?

CLICK THE HELP ICON UPPER LEFT ON DESKTOP.

arcanis · Joined: 30 Oct 2011 Posts: 87 Location: Columbus, Ohio

Open the console (terminal) and type in: uname -a. The response should tell you the Puppy version, followed by the kernel version.
Then you should type in: exit
This will close the terminal in the best-practice way.