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Dewbie · Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1737

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Gonzalo_VC · Joined: 13 Nov 2012 Posts: 8 Location: Brazil

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darkstrike · Posted: Wed 28 Nov 2012, 00:25 Post_subject:

Out of curiosity, are you still doing any updates/developments to 2.14x Ttuuxxx? Smile

I've got Top10 running on one of my really old tinker machines and love it Smile

Coffe · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 6

Hi,
After reading some comments, other websites pages and watching sneekylinux test video , I think that I found the distribution that best fits my old Packard bell PC bought in 2001 (PIII, 1Ghz, 512 RAM, 8 Go of HD).
Well, I'd like to download the last .iso file and burn a CD of Classic Pup 2.14. but I've seen that with the last release i(214x-Top10.0) comes
a software package (devx_214X-top10.0.pet), is it included with the iso file, or should I download and install it later ? by the way, I'm quite new to the puppies Wink

, in the past, I installed xubuntu 10.04 and uninstall it shortly after because it was too slow.

anyway, thanks for the work you're doing.

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 374 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Coffe · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 6

Hi,
thanks sheldonisaac, I burned the LiveCD and made a brief test of the distro.
The CPU usage is often high 40%-60% (busy), it reaches 100% when I open some apps and it hanged three or four times. The RAM usage is low, I noticed the right click on mouse don't has an effect ?
In multimedia, divx videos were very slow with cutted sounds (I used to watch them with XP/Me). flash videos instead work quite fine.

here is the complete hardinfo report :
http://cjoint.com/12dc/BLvxWMqEqhX.htm

May be Classic Pup 2.14X isn't the right Puppy for my Desktop, I'm waiting for your comments, thanks. Wink

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 374 Location: Philadelphia, PA

Keef · Joined: 20 Dec 2007 Posts: 554 Location: Staffordshire

With those basic specs, 214X ought to fly on your system - I used it quite happily on a 450mhz laptop with slightly more RAM than yours, and my current machine is only 850mhz. However, there could be all sorts of hardware quirks coming into play. Unfortunately it can be a matter of trial and error with some systems.
It might be worth trying Wary, which is up to date, but designed for older systems, Also consider Akita.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 5330 Location: Kentucky

I've been running 214X since the very beginning of this epic thread on an old 733 mhz/ 256 mb ram box with no problems.
Did you check the basics by verifying the md5 sum and that you got a good burn? Wary wouldn't be a bad choice to try either.

Coffe · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 6

Hi, thanks for your comments,
well, the burn went well and I checked the md5 sum and I tried Wary and akita,
-Wary 5.1.4 has a great player, though the video and audio were not synchronized (after launching a video the sound is exceeded by the images). I plugged my wireless usb adapter (TL-WN321G) and could connect to internet very quickly Shocked

. It's was ok for surfing but very slow and cutted when streaming videos on Youtube (the browser is seamonkey).
-Akita beta 13 had even more difficulties to run videos than the Classic Pup.

Ultimately, I think Wary is approximately what fit my desktop, but I have to find a way to fix the audio sync problem with divx(avi) videos.

James C & Keef : did you have any problems when running videos with your puppies ? if yes , how did you solve them ? by the way, My video card is very outdated (NVIDIA GeForce2 MX / 32 Mbytes SDRAM).

thanks.

666philb · Joined: 07 Feb 2010 Posts: 1470 Location: wales

hi Coffe

i've had success with this fix for sync problems in mplayer http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=82895

Coffe · Joined: 20 Dec 2012 Posts: 6