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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Latest CrunchBang huge surprise. I booted it on fat32 formatted USB
using rcrsn51 Issobooter method. Works very good. Boot iso no hassle.
One need to edit the Menu.lst in case ir fails but it was easy
following his instruction.

Now the big surpise is that ChrunchBang allow me to do almost all
that Puppy do and that is not what I thought because last time
I tested CB then nothing could be done at all.

So in case you are curious do give it a try.
I could change html files and edit names
save files downloaded and even move from
Root to the HD. The only think lacking is persistence
of changes.

Zorin OS worked well too and Porteus and PureOS .
All these could edit on HD and had the needed Adobe flash
built in from scratch so easy to use them live no need to install

That way one can have them on a usb stick as small as 1GB
and always fresh?

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

A quick update; I'm now using OpenSUSE 12.3 r2. It installed after a couple of teething troubles, but once I booted it up and installed it it wanted to go on a big downloading spree (including 77 MB for fresh KDE wallpapers) which I could have done without. It's taken me up to over 300 MB so far, not including the 690 MB for the original SUSE disk. Also, even with just Konqueror and Konsole running Conky shows 662 MB of RAM in use, so I couldn't have run it on my old machine with just 512 MB of RAM.

Still, SUSE has never claimed to be a lightweight distro and it does at least work. Probably worth hanging on for a month though for the official 12.3 release in mid-March, or until all the problems are sorted (whichever is sooner).

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

While testing out Isobooter from rcrsn51 I noticed
that Chrome on different OS could have different filters
set on from scratch. One OS had no filter activated
so it accepted my local TV station streamed feed right away
while the Chrome in WattsOS had a filter activated
and it took minutes for me to get it going and I still have
no idea what I did so I can not tell others or get it going
next time I boot up so being stoopid and lazy I would avoid
that OS which is sad due to it was rather fast and not using much resources?

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Been running Stella .... based on CentOS. Still has good old Legacy Grub and Gnome 2.Even the wobbly windows work. Smile

http://li.nux.ro/stella/

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1496 Location: Ontario Canada

I've been using Linux Mint 14 Nadia 64 bit version with XFCE4 for a
couple of weeks and it's working well on everything from a emachines
D620 laptop with a single core processor to a multicore desktop pc.
I like the software updates feature, I downloaded and installed Google
Chrome from the Google website and updates for that are found along
with the regular Mint software and security updates.
I still like Puppy too of course Smile

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky

Porteus 2.0 was just released today....... both 32 and 64 bit versions. Standard 32 bit desktop is now Razor-qt ....

nubc · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 739 Location: USA

I just spent an hour in PCLOS KDE MiniME 2013.02. It was well-organized, but it didn't do anything out of the box. And it was sluggish. The ISO was 550 MB in size, much smaller than that of PCLOS KDE 2013.02 at 1382 MB. Compared to this, I have to say, boocoops respect for the Pups.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

I got curious on Manjaro so I downloaded it
and put it on a 4GB USB using the method
that rcrsn51 describe as IsoLoader on this thread

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=67235

My entry on manjaro is here. I could get Midori going but not
reach the HD from USB so maybe one need to be root.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=686941#686941

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

I'm looking forward to the next version of WattOS (v7), which should be out very soon.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Colonel Panic

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1225

Still no sign of WattOS so I've reinstalled CrunchBang instead. If you don't mind the dark and somewhat spartan interface it's a good Debian-based distro in my view.

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Colonel Panic say I boot up chruchbang on one usb
in live install using rcrsn51 isobooter can I then use that live version
and install a full install to a 4GB USB and then add phyton
and makehuman so it works? http://www.makehuman.org/content/download_alpha_7.html

That program need latest phyton but that does not work
in live version one need full install as I get it?