Porteus 2.1 final available
Porteus 2.1 final available
Porteus 2.1 final available
Similar to Puppy but a bit bigger.
I recommend the XFCE version
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2412
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Similar to Puppy but a bit bigger.
I recommend the XFCE version
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2412
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Doesn't matter bigger or smaller iso, anyway liveos booting speed faster than puppy.
Easy and fast (only under 1 minute) to create customize desktop/browser setting.
New feature that I like:
Build your own iso
http://build.porteus.org/
Just click which one you wish and download
Have fun!
Easy and fast (only under 1 minute) to create customize desktop/browser setting.
New feature that I like:
Build your own iso
http://build.porteus.org/
Just click which one you wish and download
Have fun!
i have downloaded the xfce 2.1 and just got to love the booting and shutdown speed!
puppy precise 5.7.1 booting speed if i am not imagining things, is faster than previous puppies.
porteus does have a few things that are quite unique. Like puppy, installing to pendrives or hard drives is very easy, fast and convenient.
easy to also make backups of settings just like puppy.
another thing that i love is the aability to apply cheatcodes. if you add EXIT: to the boot up configuration file, when you shutdown, you are given the option to save the session or to don't save the session. so, if i mess up, i just choose don't save so that my save file will not become corrupted.
Nice! Now, puppy linux and porteus are my favourite operating system.
puppy precise 5.7.1 booting speed if i am not imagining things, is faster than previous puppies.
porteus does have a few things that are quite unique. Like puppy, installing to pendrives or hard drives is very easy, fast and convenient.
easy to also make backups of settings just like puppy.
another thing that i love is the aability to apply cheatcodes. if you add EXIT: to the boot up configuration file, when you shutdown, you are given the option to save the session or to don't save the session. so, if i mess up, i just choose don't save so that my save file will not become corrupted.
Nice! Now, puppy linux and porteus are my favourite operating system.
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I think that's something it would be good to include in Puppy.pchan wrote:i have downloaded the xfce 2.1 and just got to love the booting and shutdown speed!
puppy precise 5.7.1 booting speed if i am not imagining things, is faster than previous puppies.
porteus does have a few things that are quite unique. Like puppy, installing to pendrives or hard drives is very easy, fast and convenient.
easy to also make backups of settings just like puppy.
another thing that i love is the ability to apply cheatcodes. if you add EXIT: to the boot up configuration file, when you shutdown, you are given the option to save the session or to don't save the session. so, if i mess up, i just choose don't save so that my save file will not become corrupted.
Nice! Now, puppy linux and porteus are my favourite operating system.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
Played with porteus 2.1-LXDE for a couple of hours.
Basically is a slackware-based hybrid of puppy (aufs, gtkdialog) with tinycore (loadable modules).
Unfortunately is not as good as any of these, yet.
Their PPM look nice but performs worse then Puppy's (yes is possible ) and is far away from Tinycore's.
Login as root once gave me 100% cpu usage and the second time a degraded panel.
Boots fast but performs slower than puppy using considerable RAM (~350MB for just the desktop) and 135MB with no office apps and a spartan selection of other apps is not small either.
Looks nice though with LXDE/Openbox and has potential.
I guess by v3 should be quite allright.
Basically is a slackware-based hybrid of puppy (aufs, gtkdialog) with tinycore (loadable modules).
Unfortunately is not as good as any of these, yet.
Their PPM look nice but performs worse then Puppy's (yes is possible ) and is far away from Tinycore's.
Login as root once gave me 100% cpu usage and the second time a degraded panel.
Boots fast but performs slower than puppy using considerable RAM (~350MB for just the desktop) and 135MB with no office apps and a spartan selection of other apps is not small either.
Looks nice though with LXDE/Openbox and has potential.
I guess by v3 should be quite allright.
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Its a derivative of Slax which itself uses Slackware with some neat wrapping by Thomas to make it modular/frugal etc.Basically is a slackware-based hybrid of puppy (aufs, gtkdialog) with tinycore (loadable modules).
Puppy owes much of its present structure to Slax which pioneered the loadable modules though Slax is much cleaner in several respects. (and predates Puppy 2)
Unfortunately I found Slackware 14 rife with some nasty bugs so unfortunately anything based on it has some major fixing to do.
Perhaps the Slax structure with something more reliable like debian would be a better bet.
Just thought I'd chime in there.
ps a slax 6 based setup is my main system so totally biased
pps I have a not save option on puppies and slax.... its a feature worth having generally.
Porteus 2.1 LXDE. I used the net iso creating app. Nice. It includes the wanted loadable modules to the build.
Set time/timezone gui didnt offer me the timezone selection feature. Forum to the help. timeconfig in terminal as superman user. Timezone fixed.
No internet atom clock syncing gui. But there is ntp package in PPM ( Porteus package manager) which has ntpdate. Just needed to hunt atom clock provider address and clock synced. Again in terminal.
No laptop cpu freq et governor switcher gui. I could have downloaded cpufrequtils package and create scripts to switch governors, but I didnt bother.
Porteus2.1 is a dream come true to the terminal superman users. Nice way to learn terminal commands and usage. Puppy users are spoiled.
Set time/timezone gui didnt offer me the timezone selection feature. Forum to the help. timeconfig in terminal as superman user. Timezone fixed.
No internet atom clock syncing gui. But there is ntp package in PPM ( Porteus package manager) which has ntpdate. Just needed to hunt atom clock provider address and clock synced. Again in terminal.
No laptop cpu freq et governor switcher gui. I could have downloaded cpufrequtils package and create scripts to switch governors, but I didnt bother.
Porteus2.1 is a dream come true to the terminal superman users. Nice way to learn terminal commands and usage. Puppy users are spoiled.
Well it is called PORTeus....It's strong in areas of puppy weakness, package management. Also it 'borrows' a few puppylinux items, and keeps the P lead character to hid this direct borrowing..... Pburn is an example...
I lobbed several puppy like scripts into Slax... ..for things that were originally handled by KDE.
Actually borrowing Pburn is pure masochism
And where does puppy come from???
mike
grub entries
I found that the LXDE version lacked features so
I recomended the XFCE version. It's easy to install on a partition.
Just two folders to drag over to a partition.
Here are my Grub entries.... First to boot as the guest
and I have a porteus save file.
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Here I boot as root without a save file. Note that UUID is used to find the
partition with the boot folder. To find UUID the 'blkid' command is used
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I recomended the XFCE version. It's easy to install on a partition.
Just two folders to drag over to a partition.
Here are my Grub entries.... First to boot as the guest
and I have a porteus save file.
Code: Select all
title Puppy Porteus login=guest
find --set-root --ignore-floppies --ignore-cd /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
kernel /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz changes=/mnt/sdc1/porteussavefirst-2.dat
initrd /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
Here I boot as root without a save file. Note that UUID is used to find the
partition with the boot folder. To find UUID the 'blkid' command is used
Code: Select all
title Puppy Porteus login=root
uuid cda1bab9-accf-41f5-89b3-01d7b3433526
kernel /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz login=root
initrd /boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
Installed the xfce version, i like it seems very polished with a decent selection of apps for its download size.
Major downfall for me is wifi issues - i had to blacklist the wl driver to get broadcom b43 wifi working but the connection is constantly dropping out and flooding dmesg with:
touch wood wifi seems to be working ok now - not sure what fixed it but copied /lib/firmware/b43 from puppy to porteus and reloaded b43
Major downfall for me is wifi issues - i had to blacklist the wl driver to get broadcom b43 wifi working but the connection is constantly dropping out and flooding dmesg with:
EDIT:[ 1953.591438] wlan0: direct probe to a4:b1:e9:01:e2:31 (try 1/3)
[ 1953.792069] wlan0: direct probe to a4:b1:e9:01:e2:31 (try 2/3)
[ 1953.993056] wlan0: direct probe to a4:b1:e9:01:e2:31 (try 3/3)
[ 1954.194060] wlan0: authentication with a4:b1:e9:01:e2:31 timed out
touch wood wifi seems to be working ok now - not sure what fixed it but copied /lib/firmware/b43 from puppy to porteus and reloaded b43
was that with b43 mike? Porteus it seems only has included /lib/firmware/b43-openmikeb wrote:Had to do exactly the same with slax 7 so I guess slackware does not include (much) firmware...perhaps its a copyright issuetouch wood wifi seems to be working ok now - not sure what fixed it but copied /lib/firmware/b43 from puppy to porteus and reloaded b43
mike
Yes sorry I should have been clearer. Yes the b43. bcm4312 IIRC With older kernels the wl module is happy but more recent b43 seems solid as long as it has the firmware. b43-copy does suggest it is a copyright issue whereby users are usually told to obtain it themselves using fw-cutter. Puppy being off the main track quietly manages to ignore such issues....flash player was another example....more a case of copyleft.
I spent some time on slax 7 which is related hence my interest here. With 7 there were some showstoppers and the devs seemed to ignore reports/fixes if they did not come from the clique or were trivial. (or both!) . Eg the dev module was missing asm so impossible to compile drivers... broken cups etc It seems porteus may have a more human approach
regards
Mike
I spent some time on slax 7 which is related hence my interest here. With 7 there were some showstoppers and the devs seemed to ignore reports/fixes if they did not come from the clique or were trivial. (or both!) . Eg the dev module was missing asm so impossible to compile drivers... broken cups etc It seems porteus may have a more human approach
regards
Mike
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Porteus KDE 2.1 and Puppy (Racy or Precise) are on USB flash drive YUMI-based multiboot collections.
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-mini-office/ (not public yet)
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-mini-v2/
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-meteor/
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-meteor-v2/
BTW, the main H33T.com torrent trackers are down. The torrents are also found on Tuxdistro and Linuxtracker.
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-mini-office/ (not public yet)
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-mini-v2/
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-meteor/
http://www.gooplusplus.com/multiboot-2013-meteor-v2/
BTW, the main H33T.com torrent trackers are down. The torrents are also found on Tuxdistro and Linuxtracker.