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#61 Post by nubc »

cimarron wrote:Iguleder's GuyDog was a revelation. It runs much better on my old Thinkpad X24 (256M RAM) than the Lupu 5.1 I had been using, even with GuyDog's better features (Openbox, tint2, wbar). I used to have to scale videos down and use smaller formats to get them to play smoothly, and my processor was frequently maxed out by other programs. But that's rarely the case with GuyDog and I can even play videos full screen no problem. I don't know how he did it--a big thank you to Iguleder.


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#62 Post by KentC »

Puppy Linux 4.3.1

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#63 Post by Rattlehead »

431 is my home since 2009, and never looked back (or forward, lol :) ). Really stable, does everything I need and, in 4 years I've customized it to death. Although recently some bloated Internet pages don't work well (maybe because of the old browser version mentioned above?), so I also installed Slacko for those cases.

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#64 Post by koulaxizis »

Puppy Slacko 5.5 :)
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#65 Post by kost@s »

puppy slacko-5.5 and Macpup 550

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Re: What is your favourite Puppy distro?

#66 Post by Schpankme »

Macpup 5.2.8 v2 - works on just about anything.

My current interest is with Debian 7.2 and choose Wheezy as my primary OS.
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#67 Post by ardvark »

I've tried Wary 5.3 and 5.5, Lucid 5.2.8 and Precise 5.6.1 and like Precise the best. :)

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#68 Post by Moat »

Precise Retro 5.7.1 with OpenboxPlus 1.6.1 is my fav everyday Pup - a solid-as-a-rock workhorse on multiple (older) machines. Love it!!

Lately, though, I've been blown away by Carolina 1.1 - so full-featured and able to be tweaked to a rich desktop environment, I figured it would be "bloaty" and slow... but no! In actuality, it's been surprisingly the fastest, least CPU intensive Pup of a dozen or so that I've spent a fair amount of time on... even with desktop effects in full-swing! Some kinda' magic or something...

IMHO, Carolina should be the Puppy community's "flagship", Windows-refugee, full-Monty Puppy - and am rather dumbfounded as to why folks aren't lining up in overwhelming support of the project. :? I think it's really that great!!



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#69 Post by kj4bnh »

Puppy 4.3.1 it is all I know. I like the fact I can run it on a computer with no hard drive.

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#70 Post by Colonel Panic »

I think one of the Puppy 4.20 - 4.21 range of Puppies such as Deeper Thought (which I'm running at the moment). 4.32 is also very good but AFAIK doesn't have compatibility with dotpups, even with the dotpup handler utility (as 4.21 does).
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#71 Post by nooby »

I am not a good example at all.

The main reason I use Lupu 528-005 is
that is one of the few that I used
often enough to remember how to set
things up so it works. I would use another one
if I knew that one better,. So to me is is pure habit
due to I lack familiarity using other puppies.

I barely know enough how to boot at all.

and I've been like this my whole life.
failed to learn how to get simple OS like
Ms DOS 3.3 whatever name it did have.

Ms DOS Version 3.3 (OEM) -
First version to support 3.5 inch, 1.44 MB
floppy drives and diskettes.


I felt so proud being able to start a program
and then to shut it down Editors and photo etc
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though

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#72 Post by Colonel Panic »

Lightweight distros appeal to me at the moment, because my machine's really struggling with the heavier software; the fan's going like the clappers when Firefox is running with three or four tabs open. One of the downsides of having only 512 MB of RAM in 2014, I suppose.

I'm trying PULP 0.03 at the moment (which is based on Puppy 4.12), and it looks good.
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#73 Post by Colonel Panic »

I'd just like to amend what I said above - Puppies from 4.21 onwards seem to have trouble with dotpups, even with the dotpuphandler installed, so maybe the best all round Puppies are the ones up to and including 4.20 (which would include Deeper Thought).
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#74 Post by starhawk »

Here's my favorite, now that a nasty bug has been fixed --

X-Slacko 1.1 --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88846
Petget Fix --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 955#767955

You *really* want that fix, if you want to run X-Slacko (1.0 *or* 1.1) !!

BTW, it's very friendly to (current and former) Windows users as well. Took me very little time (fifteen to thirty minutes, max) to switch from Win7 over to X-Slacko -- there's a lot of stuff that acts very similarly, at least as far as UI is concerned.

Oh -- @Colonel Panic -- I installed a single dotpup, the help file for Xara Xtreme (aka XaraLX) and it went absolutely fine. Not sure if other dotpups would have issues, but at least one did not.

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#75 Post by Colonel Panic »

starhawk wrote:Here's my favorite, now that a nasty bug has been fixed --

X-Slacko 1.1 --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88846
Petget Fix --> http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 955#767955

You *really* want that fix, if you want to run X-Slacko (1.0 *or* 1.1) !!

BTW, it's very friendly to (current and former) Windows users as well. Took me very little time (fifteen to thirty minutes, max) to switch from Win7 over to X-Slacko -- there's a lot of stuff that acts very similarly, at least as far as UI is concerned.

Oh -- @Colonel Panic -- I installed a single dotpup, the help file for Xara Xtreme (aka XaraLX) and it went absolutely fine. Not sure if other dotpups would have issues, but at least one did not.
Fair dos. It should be possible to use dotpups in more recent Puppies than 4.2; as far as I recall they're only slightly altered zipfiles.
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#76 Post by starhawk »

"slightly altered zipfiles" -- like how a dotPET is basically a *.tar.gz with an MD5Sum attached to it somehow?

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#77 Post by Colonel Panic »

starhawk wrote:"slightly altered zipfiles" -- like how a dotPET is basically a *.tar.gz with an MD5Sum attached to it somehow?
Maybe, but that didn't work for me when I renamed a dotpup (torsmo) and tried to extract from it, so I don't know the answer.
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#78 Post by cypher51 »

My favorite is 4.1.2 barebones which I am currently building into the OS that I can really use. It's very stable, easy to work with, and runs great on older hardware.

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#79 Post by Blackfish »

I like all of them for various reasons, but the Puppy I love most is LxPup-Precise-Retro 14.02. It works perfectly with both my laptops. No complaints. No issues. Now, how can you beat that?

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#80 Post by davea4570xr »

I enjoy Macpup. It's absolutely gorgeous and seems stable on my Dell D620.

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