Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

cokolo · Joined: 02 Jun 2016 Posts: 6 Location: Nigeria

pls.... how do i make my Huawei 3531 usb moderm work

cokolo · Joined: 02 Jun 2016 Posts: 6 Location: Nigeria

Huawei usb modern not working
am using slacko 6.3

LazY Puppy · Joined: 21 Nov 2014 Posts: 2007 Location: Germany

cokolo · Joined: 02 Jun 2016 Posts: 6 Location: Nigeria

i am using thar puppy 6.0.5 now
its working fine now.

how do i install a floating dock menu like mac installed
and i also want to learn how to program in c as a nonprogrammer

cokolo · Joined: 02 Jun 2016 Posts: 6 Location: Nigeria

i just want my puppy to look cool too.
any ideas?

RetroTechGuy · Joined: 15 Dec 2009 Posts: 2892 Location: USA

Jrickard · Joined: 03 Jul 2016 Posts: 1

hello all, new member and also very new to puppy (slacko) and linux period.

I downloaded pup because microsoft has made me so frustrated that if i didnt leave their os I would have probably lost it and went jihad LOL! So i make a disc, booted up and made me a few usb, everything was ok, lil better instructions maybe as I am not a comp wiz but i am learning a lil bit, like where to look for the iso file Smile

Pup runs fine on 1 laptop I have and not as well on other netbook but this netbook has had a rough life.

It worked fine on an old dell 2400 desktop that i had around, it had low ram less than half a gb and ran fine, it now has 2gb and is better, although i couldnt get online as i dont have net out here in the sticks so i use my tethered iphone (whcih will be my last, sick of apple BS too) and the old dell with xp wont recognize it as anything but a camera,

Main comp I use is my wifes Toshiba P755,(hate this comp too but it works) my gateway nv54 was destroyed by windows 10, to be fair it did take a fall off car a few years back.

Issues, well first anything command line, period, its an experts way of doing things and seems like a foreign antique riddle to me , everywhere you look for a bit of assistance online they run out these long cmd lines like everyone knows what to do with it LOL I understand the space constraints in the os for puppies but I have it on a 32gb flash and also on two other 16gbs. heck my old dell only has an 80gb hdd LOL. Only thing i have figured out was getting flash and making usb boot, all i really do is look around net. but it would be nice to use built in camera without becoming a programmer in the process.
Last would be the names of things, have to look up everything because there is no rhyme or reason readily apparent. i mean come on sylpeed, geany...who names this stuff?

The great thing about it is its quick to boot and boots over whatever the comp os is and is fast on the net even with my tethered and signal boosted iphone as source, that was easy to set up, Frisbee it works LOL
I am not planning on leaving pup but if I found an easier to use one I would.

Just my experience over the last couple of weeks since I got slacko, hope it helps

rcrsn51

learnhow2code · Joined: 12 Jun 2016 Posts: 1015

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3130 Location: Tamworth UK

Complain to the United Nations and tell them that they need to make ALL countries use English and Latin script.

jfcarroll · Joined: 26 Jul 2016 Posts: 1

This is my first post to the forum. I installed Puppy Linux for the first time last week. However, I have in the past used Linux as my primary operating system for over 7 years, including Debian and Ubuntu.

The thing that brought me to Puppy was that I wanted an up-to-date LiveCD; the current live-disc for Ubuntu is now 1.4 GB and too big for a CD. So now I'm using Puppy. I like it.

I thing the Puppy Linux goals are great, including:

learnhow2code · Joined: 12 Jun 2016 Posts: 1015

Sailor Enceladus · Joined: 22 Feb 2016 Posts: 1528

@jfcarroll: That's all fine and dandy unless there's a problem and then you can't see what the problem is (a.k.a Windows style).

rstuff · Joined: 30 Jul 2016 Posts: 1

I was looking for a Linux distribution for old dogs. I was upgrading Mint and found I had narrow scrollbars that jumped several pages when scrolling. I decided to try Puppy Linux. I could not get wifi to work with Puppy. I could not find an option for WPA2 security and not broadcasting my SSID did not help. I still prefer to have my "Activities" at the bottom of the screen reminiscent of XP. Maybe there is a distro or theme out there somewhere that would save me hours of configuring an update and still be easy to use.

foofecker · Joined: 15 Sep 2016 Posts: 1

Running Puppy from a USB key on a Sony Vaio laptop/netbook as my Lubuntu distro crashed and I haven't gotten around to fixing it. Using Slacko 6.3. 1.6ghz AMD processor, 4gb RAM.

Puppy runs surprisingly well and I quite like it even as a backup. I've no real technical knowledge of computers though and Puppy is confusing me.

It's running from the RAM and the site assures me that this is fine and normal, but I don't quite understand how the storage is working. Or if installing it to the HDD is better? Also, can I just plug it into any PC now to work as per usual or will that mess with settings every time?

Essentially Puppy is doing the job just fine at the moment and I like it - but I don't really understand it enough to stick with it once I get my PC up and running again with Lubuntu. Although I'll definitely keep the USB key as a future back up.

PS thank you for all the info on the forums!