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Posted: Tue 31 May 2011, 02:41
by harii4
blaarghalltheusernamesare right,
try to get schools to use it if they have old crappy computers.
School's just extort more Tax money
- THINK OF THE POOR LITTLE CHILDREN?
They have to get the newest latest copy of windows or it hurts the children.
I offered that schools use it but got the government run-around.
we'll look into it or they get new hardware (+solfware) every two - three years.
ect...
I offered to give an "linux PC" to an church but got turn down.
Worried about their networks safety.
Posted: Tue 31 May 2011, 12:09
by blaarghalltheusernamesare
well our school definitely doesn't get new hardware every 3 years. they've even still got some pentium 1s in use.
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 06:30
by Bruce B
Do you guys talk to people and discover the majority don't know what Linux is, they've heard the word?
I ask because I haven't conducted a 'personal survey' since a few years back
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 09:01
by Sylvander
1. When I mention Puppy Linux to people in passing
...
No-one has ever heard of it. 
2. My wife and daughter [and son and his wife when visiting] go on the web using Lupu-526->Firefox-3.6.18 because that live CD-RW is in the drive at all times. 
They have no problem using it.
3. My son and his family moved to London last week, and he is trying to fix his laptop [restored the XP factory default install, but it's not working well], and get his desktop set up for use.
So he began making use of the Multipup CD-RW I gave him some time back, together with the matching copies of my own pupsave files I gave him.
At this point he has Boxpup-431 in use.
I'll give him a copy of my Lupu-526_CD-RW+Lupusave when he comes up here from London for a week beginning next week.
His Dell_Inspiron_6400 trackpad->[flickering] and keyboard->[mistyping] are malfunctioning in both Windows and Puppy.
Anyone know how to fix?
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 16:56
by russoodle
Sylvander wrote:1. When I mention Puppy Linux to people in passing
...
No-one has ever heard of it.
<snip>
Pretty much a similar reaction here.
My car wears a big Puppy Linux sticker stuck on the rear window, and i sometimes wonder how many motorists will Scroogle it..
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 22:04
by cthisbear
russoodle:
Talking of Scroogle.
Anyone here in OZ getting Scroogle to work.
I have this issue....misspelt ..I was fixing a laptop when posting.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... -1&#bottom
Chris.
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 07:38
by russoodle
Hi Chris,
My Scroogling from here in SA (optusnet) has been and still is hunky dory....i just read your last post on whirlpool and your issue's now resolved, yes?
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 16:04
by dze
Hello everybody
I am from Serbia and 52 years and I think that good manners needs to write
something sometimes
So hi
I think this is my first post here because I do not know much about linux
to help growing Puppy which I allready used more than a year,like my sons two and my
wife too.It is wonderfull and enjoyfull and I feel very comfortable with Lucid 525.I
try to introduce to a few friends with half succses.
We have linux comunity and it is developing everyday but it is minor compare with Windows .
So we have some problems sometimes with our cirilic letters but we solve it with
good help of Dejan 555 because we share the same language I think
Long live PUPPY
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 21:58
by cthisbear
" just read your last post on whirlpool and your issue's now resolved, yes? "
Yes! How strange is that?
I am going to try that on my Telstra customers XP comp,
with Teamviewer, and see if it works for her.
Chris.
Blog power for puppy
Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2011, 15:11
by JackWagon
Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2011, 07:58
by Lobster
Is our mighty advertising machine (WOM - Word Of Mouth) and budget (two empty sardine cans) no match for the likes of Guigle and Microtheft?
Blag and blog
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 124#570124
Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2011, 04:29
by enhu
i have helped promote puppy linux thru my blog particularly mentioned in this
thread
please help like my blog's nomination link
http://www.facebook.com/bestcebublogs/posts/242588385792514
Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 22:57
by jamalexa
blaarghalltheusernamesare wrote:try to get schools to use it if they have old crappy computers.
I've been trying for years to get my school to try Puppy. I have even installed Puppy on PI and II's but they look at some school with Windows laptops and they say - "We want those." Even though we don't have the money to purchase laptops, Vista or Win7. What's a computer teacher to do?
Posted: Sun 09 Oct 2011, 00:20
by puppyluvr
Hello,
I also have tried till I`m blue in the face..
I sometimes think if I told them it cost TWICE as much as Windows, they might listen...
I could list the reasons, but we all know them well....
Just seems like a no-brainer to me...
Maybe that`s the problem...
Posted: Tue 13 Dec 2011, 22:56
by RSH
puppyluvr wrote:Just seems like a no-brainer to me...
Maybe that`s the problem...
This is surely one of the problems. But if you remember: vegetables does not have a brain.
Another problem (imho) is the following:
Most windows users i know are criminals. I call them
criminal vegetables. Surely 90% of them (that i know) did not have a legal copy of xp, vista or win7. All the way them are using programs like firefox, vlc etc.pp.
Some yeas ago (it was in my long-term-offline-time) i asked somebody for a driver for an older 8-channel audio card. He grabbed the driver out of the www and burnt it on a cd. But this was not all he burnt at cd. He burnt also win me on this cd (while i was working with win 98, a legal copy!).
I am sure, if it has been possible, he would burnt the hardware as well on the cd.
So we not only should tell them it (puppy) costs twice. We also should tell them downloading and using puppy without registering is illegal. Perhaps there will be a rush for puppy linux.
RSH
How You Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Mon 19 Dec 2011, 08:53
by Monsie
Hi all,
I believe we can all do our bit to promote Puppy Linux from time to time by offering thoughtful, informed, and respectful comments in response to articles that appear in blogs, and reviews etc. regarding any of the Puppy versions.
A case in point: two days ago (Dec. 17th) there was an article written called "Puppy Linux Racy Review" at
http://gnuman.com/?p=116 in which the author described some of the features of Puppy, offered some of his impressions, and yet he never once referred to Racy in his review nor did he give any explanation as to what defines Racy in comparison to any of the other Puppy versions.
Overall, I felt his review fell short of its objective, and that his lack of information regarding Racy was less than helpful or useful to anyone wanting specific details about this particular version of Puppy. So, I decided to post a comment in attempt to set the record a little straighter, which you can read if you go to the link that I have provided. To his credit, the author acknowledged my post and the correctness of the points I made.
It would be great to see the author write an updated review of Racy to make up for the shortcomings of his article... but for a variety of possible reasons I can think of, I doubt that will ever happen.
Cheers,
Wayne
How You Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Tue 27 Dec 2011, 18:33
by Monsie
Update: I am re-submitting my post dated December 19th because I tried to edit it for proof reading purposes, and ended up deleting the entry by mistake.
Monsie
Hi all,
I believe we can all do our bit to promote Puppy Linux from time to time by offering thoughtful, informed, and respectful comments in response to articles that appear in blogs, and reviews etc. regarding any of the Puppy versions.
A case in point: two days ago (Dec. 17th) there was an article written called "Puppy Linux Racy Review" at
http://gnuman.com/?p=116 in which the author described some of the features of Puppy, offered some of his impressions, and yet he never once referred to Racy in his review nor did he give any explanation as to what defines Racy in comparison to any of the other Puppy versions.
Overall, I felt his review fell short of its objective, and that his lack of information regarding Racy was less than helpful or useful to anyone wanting specific details about this particular version of Puppy. So, I decided to post a comment in attempt to set the record a little straighter, which you can read if you go to the link that I have provided. To his credit, the author acknowledged my post and the correctness of the points I made.
It would be great to see the author write an updated review of Racy to make up for the shortcomings of his article... but for a variety of possible reasons I can think of, I doubt that will ever happen.
Cheers,
Wayne
Note: I closed the post with my first name so that one could make reference to my comment regarding the article "Puppy Linux Racy Review".
Posted: Tue 27 Dec 2011, 19:08
by Aitch
Monsie wrote:Update: I am re-submitting my post dated December 19th because I tried to edit it for proof reading purposes, and ended up deleting the entry by mistake.
Monsie
Hi all,
I believe we can all do our bit to promote Puppy Linux from time to time by offering thoughtful, informed, and respectful comments in response to articles that appear in blogs, and reviews etc. regarding any of the Puppy versions.
A case in point: two days ago (Dec. 17th) there was an article written called "Puppy Linux Racy Review" at
http://gnuman.com/?p=116 in which the author described some of the features of Puppy, offered some of his impressions, and yet he never once referred to Racy in his review nor did he give any explanation as to what defines Racy in comparison to any of the other Puppy versions.
Overall, I felt his review fell short of its objective, and that his lack of information regarding Racy was less than helpful or useful to anyone wanting specific details about this particular version of Puppy. So, I decided to post a comment in attempt to set the record a little straighter, which you can read if you go to the link that I have provided. To his credit, the author acknowledged my post and the correctness of the points I made.
It would be great to see the author write an updated review of Racy to make up for the shortcomings of his article... but for a variety of possible reasons I can think of, I doubt that will ever happen.
Cheers,
Wayne
Monsie/Wayne, to display urls, highlight the link, click the url button, and ensure that the link is surrounded by url and /url bracketed terms, all on one line, or without line break, if longer...that should work...I edited yours to show active
Aitch
How You Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Sat 31 Dec 2011, 21:31
by Monsie
Hi Aitch,
Thanks for your help. That is exactly what I was trying to do, but somehow I managed to delete my original post, and when I submitted an update, it got deleted also. I don't know what happened there. Maybe John can restore my original post on December 19th, because there is no content change... all I wanted to do was to change the url so that it would appear as a link.
Monsie
Update: I have properly edited and restored my posts as per your instructions --thanks again
Re: How You Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Sun 01 Jan 2012, 03:03
by Aitch
19th Dec post, with corrected link, or it won't display
Use quote to view it, or edit to change it
Monsie wrote:Hi all,
I believe we can all do our bit to promote Puppy Linux from time to time by offering thoughtful, informed, and respectful comments in response to articles that appear in blogs, and reviews etc. regarding any of the Puppy versions.
A case in point: two days ago (Dec. 17th) there was an article written called "Puppy Linux Racy Review" at
http://gnuman.com/?p=116 in which the author described some of the features of Puppy, offered some of his impressions, and yet he never once referred to Racy in his review nor did he give any explanation as to what defines Racy in comparison to any of the other Puppy versions.
Overall, I felt his review fell short of its objective, and that his lack of information regarding Racy was less than helpful or useful to anyone wanting specific details about this particular version of Puppy. So, I decided to post a comment in attempt to set the record a little straighter, which you can read if you go to the link that I have provided. To his credit, the author acknowledged my post and the correctness of the points I made.
It would be great to see the author write an updated review of Racy to make up for the shortcomings of his article... but for a variety of possible reasons I can think of, I doubt that will ever happen.
Cheers,
Wayne
Aitch