Hello Musher, there's nothing missing.
In a 369mb Dpup, I have Qtractor with vst amps, reverbs delays etc, Jack pure audio paths, Linphone, Skype, Wavosaur, XMPlay, Spotify, FF42, email, little gimp+mtpaint and carefully selected tools for word processing, peasy gear for pdfs and quick graphics helper tools.
It packs a punch! No fat,
I like the fact that it is one SFS, not the method with the extra SFS with the kernel in it which can get lost. The network indicators have been eroded in the new puppies. I liked the old network tray and ram indicator that works in a fashion and Barry's SNS. Not perfect, but lively at least!
So this is one of the last puppies before some of the changes.
Sure I've tried the Debian dogs and they are good. I would certainly go that route rather than another bloated Linux if I needed the package manager apt get.
But I like pets debs rpms and sfs etc. You don't have to type stuff in a console.
Tried a couple of Stemsee's, but as you commented there were a few problems here and there, and big, very big (ooh yes missus).
I just don't see the point in reinventing the wheel all the time, not if one just wants a puppy to do average stuff.
Because you download a new distro, *iss about tweaking it and it is usually better at some things and worse at others. Then you realise that another few hours of your life have been frittered away lol.
Especially difficult for example, is getting all midi and audio files to play when clicked, in XMPlay when I use a new distro.
If I could get or make a few routine script (s) that I could drop in, then that might improve things.
Same with graphics but not as difficult as sometimes I want Gimp, other times MTPaint.
A gradual, incremented, modular approach is what was carried out with Dpup by OscarTalks, and as a result, the Pemasu dpup became a very nice slim distro, who cares if it's a 3.5.2 kernel?
If another one can be slipped in with the modules as needed, then that's fine.
Purely so that it will run on a newer computer with newer hardware.
I was bumping this precisely because it is a decent distro.
Friends noticed a slighly better performance and UI tweaks over Lucid, another cracker.
I've not tried Micko's Slackos since 5.7 but I know his thins were brilliant and the 533 but couldn't get the QT right on one Sacko without masses of "double dipping" ( the @ and " have just decided to put themselves on the right keys lol) and QT ended up hundreds of mbs.
I'm not grumbling, just bumping, because newer is not always better, even though I am about to try out the new Qtractor just to see if newer is better
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So there we are, an uncharacteristically expialidociously long thread.
