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[Max Headroom]

G'day All, I'm on a Mission 2 Find the Latest Stable 32 bit No PAE LTS Puppy Slacko or Otherwise, I'm Presently Running Slacko 6.1.3.1 on a 1.6 GHz Centrino, I Can't Find the 6.3.0 iso Broken Link!

K

[John Alien]

[Max Headroom]

Thanx John, But I didn't notice previously that this is 4 UEFi PCs when in Fact I'm intending 2 install on an Older BIOS PC, Unless of course the iso install Disk is Backward Compatible?

K

[bigpup]

It should work with any Bios.
Being identified with UEFI, only indicates it has the added stuff, that a UEFI bios may need.

[Max Headroom]

Thanx BigPup!

K

[sonox]

Hi folks,

I'm currently booting Lupu 5.2.5 in our school setup using a pxe server. I simply followed forum available manuals to create the bootable image. Works like a charm!

I wish to switch to a higher version, e.g. Slacko 6.3.0. The included firefox browser appears to be more stable.

The manuals I found in the forum to create a bootable Puppy don't work anymore.

How can I make Slacko net bootable?

Can anybody help me here?

Kind regards,
Roman

[mikeslr]

[sonox]

Thanks for your quick reply and sorry for making myself not clear enough.

True, the newest browser versions cannot be found in the official lupu repository but we don't need that. The repository is more than 10gb big with many browsers and different versions available. We are ok in this regard.

The issue at hand is that lupu is getting old and to get support becomes more difficult. I guess, the lupu community becomes fewer by the day.

I'm rather impressed with slacko and it works well when booting from cd. Booting from network however is necessary in our setup. I simply couldn't figure out, how I can make this happen.

Officially, netbooting works. According to http://slacko.eezy.xyz it boots from LAN. Unfortunately I'm stuck here due to lack of support.

Kind regards,
Roman

[Pelo]

"The issue at hand is that lupu is getting old and to get support becomes more difficult. I guess, the lupu community becomes fewer by the day."

Perhaps the Puppy Lucid community remains the best, as it is LTS. I mean improving versions but not always starting again from Zero. Lot of pets, lot of mailing,
Lucid has been used in schools; by children (7 to 77 years old), at least in France, hungary and Chile. Of course local forum generally translate for users English how-to's.
if people help devs developping newer, they can help for older... if they want.. If they care.
Be advised that lot of puppies will not have support, Slacko 6.3.0 and 6.3.2 had topic bugs , i ignore if they are still active, and if some help will be given there. For France, our technical expert helps on any version of Puppy. he will answer for Lucid. ASRI edu was the main contact, but schools emigrate to Debian Primtux, and ASRI edu too . But ASRI EDU forum still contains information.
You will get answers in Spanish forum here and ... Facebook, if you speak Spanish.

[Galbi]

[Pelo]

Galbi ! Slax is not a Puppy. I understand passengers of Lupu series. PolarpupQT is a LUPU too, done by a 'Cordon Bleu' Pemasu. Like world records , some puppies won't be replaced by Fast-food ones built in USA production lines; As soon born, as soon denied.
Keep on using these Puppies, and post in the topics. Keep them alive ! be deaf to devs asking to test their versions. Use Lucid mature OS if you are 'used to it' You are users, using a computer. not mice for learner's experience
About Slax, Slax is pretty, no doubt about that. But Slax will hardly provide so much as a Puppy Whole energy in Slax is consumed by the dress, the dress to be pretty. Slacko 6.3.0 is a good choice, i was just speaking of assistance topic (or support) which is missing, We have it for France, but it is a french spoken one , as an evidence.
Branch abroad helps translating, but not only.
Puppyluvr will help any speaking English user, whatever the Puppy.. ask him for Help. . Spanish, ask Nilson Morales (or Galbi ???)

[Galbi]

[amn87]

Hi. I am currently running Slacko Puppy 6.3.2 off of a USB drive with a 1.25GB savefile. HP Pavilion dv5 notebook with Intel Core 2 Duo@2GHz,3GB RAM and Nvidia 9600M GT. I am facing big issues during video playback w.r.t. screen tearing and video randomly pausing every few seconds and audio and video get out of sync. This happens with VLC and the in-built MPlayer as well. Switched to the proprietary Nvidia drivers but to no avail. Tried the various video renderers as well. In Windows the same videos play without a hitch so its not the hardware at fault here. In HD and SD videos both. In Nvidia settings I have experimented with Vblank Sync on/off. Just recently I noticed screen tearing while scrolling down in FF 52 as well. What could be the issue here? Thanks.
Edit: The "Force Pipeline Composition Fix" resolved this vexing issue.

[Rodney Byne]

Hi to anyone wanting to keep using Slacko 6.3.0, but knowing
that Firefox browser is now fixed at an elderly 35.9ESR,
it's a good idea to download a self-updating browser with
newer features, so I decided instead to use Palemoon.

The Package Manager version of PM is too old to use,
so best to uninstall that one after trying and
download pminstall.sh script first, because the script
can only relate to downloading modern versions.

So I'm now using this up-to-date Palemoon version 27.7.2
and Slacko is totally happy to carry on working
into old age same as me!

Best regards.

[bigpup]

Palemoon is a very good browser and seems to work just as good as Firefox.
It is developed by people that did work on Firefox, but did not like the way Firefox was developing.
So they made their own version of a browser.

In Puppy Package Manager(PPM)
Go to configure
Update database
After updating the database do a search for firefox.
Should get a newer version offered.
Download and install.
That should update Firefox.

Just make sure to update the database before doing any searches for Firefox.
Newer versions get added to the repositories, but the only way PPM knows about them is by updating the database.