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smiler82
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#31 Post by smiler82 »

IBM A22m laptop
PIII @ 866
128 RAM
20Gb HDD

booting 3.00 and 4.00 and both run just fine...

tempted to load the Pup onto my main quad core rig sporting 4 gigs of ram though....

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#32 Post by alienjeff »

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My Puppy PC's Specs

#33 Post by jellymann »

My Computer's Information (Everything I know about it):
Age: 6 years, bought second hand from a friend
Manufacturer: Sahara
CPU: AMD AthlonXP 1GHz, 133MHz FSB
RAM: 512Mb sdram @ 100MHz
Graphics: nVidia GeForce 5200 FX 128mb
Sound: A pair of budget Creative speakers (very good sound for what I paid for them) coming through a AC'97 sound card
Display: Dell E771p 17" CRT
Mouse: Standard GeniusPS/2
Keyboard: Chicony Electronics AT keyboard that I converted to PS/2
Software (in no particular order):
Standard Puppy 4.00 Dingo with devx
IceWM with Platinum theme installed
Platinum icon theme
Gimp 2.4
Blender 2.46
Eclipse Europa with Java 1.6 update 6
Wine 1.0 rc3
Firefox 2
Flock 1.2
Opera 9.27

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#34 Post by KF6SNJ »

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(TM) XP 1800+
Memory : 223MB (72MB used)
Operating System : puppy
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Sat 07 Jun 2008 11:09:49 AM GMT-8
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Unknown
X11 Vendor : (null)
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : EMU10K1 - SBLive! Value [CT4670]
Audio Adapter : NFORCE - NVidia nForce
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
ImPS/2 Logitech Wheel Mouse
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>(Default)</i>
-IDE Disks-
ST340016A
IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI
DVD-ROM DDU1621
_NEC DVD+RW ND-2100AD
-SCSI Disks-
Maxtor 2 F040L0 Rev:

russ
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#35 Post by russ »

It seems like puppy was made on a machine just like mine. Everything wo,rked right "out of the box".

Toshiba M35X-S311 Centrino laptop

768mb memory (added 256mb to original)
60gig hd
Pentium M 1.5gh
Intel 2200 wifi
SmartLink AMRMO modem (winmodem)

I use the liveCD 3.01 with a Cruzer 4gb flash drive for the settings.
The winmodem went bad so had to buy an external modem:
Actiontec EX560LKU external USB/Serial 56k hardware modem. (25 bucks on ebay [modem $8.99 + $15 S&Handling])
I had a little trouble setting the new modem up. This site explains the setup:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=29291

106498
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#36 Post by 106498 »

My computer:

hp e-vectra 700(i think)
256 ram
10gb harddrive

Runs puppy great! Nice and small (and relatively quiet) computer.
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markofkane
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Location: Kane, IL USA

#37 Post by markofkane »

Dell Dimension 4400

OS= Windows XP Home SP3, and Frugal install Puppy Linux 4

CPU=Intel P4 1.6 Ghz (although Puppy says it's 1.4 Ghz)

Sound Card= Sound Blaster LIVE! LS

Video Card= Nvidia G-Force 5500 PCI video card.

1 GB of RAM (I forgot the type)

2 Hard drives, the 1st drive(160 GB) has 2 partitions, and the Second, (120GB) only one. Both are Western Digital.

4 USB slots, 1.1 (slow)

Sony CDRW CRX230E CD/RW ROM drive.

I have a HP PSC 1315v printer, but only use it in Windows for now, maybe until I figure out how to make it work in Puppy. 8)


(I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 too)

timothyli
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Location: Toronto, Canada

#38 Post by timothyli »

ASUS EeePC 701 (1st generation),
upgraded to 2G RAM,
4G SSD factory O/S (Xandros) untouched,
Pupeee on an 8G A-Data Turbo SDHC card,
XP pro SP3 on Virtualbox on same SD card, seamless mode

I carry this machine around with me where ever I go as it is so flexible and mobile.

timothyli
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#39 Post by timothyli »

ASUS EeePC 701 (1st generation),
upgraded to 2G RAM,
4G SSD factory O/S (Xandros) untouched,
Pupeee on an 8G A-Data Turbo SDHC card,
XP pro SP3 on Virtualbox on same SD card, seamless mode

I carry this machine around with me where ever I go as it is so flexible and mobile.

brymway
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#40 Post by brymway »

I've since been thru another phase. My "fast" now runs Dingo primarily although it also has my experimental learning Puppy using 3.01 as a base, HurtMePlenty, and Muppy on it as well, all frugally installed. My slow computer still has a stripped down 3.01 on it as the cd drive seems to not work well. We have an e-machine that runs windows but my wife wanted a distro for all the young children to use when they come and visit so I have tried TEEN, Pupeez and now HappyLinux (an amazing, but un-popular Puppy derivative) because my kids need flash to play games online and so far Happy is the only one that comes ready to go. The e-machine has 512 megs of ram with about an 800 mhz processor. All the puppys I've tried has run flawlessly and very fast on even the e-machine, although I must use Xvesa on it. So far, every computer I've attempted to run Puppy with, I've been successful, not me so much as Puppy has just worked.

So I have Puppy running on a computer with 192 megs ram, 512 megs ram, and 1 gig ram.

MattGSX
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#41 Post by MattGSX »

Computer:

IBM Thinkpad 600X
CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz
RAM: 310 MB
Ethernet: None
Modem: PCI-modem (runs)
Wireless: Nintendo Wi-Fi Adapter (runs flawlessly through rt2750 module, but scan is a bit weak).
video: onboard (runs xorg well, runs xvessa okay)
sound: onboard (sounds fine).
Display: 1200x768 works fine.

Puppy:
I'm running Dingo, but I switched to icewm (xwin icewm), and I commented out all references to rox in the startup script to lower overhead. Puppy has made this old workhorse run faster than my Celeron-D 2.7 GHz, 768 MB Pavillion notebook. I just wish I had a second USB port so I could access external storage while online (external hdd doesn't have external power, so splitting it with a hub doesn't get enough power).

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#42 Post by ttuuxxx »

MattGSX wrote:Computer:

IBM Thinkpad 600X
CPU: Pentium III 500 MHz
RAM: 310 MB
Ethernet: None
Modem: PCI-modem (runs)
Wireless: Nintendo Wi-Fi Adapter (runs flawlessly through rt2750 module, but scan is a bit weak).
video: onboard (runs xorg well, runs xvessa okay)
sound: onboard (sounds fine).
Display: 1200x768 works fine.

Puppy:
I'm running Dingo, but I switched to icewm (xwin icewm), and I commented out all references to rox in the startup script to lower overhead. Puppy has made this old workhorse run faster than my Celeron-D 2.7 GHz, 768 MB Pavillion notebook. I just wish I had a second USB port so I could access external storage while online (external hdd doesn't have external power, so splitting it with a hub doesn't get enough power).
You can buy powered usb hubs that solve that problem, They are hard to find, not like the newer ones for usb2. But these come with a power adapter.
look on ebay you might find one.
ttuuxxx
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nitehawk
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#43 Post by nitehawk »

PIII 384 933mhz 160Ghd & 40Ghd (Intel Vectra with odds n' ends of different stuff put together)........

Win2k Pro & PClinuxOS on 160G....Puppy4 on the 40G

(my PIII 256 500mhz 8Ghd just gave up the ghost! )
Oh well,...I'll be snooping around the thrift stores for another one for Puppy 3.01,..................

Graham72
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#44 Post by Graham72 »

DELL INspiron 1720 inc Vista Home Premium Edition
3 gig ram
2.4ghz
2 x 250 gig HDD
Dell 1907FPV secondary monitor

Running Puppy 4 under microsoft virtual PC 2007 6.0.156.0 ;) , thanks to the excellent tutorial here, that got the mouse running and accessing the 'real' HDD's -= thanks so much!

wayneh07
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Joined: Sun 20 Jul 2008, 11:48

#45 Post by wayneh07 »

Toshiba Satellite 2210CDT
Celeron 500mb
61mb Ram
3.1gb HDD
Puppy Linux 4

Amazingly this once useless (for anything newer than win98) machine is now being used by a complete newbie (my wifes uncle) with very good results.
Basically he'd had a little experience of windoze xp, but not a lot, so the opportunity to get his old lappy up and running with Puppy 4 was too good to pass up.

karakal
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My system

#46 Post by karakal »

I am running Puppy on an ICop Vega something Touchpanel-PC.

http://www.icop.com.tw/products_detail. ... ductID=273

VIA C3 Processor 533MHz
Via Eden Platform
256MB SDRAM
500MB DOM

Everythings working very fine (except ACPI and suspending...)
I am very impressed by how easy everything was to setup (including the touchpanel)...

I am researching this hardware and Puppy for use in a commercial product.. if it happens to be successful we will definitely channel some of our earned money back into Puppy...

benali72
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My Puppy Boxes

#47 Post by benali72 »

Great thread, it's fun to read about what others are running Puppy on.

I've got Ubuntu and Puppy dual-booted on my faster machines, with Puppy alone running on my older machines.

Dingo saved my old Pentium IIs... I've got a 266 mhz and a 333 mhz, both topped out with 256 M memory. Puppy really flies on these old boxes and makes them useful.

Their processors are too slow for video (no DVD movies or YouTube) but they do almost everything else great due to Dingo including web surfing, office work, email, web radio, etc. I often web-surf or work on two machines at once, the new machine and its screen to my left, and the older one to the right.

Because of Puppy and LInux, I haven't bought a new computer in years. Don't think I'll have to soon either. Thank you, Puppy!

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#48 Post by cb88 »

@benaili72 if you could dig an nvidia geforce2 or higher video card out of a dumpster or something you might could get it to play video... i know my laptop with only 64mb ram could almost play video and it only had a wimpy 2d accelrator

oh and i forgot the names....

Vectorsigma ...always the name of my fastest desktop actually have little use for it lately since the modem sucks pretty much just use it for watching DVDs we the cousins are over

Vectorgamma ..the dual tyan 300mhz each 512mb 10gb for OS and 40GB for T2/puppy compile environment

falcon ...300mhz 64mb laptop currently in brazil had puppy and a half corrupted win 98 last i saw it over a year ago

I i get a pandora not shure what to name it.... Vectoralpha?

Note: Vectorsigma was the computer using to give sentience to the transformers autobots decepticons etc....
Taking Puppy Linux to the limit of perfection. meanwhile try "puppy pfix=duct_tape" kernel parem eater.
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Keef
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#49 Post by Keef »

My current project is MeanPup running on a Compaq Armada 3500.

Bought cheaply with no HDD or CDrom. Managed to get an external floppy drive soon after.
300 Mhz
192mb ram
Xorg works, but I use Xvesa at 1042x768

Booting off a 1GB stick with the help of WakePup. Tried a CF card with an
IDE adapter, but no luck. Was hoping it would boot off this to save plugging the floppy in. (The adapter nearly caught fire at one point, but thats another story - all parts still working though amazingly).
I use dwm as the window manager, and renamed the devx_214.sfs to 202 so I can mindlessly compile pointless progs I come across.
It's got no modem or ethernet ports, but I 'borrowed' a Lindy USB docking station from work, and the ethernet socket will connect up to the internet.

Also use my main PC (Socket 754, AMD 2800 mobile, 765MB, 80Gig HD, FX5200) Shared with my wife, so XP is main OS, but its got a frugal installs of Muppy, 214R, MeanPup, and sometimes the latest alpha...

[edit] Replaced the CF-IDE adaptor and got the 3500 booting a frugal install of MeanPup. Got plenty of space on the 4gb CF card, so have got extra partitions for data storage, and other installs (I've now added Grub) - currently dyne-bolic, (runs quite well, probably quicker than Slitaz, which I've tried). Might try a 4 series on the spare partition.
Note - also tried a full install to the CF card, but this was slooow.
Forget the Lindy - got a new PCMCIA ethernet card from PC World for 97p!!!
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quietcat
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my pup

#50 Post by quietcat »

Panasonic Toughbook 71
128 meg memory
6 gig HD
a cheapo wifi card

total investment... 60 bucks

puppy 4.01 with wine..

smooooooooothhhhhh

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