Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[WhoDo]

[DaveS]

WhoDo is right Bex, those icons are brilliant. Never seen so many cross-eyed penguins, even though I am an optician

[TheAsterisk!]

I don't quite understand the OP's sentiment that the glitter is a "bug," to be honest. Extra adornment? Arguably.

Some of the "bling," as it's been phrased, kinda looked gaudy to me, like the fake analogue clock, but others I quite like, like the battery meter. I usually hide the taskbar, so having that monitor visible on the desktop is quite nice. The basic idea is sound, in my mind.
What annoys me far more than the widgets is the Ptray. For some reason, I just hate it, and I wish it destroyed on my system.

Really, though, 4.2.0, which I have on a flash drive (but 4.1.2 on my T22), is much better. 4.1.2 always told me that my built-in modem could be used when using the dial-up wizard, then froze the system, but the 4.2.0 live-CD just said, more or less, "Sorry- no can do," with no ill effects- a major improvement from before.
The only trouble I've had at all so far are some issues with Remaster Express (or is it Remax?) detecting the live-CD, but I won't say too much on that until I've tried it in 4.2.1 in a few days.

Otherwise, it's a very good system indeed, still outperforming pretty much everything else I've used for a friendly desktop. Thanks are due to everyone involved. Puppy Linux is a brilliant OS, including 4.2.

[historymaker118]

[WhoDo]

[SilverPuppy]

A troll, huh? Wow sikpuppy......you've got more shoot-from-the-hip than I do, and I'm pretty outspoken! Just remember, attacking the speaker instead of their ideas makes the attacker look small, as though they are incapable of debating ideas. I'm not accusing you of this, as this is something we see every day on TV, and it's easy to fall into, I'm just saying that this is the impression a lot of people give when they do exactly that. BTW, thanks for sticking up for me, WhoDo. I guess we're still friends.

BTW, everybody, my limitless mirror is up, and if you have a server you want mirrored, just email or PM me and I'll make you FTP creds and a folder. It's here: http://www.silverdollarsolutions.com/PuppyLinux/

If historymaker would like to REALLY make my day, he'll post that desktop wallpaper as an attachment to his next post. Please, please? I love that penguin.......

Speak of which, we need some graphics person to make us a default wallpaper of Tux hugging our Puppy mascot. Any volunteers?

[mcewanw]

[DaveS]

[historymaker118]

[SilverPuppy]

Sorry, Rebecca........

No, I wasn't having a bad day, I just don't usually read those footers/signatures/whatever they are, and didn't see your real name was there. Now that I was prompted to look, I see and oops. I also embrace my inner geek, BTW. Very cute little slogan.

Thanks for the picture post, you posted it while I was typing this, so I'm just editing it in. And even old farty ME doesn't consider desktop wallpaper pictures bling. Although I do recognize that in extreme cases of low resources, they can be omitted to same just a little more RAM.

Anybody want to make that Tux hugging the Puppy wallpaper? That's "bling" I'd LOVE to include in future Puppy releases, preferably as the default wallpaper.

[panzerpuppy]

@SilverPuppy:

You should try Turbopup:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=318898

Even though it's an alpha release, it's extremely stable and much lighter than the no-bling version of 4.2.1. It's even faster than the original 4.0 series.

Try it,you'll love it

Coming Soon: Turbopup Beta 1 (a huge update)

[SilverPuppy]

Wow, that looks so cool! I'd love a single-digit idle RAM usage Puppy! I'll be sure to check it out. Thanks for the tip!