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Manjaro 0.8.8 would not boot on my Dell Dimension 3100. First it failed to install the sound card (driver), then couldn't do Network, then the Logon daemon failed, and things went downhill from there. I guess I'll wait until Manjaro gets out of beta.

Moved away from Debian Testing for a while to Stable...Wheezy. No eyecandy yet.....

Bike Tuner Laptop running Mint Mate 64bit. Runs Windows 7 also.

stu91 wrote:Switched from Bodhi to Crunchbang for my full HDD install - going to try and leave it be and just use it as my main OS over the Christmas period.

Well the no tinkering rule didn't last so long had to swap pulseaudio for alsa - the only thing i seem to read of pulseaudio is people having issues with it, makes you wonder how it is a default in many distros

stu91 wrote:

stu91 wrote:Switched from Bodhi to Crunchbang for my full HDD install - going to try and leave it be and just use it as my main OS over the Christmas period.

Well the no tinkering rule didn't last so long had to swap pulseaudio for alsa - the only thing i seem to read of pulseaudio is people having issues with it, makes you wonder how it is a default in many distros

I agree totally. If I install a new distro and the sound is rubbish, there's a good chance PulseAudio is installed by default.

What a strange distribution Simplicity Linux is.....

For their latest offering - 14.1Beta - they have jumped ship again and are using Slacko5.6 as their base + LxPup-by-SFS (an old version) + various bits from XFCE.

You would think that their users would get very confused by their repeated changes of direction.....

The worry is that quite a lot of people are downloading Simplicity and maybe read that it is a Puppy derivative without understanding that the Simplicity team seem to make no contribution or acknowledgement to the Puppy community.

I guess we should be pleased that they are able to use so many Puppy components without apparently finding any problems during their extensive testing.....

All the best
peebee

Porteus v3.0-rc1 is out

http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=35&t=2953

Based on Slackware14.1 with k3.12.4 so pretty "up-to-date"

I downloaded the LXDE version. Seems to run fine. Openbox3.5.2 and PcManFM1.1.2

The Broadcom WL driver seems to be a new version:
eth1: Broadcom BCM4312 802.11 Hybrid Wireless Controller 6.30.223.141

so this will need investigation.....wifi connection on my HP550 laptop worked OTB.

FirefoxESR24 included.

Cheers
peebee

If Puppy had not existed then most likely
I would have made use ofPorteus or latest Slax
or maybe Knoppix? But their forum Moderator
seems to not like my too naive style. So
Porteus most likely.

I find at the moment I'm using other distros a lot less than I am Puppy, not least because Puppy is the one distro which makes my seven year old computer feel something like a new machine (and I don't really want to upgrade if I don't have to).

Colonel Panic wrote:I find at the moment I'm using other distros a lot less than I am Puppy, not least because Puppy is the one distro which makes my seven year old computer feel something like a new machine (and I don't really want to upgrade if I don't have to).

You should give Manjaro a spin

Dean did you do a full install of a frugal install.

Was it on the original NTFS or did you create
a separate partition?

what boot code did you use for grub4dos

Here I am testing Centrych that latest DistroWatch writes about .
http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue ... 23#feature

Centrych OS is an Ubuntu-based project which is developed with the philosophy
that the best solution is a middle ground between two contending views.

I made a frugal boot but are not good at explaining how I did it.
I will try to find the code on the HD but maybe I have to reboot
into puppy for to do it. I am not used to this xfce that mimic KDE style.

The HD is named Isodevice so it was easier than what I thought.

title centrych
root (hd0,0) /centrych-desktop_12.iso
kernel /centrych/casper/vmlinuz boot=casper iso-scan/filename=/centrych-desktop_12.iso
initrd /centrych/casper/initrd.lz

I had to rename the iso file as above and place it in home

I have not really tested it just told Firefox 25 to run and logged in to Puppy forum.

It is a frugal live so you have to figure out how to do persistence.
I even fail to remember how to tell it to do Swedish keyboard.

set xkbdmap se maybe

This time I tested the xfce version.
Not sure what I was in first time.

This is the code that I used this time The xcentrych tell the boot to go into the Xfce
so what was I in when I first booted

It is a bit slow due to how big it is and it is not run in RAM
But not so slow that one don\t want to use it as a live.
What it lack is an easy way for a noob to get how to make changes persistent.

nooby wrote:Dean did you do a full install of a frugal install.

Was it on the original NTFS or did you create
a separate partition?

what boot code did you use for grub4dos

I did a full install via a live DVD.

Dean wrote:

Colonel Panic wrote:I find at the moment I'm using other distros a lot less than I am Puppy, not least because Puppy is the one distro which makes my seven year old computer feel something like a new machine (and I don't really want to upgrade if I don't have to).

You should give Manjaro a spin

Thanks for the suggestion. I have tried Manjaro in the past and thought it was a good distro but it seems there are problems with the GRUB configuration at the moment.

Colonel Panic my memory fails me
but maybe what rcrsn51 suggested to
test iso with his isoboot? You would get
a good picture of how Manjaro acts and
the programs it has and how you feel for them.

Almost every iso boot with his USB codes.

I have use his isobooter for Linuxmint Chrunchbang
Solus amd SoLud linux and Zorin
and many more and it almost always work.
Maybe one iso out of 50 fail and that could be me
not getting it. Very easy set up. Use link in my signature
to find his thread here on the forum. It will be live
and you can save music and pictures but not
the personal settings.like timezone or keyboard

nooby wrote:Colonel Panic my memory fails me
but maybe what rcrsn51 suggested to
test iso with his isoboot? You would get
a good picture of how Manjaro acts and
the programs it has and how you feel for them.

Almost every iso boot with his USB codes.

I have use his isobooter for Linuxmint Chrunchbang
Solus amd SoLud linux and Zorin
and many more and it almost always work.
Maybe one iso out of 50 fail and that could be me
not getting it. Very easy set up. Use link in my signature
to find his thread here on the forum. It will be live
and you can save music and pictures but not
the personal settings.like timezone or keyboard

Thanks for your advice nooby, but as I said on a different thread recently, we're spoilt for choice with Linux distros (including Puppy of course) at the moment. So the question remains - why bother with all that when there are plenty of good distros (including Puppies) which configure the boot leader perfectly well?

I'm so noob that I don't what a " boot leader " is

which configure the boot leader perfectly well?

nooby wrote:I'm so noob that I don't what a " boot leader " is

which configure the boot leader perfectly well?

Should of course have been "boot loader." The spell checker in Firefox only picks up misspelled words; it doesn't pick up words which are spelled correctly but are used where another one is meant.

Oops sorry that I did not have the imagination to get that spelling error.

Sine last post I have tried to frugal boot OpenSUSE
but get the error that it fail to find the MBR file it need.

How can one satisfy that need?

I use this grub4dos code. would it load if I delete the showopts if that is related to MBR?
I have Ms Vista so it make use of NST for to put some kind of
bootloader on it. Vista is kind ofdifferent so such was needed and
maybe that explain why it does not boot???

Any friendly suggestion how to get it t boot