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Posted: **Thu 21 Mar 2013, 16:55**

4.3.1, 5.2.5, I am currently favoring Precise Puppy
Cheers

Posted: **Thu 21 Mar 2013, 18:02**

Currently most used Wary 5.2. But I change my mind a lot....

Posted: **Thu 21 Mar 2013, 19:01**

I really like Lupu 528-005, but am looking at other Pups because I despise ROX. Hate ROX. Can't stand Rox.

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 01:16**

Eyes-Only wrote:Truly ICPUG!... Jejy69 is a veritable genius when it comes to putting a puplet together! I believe that if he'd continue to hang in there - and if someone with a vast, solid, well-grounded knowledge of Linux in general and Puppy in specific really took him under their wing as their apprentice, then we'd have another MU, or WhoDo, rerwin, or possibly even the Master himself - BarryK! - running around this forum. I dare say Jejy69's brilliance is this good.

ATM I've been using his LXpup-13.01-FULL. This has the complete LXDE desktop as well as XFCE-4.10, along with Mate-1.4.2 ( I'm a bit cloudy as to Mate's version number... sorry. ) I don't think I've enjoyed a Puplet as much as I have this one! It has kept me playing around literally for hours on this machine! I have truly longed for such a computer for years - and now I finally have one!

He also makes a far smaller variety which I believe is named LXpup-13.01 weighing in at 189megs and has all of Puppy's regular software plus the full LXDE desktop environment. What a beauty!

Once again I'm rambling on. This is what I get for only sleeping a few hours at night. LOL!!

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

I came to Puppy just a short while before 4.2 and agree with you about 4.2.1, I loved it. I had a full install on my laptop I had at the time.

I am currently using LXpup-13.01-FULL (MATE)..it's a fantastic derivative.

I absolutely agree with your comments regarding Jejy69, he will only become more brilliant as his knowledge increases.

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 08:51**

I like racy 5.5, it's fast and it doesn't have those huge (cra*) files : icu and llvm (bloat...). Now the remaining bloat is seamonkey but dillo is not ready yet. Another bloat is flashplayer. Another bloat is abiword, but no smaller replacement to write doc and rtf.

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 11:26**

Still keep going back to Luci 529. One reason, look at these two screenies of The Jack. One looks "blockier" on most distros I have tried, the "smoother" one is the Luci 529. Same version of Jack, same snapshot parameters.
I use Xorghigh on 529 and Mesa on most of the rest, maybe it is the typeface or something.
But that three headed dog is magic..in lots of ways.

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 15:06**

Posted: **Fri 22 Mar 2013, 20:45**

Well it should be on by default, looks miles better.
EDIT: Thanks for info above simargl.
On with the thread.

Posted: **Thu 18 Apr 2013, 16:25**

Slacko 5.3.3 fails increasing my storage file
Slacko 5.5 is too new to know if bugs inside, and repository not yer explored.
Slacko is safe.
But what about Legacy os mini 4 ? (based on Puppy 421, isn'nt it a little bit too old ? )
Lucid, precise, reserve, can we really use the huge reposiries depandancies. Please make pets, Prepare the job for us. I cannot choose which dependancies i need or not, so i keep all of them and.... the thing does not work (Orca).

Suite office : well, but with a computer, we do other things, like improving our videos, and there, the offer is old and poor and sad...

The spirit has changed, people surf on the cloud.

Posted: **Wed 17 Jul 2013, 21:20**

most liked from the beginning and on :

0.8.6
2.17
3.01
4.3.1
wary 5.3 and on

most favourite : 4.3.1 ( gxine was 10 years ahead )

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 02:32**

I have used a lot of live puppys for many years, but Debian-based dpup_484beta4 and dpup_485 were favourites for a long time, until Debian cancelled support for 'Lenny', but forgot to move it into their archive repo for a long time. I still use them, though.

My recent favourite is the mighty LupuPlus 5.2.8.005-1. It is definitely the most versatile puppy I know of, it runs on all my old PCs, and it is very complete out of the box, yet easy to upgrade if necessary.

tallboy

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 19:09**

Since this thread is still running, I'm currently using 5.28.005 and 5.25 Retro (on a really old machine).

I thought that 4.31 was pretty darn solid, but it seemed to exhibit a higher hardware load than 4.11/12 that I had previously run (the Retro of this worked well on the old machine that is currently running 5.25 Retro).

I have considered rolling all of my machines back to 5.25 Retro, simply because it shows a lower memory load than 5.28 (and I think that 5.28 shows a lower memory load than 4.31 did).

I do need to get ttuuxxx's 2.14 and try it on my old dog of a machine...

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 19:12**

hey retro

I have uploaded the 214x series to the puppy channel on archive.org

http://archive.org/details/ttuuxxxx_214X

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 19:31**

RetroTechGuy wrote:Since this thread is still running, I'm currently using 5.28.005 and 5.25 Retro (on a really old machine).

I thought that 4.31 was pretty darn solid, but it seemed to exhibit a higher hardware load than 4.11/12 that I had previously run (the Retro of this worked well on the old machine that is currently running 5.25 Retro).

I have considered rolling all of my machines back to 5.25 Retro, simply because it shows a lower memory load than 5.28 (and I think that 5.28 shows a lower memory load than 4.31 did).

I do need to get ttuuxxx's 2.14 and try it on my old dog of a machine...

Glad to hear that someone else is still running Lucid Retro....... I run it daily on my older hardware. Seems to have much lower resource usage (your results may vary) than the newer releases.
For the curious.....
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 627#521627

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 19:33**

Forum error.AKA ...double post.

Posted: **Thu 18 Jul 2013, 19:39**

James C wrote:
RetroTechGuy wrote:Since this thread is still running, I'm currently using 5.28.005 and 5.25 Retro (on a really old machine).

I thought that 4.31 was pretty darn solid, but it seemed to exhibit a higher hardware load than 4.11/12 that I had previously run (the Retro of this worked well on the old machine that is currently running 5.25 Retro).

I have considered rolling all of my machines back to 5.25 Retro, simply because it shows a lower memory load than 5.28 (and I think that 5.28 shows a lower memory load than 4.31 did).

I do need to get ttuuxxx's 2.14 and try it on my old dog of a machine...

Glad to hear that someone else is still running Lucid Retro....... I run it daily on my older hardware. Seems to have much lower resource usage (your results may vary) than the newer releases.
For the curious.....
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 627#521627

Thanks James!

I had misplaced my link to the Retro 5.25!

My observation is that if you don't allow Puppy to load the .sfs to RAM, that Lupu burns about 150MB, and Retro burns about 65MB. (on old memory limited machines, loading to RAM doesn't help them run faster...)

That 65MB is lower than 4.31, 4.21 and I think lower than 4.11/12 Retro was for memory load.

Edit: I should try some performance tests of these versus Win98 (which was the installed system on my old laptop). I would like to see Puppy function as well at Win98 on these old machines (Win98 works OK on a machine with 128MB RAM, and pretty well on a machine with 256MB RAM)

Posted: **Sun 21 Jul 2013, 02:56**

RetroTechGuy wrote:

I do need to get ttuuxxx's 2.14 and try it on my old dog of a machine...

When he builds 2.14x, ttuuxxx uses the current Firefox, which is a bit heavy for P2-era hardware.
(Assuming you're referring to the 333, right?)

So you might want to try this as an alternate browser.
(And don't forget this.)

Note: I haven't tried it with 2.14x, but it runs fine as-is with 3.01, which has much-older libs...

Posted: **Sun 21 Jul 2013, 04:31**

Dewbie wrote:RetroTechGuy wrote:
I do need to get ttuuxxx's 2.14 and try it on my old dog of a machine...

When he builds 2.14x, ttuuxxx uses the current Firefox, which is a bit heavy for P2-era hardware.
(Assuming you're referring to the 333, right?)

So you might want to try this as an alternate browser.
(And don't forget this.)

Note: I haven't tried it with 2.14x, but it runs fine as-is with 3.01, which has much-older libs...

Thanks Dewbie.

The old 333 machine is mostly just a test bed -- I have enough more powerful machines, that I don't do very much with it...

Posted: **Fri 16 Aug 2013, 10:04**

Puppy Linux 301 is becomming a favourite nice and light and with newer jwm runs well on my box. Puppy Linux 4.12 is also a favourite of mine.

Also like the earlier Dpups and Lucid 525 retro. By the way Dewby that Slimboat Pet is rather nice.

Firehydrant is now my favourite Puppy - very nice.

Posted: **Sun 18 Aug 2013, 04:13**

Wary Puppy 5.3 is my favourite --especially for my 1999 Pentium lll. It has a lot of important fixes, updates, add-ons, and customizations that continue to make it a relevant version for those who are wanting good value from an old system that otherwise might end up in the recycle depot, (or worse) the landfill.

I continue to see new users coming to the Community asking for help with Wary 5.3 and I predict it is destined to become a classic Puppy.

Just saying...
Monsie

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