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#76 Post by starhawk »

"slightly altered zipfiles" -- like how a dotPET is basically a *.tar.gz with an MD5Sum attached to it somehow?

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#77 Post by Colonel Panic »

starhawk wrote:"slightly altered zipfiles" -- like how a dotPET is basically a *.tar.gz with an MD5Sum attached to it somehow?
Maybe, but that didn't work for me when I renamed a dotpup (torsmo) and tried to extract from it, so I don't know the answer.
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#78 Post by cypher51 »

My favorite is 4.1.2 barebones which I am currently building into the OS that I can really use. It's very stable, easy to work with, and runs great on older hardware.

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#79 Post by Blackfish »

I like all of them for various reasons, but the Puppy I love most is LxPup-Precise-Retro 14.02. It works perfectly with both my laptops. No complaints. No issues. Now, how can you beat that?

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#80 Post by davea4570xr »

I enjoy Macpup. It's absolutely gorgeous and seems stable on my Dell D620.

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#81 Post by 8Geee »

As far as an "EEE-xperience" is concerned slacko-5.5XL is a modernized version of the EEE-OS w/o the Xandros. Office, Flash Java, all the good bulky things :P / is about 2.2Gb

For lean and net-worthy slack57-ff23 with unnecessary video drivers removed / is about 450Mb. No Office, no flash, no Java, youtube on HTML5.

Both run OK on a 700 series eee and much better on the Atom-based eee's.

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#82 Post by nic007 »

cypher51 wrote:My favorite is 4.1.2 barebones which I am currently building into the OS that I can really use. It's very stable, easy to work with, and runs great on older hardware.
Good choice. Been using my customized version now for a long time. Have older WINE and older Java built in. Base SFS is 100MB. Try and beat that.

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#83 Post by slavvo67 »

Whenever I experience roadblocks with a distro, I always seem to revert back to the old 3 Headed Dog or 5.28. Puppy has come a long way since then but there are still many things to like about this distro. I don't use it that often, anymore but it's still ranks up there as an ongoing favorite.

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#84 Post by Mr. Hughes »

I have to agree with Eyes-Only, puppy 4.2.1 was simply the best. I've been using puppy since 2009 and started with 4.1.2 which I liked alot. Then moved to 4.2.1 the day it was released. I used 4.2.1 up until a couple days ago because I couldn't get my new sound card to work.

Now i'm using precise 5.7.1 and although it isn't as pretty as 4.2.1 its very reliable and i'm really liking it. I'll probably use precise for years to come just like I did 4.2.1.
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#85 Post by battleshooter »

My vote to Carolina. It seems to be the easiest Puppy I've compiled on, and I dig its easy to adjust eye candy. Don't think I could ever go back to rox/JWM or even rox/icewm... and I used to love Icewm :(

Another great thing I didn't count on when I made it the standard to install on other people's computers, is that it's easier for them to change whatever they need to because it's all clearly labeled in the Control Panel.

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#86 Post by nic007 »

battleshooter wrote:My vote to Carolina. It seems to be the easiest Puppy I've compiled on, and I dig its easy to adjust eye candy. Don't think I could ever go back to rox/JWM or even rox/icewm... and I used to love Icewm :(

Another great thing I didn't count on when I made it the standard to install on other people's computers, is that it's easier for them to change whatever they need to because it's all clearly labeled in the Control Panel.

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Which windows manager does Carolina use? Looks a lot like the windows xp embedded theme on my windows computer.

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#87 Post by Moat »

nic007 wrote:Which windows manager does Carolina use?
Xfce4. Quite light, responsive and gorgeous when tweaked with the excellent tools that come provided.

If you (or anybody reading this, for that matter) haven't given Carolina a try, do yourself a favor! :) Agreed with battleshooter - Carolina is outstanding. My go-to Pup when I just want to get on with computing instead of fiddling.

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#88 Post by nic007 »

Moat wrote:
nic007 wrote:Which windows manager does Carolina use?
Xfce4. Quite light, responsive and gorgeous when tweaked with the excellent tools that come provided.

If you (or anybody reading this, for that matter) haven't given Carolina a try, do yourself a favor! :) Agreed with battleshooter - Carolina is outstanding. My go-to Pup when I just want to get on with computing instead of fiddling.

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I'll probably be more interested in the lite version. Where can I download Carolite or whatever they call it? Or maybe a puplet with that windows manager based on an older puppy like the 4 series.
Edit - I see Nearly Office Pup (NOP) also uses Xfce. MMM, some delving and testing to do.

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#89 Post by Moat »

nic007 wrote: Where can I download Carolite or whatever they call it?
Here ya go - http://smokey01.com/carolina/isos/non-pae/

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#90 Post by starhawk »

Also take a look at X-Slacko, in the Derivatives section.

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#91 Post by Moat »

Yes - good idea! Downloading rg66's just-released X-Slacko 2.2 as I type... http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=88846

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#92 Post by battleshooter »

nic007 wrote:Which windows manager does Carolina use? Looks a lot like the windows xp embedded theme on my windows computer.
As Moat said, XFCE. The XFWM theme (window manager) theme is Numix in case you were wondering.

I'm curious though as to what theme you're referring to because Numix looks nothing like the Windows XP Embedded theme:

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[url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94580]LMMS 1.0.2[/url], [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94593]Ardour 3.5.389[/url], [url=http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=94629]Kdenlive 0.9.8[/url]

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#93 Post by Illutorium »

FatDog64/Slacko64 with a Newest Kernel [Now Slacko64 is has a Very old kernel... 3.12 instead 3.13 as Alpha and glibc 2.15 - When FatDog has a Newest: 3.16 and glibc 2.19) - 64bit
Puppy LTS for Newest/Retro. (Favorite Category,32bit)

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#94 Post by nic007 »

battleshooter wrote:
nic007 wrote:Which windows manager does Carolina use? Looks a lot like the windows xp embedded theme on my windows computer.
As Moat said, XFCE. The XFWM theme (window manager) theme is Numix in case you were wondering.

I'm curious though as to what theme you're referring to because Numix looks nothing like the Windows XP Embedded theme:

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The working window looks quite alike to me. BTW, are there other icons available for XFCE? Those in your pic looks a bit crappy to me (is it the default). :cry:

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#95 Post by battleshooter »

nic007 wrote: BTW, are there other icons available for XFCE? Those in your pic looks a bit crappy to me (is it the default).
Nope it's not default, I picked those icons myself because I like them :lol:

The default icon theme is Faenza, I'm sure you've seen them before:

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Anyway, installing icons in XFCE is a breeze. Just put them in /usr/share/icons and select the theme in Control Panel -> Appearances.

The icons in the menu are controlled like any Puppy, with Desktop Icon Switcher. (Also in Control Panel.)
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