PRER 5.5.3

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#16 Post by musher0 »

Hi.

The general idea is: the more RAM you have, the better.

That having been said, Linuxes (not just Puppy Linux) usually have a
permanent swap partition of +/- 2.5 Gb on the hard disk that "absorbs"
what cannot go in RAM.

If your system doesn't have such a swap partition, AND it does not have
enough RAM, Puppy creates a small swap file of 256 Mb's during its
launch process as a stop-gap.

Now please be aware that any system working from a swap file is sluggish
compared to one running entirely from RAM.

BFN.

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#18 Post by ally »


Pelo

it's not so big with a fully and large menu

#19 Post by Pelo »

A mi me gusta Racy, and it's not so big with a fully and large menu. I download it. FYI a barebone version is available on French forum. ROLX is its name.
Saluki is based on Racy 5.2.2.
I hold a dozen of Puplets from Lucid remasterised with Racy 5.3.
Viva Racy. :) Vive Racy ! :D

Toutou ROLX 55 here in french forum (natively english speaking, just delete french set up in ISO)

Pelo

ISO loaded xorgwizard fails

#20 Post by Pelo »

ISO loaded xorgwizard fails xorg, i run vesa.
I had this problem with all Racy 5.5, not with 5.3.
I check the menu, if everything promised is here.
Browsing with Seamonkey now, Opera runs oo, opera is slower responding, but the browser is not my interest. I pretend to be an artist, graphics and movies are my cup of tea. I'll explore that.
Retrovol, Avidemux and Xvidcap included,hum... that would feed my needs. :) Thanks for having taken in account users needs..
pupsaveconfig-2.2.2.pet: 66 K added. If my first steps get wrong Racy will ask me if I want to save my session at shutdown, pupsaveconfig is a security belt. Always fastened.
Abiword is the 2.8.6 version, the last stable. Clever ! People using Puppy for large typing works will load Libre Office, the huge tool for typists (confirmed). Me, I play Puppy, for entertainment only. sometimes for serious activity, once a month. Racy means Racehorse no an horse trailing burdens heavier than him
AcetoneISO : ???? really a new one.
Skype is really a new tool for me, i study how Puppy users experienced this famous tool here
A workable way to install skype 4.3 in puppy
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#21 Post by dancytron »

8139david wrote:Thanks.
I'm not very familiar with puppies.
When more apps are added to a puppy, such as this one, are all the apps loaded at once into the ram?
So that one needs a machine with more ram to run it efficiently?
It depends. If running from a hard drive, then no unless you specifically set it up so that it does.

If running from a CD or USB, then probably.

See http://puppylinux.com/development/howpuppyworks.html

You should post in the beginner section with the specs of your computer and someone will help you figure out the best setup.

Pelo

Multimedia : Acetone unknown on the Puppy Forum

#22 Post by Pelo »

brand new app in Puppy : Acetone !
Plays DVD isos. Checking.
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Re: Multimedia : Acetone unknown on the Puppy Forum

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Pelo

i will try the last version later.

#24 Post by Pelo »

so i would not be playing the last PRER ... Damn it !
Too bad so i am wrong ; i will try the last version later.
The main issue i met is that PRER does not run Xorg. The kernel 3.0.66 is the cause.
Franckly that is not penalizing.
Skype : i decided to try it at last. Checking the forum.
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#25 Post by musher0 »

Great distro! The man has a talent for designing a desktop! Beautiful!

Only problem: ldd --version says: glibc 2.10...

That means very few new apps will run on it...

Any way you can up it up, even if that means dropping the 5.5 base? Just a thought.

BFN.

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#26 Post by ninotix »

Musher0

Distro is using libc6 2.11.1, even do ldd (usr/bin/ldd) reports it as 2.10.1, i didn't need to update ldd in this case

I'm glad you like look and feel of distro, props to the maker of the openboxplus 1.6.2 package, ofc. i did some modifications here and there

For now i don't have any plans to respin or to woof build some other puppy derivate, because there are so many out there, if you like all new and shiny racy base, Carolina is way to go (y)

Intention of this distro is to have polished and oobe feature rich distro for older computers

Pelo

About glibc, is it possible to update them ?

#27 Post by Pelo »

About glibc, is it possible to update them ?
Often I had to rename links libavcodec libavformat to a different dash in several puppies. Any idea about that, is there something common with GNU LIB ?

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LibertineBOX 5.7.4.1

#28 Post by ninotix »

Here is similar build to prer, but this one is build on top of Precise 5.7.2 with 3.9.11 pae kernel

edit 18.07.2019 updated iso

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gljvxf ... sp=sharing

Size of the iso is 343mb (359426048 bytes)

md5: d97d69d29e5c647bae22740c7dd92491

Openbox/lxpanel as default desktop, most of important security and app updates included
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#30 Post by ninotix »

Amazing (y) thx Ally

Pelo

its too big ! Open office ?

#31 Post by Pelo »

its too big ! Open office ? It will be unable to run my laptop Acer with 512MB RAM with only one processor. The interest of Racy was to be around 130MB id 450MB in Ram..
Would you choose an anonymous Puppy ? , please list contents..
Sorry, contents are listed in the first post, i beg your pardon :)
About wine and Windows and old computers :
Would you use Wine if your computer was bought with Windows included ?
Qt and Java included are not a bad idea, Wine can be discussed. And two browsers
A nice idea would have been to deliver PRER with QT and java Apps included, that would have changed the usual menu of Puppies
There are so many puppies ... each one must have something to be elected.. :roll:

However PRER 5.5.2 being downloaded ( i use my Medion 4GB Ram most of the time)

learnhow2code

Re: its too big ! Open office ?

#32 Post by learnhow2code »

Pelo wrote:Would you use Wine if your computer was bought with Windows included ?
i would. when i was transitioning from windows, i switched out any windows software that wouldnt also run in wine. had to use wine to find out what programs were easily wine compatible.

also, wine is more likely to be secure than windows (but not always by much) and more trouble than windows (but not always) but it definitely does less to bother you, doesnt phone home to microsoft, and doesnt try to downgrade you to 10.

Pelo

No discussion about Wine, it was only an opinion.

#33 Post by Pelo »

No discussion about Wine, it was only an opinion.
(i always install Puppy as Frugal, and keep Windows system alive)
Tested with photofiltre
Thunar 1.0.2 (standalone version)
- Wine 1.4.1 + winemenu
- Parcelite(autostarted)
- Virtual Magnifying Glass
- Flash 11.2.202.327
- Java7 u45
- Updated Seamonkey 2.23
- Opera 12.16
- Skype 4.2.0.11
- Gimp 2.6.8
- Audacity 1.3.12(replacement for mhwaveedit)
- Gtk Youtube Viewer 3.0.2
- LxTerminal
- LxTask manager
- Avidemux Video Editor 2.5.3
- Guvcview 1.5.0
- Xvidcap 1.1.7
- AcetoneIso
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Free Office (Softmaker) is part of PRER 5.5.2 !

#34 Post by Pelo »

Free Office (Softmaker) is part of PRER 5.5.2 ! for people working with their Puppy at home. But Java is missing . I would have prefered Java JRE to play some pleasure applications..
I use windows 7 for (rare) offfice work . And Abiword for light text in Puppy.
I Delete free office immediately ( i have escaped from my office work since trhree years now :!: )
I can use Wine, for urgent needs.

Pelo

Gtk Youtube Viewer 3.0.2 cannot find any video. Strange

#35 Post by Pelo »

Gtk Youtube Viewer 3.0.2 cannot find any video. Strange
Racy users : no feed back since a long time...I feel alone here.
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