Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

v2 released - has newer Debian config kernel, newer Firefox & smaller but updated firmware. See 1st post

Fossa might wind up here, where Xenial & Bionic are: https://mirror.linux.org.au/ubuntu-rele ... buntu.com.

v2k released. Kernel 6.6.67. Faster than previous, but may not suit very new pcs.

v2n released. Kernel 6.10.12. not as fast, but better suited to very new pcs.

See 1st post.

@pp4mnklinux - many ubuntu derivative kernels should work. You could try this one:
viewtopic.php?p=140098#p140098

A one-off release. 216mb (has Palemoon). See 1st post. Note: other discussion in this thread not applicable.

For occasional document viewing online in a browser, the following site seems good. They say they don't keep copies. Max size 25mb.
https://onlinedocumentviewer.com/viewer/

@greengeek - check your pm's - testing mega.nz
My isos get downloaded a lot - mediafire may not be entirely happy with that.

Now seems these bad commits only affected 6.6.72, so 6.6.71 & earlier seem ok.
I have found more issues with 6.6.73 & 6.6.74 - drive names seem to vary on boot (emmc drive) - is fine with 6.6.71 & earlier, so I have reinstated 6.6.71.

@bigpup - check your pm's. You are probably missing /usr/lib/firmware/rtw89/rtw8851b_fw.bin.
I've added a medium sized BookwormPup64 fdrv with that file (72mb). See forum Kernels section, firmware subsection.

@bigpup - glad that worked. Did you disable or delete kbuild sfs? Kbuild sfs is inappropriate with a new kernel, as you now need devx & sources for driver compiling.

I made a 64bit 6.6.73 2018 KIT Non-Usrmerge Aufs/Overlayfs kernel, using a modified Debian config.
This has the spectre v2 BPF fix. Also has overlayfs fix, due to some previously bad commits.

6.6 BRANCH (after 6.6.62) STILL HAS ISSUES, so withdrawn

A series of bad commits were made to the 6.6 kernel series in the last month or so. Only overlayfs is affected. As 6.6.73 fixes these, I am making that kernel now.

LATER - 6.6.73 & 6.6.74 have more problems.

@JusGellin - turning power management off is easy in a terminal. At own risk:

1. run: iwconfig (this will tell you what interface is active, i.e. wlan0)

2. (assuming wlan0) run: iwconfig wlan0 power off

See if that fixes it first.

@JusGellin - rtw-8821ce has caused me issues in the past (hanging the pc that had that wifi adaptor), so much so that I made my 6.6 & 6.1 kernels with it disabled (have 'nr' in kernel name), & instead made an out-of-tree driver pet.

@wognath - when I was having touchpad issues during big kernel changes a few months ago, I made a script tpadon to ensure touchpad on. I put it in /root/Startup & made it executable. If you have a savefile/folder, runs on boot. Might help.

@rockedge - that summary with drop-down options looks good. Hopefully that helps with permissions too (I had similar considerations with the alternate forum).

I'm posting from an updated version of ScPup32-20.06. Kernel is 5.10.218pae, browser is Palemoon 33.1.1.
With pfix=nocopy in kernel line of grub, 115mb used at first desktop.
Currently 299mb used with Palemoon running. glibc is 2.30, gcc 9.3.0.

Strangely, Firefox-ESR is least affected by glibc. 2.22 is minimum for 32bit 68.9.0 (Jun 2020, is 64mb) - should run in 1Gb ram fine. Last official 32bit Palemoon 28.9.3 (May 2020, is 39mb). Runs in Bionicpup32-8.0 (glibc 2.27) & ScPup32-20.06 (glibc 2.30).

I realised I didn't upload the devx for the 24.09 version. Is here:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/a8ooq8b9 ... 9.sfs/file