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Hi taersh, Thanks, again, for the new PaDS. :thumbup: I'll try it out as soon as I can think of something I want to build. :) Just a thought: :idea: PaDS, itself, is a script and consequently 'no-arch'. It doesn't matter what binaries were used to woof a Puppy, nor whether that Puppy is 32 or 64 bit...

Welcome to the Forum. :thumbup: Stop before you make a mess. :) I/We don't know what you are reading as you haven't provided links to the websites you read. But the easiest way to put a Puppy on a USB-Key from Windows is rufus. https://rufus.ie/ . Download and run it (install optional as there's a p...

InfoCentral is an Object-Oriented relational database manager, with builtin note-taking, calendar and idex-card functions. It only runs under wine or wine-portable. Ages ago, I published and discussed versions, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=405975&sid=db2a5d739ab4a24ef5587e0db...

Hi All, The attached version was constructed to run under Bionicpup64. I don't know if it will function under other Puppies. However, it shouldn't be difficult to construct versions for other Puppies even though it involves python. Well, at least I didn't encounter my usual. :lol: From time to time ...

Hi, gjuhasz, This is just a suggestion based on my previous posts. As often is the case with my posts, they were data-packed. Consequently, it is easy to overlook what may be the most important point. I don't know how complicated it would be to implement. My thought was that those most likely to dis...

Is there a devx file available anywhere? I'd like to build a package from source...Thank you I wasn't sure about fossa64, but often you'll find a Puppy's devx and other files --including many applications which weren't 'builtin'-- on the same repository from which the ISO is obtained. Sometimes the...

Is there a 64bit version of Dpup Stretch? Hi greengeek, I didn't think so. But I checked and couldn't find a 64-bit dpup-stretch by either radky or jose2424. Is there any reason for a "stretch" rather than one of the many flavors of jose2424's 64-bit DpupBuster, https://forum.puppylinux.c...

Edit: Unfortunately, this thread was started in response to a specific question --sort of in the middle of a discussion. The "How to and Advice on Using VPN with Puppy Linux the first time" thread https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=4736 provides really good information about sett...

Hi 666philb, One of the 'thanks' you got was from me. I really like Fossapup64. Very fast and responsive. :thumbup: But I've stumble on a couple of 'bugs'. :( One's just an annoyance, probably of no significance, I can live with if I have to. I installed lxterminal. When I open it, I'm greeted with:...

Hi gjuhasz,

Yes, solved the problem. Thanks.

IIRC, jamesbond was able to boot dpup-stretch to desktop using only 68 Mbs RAM, employing a 256 Mb Swap and the boot argument "no-copy". On a Asus 701SD with only 418 Mbs RAM and a 377 Mb Swap, I was able to boot a slightly stripped BusterPup 32-bit to desktop using only 88 Mbs of RAM with...

Thanks for the explanation, williams2. As I mentioned I was going to in my prior post I booted into Windows and installed puli7.3 to a USB-Key using LinuxLive USBCreator. That worked as puli booted to desktop on my Laptop. Unfortunately, the kernel (and drivers) it has did not have among them any wh...

Hi gjuhasz, I am interested in trying puli-7.3_April2020 (not the iskola version) which I downloaded from https://sourceforge.net/projects/puppyszoftver/files/Puli/Puli-64bit/Puli-7.3_Apr2020/ . Rather than booting into Windows, I was hoping that frugalpup, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic...

Hi vtpup, Don't try to install it. Rather, download cinelerra-5.1-ub18.04-20200831.x86_64.txz from here, https://cinelerra-gg.org/download/tars/ . Note this is not the version with static in its name. UExtract the txz. (Optionally rename the extraction folder to something simpler like cinelerra-5.1....

Sorry maoo, reading computerese is not among my strong suites. However, maybe this may help. How did you do the remaster? I find the builtin remaster confusing. Below I’ll discuss three alternatives to the “remaster” built into Puppies: two remaster alternative’s and nic007’s Save2sfs. If you use AN...

Hi 666philb, Fossapup64 is developing very nicely. Thanks for your continuing efforts. :thumbup: This is not the most crucial problem. If it remains unsolved I can live with it. But when you've battened down all the important hatches maybe look into it. As I regularly run several Puppies, and try ou...

The title and point of my post was "The Futility of Stripping" not the Futility of maintaining old computers. The Asus 701sd which served as my test vehicle had 418 Mbs. of RAM. It was the amount of RAM, not the age of the computer which limited its ability to handle RAM demanding Web-page...

... Only those files/programs needed/called will be decompressed then. And only for so long they are needed. When you don't need the devx you can unload it. An unloaded SFS requires no RAM. Fundamentally, the design of Puppies is a Frugal install with SFSes you load and unload: reducing RAM usage, ...

Before you panic, I don’t really consider it a “cli” since the ‘help’ command presents arguments so that I don’t have to memorize them. Just open a 2nd terminal so that you can read the argument format in one while entering/editing them to your needs in the other. :D Maybe cut & paste will also ...

Yes. As others have posted, you should have done a frugal install. Frugal only means it 'frugally' uses your partitions, allowing your Puppy --or several Puppies-- to share the partition being used by some other operating system. It includes all the applications you get with a 'full install' but doe...

Hello maoo, welcome to the kennels. :) Reading your post, several things come to mind. The first is that you should read, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=816#p816 . "old pc" doesn't give us enough information to provide help. "bionicpup32": bionicpup -- by this time ...

Hello Sky Aisling, Why do you want to use Adobe Acrobat Reader DC ? What functions does it support that you can't obtain under either foxitreader or especially masterpdfeditor? As bigpup noted it is important to tell us which Puppy you are using (even if you've done that before. We have short memori...

Now that he's mentioned it, I kind of agree with dogFellow. The image is distinctive, but it looks kind of sad and dependent. The transparent original smokey1 suggests is cheerful and confident. [Maybe the times we live in is getting to us. Artists often recognize reality long before analysts find t...

Mike Walsh " I wasn't about to give the OP advice toward something I have no experience of.....that's the worst kind of advice." But it can be the most fun. ;) Or at least the source of a good story. A life-time ago I had 'political connections' and so a summer job working for the County R...

Hi vtpup, "amazed to see a couple listed there for $350! Heck, I bought mine NEW for $275 retail eight years ago." They don't make them like they used to. Heck, they just don't make them. :roll: You've just stumbled upon an instance of the rule of "Supply and Demand". The 1927 Mo...

Ive been using 32 bit Buster on my 64 bit Dell for a couple weeks. I just downloaded the wrong ISO but it is very nice. Any reason to go 64 bit ? This laptop is way over built for Puppy but I got it cheap and I like fast computing . Emphasis supplied. No rush. But it's getting harder to find 'mains...

Although this resulted in an ISO you can download and use, the purpose of this project was to examine the ramification of stripping a Puppy of applications, primarily to answer the question of whether the gain in available Random Access Memory on boot-up is worth the effort required to remove the ap...

Hi NightKnight2, I think you're referring to woodenshoe's recent modifications to rox-filer. IIRC, newer woof-builds automatically use the modified version which is why newer Puppies have copy/cut & paste. MochiMoppel's technique will work, But it requires that you have a Puppy with the newer ve...

Hi All, I also like Seamonkey. Just prefer running web-browsers as portables from /mnt/home where they don't occupy my SaveFile and don't locate profiles and especially tons of cache in /root which takes up RAM. fredx181 figured out how and has automated it for firefox. But, I'm not that clever. So ...

greengeek, " What method do you use to copy all text that is on and offscreen within lxterm?". Written b4scoc (before second cup o coffee): Basically, I select text the same way as when using text editors/word-processors: Hold down Left-mouse while dragging it over the desired text. That s...