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And adding to what T'other Mike wrote about his portables, (almost?) all can be updated; some from their respective built-in update mechanisms, others via an Update Script you'll find within the extracted portable's folder. Also check-out T'other Mike's complete list of portables, https://forum.pupp...

Puppys are 'binary-compatible' with some major distro's version. That doesn't mean identical. Only that a 'snapshot' of a then current major distro's binaries and some libraries have been used in the build, and the Puppys so built will have immediate access to the repository of that version via Pupp...

Thanks bigpup for discovering it, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=118131#p118131 and Clarity for providing the link to a Youtube tutorial on how to deploy and configure it, https://youtu.be/2ITezMkbAqE . The Youtube shows that versions can be installed into Windows, Linux, Mac, Andr...

The way I built a LibreOffice SFS using PaDS (referred to in my prior post) was after the SFS was created I mounted it, copied its contents to a NAMED folder, then dir2sfs the folder. But before running dir2SFS I edited the desktop files in /opt/libreofficeX.X/share/xdg to remove the %U arguments fr...

Tippe , see my post here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=117797#p117797 . Editing the text in desktop files intended for major distros isn't something to reasonably expect in an application intended for Puppys. But Puppys do have an issue which may be addressed programmatically. S...

You'll find the %U command in LibreOffice's Desktop's files Exec=Line. Not sure what it's supposed to do, but Puppys always stumble when it's present. [Maybe U means 'User' and Puppys run as Root]. Easy fix. Just edit the Exec= line to delete it. Edit: I see that you built the LibreOffice SFS using ...

ditto what IdfbAn wrote. But I'd add not JWM OOTB. A few use p-theming, but most use radky's enhancements. Both provide the User the choice of having more than one panel and whether or not to have desktop launchers. Bookworm uses rady's. It's on the Desktop submenu and it's use very intuitive. Altho...

Redshift isn't needed. Among radky's creations is Desktop Display Control.

And I'd recommend Lazpaint as an alternative to Inkscape. https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 11#p108311. Lazpaint has run from every Puppy I've tried. It can be deployed to /opt.

Following up on bigpup's post. From the link he provided definitely read How Puppy Linux Works, then How Puppy Linux's Save Works. Also read bigpup's post here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=816#p816, especially this part: "Computer make and model or specs? CPU? Memory? Empha...

As bigpup noted with the exception of the partition from which Puppy booted, drives/partitions are not mounted on boot-up. Even that can be avoided. The reason it mounts is that the SaveFile/Folder is mounted in order to access the your changes you’ve made, installed applications, settings, customiz...

Don't know if Ventoy can handle the 'Kennels'. But now that wiak has mentioned it, KLU-Jam may be the easiest to work with. https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=79399#p79399 I'm exploring it because I'm sort-of familiar with the apt package manager. Apt is used by both Ubuntu and debian....

mikewalsh Governor posted here at my suggestion, having previously posted questions about Fossapup64 to the Bookworm Section. I thought he was seeking to find out which Puppy is likely to run AppImages and the majority of your portables OOTB . But I'm glad geo_c brought up KLV-airedale in response....

Governor Which portables do you want to run? Can you provide a list? Maybe open a thread in the USER Section I can run all the ones I want under Fossapup64. But for some of the ones I run I've had to install libraries. Remember, ALL puppys use Puppy's unique 'infra-structure', not that of it's bina...

Mikewalsh, "I still maintain the simplest way to do multi-booting is to have a separate drive for every OS. Let that OS write its bootloader to that drive's primary partition.....and then use your main boot Menu to "chainload" each and every additional distro's drive." I agree wi...

Governor Do you realize that your are posting questions about Fossapup64 to the BookwormPup64 thread? Before you spend a lot of time and effort, you should know that you can NOT use the SaveFile/Folder created under Fossapup64_9.5 with F96_CE even if you change its name. Too many structural differe...

Hi wiak, thanks for responding to my post above. I owe you at least an explanation of why I'm not pursuing the question further. I didn't change root's password at anytime. When I deployed KLU-jamXFCEbase 1.1 the password was 'root.' IIRC at some point I may have chosen the option to boot-in automat...

bigpup, I haven't used Seamonkey for a while. So I forgot that Mikewalsh published portables for both 32 and 64 bit Oses. https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=1640 Downloaded, unpacked and ran the 64 bit. The extracted folder had Mike's usual LAUNCH and Add-Menu scripts; and automatically lo...

The recipe for Multi-booting from a hard-drive used to be (1) Leave Windows if you have it; (2) 'Custom' install your choice of 'Major Distro' to the partition you selected; then (3) Install Puppys to their own or any other partition; then (4) run grub2config, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto...

Is there a way to create/change the root password AFTER you've changed the Window Manager. Not sure this is the best section to post. Move it if not. Background of the problem. I want to use a Voice to Text application under Linux. The 'easiest' way for me would be to make use of use the Speech-Note...

Governor "Does it mean Mike's portables will work on LinuxMint using this method?" No. But maybe-- see below. The attached recipe is to create a Desktop File and Launcher for an AppImage you find and download. For example, googling 'Brave browser AppImage" will generate a link to htt...

Governor wrote: " What do the people who use other distros do for portable apps?" I use AppImages. Found this recipe for creating an AppImage Launcher under LinuxMint. Download, remove false '.gz'. It opens in any wordprocess that can handle .odt files, e.g. LibreOffice and I think Abiword...

rockedge The following https://mega.nz/file/hvpi0AYL#NKp2BaFXKD3EnIjR16gaxrRHc4JaCsFIiOpcMOlZd-o has pets I downloaded after the initial publication of F-96 which might be useful. Most were compiled for Fossapup64 [mostly by Jasper some by sonny*] but should function under F-96. Download the tar.gz...

INSPIRON_E1505_USER: "well i may have one question my bionicpup32 is only allowed 1gb of space how do i increase that on dual boot? just in case". I'm not sure what you mean. See these posts: How Puppy Linux Works, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=55827#p55827 and How Puppy...

rockedge , about upgrading to F96-CE_5. "Anything else before I start?" Include rerwin's latest networking components and radky's Grub2config-2.0.2. Thinking about doing a remaster, I've accumulated updated applications by jasper, sonny and ozsouth I thought generally worth using. Some ar...

Much less hassle using MikeWalsh's portable-wine, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=68191#p68191 especially if you want to run 32-bit Windows programs under a 64-bit Puppy. The post here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=68075#p68075 explains how it works. The one here...

If you are running Puppy from a USB-Stick it automatically is configured to run under PupMode13. You don't have to do anything. Your "if" question is academic. You'll find MikeWalsh's Portable-Wine here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=68191#p68191 . How to use it is expla...

The new new Grub2config-2.0.2 didn't solve my problem. See post here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=115831#p115831 . Short version: some Major Linux distros have taken to converting the first partition (i.e., sda1) to a be an extended partition with their system files and their gr...

Is there a way to change the kernel used in Puppy distros ? It's very easy. But that may not be your problem. To swap kernels you can grab the vmlinuz and zdrd,sfs (e.g. zdrv_fossapup64_9.5.sfs) and replace the current versions renaming the zdrv.sfs to zdrv_dpupbw64_10.0.6.sfs. Or download a hugh pa...

If you are running jrb's Jammypup64, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=8040 the Flatpak framework can be installed using Puppy Package Manager. Be sure to first update PPM. I was interested in running Speech-Notes, a speech to text application. PPM offered flatpak_1.12.7-1 along with ...