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Geek3579

Sorry to hear about your woes! Puppy should load easily in most cases, in my experience. I have found RUFUS to be great for making live USBs, but not for installations. Your problem may relate to older methods used to make a USB puppy which can cause trouble loading in modern machines, IMHO. 1) Try ...

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What sort of data might you wish to save ? A very short answer...You could make a LIVE USB with eg Kubuntu or Fossapup64 on it, boot (disable secure boot) and find/transfer data to another drive. You could also use Kubuntu or Fossapup64 to make a backup of the problem drive (not sure why you might ...

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I have been able to run Windows 32bit programs in Wine installed under Box86, which is installed in Pi-Apps which is installed OOTB in TwisterOS. All this on a Pi4 4GB, with Twister installed on a USB 3.0. Best to have both of these to run Box86. Twister is now my go-to OS for casual work on the Pi4 ...

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I find psearch reasonable, but slow. CAJA has a very good file finder.

But if you want something REALLY fast, Fsearch is the go once it is setup. Its in the Bionic64 PPM and in Quickpet.

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I have to agree with Bigpup. I run a PI4 with 4GB RAM as an always-on device and its excellent for most day-to-day tasks. I run TwisterOS booted from a 32GB USB stick, AND I can run some 32 bit windows programs under WINE which runs under Box86 which is installed under Pi-Apps. However, the more one ...

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CleanRam_0.2 can be found here as a .pet, and it converts via pet2sfs into a .sfs which runs happily on 32 and 64 bit Puppy OSs, in my wxperience. Wouldn't be without it, especially when running graphics/wine programs on 4GB Ram computers.

https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=109772

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I agree. Ubuntu Desktop is too slow and clumsy for any serious work, even in a Pi4 with 4+GB RAM. Puppy runs very well, although the range of software I found limiting. Anybody else care to comment on this ?? I now run TwisterOS, ( or MX-Fluxbox ). Both really build on the basic raspbian OS, adding ...

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Consider running windows programs under wine. I noticed that there are portable versions of gnucash and moneymanager on portableapps,com.

Not all windows programs run, or run absolutely perfectly, but you may be surprised at what does work..

Geek3579

For those without Sony Soundforge, Creative Wave Studio was bundled with Soundblaster Sound Cards in the way distant past. Free versions can be downloaded from here: https://support.creative.com/Downloads/searchdownloads.aspx?filename=WAVESTD_PCAPP_LB_7_1 Wave Studio doesnt have that many features ...

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Been running LXDE puppies for 4 or more years for home and other personal business. Currently using Bionicpup64 + ydrv with LXDE on a single board computer. Bionicpup64 was installed frugally, with stickpup providing the initial boot and format of the USB. I also shrank the FAT32 partition on the ...

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Another idea is to run Lubuntu and Puppy on separate USBs, which can work OK on older or slower machines. Just backup Lubuntu via clonezilla and copy/paste the Puppy savefolder or savefile . Puppy is made for USBs and Lubuntu clones with in-built persistence can be found here: https://phillw.net ...

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I continue to recommend STICKPUP which comes OOTB with Bionicpup64, which can be run as a LIVE USB to frugally install a variety of Puppies on a second USB. Used it last night to install Fossapup64 on a USB. 1) Load/Copy the desired Puppy ISO - in this case Fossapup, into a convenient directory 2 ...

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If you ave another PDF viewer installe such as evince, you can set that as your default PDF viewer

Navigate as follows: Menu -> Setup -> Default applications viewer - (select PDF pulldown menu)

BTW, I a writing this in LXSCPup64, but something similar should be in all puppies.

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I this last week I have been looking at this issue also. What I have found is the following: 1) Recording internal/system sound on a raspberry Pi4 with a recent Pulseaudio addition is relatively easy, using either ffmpeg, arecord or parec as desired. 2) I have not tried the methods in (1) with ...

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The method suggested by OscarTalks seems to work well. Thanks so much !! :D For the record I loaded up a fresh instances of Imagemagick and graphicsmagick-imagemagick-compat in BionicPup64 from the PPM, and tested installation by using "whereis convert" in a terminal. It was so easy ! Because ...

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I transfer files using PureFTP as the server, and gFTP as client, both found in most OOTB Puppy Menus. It is easy to setup. Just START PureFTP in the Server, and note the LAN IP address by hovering over the Internet symbol in the Task Bar. The firewall may need to be turned off, also. Then type in ...

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This is a great tip wrt using Gimp for printing. I will try it! Thanks ! :D My experience with printing with WINE hosted software using brother and HP printers has usually been satisfactory, so there has been little reason for me to change. One further comment..I dont view using applications written ...

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Imagemagick is a fabulous tool I would use more often if it could be run on my go-to Puppy OS, which is BionicPup64 with LXDE in ydrv. At the moment I flick the files to an LXScPup64 on another device, or TwisterOS on a Paspberry Pi4. Both run Imagemagick fine, but all the to-ing and fro-ing of the ...

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I occasionally use IRFANVIEW running under portable WINE in LXDE Bionicpup64 for printing, since it allows you to more precisely stretch and place images on a page. Wouldnt be without it, actually.

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"I have uploaded a new version of the LXDE ydrv for BionicPup64 - I cannot get PCManFM to crash on my desktop - please try it - thanks" Hi Peebee. Loaded up the new LXDE ydrv into a pristine frugal installation of Bionicpup64. No crashes at all...GREAT !!. Then I wondered if I could swap the older ...

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BIONICPUP64; I loaded the newer driver .deb as suggested by rcrsn51 without removing the existing printer-driver-brlaser, and it worked perfectly, printing all the previously troublesome PDF pages FOSSAPU64: my OS had no brother drivers installed so I just loaded the newer driver .deb, installed ...

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I have been using Bionicpup64 + LXDE ydr for some months now, and it has run perfectly with one exception: PCMANFM frequently crashes making it effectively unusable. I quickly installed CAJA from the PPM, having seen it working well in dpupbuster64, and it runs flawlessly in Bionicpup64. I highly ...

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Thanks, Ill try it in the next couple of days, in Bionic64 and Fossapup64.

Geek3579

Thanks for that tip. I tried Peasy PDF with MuPDF and the same result was evident. The files go to print, but while it seems to receive the data there is no printer output, and no listing in the Jobs tag in CUPS printing. After some more trials, it seems to be an issue with only some PDF files ...

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Im running Bionic64 with a LXDE ydrv and recently acquired a HL-L23650DW hand-me-down which I fairly quickly gave up on trying to use. However, I recently read about the following driver: printer-driver-brlaser_<version> which it turns out is in the Puppy Package Manager. Once the driver was ...

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Hey, this works well in LxPup64 19.09 also. I have been looking for something like this for a while. Many thanks !

Geek3579

Another suggestion is the use of fsearch. Its in the PPM for Bionicpup, at least.
See more details at https://www.fossmint.com/fsearch-search ... for-linux/

Once setup it is blisteringly fast. Not sure about file drag and drop...

Geek3579

What you are trying to do is very reasonable and doable if Manjaro runs GRUB2. BTW, I currently run my Bionicpup64 loaded as a frugal fileset in MX-Linux.

This post might also help configure the GRUB script: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=988

Geek3579

I am currently using Bionicpup64 as my do-all-go-to desktop, and must have a printer connection. HP printers from my experience have been difficult to make work. But it seems Bionicpup64 and perhaps Fossapup64 have better or updated HP software. All I do is search for HPLIP in the Puppy Package ...

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As I recall, using a saveFOLDER allows for larger personal storage space . This is in conjunction with a ext2 or ext4 partition on which the Frugal files + savefolder are saved. You still need the fat32 partition for boot files. Its worth a bit of pre-planning before you set up a frugal install. I ...

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