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In addition, Puppy Tahr has this system tunable:

A search reveals that other linuxes have had issues with using this setting.
for me I invoke this setting prior to suspending to RAM, havent had any
problems.

https://sysctl-explorer.net/vm/compact_memory/

# sudo mkfs.fat -a /dev/fd0 1440 mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24) attribute "partition" not found I'm presuming that your computer uses a "vanilla" (if I could call it that) FDD connector in which case the device would be /dev/fd0 or sometimes /dev/fd1. In which case the 1440 would be omitted: mkfs.fat -a ...

Since I my computer is a desktop, I can't vouch for differences to a laptop. What I can say is that the Radeon driver in Puppy Tahr seems to handle the Radeon X300 (128MB) graphics fairly well, however for 3D acceleration I read that the proprietary Radeon driver is better. xrandr/xrandrshell can ...

The script trying to modify the firmware may give a clue. Certain Linux distributions do restrict access to /dev/mem to userspace processes by the kernel compile option: CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM (that may be one possibility from a number of possibilities) Strangely in upup raring I needed a special ...

I'm not sure what program is being referred to here? However, from time to time I have used the "curl" command to download a resource or to compare with my GUI based browser if it chokes on a web page. curl is basically a command line http/https fetcher. It has a handy option to limit certificate ...

I was thinking myself of compiling in the magic sysrq function in my version of Puppy Linux Tahr. I did this with my previous kernel (Upup Raring). I have found the sysrq function does work when the system locks up. Typically the lockups occur with a faulty driver or kernel OOM. Unfortunately the ...