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Somehow full install says if CPU is slow then i should go for FULL install,
Where are you reading this info?

Biggest benefit of full install is it uses less RAM to boot to working desktop.

Less of Puppy will be loaded into RAM.
But it will take longer to start a program.
However, what program ...

Frugal for sure.
Short answer, frugal install utilizes a very special (magic?) set of overlayed compressed filesystems that offer incredible benefits to performance and customization.

Full install does not.

Read up, it's quite fascinating. :)

https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=4&t ...

I'm new to puppy and also Linux world, my question is that every time I turn on the laptop it shows boot menu, then I choose a puppy, and then it starts loading files to ram and etc. afterwards it finally shows the desktop. I was wondering why it doesn't startup just like Linux mint? once turn on pc ...

Which browser is most lightweight for puppy? chromium and firefox are eating ram

Tahrpup was my very first fully-working Puppy on ye anciente Dell lappie. 'Twas the first that ran, OOTB, without ANY messing about. At that time, the Dell was running a 2.2 GHz single-core "NetBurst"-gen 'Celery-stick' CPU, and 1 GB of DDR1 RAM. This was an original Inspiron 1100 from 2002, well ...

What's the difference between full and frugal install? and which one should I go for my pc?

CPU~Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) speed/max~1333/1600 MHz Kernel~4.10.0-38-generic i686 Up~5 min Mem~237.4/986.0MB HDD~120.0GB(5.6% used) Procs~166 Client~Shell inxi~2.2.35

1 GB DDR2 ram 533 Mhz

Sup wiz, do you happen to know why my laptop doesnt have sound? i opened YT played some random vid and no sound :( since me and you share same machine, maybe you got some piece of advice for me. it works with headphones btw, if i adjust it from settings

That and the built in camera are the only ...

Hi Tsla,
Welcome! I have virtually the same netbook, in the US it was marketed as the AO150...
I multiboot WinXP SP3 Home and Puppy...usually ScPup 32 (we're limited to 32 bit due
to the N270 Atom CPU only supporting 32 bit). I use "frugal install" to the NTFS formatted
HD, booted via grub4dos ...

Tahrpup 6.0.5 on old machine, what do you guys think?

CPU~Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) speed/max~1333/1600 MHz Kernel~4.10.0-38-generic i686 Up~5 min Mem~237.4/986.0MB HDD~120.0GB(5.6% used) Procs~166 Client~Shell inxi~2.2.35

1 GB DDR2 ram 533 Mhz

Older ones.

The newer the Puppy is the more RAM is requested.

Give some specs of you computer, please.

RAM, CPU, Graphics, Mainboard etc.pp.

Use PupSysInfo to sample that information.


CPU~Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) speed/max~1333/1600 MHz Kernel~4.10.0-38-generic i686 Up~5 min Mem ...

Which puppy uses less ram?

Thanks for a detailed answer, do you happen to know why my terminal says i have 512 mb ram meanwhile task manager says i'm using 200/900MB?
And would you rate this machine? have you ever had any problem? i like everything besides its getting super hot

Hi guys :thumbup2: , im new to forum and basically new to puppy as its my second time installing it, just got new acer aspire one GZ5 which had win xp 2002 on default and it was dead slow with no internet, so i installed Linux mint in order to make it usable and im not satisfied with it, i cant even ...