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Does the mount -t overlay... mean the setup is for overlayfs? The reason I ask is when I look at the bootinit.log for BookwormPup64_10.0.6, it shows the same for its mounts. I thought that puppy linux was just using aufs. So is BookwormPup then using overlayfs? The first post is about loading añ sf...

Our distros are community based, built from a variety of base systems, and don't really fit into DWs perception of a separate distribution. Yes, well said. That's the reality IMO. Now there is the truth. There is no such thing as one useful/interesting distro discussed/developed via resource of thi...

Ah...okay... :D I suspected that when I saw you wrote there ...it's not a straight-forward thing... Ok...I'll try again when I'm really really really bored then... :lol: Nevertheless, perhaps the information in the following will help you (I used this for getting a cherrytree notebook snap package ...

Really the reason to call it an official Puppy version, should be about: Built up as a bunch of separate SFS files, how it boots, loads complete OS into RAM, stores changes in a save file/folder, generally operates in specific ways (pupmodes), supports hardware old and new, uses the same core progr...

I don't really know or care at all really, but I doubt a forum that featured only Puppy Linux as it stands nowadays would be particularly popular unless of course a new cohort of developers took interest in taking it forward from where the 'official' woof-CE stands today. I truly doubt a forum featu...

Neither the debiandogs nor KL distros have ever bothered thus far about distrowatch, yet debiandogs have produced solid releases since 2013 and continue to do so, and KL produce several, constantly updated and used, releases. No problem finding regular new releases there. KLU FocalFossa release was ...

For a moment of panic it appeared that the suite managed to delete the entire 4 partitions of a 1 terabyte HDD, but it only deleted the /mnt/sdc1/TestPup/ directory and it's complete contents of 10 frugally installed Puppy's I presume that utility suite is fine having Puppy booting from a sub-sub-d...

Governor wrote: ↑Fri Apr 19, 2024 6:21 pm

Looks like FirstRib is for pro Linux users only.

I don't think so, not at all, but a matter of opinion I suppose.

As @wiak mentioned, KLV-Airedale is much more developed in terms added functionality than KLU is (I'd say Airedale is actually fully polished). But in the long term I suppose the choice of either rests on which subsystem, package manager, and repository one prefers to work with. Yes, I am badly nee...

I have already downloaded the ISO from here: https://rockedge.org/kernels/data/ISO/Kennel_Linux/Airedale/sr12 / Will KLV-Airedale boot from a Ventoy thumbdrive? Thanks! Yes, all KL distros will boot from Ventoy and with full persistence similar to Puppy Linux Pupmode12 or Pupmode13 alternative (i.e...

instead of using w_changes=RAM0 I used: w_bootfrom=UUID=000c8c2a-764a-4bea-bc93-9e41eca3d9a1=/Mint_multi/KL_full2frugal/instance1 w_changes=UUID=7a5ce698-a720-4dd7-bffe-3783573d1bc0=/ w_changes1=RAM2 w_bottom=full2fr which causes save folder to be at different UUID partition... I booted and I'm now...

It's also not difficult to take any DebianDog or KL distro build recipe and cut it or expand it to any distro form desired. Size comparable anyway - maybe sometimes smaller depending on what is included of course. Debiandog has been usefully around since 2013 so well polished, fully debian-compatibl...

Which I understand [correct me if I'm wrong] to mean that the 'sample' stanza boots up in a manner analogous to PupMode 13 [Save only on demand, you'll be asked at shut-down/reboot] with a 'save2flash' on the System Sub-Menu; you can add a launcher a panel. But you can remove "w_changes=RAM2&q...

I can't verify any of it just now, but seems to be some useful related info here: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=397103 By default, Mint (or any Ubuntu derivative) will put its boot loader on the first drive it sees, regardless of what you specify in the installer (it's a bug of long s...

Anyway, maybe it will work also with KL_full2fr, but I suspect it won't. Reason I think not is that I note the main rsync while loop is searching through loaded sfs files, but full2frugal uses actual uncompressed Linux Mint on main partition as the root_filesystem layer. In fact, seems save2flash i...

I tested yesterday with a pristine install of sr12, one of the files I tested to delete was /home/spot/.bash_logout (and was gone after reboot), just now I started sr12 fresh again, logged in as spot, deleted .bash_logout and again was gone after save2flash > reboot. No idea what' s happening on yo...

Whilst I only tested this in Airedale-sr12 I believe it applies to all KL distros (assuming sr12 uses latest save2flash/snapmergepuppy). Though most users stick with root desktop, I do not always. I believe the script snapmergepuppy also needs the following line at the top: [ "`whoami`" !...

Lets say you are autologged in as user spot and in directory /home/spot there is a file already embedded in the 07KLV-Airdale-sr12.sfs at location /home/spot/filea (where filea can be any already existing file in that layer of the overlay). Let's say we remove that filea; the result should be a typ...

Can't see the logic of needing to run su - spot when logged in as root to save changes :? By the way, you seem to have misunderstood what and why I was giving a su - example. It was not at all because I feel it should be necessary to use su - spot or similar when root in order to save changes... Ra...

KLV-Airedale has the spot and weedog users added to the wheel group and /etc/sudoers has at the bottom %wheel ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL Well it is myself who gave these instructions to add normal users to the wheel group and with no password along with most similar code lines I used in my first pre-w...

Hyprland has been a premier for awhile in stably exploiting the Wayland technology for user use. Now, KDE has come along and has taken on a new level of advancing WAyland with additional user friendliness. KDE is also freeing developers needs for some-any-many additional desktop Wayland usability a...

Whilst I only tested this in Airedale-sr12 I believe it applies to all KL distros (assuming sr12 uses latest save2flash/snapmergepuppy). Though most users stick with root desktop, I do not always. I believe the script snapmergepuppy also needs the following line at the top: [ "`whoami`" !=...

Well KL_full2fr has an issue when using with other than RAM0 mode. Yes, w_initconfig works to redirect upper_changes to other partition anywhere you want it (or can alternatively be done using w_changes/w_changes1 grub kernel line arguments), but issue is that upper_changes will include the swap fil...

Wrote this info and included when I last updated FR initrd, but to prevent this brief documentation being lost, here it is again. For simplicity, and because I'm short of time, I'll leave the original of this text along with the actual wd_initconfig_make script at its first published location here: ...

By the way, regarding my above post, if you do build a KL_full2fr, the latest initrd that includes the w_config save folder re-direction capability will be automatically installed. It is important to understand the single limitation of KL_full2fr in comparison to normal KL distro installs that the s...

I still don't have much time for experimenting/dev work. But I am 'kind of' getting back into it. In particular, I'm ignoring my todo list, because I want to remind myself how my KL_full2fr mechanism works. Whilst I don't take any drugs, apart from my single dose of morning expresso coffee, it somet...

Just booted pristine KLU-jamXFCEbase 1.1 My above post seems to be accurate. Pristine has user:pw combinations root:root, firstrib:firstrib, and spot:spot. firstrib has userid of 1000, and spot is 1001 on KLU-jam distro (which is different to a Puppy distro userid for spot). On pristine boot, KLU-ja...

Any idea how to set or change the root password? I only currently have KLU-jam 1.1 on a Ventoy usb stick and can't boot that right now on this particular machine in UEFI mode for some reason or another. I'll try it later when other machine isn't being used by my son. The original passwords set were...

Install MX Linux on the HDD first. Then manually make a directory in the base filesystem of the MX Linux installation named what ever you like that will contain the base file system of the Puppy Linux you want to use. For example /mnt/sda1 has MX Linux installed, then create the directory /F96-CE_4...