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I'd migrate to enterprise Linux as soon as possible. Micro$$ is running a racketeering ring.....pure extortion. And/or leveraging a forced upgrade for top Dollars. I posted a reply to a thread about this same subject less than an hour ago on BleepingComputer..! $61 for the first year $122 for the ...

My guess is that it IS to some extent hardware-specific. On this UEFI-based HP Pavilion desktop from 2019, my oldest "vanilla" Puppy is also 32-bit Tahrpup. There ARE caveats, though. 6.05 refuses point-blank to play ball. 6.06, however, will boot and run; this was the 'update' PhilB published for 6 ...

BologneChe :- Nah, no worries. It's a trap I see so many fall into, and it's frowned upon by most forum moderation teams. Some are bigger offenders than others; fortunately, you're not one of them. ;) Incidentally, following up on the link, that's food for thought; if Qualcomm's new top-end chips ...

BologneChe :- This was mentioned quite a number of times on the old forum, and in the past on here. PLEASE don't post JUST a link; TBH, it's just being 'lazy'. A little bit of description never hurts; you only need add a line or so. Some members will refuse to read a "link-only" post on principle ...

vtpup :- AFAIK, Steve - and from what I've gathered over the last couple of years - fdrvs are kernel-agnostic. In other words, they're NOT tied to any specific kernel compilation......because if that were the case, gyrog wouldn't have been able to release firmware SFS packages like he does... https ...

Afternoon, kids. Just thought I'd post a wee bit of info I gleaned about this last night. As those of you who use - or have in the past used - this utility are probably aware, Dukto is specifically built for LAN use only. It was never intended to work across the wider internet. Some LAN file ...

vtpup :- @ozsouth and @rockedge sorry but the new kernel didn't work with touchpad, wifi, or speaker sound. The procedure I used was a new install on USB using f2stickpup, then replacing vmlinuz and fdrv_fossapup64_9.6.sfs with the two new files, and renaming them to what was removed. I left ...

vtpup :- I'm a-wonderin', Steve. I agree that your hardware is SO new that the kernel hasn't had a chance to catch up yet.....but is your touchpad actually a "touchpad", or is it one of these new-fangled "clickpads" - buttons under the surface of the touchpad - with physical buttons duplicated ...

For most folks, getting the actual clock format right is a big enough challenge. Obsessing over the tooltip's format is for the true "nit-pickers" amongst us.....

Mike.

Well now:- Following an exchange with Moonchild on the Pale Moon forums about this upcoming AVX issue, it appears he IS determined to go ahead with it. For anybody else who wants a different configuration to his AVX "standard", you will have exactly one option.....you'll have to compile your own ...

@mikewalsh Sorry Mike but I'm not familiar with all the terminology. :? What exactly do you mean by "boot stanza", and where do I find it? stevie pup :- Ah, sorry; "boot stanza" is what I call it. I'm talking about the contents of the 'menu.lst' file for Grub4DOS; a "boot stanza" is the individual ...

stevie pup :- Hm. That's strange. My frugally-installed copy of Studio 13.37 has an almost identical boot stanza to the dozen or so other Pups in the "kennels".....and I've only ever used Grub4DOS. Only the sub-directory name is different. What does your Studio 13.37 boot stanza look like? Maybe I ...

Null_ID :- Yeah, I saw that myself. It has the potential to exclude a LOT of 'Puppy' hardware; even this 2019 HP Pavilion's Pentium G5400 CPU doesn't have AVX.....and although I treated myself to my first new rig for a LONG while when I got it, even I don't have the readies to go daft with ...

captainkennway :- With regard to Studio 13.37 , you simply install it like you would any other Puppy. It's a complete Puppy OS, based around Bionicpup64, with all the multimedia stuff built-in & available OOTB. The beauty of this is that it can be installed to a fast, good-quality flash-drive - or ...

charlie6 :- Mm-hm. It might not be the version of 'kernel32.dll' your application is expecting to find.....especially if you've been using it that long. The provided one may well be TOO new... Perhaps swap it for an older version, see if that makes any difference? That's the only thing that occurs ...

@greengeek :-

Nah, no worries, Ian. I started splitting posts off to a new topic for him, before realising there was no need...

Mike.

@greengeek :-

Sylvander has already got nearly 3 pages of posts about this in the main F96-CE topic. Not much point posting here now..!

Mike.

(Moved from the Slacko sub-forum. Originally by member Sylvander ). ======================================== [Sylvander:-] 1. I'm now posting this from within "FossaPup64 CE->Firefox ESR" [up-to-date 115.9.1 1esr (64-bit)]. 2. The booting of this 64-bit FossaPup64 from the CD-RW is TOO SLOW for my ...

Governor :- Mm. Personally, I wouldn't bother with it.....10 yrs ago, it was nothing but trouble, and fora were full of folks complaining about it. I suspect you're getting muddled up here. I think you're confusing "burning an ISO" with "creating an ISO". The two are totally different operations ...

captainkennway :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". If you work with DAWs, you might be interested in taking a look at Studio 13.37 . This is a dedicated Puppy DAW, crafted by one of our old-timers ( 10wt3ch - no longer with us, sadly). It was originally based around Slackware 13.37, hence ...

@vtpup :-

Y'know, there's always the good old, time-honoured "sneakernet" if all else fails...!

(Just my weird sense of humour coming thru....)

Mike.

Afternoon, gang. Just came across this link over at Linux.org , and thought it might be of interest to any of you who are running fairly new Nvidia GPUs:- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nova-a-rust-based-linux-driver-for-nvidia-gpus-announced/ It's still in the very early stages.....but the ...

mmmrr :- With respect to your comment... ...slow opening from click on launch--4 seconds--seems sluggish. Ya gotta realise, there is NO comparison between early Opera - up to and including Opera 12 - and the current incarnations. The old browser was renowned for being fast and lightweight. The ...

obi3112 :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". To recap; Etcher is no good for Puppy. Simple reason is that Pup's unique method of operation (running from highly-compressed files) means that 'standard' locations, directories & files which Etcher expects to "see" simply aren't there. Or to ...

vtpup :- I don't quite know how to put this, Steve. You are going to HATE me.... :lol: Just literally this last half-hour or so, I've set-up a brand-new install of radky's Bookwormpup64. I thought it was perhaps time I had a look, and discovered for myself what all the fuss was about! I must say ...

mmmrr :- Um.....yes; that should work. Under normal circumstances, with this setup you would need to start Opera direct from its launch script ON the ext3 partition. IF you're going to keep your Puppy on the FAT32 partition, you still won't be able to link any shortcut into Pup for starting Opera ...

'Kay, gang. Upgrade time.... This is the March 14th build this year, so literally just days off the hot-plate! No glaring changes; just general tidying-up, and making the user experience slicker than ever. It IS a good-looking app, no question of that; I've seen some screenshots of the Windows build ...

muggins / stemsee :- Nice find! Runs A-OK for me in an upgraded Xenialpup64, that's using FP64-9.5's k5.4.53 kernel & glibc 2.31 (up from k4.9.58 and glibc 2.23). No need to install anything to support it. Just make it executable.....and it fires straight up after a short delay. Now for some ...

EDIT: just my opinion, it's not a good setup on BookwormPup, I think just "firefox" should be executable from commandline. Heh, I agree; I'd no idea a 'portable' version was in use (albeit in an 'odd' location, and with the older launcher). Easy 'fix' though; sym-link 'LAUNCH' into /usr/bin, then ...

@JusGellin :-

Read this for starters, and then we can expand further if required:-

https://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/t ... l/root.htm

This explains the principle behind user "spot".

Mike.