Questions & observations after trying Vanilla Dpuup

[jh4x0r]

First of all, thanks for making this puppy distro with this look! Brings me lots of nostalgia from the puppy 4.1.x days, which was my first linux distro (tho the 4.1.2 wallpaper was a beautiful sea wallpaper i cant find right now )

It's working out of the box for a i5 4440 machine with gt 630 nvidia card using nouveau and managed to install the rtl8188fu driver using kelebek333's dkms driver right out of the box just by installing dkms. Thanks for keeping the kernel source in /usr/src!

Do you consider switching to a debian mainline kernel? Cant seem to find 5.10.119 in the debian repo or upgrade to another one. My packages on debian are being held back on upgrade attempts.

Also consider removing 10-hinting-none from /etc/fonts/conf.d as it conflicts with the 10-hinting-slight file and adding 10-subpixel-rgb.conf. On a generic 96dpi 1080p monitor it looks much nicer.

[mikeslr]

Sorry, can't help you with " 10-hinting-none" -- don't really understand /etc.
Does it have to be the 5.10.119 kernel. ozsouth has published several 5.10 kernels --some newer, some older but not the 5.10.119-- available from this Section. viewforum.php?f=65. For example, the link from here, viewtopic.php?t=6352 will take you to the archived 5.10.131 kernel.

The first post is to the 'Change Kernel' application, which I've never used. I just download the package, UExtract it, rename the vmlinuz-xxx to just vmlinuz, and the kernel-modules-xxx.sfs to (in your case) zdrv_vanilladpup_xxx.sfs where xxx is the Puppy's version number (e.g. zdrv_vanilladpup_9.2.1.sfs). Move the originals somewhere safe (in case you have to revert) then copy/move the new ones adjacent to VanillaDpup's other system files.

You'll probably need to download an fdrv.sfs and rename it as above. A link to an fdrv.sfs is available here, viewtopic.php?p=67585#p67585. This is the kernel I just swapped into a new fossapup64_9.6.

[dimkr]

Do you consider switching to a debian mainline kernel?

It's currently impossible because Puppy uses aufs and needs some drivers to be built-in to boot successfully.

Vanilla Dpup 10.0.x and 9.3.x (if it happens) will use kernels built from the Debian kernel source with very very slight configuration changes and without aufs.

packages on debian are being held back on upgrade attempts.

This is intentional. If you unhold these packages you can break your system quite easily (for example, replace busybox with coreutils) and remove some Puppy customisation.

The safe way to update packages is apt upgrade for user installed packages plus anl Vanilla Dpup update (by replacing files with those from the newer ISO) to update the preinstalled packages.

[jh4x0r]

Sorry, can't help you with " 10-hinting-none" -- don't really understand /etc.
Does it have to be the 5.10.119 kernel. ozsouth has published several 5.10 kernels --some newer, some older but not the 5.10.119-- available from this Section. viewforum.php?f=65. For example, the link from here, viewtopic.php?t=6352 will take you to the archived 5.10.131 kernel.

The first post is to the 'Change Kernel' application, which I've never used. I just download the package, UExtract it, rename the vmlinuz-xxx to just vmlinuz, and the kernel-modules-xxx.sfs to (in your case) zdrv_vanilladpup_xxx.sfs where xxx is the Puppy's version number (e.g. zdrv_vanilladpup_9.2.1.sfs). Move the originals somewhere safe (in case you have to revert) then copy/move the new ones adjacent to VanillaDpup's other system files.

You'll probably need to download an fdrv.sfs and rename it as above. A link to an fdrv.sfs is available here, viewtopic.php?p=67585#p67585. This is the kernel I just swapped into a new fossapup64_9.6.

This guide explains how to set fontconfig presets in /etc/ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/font_c ... on#Presets

Ok, wll do that