A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum*. I got distracted.
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While those who know what they are doing are engaged in creating the next generation of Puppys, I decided to provide the elixir by which moribund Puppys could be rejuvenated. See, viewtopic.php?p=70584&sid=88252588ad817 ... 18c#p70584 .
Like all mystical journeys the path requires learning many new incantations and is arduous. I had to take a respite, and while respiting had this thought: “What’s the sense of having a Tahrpup64 with a new heart if it still had the same old, worn-out, appendages? Might as well fix those as well.”
Remastering is something I’ve done a couple of times. So on the road with Tahrpup64_6.0.8 (with a new glibc) I took Tahrpup64 to a health spa. This Tahrpup64_6.0.7 is the result. If you’re interested, you can get it here, https://www.mediafire.com/folder/7yxedk ... up64-6.0.7
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I’m posting from it now.
What can this physically fit Puppy do? First off, it is a sprinter, light on resources. On my desktop it booted up only using about 123 Mbs of RAM. It opens and opens applications faster than “newer” Mainstream 64-bit Puppys. With ozsouth’s recent 5.4.221 kernel, it has the up-to-date bug fixes and security patches and can use overlays –see first picture 
. Naturally, it can drink MikeWalsh’s portable-wines; so the world of Windows 32-bit programs is open even if you don’t (you can) SFS-load the 32-bit compatibility SFS available via Quickpet. Indeed, all the applications available to Tahrpup64_6.0.5 can be installed via PPM, Quickpet or otherwise. Among those are PupMusic, pupradio, dvdstyler, imagination and guvcview. But I’d recommend caution. Some other applications may be older than they need to be.
Of course, the latest Office Suites work. Also OOTB it can run the following Web-browsers and other internet tools:
I recommend that you use MikeWalsh’s portable web-browsers which you’ll find here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewforum.php?f=90. Or you can jump to a particular thread from his Complete List of Portables here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 734#p48734. I don’t think (untested) any of the Chromium & Clones will auto-update even with the devx sfs-loaded. Of Mike’s portables based on Chromium –Google-chrome, Brave, Vivaldi, etc.-- only Opera could not be used. It requires libnghttp2.so.14 and I no longer support the use of Opera. Brave is a hoot. Strongly recommended.
Of ‘Mozilla’ and web-browsers forked or built from it:
The latest Seamonkey and Palemoon work fine. But I haven’t yet tried updating them. So does Waterfox-Classic which I prefer sufficiently that I’ve posted instructions in Additional Software>Browsers and Internet on how to roll your own portable. But the ‘non-classic’ version of Waterfox is based on the latest firefox-quantum. The current version of Tor –which is based on firefox-- opens and closes but I haven’t used it nor updated it.
Slightly older versions of firefox, firefox-esr, librewolf and waterfox worked fine. But something has recently changed. Perhaps a newer glibc is required; or perhaps only a change in glib-schemes. Neither the latest Waterfox (not ‘Classic’) nor Librewolf would open. firefox and firefox-esr opened and would shut-down properly using quit from the Menu. But they would not shut-down via the ‘x’ at the Top-Right and hung when --after updating-- I again checked for updates.
The latest Seamonkey is built in. If you click the launcher on the Taskbar you can select (only) it to open a web-browser. I recommend waiting. Before creating a SaveFile/folder you may want to open seamonkey by file-browsing into /opt/seamonkey and clicking the smky script; then use seamonkey to download a different/alternate web-browser. The only thing located in adrv_tahr64_6.0.7.sfs is a fully portable seamonkey. If you don’t use your system to open Seamonkey before creating a SaveFile/Folder, there will be nothing else on your system relating to it preserved and you can delete/move the adrv without leaving any trace of seamonkey on your system. Also, once you have a SaveFile/Folder you will also have a Home-partition. You can drag the seamonkey folder from /opt onto /mnt/home, select move, then drag it back and select symlink(relative). Then the only thing on your system will be the symlink and you can update Seamonkey (now on /mnt/home) without having to perform a Save to preserve that change. Cache from the web (roughly 100 Mbs per web-page) will also be written there rather than occupying RAM.
I recommend saving Seamonkey in that manner. It still is the web-browser using the least RAM, has a component for obtaining mail and another for reading AND editing html files. And it can play Youtubes. It may not be flashy. But it does the job.
Both MikeWalsh’s Freetube and Leonflix work.
Getting on line: The three Networking components work. But frisbee seems to require greater wifi strength. SNS had no problem establishing a sufficient connection to record my WPA password on my desktop computer (far from the router) while frisbee was unable. frisbee, however, had no difficulty doing so on my laptop which is closer to the router.
Tahrpup64-6.0.7 could be a graphics workhorse. Special mention is made of gimp&mypaint-x86_64.sfs you can obtain here, http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... es-tahr64/. Just having learned that Lazpaint, despite its small size, can mix raster and vector graphics through layering, I’ve built it in. Blender 7.6 via Quickpet and a downloadable 2.8.3 from here, https://download.blender.org/release/, works –perhaps even later versions --but MikeWalsh’s 2.9.3 portable segfaults. MikeWalsh’s portable inkscape works. You can obtain Lightworks from https://oldforum.puppylinux.com/viewtop ... 3#p1058313.
You’ll have to track them down both FreeCad appimage v. 0.17 and Krita 3.0 Mesa 10.1.3 which also work; as will Hugin Panorama Stretcher circa 2019.
Video-Editing: Good for simple work, less so for major projects. The latest avidemux_2.8.1_legacy.appImage from https://sourceforge.net/projects/avidem ... mux/2.8.1/ has some nice new features. And Mike’s Losslesscut-portable also functions. But while there are other alternatives, if I had to engage in creating a long video from mixed sources –despite its reputed significant learning curve-- I’d chose cinelerra-7.1-x86_64_trusty.tar.xz links here, https://www.videohelp.com/software/Cine ... d-versions. It also has the reputation for being well-built and stable.
There is, however, Kdenlive-17.04.1b-x86_64.AppImage from https://www.videohelp.com/download/Kden ... WbDVHbNMTQ you might try. Or Flowblade_Movie_Editor-1.8.0.glibc2.15-x86_64.AppImage if you can find it. I couldn’t. But both opened and seemed functional. If used, however, I’d recommend backing up your work frequently. Although there's an Openshot via Quickpet, it's python bites and I couldn't tame it.
Rounding out my exploration of what applications worked OOTB under Tahrpup64-6.0.7 are peazip 8.1.0 https://sourceforge.net/projects/peazip/files/8.1.0/ and Calibre.AppImage downloaded from https://apprepo.de/appimage/calibre.
Feel free to wander beyond my path and tell us of your own adventures. I return to my quest, wondering if a heart-transplant will do it in.
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* If you've never seen the movie, find it somewhere on the Web. You're in for a treat.
I distinctly recall examining kernels and choosing the 5.4.221 by ozsouth a couple of week ago when I started the upgrade-glibc project. Although I don't compile, I figured some else might want to. So one of the reasons it was chosen was because there were accompanying Kernel Sources and Headers. I didn't mention that in my first post so decided to provide the link to those here.
