What Is SAVESPEC?

[rockedge]

The same for me. One of my main machines is using KLV-Airedale-sr3 that has been routinely updated and upgraded via XBPS that has it's base code in the same state as the newest ISO I just made. Also the upper_changes structure is somewhere around 10 G to 90 G in size on some of them.

And I just temporarily swapped the kernel for the KLV sr3 from the full real time kernel 6.1.38-rt13 to a Void Linux 6.10.10 and the 01firmware was swapped to one from VanillaDpup to run tests as to why suddenly all of my KLV machines with xfce4 environments began to hibernate after 40 minutes on their own.

Turns out an rolling update cycle upgraded the Power Manager which now had the time adjust slider for suspend set to 40 minutes. After looking into all kinds of rabbit holes it was fixed by opening the power manager and adjusting the slider for adjusting the time allotment to go into suspend mode to Never

The newest ISO's have updates and upgrades to the utilities borrowed from Puppy Linux Like TAS going from version 1.15 to 1.18

[rockedge]

I visited that forum when you were first testing it, but I didn't save the link, now I'm not sure where to find it.

The forum is renamed with new sub-domain as kennel-linux.rockedge.org

kennel-linux.rockedge.org

[wiak]

The point about whether KL has it's own "savespec" or not is almost moot in terms of boot location, because the grub stanza mechanism is more than versatile enough to boot reliably from anywhere. But I'm sure there are other very useful parameters in the wd_initconfig that I should be looking into in the future.

You are correct that the ability of w_initconfig to bypass grub2 menu save location is unimportant in itself in practical KL normal usability. That file is potentially more useful for other boot time operations. In reality it is simply a pre-w_init script so the same functionality can be done at the very top of w_init itself. Most everything about controlling KL/FR distros is convenient, flexible and simple. No woof-CE like manipulations required.

But regarding attracting users. Yes, once downloaded KL distros can be upgraded simply via package manager usually.

Once,, more than ten years ago, I wrote some system level utilities and published them on old murga forum. Got about a dozen downloads in a week - the forum was very activebl back then since Puppy still in its useful prime. However, I decided to also publish my generic Linux utility apps on a well known Linux site back then called 'Freshmeat'. Within a couple of days got a couple of thousand downloads. Make no mistake, simply improving exposure via better marketing can let the often near unknown be widely discovered.

Though casual web usage becomes dominated by smartphones, the engineering and computer science types and maybe musicians like yourselves continue to provide market for Linux. And these are potential users that interest me because they are creative people who potentially end up making stuff I will enjoy using too. Linux is certainly not dead. Better marketing should greatly help attract creative KL/FR users. Not having many creative KL users and contibuters is frustrating because I am sure there are many people like myself from world of engineering who would be very interested in KL/FR if only they had stumbled across it, but many such people would be unlikely to care much about Puppy Linux nowadays so never visit here. Even in its best days Puppy appealed to a specific market that many Linux users didn't particularly care about. Low powered machines are now very few in number and modern Androids more powerful than most of them anyway.