Re: Problems turning a thin client into a usable computer with Puppy
deram wrote: ↑Thu Feb 10, 2022 12:50 pmOK folks and thanks again for the kind help and tips.
Meanwhile I was able to unmount /sda1 and rezise it to max. capacity. Indeed one have to boot in RAM.
But the more I use Linux the more I encounter new issues.
So I do not understand the exact meaning of "Mount" and "Unmount". Is it the same as "Install and Uninstall" ? Certainly not, but what is it?
As explained at the beginning, the Thin Client (TC) in want the convert to a PC will be used only for browsing the internet. e.g. use as serveillance camera, view Youtube films and watch on-line TV. No downlaods, no saving files, no use of any apps. In other words I want only a small O.S and the fasted lightweight browser. All the apps that came with the installation of Puppy can be deleted or uninstalled.
Question : How do you uninstall apps you never will use ? e.g. word, speadsheets, Painting, chat, CDplayer, brurn cd/dvd, etc.. ?
By now I have 3 x browsers installed: 1) U Light, 2) Firefox and 3) Chromium.
1) is not supporting Youtube (update error message). How can I uninstall it ?
2) works but looks slow to me.
3) works pretty good but it takes a hell of time to open !!!
Further I have to open the browsers (chromium) via the menu. How to put a schortcut icon on the desktop ?Sorry voor de vele vragen , hoop dat jullie het mij niet kwalijk nemen.
You can run in RAM by either changing the boot parameter to pfix=ram or pfix=nocopy. I suggest the nocopy option because you will have more RAM available.
You mount a partition or file so that it is available to be accessed for use. You install an application. A partition of a drive for example needs to be mounted first before you can use it.
You can't uninstall builtin applications because the base sfs (which contains the whole filesystem) is in a read-only format. The only way to get rid of builtin applications permanently, is to edit and rebuild the base sfs. The easiest way to do this is to run "Remove builtin packages" from menu and then do a remaster which will create a new base sfs. Puppy's builtin applications are generally speaking very small so not really worthwhile to remove.
The Light Browser is normally not builtin but provided as an additional adrv. You can boot without it (easy way is to rename it to anything else). Light Browser does play youtube videos. I often watch youtube videos with it in Bionic 32. Light Browser can't be updated, it's a very old, stripped, unofficial version of firefox. Your computer specs are low and you will be restricted by speed if you browse these very heavy websites like youtube. But there is hope for you -
TIPS:
1. It is possible to change your browser's user agent so that your system is identified as a portable device and websites are displayed in their mobile versions whenever it is available. Mobile sites are smaller and less resource hungry.
2. You can play youtube videos without actually going to the youtube site. Search engines like DuckDuckGo and Bing have embedded players to play youtube videos without going to the youtube official site.