Discussion, talk and tips
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Bionic 32 for me (the one I downloaded at the time, mid of the updated list, I think). Don't even bother to download the very latest update. Works well and stable. I only have 2 Puppy's on this machine, the other one is an upgraded Racy which I use sometimes just for the fun (although I can basically do everything I need with it) and as a backup system.
Xenialpup 7.5 x64 XXL
... and some more, 
At the moment Vanilla Dpup 9.3.13
As well as F96 CE latest and S15 pup,all 64bit and all rock solid on both of my desktop PC's.
One running an old P4 3ghz,the other on a more modern Intel J4205.
Great stuff ! 
fossapup64-9.5
Friendly-fossa64-v1
wizard
I actually also have Windows XP on this machine for my printing/scanning/OCR needs.
F96-CE_3, and vanilladpup-.9.3.13. Both nearly perfect! 
KLV-Airedale-rc+ and F96-CE_3
LxPupSc32 - has been for many years - same save folder since at least 12/2019 maybe longer.....
(I have a Dell Laser printer 1320c which only has a 32-bit driver.....) UPDATE: the driver does work on LxPupSc64 if I add the 32bit-compat-s15pup64-22.12.sfs
I add: Chromium, Firefox, Thunderbird, LibreOffice & OpenJRE by .sfs
All components regularly updated including the 64-bit aufs kernel.
I have various other boots for "specialist" tasks.
Also need to add that I use an old kernel (3-series) as I have older hardware and it works best on my machine. That's a downgrade for Bionic and upgrade for Racy.
When not having to use Windows, I have stuck to Fossapup64-95.
I appreciate it is not cutting edge but I only needed it for one external application NZBGet.
I have stuck to it simply as everything appeared to work OTB and I just updated the applications when it is was possible. There are some applications that could do with an update due to security however, there a bit beyond me at the moment!!
Good balance of basic applications and a low memory footprint.
Also, I am using it from a small USB flash drive, so being able to do this is important. I did use external SSD's, external 2.5" SATA drives but realised that if I kept adding applications in my Save file that it just ate up my memory. So, sticking to a small flash drive ensures that I only update/add only essential updates.
Do you want to create a POLL to see which builds are being used by members? ........ I didn't want to hijack the thread by creating one! The option is available when you create a new thread.
I know it might not be truly representative as only members who engage in the poll will answer.
For me it is Vanilladpup 9.3.x
It is very solid and I can upgrade or not as I see fit depending on what security fix or feather I want. 
Woof to all!
from Je 2019 .. Feb 2023 -> uPupBB32, with Libre Office 5.3 (or 5.4).
Feb 2023 .. date of posting -> uPubBB64 with Libre Office 7.something.
Upgraded because I lost the HDD used for booting.
Newer is better, yes? Not necessarily so. Discovered "32" had capability not found in "64", specifically the ability to cut and paste easily from the terminal in "32". Maybe "64" has it; but I can't find it. Will return to "32" if I can't. The terminal can do some tasks very quickly - and even in a way that simply isn't possible in a GUI. (many thanks @peebee for "32").
(Sooner or later PeeBee is going to get sick of my many 'thanks' - but really! "32" is a very neat package.)
cobaka.
@cobaka
Copy & paste in terminal, see here: viewtopic.php?t=5750
wizard
Daily Driver at the moment is KLV-airedale which is installed on 6 different laptops and a couple USB drives, though I'm still somewhat dependent on jackalpup, the fossapup pro-audio remaster also installed in those devices. Between those two distros I've got a lot of computing power at my disposal.
That being said I'm slowly building some KLA installs up to working condition, along with F-96, and I have vanillaDpup9.2 in working order.
Here's a look at a fun 500GB USB thumb drive. It contains 10 forum distros, and a whole lot of data and portable applications that are shared between them.
f96-CE - waiting for the final release
cobaka wrote: ↑Fri Mar 24, 2023 12:42 amWoof to all!
from Je 2019 .. Feb 2023 -> uPupBB32, with Libre Office 5.3 (or 5.4).
Feb 2023 .. date of posting -> uPubBB64 with Libre Office 7.something.Upgraded because I lost the HDD used for booting.
Newer is better, yes? Not necessarily so. Discovered "32" had capability not found in "64", specifically the ability to cut and paste easily from the terminal in "32". Maybe "64" has it; but I can't find it. Will return to "32" if I can't. The terminal can do some tasks very quickly - and even in a way that simply isn't possible in a GUI. (many thanks @peebee for "32").(Sooner or later PeeBee is going to get sick of my many 'thanks' - but really! "32" is a very neat package.)
cobaka.
If your Bionicpup64 doesn't already have lxterminal, you can install it via Puppy Package Manager and, once again, have an easy way to cut and paste.
Windows 11/Edge
My main driver is still Mint-Mate. That is only because I cannot get my financial program running in any of the 7 or 8 Puppies that
I also use, day to day. (I tried to use nicOS Utility to make an sfs out of the program's deb file, to no avail.)
None of my utilities are package convertion tools. I think another GUI utility called PADS was specifically created as a conversion tool to convert different package files to sfs files. Horses for courses.
@amethyst My error-sorry, I meant to type PADS, but typed your GREAT utility instead. Thanks for the correction.
Okay but you've mentioned that you couldn't do the conversion? If so there are alternative methods like extracting the contents of the deb package with Uextract and then making the sfs with Packit for example.
@amethyst Thank you again. I had forgotten about that.