@Tsla :-
With those specs.....running UPupBB32? I wouldn't even go there. You won't have a very enjoyable experience.
From humble beginnings, when Puppies truly were very 'lightweight', as the years have passed, so even Puppies have inevitably got larger.....much of which has been necessary to ensure online security, and dependency-compatibility with newer apps & stuff as it's released. We seem to have an entire generation of 'lazy' coders nowadays. Gone are the days when resources were limited, and the idea was to make code run as efficiently as possible, to make the most of those limited resources.....16-32GB RAM, ultra-powerful CPUs, and terabytes of storage are the 'norm' nowadays, and the attitude seems to be, "Well, it's
there....let's USE it." This, of course, immediately puts at a disadvantage anyone who has older hardware with limited resources, because the software has been written with the express belief that EVERYONE runs that level of hardware.....
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Ask yourself this.....what is the one thing that everybody wants to be able to do nowadays?
Answer? To get on-line. (I'm not talking here about professionals, that NEED stuff like Photoshop, Lightroom, Final Cut Pro, for their livelihood.....I'm talking about your average Joe Bloggs. He
wants his FaceBook/Twitter and his NetFlix, yes?)
Most of Puppy's apps have been selected, over the years, to be small but feature-packed. We've all been brought up, across years of Windows use, to believe we MUST have the newest version of everything, ALL the time.....for security. That perceived "security" is far less necessary on this side of the fence; malware/ransomware is almost all written for Windows, and the robust Linux permissions system will see off 99.9% of anything that thinks it's got any kind of 'right' to make itself cosy in your system, wreaking havoc as it sees fit. In the case of Puppy, if it still works, and does what you want it to, there's really no need to update it...
But even
we need to keep our point of contact with the web - our browsers - up-to-date for security reasons.
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In your case, because of the nature of your hardware - low-powered, low-resources - you have to respect those limitations, and to use software which is sympathetic to the abilities your hardware DOES possess. This will inevitably mean running an older OS.
Trust me, I respect & understand the desire to run as new an OS & software as possible.....but it's a different mindset this side of the fence, with a different set of values, and different ways of approaching things. What you want to end up with is a lightweight OS that will not tax your limited resources, yet at the same time will make the most of what it CAN do.....while allowing you access to t'internet with a modern, secure browser, yet still leaving your machine reasonably sprightly. So; we concentrate on keeping the browser up-to-date, along with its 'support mechanisms' & dependencies that permit it to work, while leaving most of the rest of Puppy as the builder intended.
And UPupBB32 is going to be too 'heavy' to give you a decent experience. I have nothing but respect for peebee's boundless enthusiasm and his seemingly tireless efforts; he's one of our current most talented developers, and comes up with some truly amazing stuff.....but even he would be the first to admit that UPupBB32 would be too much for that little netbook.
I still say a variant of Precise 571 or its derivatives would be the kind of 'vintage' you want to be aiming for.
Mike.
), had seen fit to set those USB 2.0 ports as bootable in the BIOS, thereby stealing a march on much of the rest of the market. Many other manufacturers were a full 3 or 4 years behind Dell in implementing this functionality.