It just struck me that there are a lot of similarities between the two things. Linux is a lingua franca between devices. It's a system which is constructed very intentionally with much deliberation by a wide consortium of academics with different interests and purposes. Total nonsense. Except for a ...

This afternoon everything was sailing along on a calm sea. This evening the sea is choppy -- instead of idling most of the time my CPU is constantly cycling every 4 or 5 seconds between 15% and 25%. What have I done now? *************PAUSE************* Well, it’s not too often that I halfway solve a ...

Thanks Bernie_by_the_Sea for your answer. A follow up question, is it worthwhile running toram from a usb stick (following the same reasoning in your answer)? No, I don't think so in ordinary circumstances... but if the system will be up and running for long periods and if there is a good amount of ...

"It wouldn’t load into RAM from a frugal install..." What is the point of running toram from a frugal install? Is anything gained? Sure, speed. RAM is always faster than a drive. Less wear and tear on the drive, too. Without the toram instruction Knoppix runs from the drive. Since toram always has a ...

title Knoppix 6.4.3 Adriane (Poor Man's HD install) kernel (hd0,2)/knoppixboot/isolinux/linux knoppix apm=power-off screen=1024x768 nomce BOOT_IMAGE=knoppix initrd (hd0,2)/knoppixboot/isolinux/minirt.gz I am not sure if this one is needed apm=power-off or this one nomce What is that about? apm ...

Bernie_by_the_Sea wrote:For the next ten days I'll run Puppy without a firewall.

rcrsn51 wrote: What kind of Internet connection do you have? Are you behind any kind of router? Are you using an external or internal IP address?

Dialup, no router, external.

Knoppix runs only from the CD...IE doesnt load programs into ram, and thus any speed compared to Puppy is really an unfair fight... I was so intent on responding to the notion that Knoppix runs only from CD that I failed to make another important comment. Knoppix can be loaded into RAM from the CD ...

So I don't trust that one can run Puppy without firewall at all. For the next ten days I'll run Puppy without a firewall. When I "upgraded" from Mepis 3.3 to 8.5 a couple of months back I didn't realize the default was firewall off. I ran it over two weeks without a firewall and most of that time I ...

For what it's worth: http://www.pcflank.com has been around about as long as Gibson's ShieldsUp. Using Puppy's firewall PCFlank in its quick test reports: Warning! The test found visible port(s) on your system: 21, 23, 80, 135, 137, 138, 139, 1080, 3128 ShieldsUP says they're stealthed. Take your ...

By accident I stumbled across this post today in which nooby states he has ADHD. In light of this revelation I offer him my apology. Although how I could have known about this before criticizing his English I can not imagine. Nooby's language is very picturesque. The quality also varies from time ...

Knoppix runs only from the CD... Is that so? For years I've run Knoppix both as a full and frugal install. I used a CD/DVD only to install it. A full install of Knoppix makes it a mini-Debian easily converted into a full Debian. It's easier to install than a regular Debian distro. The Debian people ...

Now.... Who ever said Puppy wants to be a #1 mainstream distro..? The end all and do it all of Linux??? Puppy has a niche, and fills it well... A smaller, lighter distro, well stocked OOTB, runs on older hardware, etc... This is the point that some of the most vocal advocates of Puppy on this forum ...

http://puppylinuxnews.org/puplets/puppy421multiuseriso/

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=47409

Bernie_by_the_Sea " If you want something that works, buy Win7. ' ////// Enough Bernie. Tell me you are pulling our chain. Complete freakin' horseshit. Now I don't mind sarcasm. Abuse...yeah! I can take it. But you overstep the line. I'm quite serious. Linux in all its many variations has captured ...

As for "opening up an old topic - this is a question again of BLURRING results of a search. The more lines a user has to read to INSTALL FIREFOX - the less effective the forum becomes for answering questions. If I type INSTALL FIREFOX in the search box ideally it would return ONE ITEM - and that ...

For those few who are unable to differentiate trolls and legitimate critics, here’s an image of my new and improved Wary, the result of adding more than eighty pet, deb, rpm and tar packages and making more than 300 tweaks. It took me more than 150 hours to get Wary the way I wanted it (and I’m not f ...

Try running compiz effects in Puppy. Try running a heavily DirectX-dependent 3D game in Wine on Knoppix or Puppy. Chances are, it will work half as often as it will in Ubuntu. I have gotten Aion, Shaiya, Talisman, both Left 4 Dead's, Black Ops, (I hate that game, btw) and Star Wars: Force Unleashed ...

@Bernie_by_the_Sea if you think you have leadership skills go right ahead and select a project and lead it. puppy would be grateful for any such project that you do succeed in, but you may find that leading a group of highly talented voluntary workers requires skills that you have yet to learn ...

The highly active Puppy forums coupled with extremely weak leadership by Barry has led to the mess Puppy is today. Sure it works, all fifty-five versions some totally incompatible with the others. Actually, there are only three official versions: Lucid Puppy , Quirky and Wary . Naming the three ...

Yes, but you act as though Ubuntu lacks power or something. You said it was inferior in the Linux world. It's very simple to change the environment and make it just as lightweight as Puppy. The buntu family has more compatibility than any other distro. I said nothing about any lack of power. All ...