Best Puppy version Poll
Since puppy is my main OS, currently Newyearspup02rc7Eclipse (Cairo Dock, lxpanel, and Pcman). Working with Upup417(want lxpanel and pcman). That is for my laptop(Compaq Presario F700).
I've also put a Desktop together with parts scavenged from PC's people would have threw away, Dell Dimension 4100 base, I use Lighthouse 301, works great and I love KDE 3.5.
Also, I have a SanDisk Cruzer Freedom USB (1G) which i installed 4.2 on and used to fix my messed up Grub that wouldn't boot. Works like a dream
I actually believe there isn't a Puppy I don't like. It depends on what machine it's on and what it's purpose is. I fix friends computers at times and install Puppies on them all. Small and powerful. I've used every puppy I ever found.
Thanks to Barry K., MU, Tuxxx, WhoDo, and everyon who has contributed to what I feel is the best system for any PC ever.
I've also put a Desktop together with parts scavenged from PC's people would have threw away, Dell Dimension 4100 base, I use Lighthouse 301, works great and I love KDE 3.5.
Also, I have a SanDisk Cruzer Freedom USB (1G) which i installed 4.2 on and used to fix my messed up Grub that wouldn't boot. Works like a dream
I actually believe there isn't a Puppy I don't like. It depends on what machine it's on and what it's purpose is. I fix friends computers at times and install Puppies on them all. Small and powerful. I've used every puppy I ever found.
Thanks to Barry K., MU, Tuxxx, WhoDo, and everyon who has contributed to what I feel is the best system for any PC ever.
4.1.2 is still the best
The new desktop widgets are ugly in 4.2
I do not like things hanging on the edge of the desktop, the top widget is totally lame. I have a small screen on the laptop with a fixed res of 1024x768 and even on previous puppy version the desktop icons do not line up right.
4.2 felt kludgy and slow.
if I could only use upups ubuntu repositories.......
I do not like things hanging on the edge of the desktop, the top widget is totally lame. I have a small screen on the laptop with a fixed res of 1024x768 and even on previous puppy version the desktop icons do not line up right.
4.2 felt kludgy and slow.
if I could only use upups ubuntu repositories.......
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Re: 4.1.2 is still the best
did you try puppies 4.2?Doglover wrote:The new desktop widgets are ugly in 4.2
I do not like things hanging on the edge of the desktop, the top widget is totally lame. I have a small screen on the laptop with a fixed res of 1024x768 and even on previous puppy version the desktop icons do not line up right.
4.2 felt kludgy and slow.
if I could only use upups ubuntu repositories.......
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40852
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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G'day,
Puppy 3.01 retro - it works beautifully on my fairly new lappy - it works well on my 10+ yr old computers,it has slackware compatibility, has been very stable (never had an issue with it unless I fiddle with things - can't help myself), it just works (detects all my laptop hardware without breaking a sweat), looks awesome with MUs KDE sfs and I've been using it for more than 12 mths (only used win 98 longer).
All my critical business work entries ares done in 3.01 retro - having found it so stable I now trust it to those tasks.
Also, strangely i'm regularly able to use programmes compiled for Puppy 4
It straddles the old and the new worlds very comfortably (It gets left behind with the latest tech though). For me it's like my old pair of slippers - used, a little dated, looking a little neglected but so comfortable! I just can't throw it away.
Cheers
Martin
Errr my second choice is newyearspup - cos it looks so AWESOME!
Puppy 3.01 retro - it works beautifully on my fairly new lappy - it works well on my 10+ yr old computers,it has slackware compatibility, has been very stable (never had an issue with it unless I fiddle with things - can't help myself), it just works (detects all my laptop hardware without breaking a sweat), looks awesome with MUs KDE sfs and I've been using it for more than 12 mths (only used win 98 longer).
All my critical business work entries ares done in 3.01 retro - having found it so stable I now trust it to those tasks.
Also, strangely i'm regularly able to use programmes compiled for Puppy 4
It straddles the old and the new worlds very comfortably (It gets left behind with the latest tech though). For me it's like my old pair of slippers - used, a little dated, looking a little neglected but so comfortable! I just can't throw it away.
Cheers
Martin
Errr my second choice is newyearspup - cos it looks so AWESOME!
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If you like 3.0.1 retro you might like the lite Fire Hydrant retro 3.0.1 version located at http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31049legendofthor wrote:G'day,
Puppy 3.01 retro - it works beautifully on my fairly new lappy - it works well on my 10+ yr old computers,it has slackware compatibility, has been very stable (never had an issue with it unless I fiddle with things - can't help myself), it just works (detects all my laptop hardware without breaking a sweat), looks awesome with MUs KDE sfs and I've been using it for more than 12 mths (only used win 98 longer).
All my critical business work entries ares done in 3.01 retro - having found it so stable I now trust it to those tasks.
Also, strangely i'm regularly able to use programmes compiled for Puppy 4
It straddles the old and the new worlds very comfortably (It gets left behind with the latest tech though). For me it's like my old pair of slippers - used, a little dated, looking a little neglected but so comfortable! I just can't throw it away.
Cheers
Martin
Errr my second choice is newyearspup - cos it looks so AWESOME!
Its pretty good
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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@Sage......
however,...I find that Puppy 4.1.2 does all I need, but I am also a very big fan of 3.01 (and keep the CD). I just may install it permanently on my old HP Vectra. It was my first Puppy,...and I just love it.
....that's what I am afraid of,....I get the feeling that Puppy is heading for oblivion like so many before it.
however,...I find that Puppy 4.1.2 does all I need, but I am also a very big fan of 3.01 (and keep the CD). I just may install it permanently on my old HP Vectra. It was my first Puppy,...and I just love it.
For me the best distro is the one that works the best for you. On an okd machine I went from 1.04 to 109ce but dropped back to 106 because tht's the one that worked best on that one.
On this machine everything to 4.10 but just dropped back to 2.17 because it's given me the least trouble.
TRhe 4.x series was fairly good but the final straw came with a pinboard error and the loss of all my icons.
On this machine everything to 4.10 but just dropped back to 2.17 because it's given me the least trouble.
TRhe 4.x series was fairly good but the final straw came with a pinboard error and the loss of all my icons.
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Yeah, there are still some irritating faults with the 4 series. It doesn't reliably recognise and mount all my partitions, for example, and the installed gtk 2.x libraries don't seem very stable as witness the fact that Foxit Reader keeps crashing.
Tazoc seems to have overcome most of them with his Lighthouse puplet though, and that's still one of my favourite ones. The 3 series Pups I've tried are a good "bridge" between the 2 and 4 series Pups but keep locking up with flashing scroll and caps lock lights when the CPU load gets near 100%. It may well be a fault with my machine rather than Puppy but it's still something I have to factor in when deciding which one to run.
The 2.14 based Puplets like Rudy and Teenpup are very good and extremely well featured but seem to have a weakness with the browsers. SeaMonkey freezes when you open more than a small number of windows and Firefox tends to crash. I generally get round it by installing Opera (and perhaps deleting Flash and Java which I rarely need).
Tazoc seems to have overcome most of them with his Lighthouse puplet though, and that's still one of my favourite ones. The 3 series Pups I've tried are a good "bridge" between the 2 and 4 series Pups but keep locking up with flashing scroll and caps lock lights when the CPU load gets near 100%. It may well be a fault with my machine rather than Puppy but it's still something I have to factor in when deciding which one to run.
The 2.14 based Puplets like Rudy and Teenpup are very good and extremely well featured but seem to have a weakness with the browsers. SeaMonkey freezes when you open more than a small number of windows and Firefox tends to crash. I generally get round it by installing Opera (and perhaps deleting Flash and Java which I rarely need).
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Not any more The 2 series I'm rebuilding, has the latest just about everything, and the latest seamonkey also, I'm in the middle of building it and well since yesterday I've had over 40+ pages open at once and it didn't crash, I'm lazy like that, lol I always have a habit of opening a new tab, and once I get too many open and its frustrating, I just close them all and start over, lol The default seamonkey in series 2 had a pango fault which could lead to what you described, I'm using the latest version I compiled yesterday and its running really nice:)Colonel Panic wrote: The 2.14 based Puplets like Rudy and Teenpup are very good and extremely well featured but seem to have a weakness with the browsers. SeaMonkey freezes when you open more than a small number of windows and Firefox tends to crash. I generally get round it by installing Opera (and perhaps deleting Flash and Java which I rarely need).
Maybe another 2-3 days and I might have something to release, last check I had over 50 current packages compiled/installed, it takes some time to sort out what goes in the iso, what goes in the compiler and what goes in the bin,lol, Probably won't be too big, maybe 115MB, due to I'm not going to get rid of things it should have just for size, like font config, gettext, Things work better when they are fully functional.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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I loved SimlePup, Puppy 2.12 and also 4.0-4.1.2
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