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Posted: Sat 17 Jul 2010, 16:04
by ken geometrics
looseSCREWorTWO wrote:Another way to promote Puppy Linux to WinDOZE users is to go on PC online discussion forums where people are "pulling their hair out" cos XP has crashed or Windows 98 has a virus, or whatever, and put forward the idea of using Puppy Linux as a Rescue Disk. Often these folk are speechless when told they'll be able to access their trashed Hard Drive and save their data, or wipe the HD clean with Gparted prior to re-installing WinDOZE.
I have used Puppy to rescue data from messed up hard drives. When someone calls for help it is good to show up with the puppy disk and a very large memory stick. You can save their important files onto the stick.
If the disk is showing mechanical problems, you can use gparted to copy its contents into a partition on a new bigger hard disk. This can be the "D" drive in the future.
There are now a few WinXP machines in the world with a partition with Puppy and grub. This way, hopefully the person won't even need to hunt for the CD the next time XP mungs its self.
Posted: Sat 17 Jul 2010, 21:48
by postfs1
To reedit up to date.
Re: How YOU Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Sat 16 Apr 2011, 04:39
by Ed Howdershelt
> What else can we do to promote Puppy?
Send copies to the right people at the Salvation Army and Goodwill and let them make Puppy the nationwide default OS on the computers they sell.
Point out to them that reselling used computers with Win installed is illegal in most states, no matter whether they install it or it came that way.
Send copies to animal shelters, especially those with thrift shops which might occasionally sell a donated computer.
Design a version catering to use by veterinarians, Petco-type stores, and grooming shops. Play up the 'Puppy' reference.
Do a 'Cat' version? Lots of cat people out there. :)
Just maundering.
Ed
Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press
Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction
http://www.AbintraPress.com
Re: How YOU Can Promote Puppy
Posted: Mon 23 May 2011, 17:47
by increa
benali72 wrote:The more people who use Puppy, the larger and more vibrant our community will be. The better for all of us. (and the better for all those who will benefit from their use of Puppy).
What can each of us do to promote Puppy?
Here are a few ideas... add your own to this thread. Then go out and DO it!
* Add a mention or testimony about your use of Puppy to your existing web site
http://blog.increa.com/2011/puppy-linux-ver-5-2-5/
http://blog.increa.com/2006/puppy-linux-ver-211/
Posted: Mon 30 May 2011, 23:49
by blaarghalltheusernamesare
try to get schools to use it if they have old crappy computers.
Posted: Tue 31 May 2011, 02:41
by harii4
blaarghalltheusernamesare right,
try to get schools to use it if they have old crappy computers.
School's just extort more Tax money
- THINK OF THE POOR LITTLE CHILDREN?
They have to get the newest latest copy of windows or it hurts the children.
I offered that schools use it but got the government run-around.
we'll look into it or they get new hardware (+solfware) every two - three years.
ect...
I offered to give an "linux PC" to an church but got turn down.
Worried about their networks safety.
Posted: Tue 31 May 2011, 12:09
by blaarghalltheusernamesare
well our school definitely doesn't get new hardware every 3 years. they've even still got some pentium 1s in use.
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 06:30
by Bruce B
Do you guys talk to people and discover the majority don't know what Linux is, they've heard the word?
I ask because I haven't conducted a 'personal survey' since a few years back
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 09:01
by Sylvander
1. When I mention Puppy Linux to people in passing
...
No-one has ever heard of it. 
2. My wife and daughter [and son and his wife when visiting] go on the web using Lupu-526->Firefox-3.6.18 because that live CD-RW is in the drive at all times. 
They have no problem using it.
3. My son and his family moved to London last week, and he is trying to fix his laptop [restored the XP factory default install, but it's not working well], and get his desktop set up for use.
So he began making use of the Multipup CD-RW I gave him some time back, together with the matching copies of my own pupsave files I gave him.
At this point he has Boxpup-431 in use.
I'll give him a copy of my Lupu-526_CD-RW+Lupusave when he comes up here from London for a week beginning next week.
His Dell_Inspiron_6400 trackpad->[flickering] and keyboard->[mistyping] are malfunctioning in both Windows and Puppy.
Anyone know how to fix?
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 16:56
by russoodle
Sylvander wrote:1. When I mention Puppy Linux to people in passing
...
No-one has ever heard of it.
<snip>
Pretty much a similar reaction here.
My car wears a big Puppy Linux sticker stuck on the rear window, and i sometimes wonder how many motorists will Scroogle it..
Posted: Mon 08 Aug 2011, 22:04
by cthisbear
russoodle:
Talking of Scroogle.
Anyone here in OZ getting Scroogle to work.
I have this issue....misspelt ..I was fixing a laptop when posting.
http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-re ... -1&#bottom
Chris.
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 07:38
by russoodle
Hi Chris,
My Scroogling from here in SA (optusnet) has been and still is hunky dory....i just read your last post on whirlpool and your issue's now resolved, yes?
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 16:04
by dze
Hello everybody
I am from Serbia and 52 years and I think that good manners needs to write
something sometimes
So hi
I think this is my first post here because I do not know much about linux
to help growing Puppy which I allready used more than a year,like my sons two and my
wife too.It is wonderfull and enjoyfull and I feel very comfortable with Lucid 525.I
try to introduce to a few friends with half succses.
We have linux comunity and it is developing everyday but it is minor compare with Windows .
So we have some problems sometimes with our cirilic letters but we solve it with
good help of Dejan 555 because we share the same language I think
Long live PUPPY
Posted: Tue 09 Aug 2011, 21:58
by cthisbear
" just read your last post on whirlpool and your issue's now resolved, yes? "
Yes! How strange is that?
I am going to try that on my Telstra customers XP comp,
with Teamviewer, and see if it works for her.
Chris.
Blog power for puppy
Posted: Tue 04 Oct 2011, 15:11
by JackWagon
Posted: Wed 05 Oct 2011, 07:58
by Lobster
Is our mighty advertising machine (WOM - Word Of Mouth) and budget (two empty sardine cans) no match for the likes of Guigle and Microtheft?
Blag and blog
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 124#570124
Posted: Thu 06 Oct 2011, 04:29
by enhu
i have helped promote puppy linux thru my blog particularly mentioned in this
thread
please help like my blog's nomination link
http://www.facebook.com/bestcebublogs/posts/242588385792514
Posted: Sat 08 Oct 2011, 22:57
by jamalexa
blaarghalltheusernamesare wrote:try to get schools to use it if they have old crappy computers.
I've been trying for years to get my school to try Puppy. I have even installed Puppy on PI and II's but they look at some school with Windows laptops and they say - "We want those." Even though we don't have the money to purchase laptops, Vista or Win7. What's a computer teacher to do?
Posted: Sun 09 Oct 2011, 00:20
by puppyluvr
Hello,
I also have tried till I`m blue in the face..
I sometimes think if I told them it cost TWICE as much as Windows, they might listen...
I could list the reasons, but we all know them well....
Just seems like a no-brainer to me...
Maybe that`s the problem...
Posted: Tue 13 Dec 2011, 22:56
by RSH
puppyluvr wrote:Just seems like a no-brainer to me...
Maybe that`s the problem...
This is surely one of the problems. But if you remember: vegetables does not have a brain.
Another problem (imho) is the following:
Most windows users i know are criminals. I call them
criminal vegetables. Surely 90% of them (that i know) did not have a legal copy of xp, vista or win7. All the way them are using programs like firefox, vlc etc.pp.
Some yeas ago (it was in my long-term-offline-time) i asked somebody for a driver for an older 8-channel audio card. He grabbed the driver out of the www and burnt it on a cd. But this was not all he burnt at cd. He burnt also win me on this cd (while i was working with win 98, a legal copy!).
I am sure, if it has been possible, he would burnt the hardware as well on the cd.
So we not only should tell them it (puppy) costs twice. We also should tell them downloading and using puppy without registering is illegal. Perhaps there will be a rush for puppy linux.
RSH
