Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Xenialpup CE 7.5 / 25 Nov 2017
Xenialpup CE 7.5
this is xenialpup CE built with 32bit ubuntu xenial xerus 16.04 libs.
kernel 4.4.95
JWM, Rox, palemoon, deadbeef, mpv, simple-screen-recorder, pburn, mtpaint, claws-mail, geany, osmo, hexchat, abiword, gnumeric, urxvt, urxvtcontrol ,JWMdesk, simplegtkradio, packit, uextract, cups, samba and lots more.
Including the brilliant puppy icon theme by 01micko http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00016
thanks to all the developers, contributors & testers!
Xenialpup was only possible because of 'woofCE', forked from woof created by Barry k, maintained by 01micko, wdlkmpx, mavrothal, iguleder, zigbert and contributed to by various others.... all the hard work went on there
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Max Mustermann kindly let me use his picture as a background. you can see more of his stuff here...
https://plus.google.com/111729541566365 ... att32Q4mYu
edward carter also kindly let me use his picture as a background, and you can see more of his stuff here...
http://www.dotmund.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/dotmundart
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Minimum System Requirements
Recommended: 1000MHz 1gb RAM and either bootable cd
access, usb boot, sdcard or network boot access. A Hard Drive is not required
Downloads
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-xenial/32/
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/pup ... xenial/32/
for the kernel sources type sfsget into a terminal
note: there's a 64bit xenialpup available here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
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happy puppin
this is xenialpup CE built with 32bit ubuntu xenial xerus 16.04 libs.
kernel 4.4.95
JWM, Rox, palemoon, deadbeef, mpv, simple-screen-recorder, pburn, mtpaint, claws-mail, geany, osmo, hexchat, abiword, gnumeric, urxvt, urxvtcontrol ,JWMdesk, simplegtkradio, packit, uextract, cups, samba and lots more.
Including the brilliant puppy icon theme by 01micko http://blog.puppylinux.com/?viewDetailed=00016
thanks to all the developers, contributors & testers!
Xenialpup was only possible because of 'woofCE', forked from woof created by Barry k, maintained by 01micko, wdlkmpx, mavrothal, iguleder, zigbert and contributed to by various others.... all the hard work went on there
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Max Mustermann kindly let me use his picture as a background. you can see more of his stuff here...
https://plus.google.com/111729541566365 ... att32Q4mYu
edward carter also kindly let me use his picture as a background, and you can see more of his stuff here...
http://www.dotmund.co.uk/
http://www.facebook.com/dotmundart
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Minimum System Requirements
Recommended: 1000MHz 1gb RAM and either bootable cd
access, usb boot, sdcard or network boot access. A Hard Drive is not required
Downloads
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-xenial/32/
https://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/pup ... xenial/32/
for the kernel sources type sfsget into a terminal
note: there's a 64bit xenialpup available here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
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happy puppin
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Bionicpup64 built with bionic beaver packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Xenialpup64, built with xenial xerus packages http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=107331
Works! Posting from it now. Feels smooth and fast. Good work 666philb!
Update: Palemoon started to get really laggy after about 40 minutes and slowed everything down to a crawl (100% CPU usage), not sure why as all I had open was a few Puppy Forum tabs. Right-clicking it and pressing Kill fixed it for now.
Update: Palemoon started to get really laggy after about 40 minutes and slowed everything down to a crawl (100% CPU usage), not sure why as all I had open was a few Puppy Forum tabs. Right-clicking it and pressing Kill fixed it for now.
Last edited by moeppyfan on Fri 15 Apr 2016, 17:47, edited 1 time in total.
Had time to do a quick manual frugal install. Basics all working ootb.
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root# inxi -Fxx
System: Host: puppypc3164 Kernel: 3.14.0 i686 (32 bit gcc: 5.3.1)
Desktop: JWM 2.3.5 dm: N/A Distro: xenial 7.0.0
Machine: Mobo: ASUSTeK model: M5A97 LE R2.0 v: Rev 1.xx serial: 150545593600028
Bios: American Megatrends v: 2601 date: 03/24/2015
CPU: Hexa core AMD FX-6300 Six-Core (-MCP-) cache: 12288 KB
flags: (lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 svm) bmips: 42141
clock speeds: min/max: 1400/3500 MHz 1: 1400 MHz
2: 1400 MHz 3: 1400 MHz 4: 1400 MHz 5: 1400 MHz
6: 3500 MHz
Graphics: Card: NVIDIA GT218 [GeForce 210]
bus-ID: 01:00.0 chip-ID: 10de:0a65
Display Server: X.org 1.18.3 drivers: nouveau (unloaded: vesa)
tty size: 68x23 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card-1 NVIDIA High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 01:00.1 chip-ID: 10de:0be3
Card-2 Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
driver: snd_hda_intel bus-ID: 00:14.2 chip-ID: 1002:4383
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k3.14.0
Network: Card: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
driver: r8169 v: 2.3LK-NAPI port: d000
bus-ID: 02:00.0 chip-ID: 10ec:8168
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 100 Mbps duplex: full
mac: 1c:87:2c:5a:bb:e2
Drives: HDD Total Size: 1120.2GB (0.7% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: KINGSTON_SV300S3 size: 120.0GB serial: N/A
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: WDC_WD10EZEX size: 1000.2GB serial: N/A
ID-1: swap-1 size: 8.60GB used: 0.00GB (0%) fs: swap dev: /dev/sdb5
RAID: System: supported: linear raid0 raid1 raid10 raid6 raid5 raid4
No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Unused Devices: none
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 125 Uptime: 5 min Memory: 218.2/16148.6MB
Init: SysVinit v: N/A runlevel: 5 Gcc sys: N/A
Client: Shell (bash 4.3.291 running in urxvt) inxi: 2.2.35
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root# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 16536188 889240 15646948 0 98824
-/+ buffers: 790416 15745772
Swap: 8396796 0 8396796
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A small first finding....
When Frisbee is started from the Welcome screen, the wifi key is corrupted when entered and so the connection is not successful.
Frisbee called from the desktop icon or from the terminal works OK.
Have seen this type of problem before - may be some sort of GTK2+ theme problem....will investigate further.
Otherwise initial tests went OK.
Cheers
peebee
When Frisbee is started from the Welcome screen, the wifi key is corrupted when entered and so the connection is not successful.
Frisbee called from the desktop icon or from the terminal works OK.
Have seen this type of problem before - may be some sort of GTK2+ theme problem....will investigate further.
Otherwise initial tests went OK.
Cheers
peebee
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
These are the errors that are being added to the typed wifi key (0123456789 was typed)
Line 0: Invalid passphrase length 235 (expected: 8..63) 'Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
0123456789"'.
LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64
- BarryK
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Great that 666philb is embarking on a Xenial Xerus pup!peebee wrote:These are the errors that are being added to the typed wifi key (0123456789 was typed)Line 0: Invalid passphrase length 235 (expected: 8..63) 'Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2028
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0x2029
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfff9
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffa
Unable to update the static FcBlanks: 0xfffb
0123456789"'.
I posted about this FcBlanks error:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 326#899326
[url]https://bkhome.org/news/[/url]
Thanks again for very usable and useful pups.
Have frugal installed on a 250gb hard drive on a couple of 2009 vintage Dell Inspiron 1545 machines, one single core other dual core. No real problems, but seems to run about 5deg C hotter than Trusty.
Battery icon seems stuck at 95% capacity on mains or battery only.
No indication that usb drive icon is mounted or not, but drives work fine.
Internet fine (speedometer monitored) and shows good speeds via wifi both fixed line or mobile access using TPlink router. (However Pale Moon was a bit slow coming up with results with a speedchecker - but this could be me!)
Have frugal installed on a 250gb hard drive on a couple of 2009 vintage Dell Inspiron 1545 machines, one single core other dual core. No real problems, but seems to run about 5deg C hotter than Trusty.
Battery icon seems stuck at 95% capacity on mains or battery only.
No indication that usb drive icon is mounted or not, but drives work fine.
Internet fine (speedometer monitored) and shows good speeds via wifi both fixed line or mobile access using TPlink router. (However Pale Moon was a bit slow coming up with results with a speedchecker - but this could be me!)
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Thanks for this one, I'll have a look later. Abiword crashes anyway (or at least the recent ones do) so I wouldn't worry about it. I've long ago learnt to never use it for anything mission critical.
Gigabyte M68MT-52P motherboard, AMD Athlon II X4 630, 5.8 GB of DDR3 RAM and a 250 GB Hitachi hard drive running Ubuntu 16.04.6, MX-19.2, Peppermint 10, PCLinuxOS 20.02, LXLE 18.04.3, Pardus 19.2, exGENT 200119, Bionic Pup 8.0 and Xenial CE 7.5 XL.
Abiword 2.8.6 will be accepted by users, don't worry.
Abiword crashes, easy to solve, provide version 2.8.6.
I AM NOT A BUSINESS MAN
Business is not the cup of tea of people buying a computer
DVD Players , check for a good one, able to select chapters !
Puppy Xenialpup ready for use ? Check the menu ...
I AM NOT A BUSINESS MAN
Business is not the cup of tea of people buying a computer
DVD Players , check for a good one, able to select chapters !
Puppy Xenialpup ready for use ? Check the menu ...
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I managed to manually create a lightencrypted savefile which is working. Read:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 685#728685
and following posts. I can print postscript files (print first to file using postscript and then "lp -c file.ps"). I have a working skype using tahr pulseaudio and libraries from tahr. I have builded an sfs but it does not properly work for me without installing apart the tahr pulseaudio pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 429#860429
skype4.3xenial_7.0.0.sfs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 685#728685
and following posts. I can print postscript files (print first to file using postscript and then "lp -c file.ps"). I have a working skype using tahr pulseaudio and libraries from tahr. I have builded an sfs but it does not properly work for me without installing apart the tahr pulseaudio pet:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 429#860429
skype4.3xenial_7.0.0.sfs:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9iMb4 ... sp=sharing
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setting a wacom tablet
Hi 666philb,
great work again !
I got a try to get an old usb Wacom Volito tablet working on Xenial:
- only /etc/X11/xorg.conf needs editing and adding the "wacom bits" as follow (should be enough ...BUT):
and afterwards after the Keyboard0 section
«Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
...
EndSection»
..BUT: after restarting X, the wacom tablet still does not work ...
Looking at /dev/input: there should be a symlink /dev/input/wacom pointing to the event (here event3 - might be also 4) relevant for the usb tablet (read /proc/bus/input/devices to find which event id).
And that symlink should be automaticaly generated by a kind of wacom.rules files located in /etc/udev/rules.d or also in /lib/idv/rules.d.
How to fix it:
1. To get that symlink automatically generated, replacing the existing /lib/udev/rules.d/69-wacom.rules
by the following - given in attachment
/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.ruleswacom.rules
fixed it.
2. unplug and re-plug the wacom tablet, which creates the /dev/input/wacom symlink discussed above;
3. restart X to activate the wacom instructions contained in xorg.conf.
I cannot explain more as i only went to this by "cut and try" method by comparison with a working configuration (as also mainly by learnings from forum member Pizzasgood's 2007 initialized nice thread here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 828#104828 and following)
When the wacom tablet settings are working OK, the command
returns something like (lists the wacom tablet elements)
If it does not return anything , X does not "see" the tablet.
Best regards
Charlie
great work again !
I got a try to get an old usb Wacom Volito tablet working on Xenial:
- only /etc/X11/xorg.conf needs editing and adding the "wacom bits" as follow (should be enough ...BUT):
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Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
#from kernel 2.6.35 and later the "SendCoreEvents" after InputDevice is no longer required
InputDevice "stylus"
InputDevice "eraser"
InputDevice "cursor"
InputDevice "pad"
EndSection
«Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
...
EndSection»
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Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "stylus"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "USB" "on"
# Option "Mode" "Absolute"
Option "Mode" "Relative"
Option "GrabDevice" "1"
Option "AlwaysCore" "on"
Option "Speed" "1.0"
Option "Threshold" "5"
Option "CursorProx" "5"
# Option "Speed" "5"
# # Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Serial Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "eraser"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "USB" "on"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "cursor"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "Mode" "Relative"
Option "USB" "on"
Option "GrabDevice" "1"
# Option "CursorProx" "100"
Option "Speed" "1.0"
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "pad"
Driver "wacom"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
Option "Type" "pad"
Option "USB" "on"
# Option "SendCoreEvents" "false"
Option "ButtonsOnly" "on"
# Option "Button9" "2"
# Option "Button13" "3"
Option "Mode" "Absolute"
EndSection
# if you have a touch pad just uncomment the next section
#Section "InputDevice"
# Identifier "touch"
# Driver "wacom"
# Option "Device" "/dev/input/wacom"
# Option "Type" "touch"
# Option "USB" "on"
# EndSection
Looking at /dev/input: there should be a symlink /dev/input/wacom pointing to the event (here event3 - might be also 4) relevant for the usb tablet (read /proc/bus/input/devices to find which event id).
And that symlink should be automaticaly generated by a kind of wacom.rules files located in /etc/udev/rules.d or also in /lib/idv/rules.d.
How to fix it:
1. To get that symlink automatically generated, replacing the existing /lib/udev/rules.d/69-wacom.rules
by the following - given in attachment
/lib/udev/rules.d/69-xserver-xorg-input-wacom.ruleswacom.rules
fixed it.
2. unplug and re-plug the wacom tablet, which creates the /dev/input/wacom symlink discussed above;
3. restart X to activate the wacom instructions contained in xorg.conf.
I cannot explain more as i only went to this by "cut and try" method by comparison with a working configuration (as also mainly by learnings from forum member Pizzasgood's 2007 initialized nice thread here http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 828#104828 and following)
When the wacom tablet settings are working OK, the command
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# xsetwacom --list devices
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sh-3.00# xsetwacom --list devices
stylus id: 8 type: STYLUS
eraser id: 9 type: ERASER
cursor id: 10 type: CURSOR
pad id: 11 type: PAD
sh-3.00#
Best regards
Charlie
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pup_event_frontend_d to be manually activated
Hi 666philb,
have noticed this on a pristine installation of Xenialpup 7.0.0:
clicking on a disk icon (here sda6) opens a rox window showing sda6 directory; and a green flag pops up in the upper-right corner of the disks icon.
pmount shows that sda6 is mounted;
clicking on that green flag is expected to unmount the correcponding disk; and aftrwds to swith of that green flag.
Here, what happens:
when clicking on that green flag, pmount shows that the disk is effectively unmounted; but the green flag keeps displaying.
To switch it off, doing
in a console switch it off
Cheers, Charlie
have noticed this on a pristine installation of Xenialpup 7.0.0:
clicking on a disk icon (here sda6) opens a rox window showing sda6 directory; and a green flag pops up in the upper-right corner of the disks icon.
pmount shows that sda6 is mounted;
clicking on that green flag is expected to unmount the correcponding disk; and aftrwds to swith of that green flag.
Here, what happens:
when clicking on that green flag, pmount shows that the disk is effectively unmounted; but the green flag keeps displaying.
To switch it off, doing
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# pup_event_frontend_d
Cheers, Charlie
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Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
Version jump to seven Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
I will try Xenialpup, of course. I hope the quality as good than Tharpup.
"i've stuck with the 3.14 kernel for the moment as the 4.* versions" is that really important ? Don't worry, we shall wait as long as needed. Perhaps newbies not even should have remarked the kernel version..
"that it has both qt4 and qt5 libs" ah, that is the main progress, don't delete anything, that is the reason why xenial will bring us a plus.
New applications will be available in the menu ! if not, i shall explore and advise what to add in this xenial,
263MBs downloading 'for amusement, only' and new pleasures. ..
I will try Xenialpup, of course. I hope the quality as good than Tharpup.
"i've stuck with the 3.14 kernel for the moment as the 4.* versions" is that really important ? Don't worry, we shall wait as long as needed. Perhaps newbies not even should have remarked the kernel version..
"that it has both qt4 and qt5 libs" ah, that is the main progress, don't delete anything, that is the reason why xenial will bring us a plus.
New applications will be available in the menu ! if not, i shall explore and advise what to add in this xenial,
263MBs downloading 'for amusement, only' and new pleasures. ..
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Re: Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
Fido has improved ?Pelo wrote:Version jump to seven Tahrpup kept stuck to 6.0.
I think there is a sort of stigma with 4.x (Hurr, Durr Im'a Sheep) kernels for many because something worked before but didn't after, though in my cases this was usually because of missing drivers in the kernel build rather than a problem with the version itself. I remember reading according to Linus that they just switched from 3.x to 4.x because the 3.x number was getting too high and it wasn't really a "milestone" difference though (maybe 3.14 -> 3.18 and 3.18 -> 4.0 was about the same amount).Pelo wrote:"i've stuck with the 3.14 kernel for the moment as the 4.* versions" is that really important ? Don't worry, we shall wait as long as needed. Perhaps newbies not even should have remarked the kernel version..
Downloaded and made CD, boots fine, wifi works, freq scaling tool not working well (like in Tahrpup 6.0.(0,2,5).
Used universal installer to put on USB stick, would make to a ext 4, gave "need ExtLinux version 4 for frugal install on ext 4'. Took over 30 minutes to convert 32GB stick to ext3 from ext4., then everything locked up and had to hard boot. Fired up on slacko 5.7 (my 'base' puppy), 9 minutes to ext3 to ext 4 and back to ext3. Re-partitioned stick to 3 parts, 1 is ext 2, 2 is ext 3 and 3 is ext 4.
Back to Xenial CD, Universal installer ok with ext2 and ext3, same message with ext4. made sd2 (ext3) boot and 'folder' save file. Booted to Black screen,bricked, Booted from CD with USB plugged in, found savefile, booted to black screen, bricked.
Not working well with this machine:
Toshiba Satellite C55t-A
Intel Celeron CPU N2820 @2.13GHz , 2.13GHz
4.00 GB Ram
All Intel
This is somewhat normal for this machine, when I first got it, I spent a week trying every puppy I had (4.11 to 5.28, had to update the Bios so I could boot CSM, etc.)
downloaded a few more and made cds, only slacko 5.7.0 PAE (kernel is different than the one in the No-PAE) worked out of the box.
Tahr pup tried to work, just didn't do well. Vivid 6.5 works fine, as does slacko 6.3 and slacko64 6.3, Peppermint 6 works fine (will even boot uefi, s'boot off)
I'll keep checking back
Tom
Used universal installer to put on USB stick, would make to a ext 4, gave "need ExtLinux version 4 for frugal install on ext 4'. Took over 30 minutes to convert 32GB stick to ext3 from ext4., then everything locked up and had to hard boot. Fired up on slacko 5.7 (my 'base' puppy), 9 minutes to ext3 to ext 4 and back to ext3. Re-partitioned stick to 3 parts, 1 is ext 2, 2 is ext 3 and 3 is ext 4.
Back to Xenial CD, Universal installer ok with ext2 and ext3, same message with ext4. made sd2 (ext3) boot and 'folder' save file. Booted to Black screen,bricked, Booted from CD with USB plugged in, found savefile, booted to black screen, bricked.
Not working well with this machine:
Toshiba Satellite C55t-A
Intel Celeron CPU N2820 @2.13GHz , 2.13GHz
4.00 GB Ram
All Intel
This is somewhat normal for this machine, when I first got it, I spent a week trying every puppy I had (4.11 to 5.28, had to update the Bios so I could boot CSM, etc.)
downloaded a few more and made cds, only slacko 5.7.0 PAE (kernel is different than the one in the No-PAE) worked out of the box.
Tahr pup tried to work, just didn't do well. Vivid 6.5 works fine, as does slacko 6.3 and slacko64 6.3, Peppermint 6 works fine (will even boot uefi, s'boot off)
I'll keep checking back
Tom