Quirky7-light 32&64 bit - April 2020
Posted: Fri 20 Mar 2020, 04:15
Final (Sort of) Releases:
april-7.0.1F-uefi.iso
Size: 117 Mb
md5sum: 6cae0db87dfcbb107a4ab4c033fe9454
april64-7.0.1F-uefi.iso
Size: 121 Mb
md5sum b25d72366d31bbc63ab812828053552f
Special Zoom Edition (2nd Attempt):
april64-zoomB-7.0.1-uefi.iso
Size: 194 Mb
md5sum ab2b63e8779ec1fca5f85b806456e735
See here
In my continuing quest for small, efficient OS's suitable for use on older ram challenged machines, I have reworked the two Quirky Aprils from BarryK, the master of efficient, unbloated compiling. They are the direct descendants of Puppy Wary5 and Racy5 and share much of the same characteristics. Both of these include mesa graphics accelerations so should meet your video needs. (unless you have nvidia?)
My adaptations use the initrd.gz, huge-kernel, pupsave and other features of WoofCE. With these they can be frugally installed, will save to a folder on a linux filesystem drive or onto the boot CD/DVD. You can switch kernels with "Change Kernels" on the Setup Menu.
I have included my PortaBrowseInstaller with your choice of FireFox, Palemoon or Vivaldi. Just click the Browse icon on the Desktop or go to Menu->Internet. You may choose to make one of them your DefaultBrowser at the end of installing. You can also use Menu->Setup->DefaultApplicationsChooser at any time. So far they have run every browser I have tried (except for Slimjet , FIXED ). Run as Spot is included as well.
Cups printing, Xsane or Peasyscan scanning, Libreoffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc. can be installed with PuppyPackageManager. Just be careful, Quirky-April has redundant packages, look at the dependencies listed and make sure there are no duplicates. Softmaker Freeoffice runs quite well. ted-2.23-i386.deb & ted-2.23-amd64.deb are very lightweight wordprocessor alternatives.
I'm looking for feedback so please give them a try. Thanks to everybody whose helped so far, most especially to watchdog who has spotted several problems and provided the solutions as well.
Cheers, J
april-7.0.1F-uefi.iso
Size: 117 Mb
md5sum: 6cae0db87dfcbb107a4ab4c033fe9454
april64-7.0.1F-uefi.iso
Size: 121 Mb
md5sum b25d72366d31bbc63ab812828053552f
Special Zoom Edition (2nd Attempt):
april64-zoomB-7.0.1-uefi.iso
Size: 194 Mb
md5sum ab2b63e8779ec1fca5f85b806456e735
See here
In my continuing quest for small, efficient OS's suitable for use on older ram challenged machines, I have reworked the two Quirky Aprils from BarryK, the master of efficient, unbloated compiling. They are the direct descendants of Puppy Wary5 and Racy5 and share much of the same characteristics. Both of these include mesa graphics accelerations so should meet your video needs. (unless you have nvidia?)
My adaptations use the initrd.gz, huge-kernel, pupsave and other features of WoofCE. With these they can be frugally installed, will save to a folder on a linux filesystem drive or onto the boot CD/DVD. You can switch kernels with "Change Kernels" on the Setup Menu.
I have included my PortaBrowseInstaller with your choice of FireFox, Palemoon or Vivaldi. Just click the Browse icon on the Desktop or go to Menu->Internet. You may choose to make one of them your DefaultBrowser at the end of installing. You can also use Menu->Setup->DefaultApplicationsChooser at any time. So far they have run every browser I have tried (except for Slimjet , FIXED ). Run as Spot is included as well.
Cups printing, Xsane or Peasyscan scanning, Libreoffice, Abiword, Gnumeric, etc. can be installed with PuppyPackageManager. Just be careful, Quirky-April has redundant packages, look at the dependencies listed and make sure there are no duplicates. Softmaker Freeoffice runs quite well. ted-2.23-i386.deb & ted-2.23-amd64.deb are very lightweight wordprocessor alternatives.
I'm looking for feedback so please give them a try. Thanks to everybody whose helped so far, most especially to watchdog who has spotted several problems and provided the solutions as well.
Cheers, J