I've got the new eee seashell and I've been tinkering with puppy for a few weeks now. I built a custom kernel and got the boot time down to 15 seconds so far (I think 10 is possible). I just tried out the new Xorg on it and I haven't had any problems with it - DRI2 and KMS are working. I also just d...

Thanks a bunch! This allows kernel modesetting to work properly. The native 1024x600 console looks sweet and no more flicker when starting Xorg. All it needs now is the synaptics module!

My main interest is being able to run completely in memory so I can park my HD to save power. Kind of like puppy's flash mode, only no mounted save files on disk. However I see no reason you couldn't have Xvesa start right up with the existing architecture. I'm not sure what the issues there would b...

I have the eee 1005ha. The .29 kernel worked ok except for suspend/resume, the ethernet driver, the boot time was a lot longer than I wanted it to be, and it seemed to use more power than the ubuntu kernel for some reason. I ended up compiling a custom 2.6.30.5 kernel, got the boot time down to 13 s...

I managed to successfully replace the kernel from 4.3 beta with the jaunty array kernel and get it to work. But it's not easy and you will likely need to debug random problems with modules not loading properly. There's a pet with a tool that will allow you to modify the sfs file to add the kernel mo...

I tried this just for kicks. I dumped the entire contents of a puppy full install into the initrd. It turns out to boot much slower and take a lot more ram (since the sfs is compressed, and seems to remain compressed in memory, whereas the initrd has to be uncompressed before loading). You'd definit...

You can save a significant amount of boot time by disabling probing the usb devices in the init script if you are booting from a non-usb drive. I suggest adding a parameter similar to pdev1 to tell puppy the boot media does not need usb. I have tested this myself and it works with no problems and sa...