PUPPY VS VISTA

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ZAPPDOG · #1 Post by **ZAPPDOG** » Wed 08 Aug 2007, 17:49

HOWDY YA ALL
JUST A NOTE ABOUT WINDOZ NEW VISTA. I JUST DID A DUAL BOOT INSTALL WITH 2 HD. PUPPY OF COURSE ON ONE AND VISTA ON THE OTHER. FOR THOSE WANTING A BETTER O/S, DON'T LOOK TO VISTA (SIESTA). FIRST OF ALL IT IS HUGE ONCE INSTALLED. 6.8 G ON THE HD. XP IS BAD ENOUGH WITH A 1.5 G FOOTPRINT. (AND THEN THERES PUPPY, 90 MB) SIESTA BOOT UP TIME IS ABOUT 3.5 MINUTES COMPARED TO XP OF JUST OVER 2 MINUTES COMPARED AGAIN TO PUPPY WITH 37 SECONDS.
MOST OF MY WINDOZ PROGRAMS THAT WORK FINE IN XP DO NOT WORK IN SIESTA. AND ON PROGRAMS THAT DO WORK OK, THEY RUN SLOWER THAN IN XP. OH YA, THE TV COMMERCIAL IS RIGHT. "CANCEL OR ALLOW" IS A BIG PART OF IT AND I DIDN'T LET IT CONNECT TO THE INTERNET. THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN LOTS MORE OF THAT IF I HAD.
AND THE BIGGEST THING OF ALL, IS MY AMD IS BARELY ENOUGH MACHINE TO RUN IT.
SORRY BILL GATES BUT I DO NOT NEED TO BUY A NEW COMPUTE JUST TO RUN YOUR OVER INFLATED PROGRAM. FOR A JOKE A TRIED TO INSTALL SIESTA INTO MY OLD PII 350 AND AFTER ABOUT 10 MINUTES OF "ANALYZING MY SYSTEM" IT SPIT OUT THE DVD. IT RUNS PUPPY LIKE A NEW MACHINE RUNNIN SIESTA.
FOR THOSE STILL PAYING A LOT FOR WINDOZ, STAY WITH XP, ITS ALOT BETTER THAN SIESTA.
TYPICAL OF WINDOWS, TRY TO BURN A CD OR DVD AFTER FRESH INSTALL. YOU NEED DRIVER UPDATES, A NEW VERSION OF THAT BURNER PROGRAM YOU BOUGHT LAST YEAR AND ANOTHER HALF HOUR TO INSTALL ALL OF IT. PUPPY DOES IT RIGHT OUTTA THE BOX BY THE WAY.
I SUPPOSE THERE ARE THOSE OUT THERE THAT LIKE BILL GATES STUFF AND I USE XP (WHEN I HAVE TO) CAUSE HE HAS HAD THE MARKET FOR SO LONG THAT ITS A STANDARD. BUT IN MY OPINION HE CAN KEEP THAT VISTA. ITS A VERY FAT WHINING BABY. I THINK I'LL STICK WITH PETTING THE PUPPY FOR FREE AND SMILING ALL THE TIME.
SO MY SYSTEM NOW CONSISTS OF AMD 1.667G, 1G RAM, 200G HD, 12G HD,64MB GEFORCE RUNNING PUPPY AND XP AND NETWORKED TO A PII 350, 180MB RAM, 10G HD, 4.3G HD RUNNING PUPPY AND WIN 98.
PUPPY IS A FULL INSTALL ON BOTH WITH DUAL BOOT HD'S ON BOTH.
SETUP WAS A BREEZE WITH GRUB.
I SURE AM GLAD I DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY TO TRY OUT VISTA
PUPPY RULES
DR.Z

Bert · #2 Post by **Bert** » Wed 08 Aug 2007, 18:43

WHAT EXACTLY DID YOU SAY?

darrelljon · #3 Post by **darrelljon** » Wed 08 Aug 2007, 19:39

Thanks but please don't post in capitals.

WhoDo · #4 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 00:00

Hey ZAPPDOG, your enthusiasm for Puppy is great! You've discovered what most of us here know, and that is that this quirky little OS is just about perfect for what most of us want or need. Certainly it is better than most of Micro$oft's offerings.

The reason you are getting prompted about the capital letters in your posting is twofold:

1. They are harder to read quickly - a matter of physical biology rather than preference.

2. In Internet forum parlance, they are equivalent to shouting and considered poor etiquette.

Please don't be offended. It's just that, like bad breath, if your friends won't tell you then no-one will!

ZAPPDOG · #5 Post by **ZAPPDOG** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 00:07

So sorry for the caps. I use caps for everything including my work. Personally I find caps easier to read. Just never had anyone bitch about it.

WhoDo · #6 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 00:35

ZAPPDOG wrote:So sorry for the caps. I use caps for everything including my work. Personally I find caps easier to read. Just never had anyone bitch about it.

No apology necessary. I used to use caps for emphasis in postings until someone pointed out that they amounted to shouting. Now I only use them if I mean to shout!

There is a post going around the Internet where the words have all the letters jumbled up, except for the first and last letter of each word. It is surprisingly readable, because of the way our brains work. If the exercise is repeated with all capitals, it becomes very, very difficult to read. Our brains are conditioned to reading whole words unless they are in capitals ... then we evidently read letter by letter.

As a professional educator, the difference is important to me because some people just won't read a long post if it is capitalised. The message becomes too hard to glean, and many just give up.

Hope that helps.

alienjeff · #7 Post by **alienjeff** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 01:07

Oh how I hated reading press copy on the old Model 28 ASR ...

WhoDo · #8 Post by **WhoDo** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 01:24

alienjeff wrote:Oh how I hated reading press copy on the old Model 28 ASR ...

Yep. Everything on those old Teletype machines was all caps and it was also usually feint (depending on ribbon life) and sometimes grainy (dot matrix style printing mechanisms). I just won't hear about the "good ol' days" when it comes to stuff like that!

ymer · #9 Post by **ymer** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 03:28

I use winblows xp only for playing games

, other than that why bother with it.

cb88 · #10 Post by **cb88** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 03:59

STUPID winmodem......

Eyes-Only · #11 Post by **Eyes-Only** » Thu 09 Aug 2007, 20:40

Win98se was as high as I ever went in the Windows World. Actually, I kinda liked that OS---but then and again I tinkered it until I had basically my "own version" of it. I didn't use the Windows desktop, instead I used a shell and the underlying library files, etc., with open source software ontop of that. hehe.

But 15 or 16 months ago when the Mozilla Foundation decided to switch over to cairo graphics I had to make a choice: Either remain on my doctored 98se, step up to XP, or switch to Linux.

Seeing that I live on a meagre gov't pension stepping up to XP was out of the question for me. Linux on the otherhand is free. Not too hard a choice, eh?

I wanted something "lite'n'easy" that I could possibly learn so I tried DSL. That lasted one night and that's all I'll say there. On another forum where I work a great deal of people have HDD installs of Puppy. So I looked into that.

And here I am. Of course I also have Debian-Sid and PCLOS-2007 on this machine now as well. Yet I'm in Puppy 2.17 a great deal of the time, plus it's installed onto two partitions on the older computer (2.17) for my grandson and wife, plus a frugal 2.14 for my granddaughter.

You couldn't PAY me a million dollars, not even 10 million, to put Vista on this machine. Seriously. I just love my Puppy and that's that.

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

willhunt · #12 Post by **willhunt** » Fri 10 Aug 2007, 00:34

Personally I really miss the days when paper comes shooting out of the printer in reams because you set a flag wrong

KF6SNJ · #13 Post by **KF6SNJ** » Fri 24 Aug 2007, 05:10

I was given an XP laptop as a graduation gift when I was awarded my associate degree. My other laptop and my tower both run puppy. Most of the time the XP system just sits. I even write my reports for school on my tower, saving them to an external drive to print with the XP system later (puppy doesn't recognize my HP DeskJet 722c, yet).

As for video games, I have a PS2 and a Nintendo64. I think the game I last played was Gauntlet (I'd have to ask my wife).

SirDuncan · #14 Post by **SirDuncan** » Fri 24 Aug 2007, 15:31

I use my XP machine for very few things. There's gaming (which I mostly use my PS2 or an emulator in Linux for), and there's storing my movies and music (because the 360GB of HD space is in the XP machine), and then there's running Windows programs that they tell me I have to use for one of my classes. I have Puppy running on my laptop and I find that I use the laptop more than any other machine in the house. The reason cannot be that I like the mobility, because right now (like most of the time) I am sitting right next to the XP machine.

One other thing I use the XP machine for here at home, printing. We currently have our printer set up over the network through a share on my mother's XP machine. I have never been able to get Puppy to work with it. I'll be going to the main campus this year (the local branch ran out of computer science courses for me to take) and they are providing me with a printer. I will only be taking my laptop with me, so I hope the printer is Puppy friendly

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Also, the problems that crop up with Puppy are far more fun to deal with than anything that happens with Windows.

puppyLUVER1234 · #15 Post by **puppyLUVER1234** » Sat 25 Aug 2007, 01:30

Lol. I got taught an lesson from microsoft when my used-to-be XP machene started to slow down considerably. Well, i couldent figure out the reason why so i formatted the hd. STUPID ME! There was no recovery partition or dosk. I only had an Win 98 disk so i installed Win 98. Well, after putting up with tons of erors i finally went running for Puppy Linux after hearing about it for almost an year. Well, obviousely Bill Gates hates Puppy because i wanted to Dual-boot puppy & Win 98. Well, after 2 boot ups with grub into Win 98 i encountered the Blue Screen of Death. No matter how hard i tried i couldnt get past it. I finally gave up & Formatted the entire HD then created 2 Linux partitions & an swap partition. I then installed Puppy Linux. So here i am running Puppy Linux version 2.17. I still have an 800 MH XP laptop that i use rarely, even then only on the road. So, i got served by Bill Gates and his microsoft

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