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Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 2066MB (113MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.43
Display Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
Audio Adapter ICH4 - Intel ICH7
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Kernel Linux 2.6.30.5 (i686)
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This Machine 2793 MHz 14.606
CPU CryptoHash
This Machine 2793 MHz 101.944
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This Machine 2793 MHz 23.637
FPU Raytracing
This Machine 2793 MHz 60.980
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 2066MB (113MB used)
Operating System Puppy Linux 0.43
Display Resolution 1280x1024 pixels
Audio Adapter ICH4 - Intel ICH7
Browserlinux
Operating System Version
Kernel Linux 2.6.30.5 (i686)
Benchmarks
CPU Blowfish
This Machine 2793 MHz 14.606
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This Machine 2793 MHz 101.944
CPU Fibonacci
This Machine 2793 MHz 4.207
CPU N-Queens
This Machine 2793 MHz 23.637
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- Posts: 57
- Joined: Sun 09 Mar 2008, 18:01
- Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan Thinkpad T-23, T-60
Dell Latitude D420 ultraportable laptop.
I run Puppy 4.3.1 on the dual core (1.2MHz) 12.1" ultralaptop. I boot from a 2GB USB flash stick. Turned this slow side Windows XPPro SP3 ultralaptop into a fast system. Dell uses a slow 4300RPM 1.8" HDD to get a real PC into small, thin, & light footprint. It slows the entire system down. Puupy lets me work around the HDD & working from a small amount of my 2GB RAM, Puppy lowers the operating tempature. Works very well on the D420
Also use Puppy on my IBM Thinkpad T-23, which already ran faster and cooler than the D420 but Puppy gives me significantly faster operating speed.
--Bruised
I run Puppy 4.3.1 on the dual core (1.2MHz) 12.1" ultralaptop. I boot from a 2GB USB flash stick. Turned this slow side Windows XPPro SP3 ultralaptop into a fast system. Dell uses a slow 4300RPM 1.8" HDD to get a real PC into small, thin, & light footprint. It slows the entire system down. Puupy lets me work around the HDD & working from a small amount of my 2GB RAM, Puppy lowers the operating tempature. Works very well on the D420
Also use Puppy on my IBM Thinkpad T-23, which already ran faster and cooler than the D420 but Puppy gives me significantly faster operating speed.
--Bruised
I have the ACER TravelMate 5511AWLMi
- AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 2 GHz, 512KB L2 cache
- ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 HyperMemory
- 80GB HDD
- 1GB DDR2
I use Fat PuppEL Linux, a derivative based on Puppy 4.3.1 that is fully translated into Greek and has also:
- OpenOffice
- VLC
- avidemux
- gimp
- scummvm
- snes9x
- firefox 3.6
etc.
It works fine!
- AMD Turion 64 Mobile Technology MK-36 2 GHz, 512KB L2 cache
- ATI Radeon Xpress 1100 HyperMemory
- 80GB HDD
- 1GB DDR2
I use Fat PuppEL Linux, a derivative based on Puppy 4.3.1 that is fully translated into Greek and has also:
- OpenOffice
- VLC
- avidemux
- gimp
- scummvm
- snes9x
- firefox 3.6
etc.
It works fine!
CPU = Intel q9550 (quad core - 2.83GHz)
RAM = 2 x 2GB DDR2-800MHz
Graphics = NVidia 8600GT (1GB GDDR2)
monitor = LG W2252TQ (LCD - 1680x1050)
HDD = 3 x 500GB seagate sata2
optical = 18x DVDR/W DL - sata (sata2 ??)
,
installed OSs :
Windows 7 Pro (gaming with flatmate & friends)
Xubuntu == main O.S. == upgrade to 10.04 went real smoothly
Lighthouse pup == secondary O.S.
NOP 431 == mainly for remastering, me fave for building liveCDs from
puppy ripple == I like to play, like this idea
,
simply don't have any probs with puppys ...
they never seem to recognise me monitor though.
RAM = 2 x 2GB DDR2-800MHz
Graphics = NVidia 8600GT (1GB GDDR2)
monitor = LG W2252TQ (LCD - 1680x1050)
HDD = 3 x 500GB seagate sata2
optical = 18x DVDR/W DL - sata (sata2 ??)
,
installed OSs :
Windows 7 Pro (gaming with flatmate & friends)
Xubuntu == main O.S. == upgrade to 10.04 went real smoothly
Lighthouse pup == secondary O.S.
NOP 431 == mainly for remastering, me fave for building liveCDs from
puppy ripple == I like to play, like this idea
,
simply don't have any probs with puppys ...
they never seem to recognise me monitor though.
Jealous! I've been making do with Grado SR-60's straight out of the jack on my laptop. Still, using Aqualung with the DSP set at medium sinc I get decent sounds.rjbrewer wrote: Ancillary:
Sennheiser 580 headphones; Headroom Supreme headphone
amp, audio image processor.
(the best investment I ever made)
800$ invested
rjb
[b]Tahr Pup 6 on desktop, Lucid 3HD on lappie[/b]
Nothing shabby about those grados; They've always been "Headroomtubeguy wrote:Jealous! I've been making do with Grado SR-60's straight out of the jack on my laptop. Still, using Aqualung with the DSP set at medium sinc I get decent sounds.rjbrewer wrote: Ancillary:
Sennheiser 580 headphones; Headroom Supreme headphone
amp, audio image processor.
(the best investment I ever made)
800$ invested
rjb
Companys" alternate to high buck Sennheisers.
Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
Full installs
Have been using Puppy for quite a while now, have used loads of linux over the last 10 years, but Puppy kidnapped me and i'm too comfy to go back to bloated distro's, thought i'd best finally join the forums.
As to systems ~
Main linux box - Puppy 4.2.1 - Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 MX400 AGP, Soundlbaster Live (CT4620), 120GB Western Digital HDD.
Other boxes (i have quite a few but will only list the ones relevant to linux use) -
Puppy 4.2.0 SMP/Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - Dell Optiplex 745 SFF - E6400 Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, onboard video, Soundblaster Live External (USB).
Puppy 4.2.1 - Dell Latitude P4 2GHz (laptop), 512MB RAM, GeForce2 MX series video.
Puppy 4.2.1 - Toshiba Tecra 8100 P3 600MHz (laptop), 256MB RAM.
Once in a while i run Puppy (4.2.0 SMP) via USB stick on my main Windows machine, Q6600, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD4650, onboard sound, but not often as Puppy runs so well on all the above machines.
As to systems ~
Main linux box - Puppy 4.2.1 - Athlon XP 2800+, 1GB RAM, 64MB GeForce2 MX400 AGP, Soundlbaster Live (CT4620), 120GB Western Digital HDD.
Other boxes (i have quite a few but will only list the ones relevant to linux use) -
Puppy 4.2.0 SMP/Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - Dell Optiplex 745 SFF - E6400 Core2Duo, 4GB RAM, onboard video, Soundblaster Live External (USB).
Puppy 4.2.1 - Dell Latitude P4 2GHz (laptop), 512MB RAM, GeForce2 MX series video.
Puppy 4.2.1 - Toshiba Tecra 8100 P3 600MHz (laptop), 256MB RAM.
Once in a while i run Puppy (4.2.0 SMP) via USB stick on my main Windows machine, Q6600, 2GB RAM, ATI Radeon HD4650, onboard sound, but not often as Puppy runs so well on all the above machines.
Main Puppy (home) ~ 4.2.1 2.6.25.16, Athlon XP 2800+
Main Puppy (work) ~ 4.3.1 SMP 2.6.30.5, E2180 C2D - Both have dual monitors (Xinerama).
Other ~ 4.2.0 SMP 2.6.29.1 /Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - E6400 C2D. 4.2.1 2.6.25.16 - P4 2GHz laptop.
Main Puppy (work) ~ 4.3.1 SMP 2.6.30.5, E2180 C2D - Both have dual monitors (Xinerama).
Other ~ 4.2.0 SMP 2.6.29.1 /Macpup Foxy 3.0/Win7 - E6400 C2D. 4.2.1 2.6.25.16 - P4 2GHz laptop.
- Lobster
- Official Crustacean
- Posts: 15522
- Joined: Wed 04 May 2005, 06:06
- Location: Paradox Realm
- Contact:
use menu / system / system status and config / hardware info
(in Lucid) to work out what you have
This is me:
on the hard disk
Also have Eeepc 700 for running Puppeee
and a Dell Inspiron 3500 (pentium 4) laptop running Puppy 5 (Lucid)
With these meager resources I will conquer time and space
or go crazy (Oh I dun that)
http://tmxxine.posterous.com/
(in Lucid) to work out what you have
This is me:
I run Puppy from DVD (now) and have Ubuntu clone SuperOSProcessor 2x AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+
Memory 2074MB (159MB used)
on the hard disk
Also have Eeepc 700 for running Puppeee
and a Dell Inspiron 3500 (pentium 4) laptop running Puppy 5 (Lucid)
With these meager resources I will conquer time and space
or go crazy (Oh I dun that)
http://tmxxine.posterous.com/
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- Posts: 62
- Joined: Sat 08 Aug 2009, 01:44
My two P4 machines have recently taken a dump.
Here's what's working right now:
Turbopup Extreme 4.2(switched back from PL 4.3)
Dell Dimension XPS T700r
P3 850mhz with 768mb ram
Quantum Fireball 30gb HD set
SoundBlaster CA106 sound card
ATI AGP 4x video card
Sony CD-RW CRX-140E
Realttek RTL-8139 Ethernet card
HP 2358 keyboard with MicroInv PD430p mouse
The old warhorse
Gateway G6-350 with 600hz Katmai P3with 512mb ram
6gb Western Digital HD
Puppy 4.3(likely switching to Turbopup Extreme)
Here's what's working right now:
Turbopup Extreme 4.2(switched back from PL 4.3)
Dell Dimension XPS T700r
P3 850mhz with 768mb ram
Quantum Fireball 30gb HD set
SoundBlaster CA106 sound card
ATI AGP 4x video card
Sony CD-RW CRX-140E
Realttek RTL-8139 Ethernet card
HP 2358 keyboard with MicroInv PD430p mouse
The old warhorse
Gateway G6-350 with 600hz Katmai P3with 512mb ram
6gb Western Digital HD
Puppy 4.3(likely switching to Turbopup Extreme)
Dell Inspiron 7000
-Computer-
Processor : Pentium II (Deschutes)
Memory : 255MB (82MB used)
Operating System : Lucid Puppy
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ES1968 - ESS ES1968 (Maestro 2)
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
PC Speaker
-SCSI Disks-
ATA IBM-DJSA-205
TORiSAN CD-ROM CDR_U240
Processor : Pentium II (Deschutes)
Memory : 255MB (82MB used)
Operating System : Lucid Puppy
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ES1968 - ESS ES1968 (Maestro 2)
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
PC Speaker
-SCSI Disks-
ATA IBM-DJSA-205
TORiSAN CD-ROM CDR_U240
Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10
specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory
and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent
specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory
and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent
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- Posts: 105
- Joined: Fri 21 May 2010, 17:50
got 4 machines i use
my main desktop is
os: ubuntu 10.04
processor: amd64 athlon dual-core 4600+ 3.2Ghz
memory: 2 gb
my laptop is
os: puppy 5.0
processor: amd64 mobile athlon 3400+ 2.2Ghz
memory: 512 mb
and my second desktop is
os: puppy 4.2
processor: intel pentium 4 2.2 Ghz
memory: 512 mb
and my second laptop is
os: puppy 5.0
processor: intel celeron 2.2Ghz
memory: 512mb
my main desktop is
os: ubuntu 10.04
processor: amd64 athlon dual-core 4600+ 3.2Ghz
memory: 2 gb
my laptop is
os: puppy 5.0
processor: amd64 mobile athlon 3400+ 2.2Ghz
memory: 512 mb
and my second desktop is
os: puppy 4.2
processor: intel pentium 4 2.2 Ghz
memory: 512 mb
and my second laptop is
os: puppy 5.0
processor: intel celeron 2.2Ghz
memory: 512mb
Nice! Slick little kit, perfect for Puppy.cagwait wrote:Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10
specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory
and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent
[b]Tahr Pup 6 on desktop, Lucid 3HD on lappie[/b]
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- Posts: 1
- Joined: Sat 12 Jun 2010, 08:13
My System
averatec 3200 five hndred twelve mb ram mobile sempron one.6 ghz dvd 802g wlan
dead hard drive messed op keyboard
hey this laptop was on my jonk pile for 3 yrs. booted poppy loocid .5 on one gigabyte stick
hahaha. gotta love it so cool. thanx to the pengooinistas.
newby to *nix. i coold not believe it when this thing booted op
got online browsing and downloading and listening to cd's hehehe so cool.
dead hard drive messed op keyboard
hey this laptop was on my jonk pile for 3 yrs. booted poppy loocid .5 on one gigabyte stick
hahaha. gotta love it so cool. thanx to the pengooinistas.
newby to *nix. i coold not believe it when this thing booted op
got online browsing and downloading and listening to cd's hehehe so cool.
- Nican Tlaca
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Thu 15 Jul 2010, 05:12
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
After using Puppy since Dec. 2009, I finally joined the forum.
So here goes:
Old clunker #1
733 MHz emachines (2002)
256 MB RAM
18 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual boot: 1) Puppy 5.01 Lucid Puppy & 2) Windows 2000 Pro
currently writing this post from this old workhorse
Old clunker #2
400 MHz Gateway Essential (1999)
256 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual Boot: 1) Puppy 4.3.1 & 2) Windows 98
Snappy performance and wireless connection runs better than OEM Win98
Old clunker #3
933 MHz Gateway Performance (2001)
512 MB RAM
250 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Triple boot: 1) Xubuntu-LXDE, 2) Puppy 5.01, 3) Windows XP
Puppy runs like a horse on this machine
I'm really surprised to see so many people using fairly new hardware with Puppy. I thought it was going to be a bunch of people with dinosaurs like mine.
So here goes:
Old clunker #1
733 MHz emachines (2002)
256 MB RAM
18 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual boot: 1) Puppy 5.01 Lucid Puppy & 2) Windows 2000 Pro
currently writing this post from this old workhorse
Old clunker #2
400 MHz Gateway Essential (1999)
256 MB RAM
40 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Dual Boot: 1) Puppy 4.3.1 & 2) Windows 98
Snappy performance and wireless connection runs better than OEM Win98
Old clunker #3
933 MHz Gateway Performance (2001)
512 MB RAM
250 GB HDD
USB wireless Internet antenna/adapter
Triple boot: 1) Xubuntu-LXDE, 2) Puppy 5.01, 3) Windows XP
Puppy runs like a horse on this machine
I'm really surprised to see so many people using fairly new hardware with Puppy. I thought it was going to be a bunch of people with dinosaurs like mine.
- Nican Tlaca
- Posts: 8
- Joined: Thu 15 Jul 2010, 05:12
- Location: Los Angeles, CA
Too cool, man...too cool.cagwait wrote:Currently running Browser linux which is based on Puppy 4.31 on a Fujitsu Siemens Futro A250 thin client picked up New on ebay from a IT supplier disposing of old stock for only £10
specs AMD Geode LX800 processor at 500mhz
256 mb ram
256 mb internal Flash memory
and consumes only about 12 w of power and silent
And all for a sweet price, too.
What next, running Puppy out of a toaster?
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- Joined: Wed 21 Jul 2010, 10:01
List your system
I'm running 4.3 on an old ASUS P5A mainboard/AMD K6-2 533mHz/768 meg PC100 RAM/13.6 gig HDD/Permedia 8 meg PCI video/Soundblaster Live/and an old unnamed NIC that I found in the trash (no kidding!) Runs just fine!Nican Tlaca wrote:After using Puppy since Dec. 2009, I finally joined the forum.
Me too.
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'm really surprised to see so many people using fairly new hardware with Puppy. I thought it was going to be a bunch of people with dinosaurs like mine.
I resurrected most of the machine from the top shelf in the hall closet where it had been gathering dust for a few years.
I have Puppy 4.1.2 Retro running well on a Thinkpad 760XD that was manufactured in 1997.
It has 104MB of memory, a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor, a modern 320GB hard drive,
and no USB. I did a hard disk install, including a 1GB swap partition.
The good:
Puppy boots my machine in 102 seconds. It has great hardware compatibility.
The display is 1024x768 with 16 bit color. The display is -fast-.
A command like "cat *.c" does not have any trouble writing quickly
to the screen, unlike some other distros.
Networking works fine, I successfully use a 3Com PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card
and a Cisco Aironet 350. (Like all PCMCIA wireless cards, only WEP
encryption is supported.)
My "5 in 1" PC card reader with a 1 gigabyte memory card works fine.
It is a convenient way to copy files.
I installed the devx_412.sfs package, so now I have a C compiler,
a C++ compiler, Perl, and Bash.
I recompiled the kernel specifically for the Pentium MMX processor.
Recompilation took several hours, but it improved the boot time and memory footprint.
As Wikipedia says, Puppy "is not based on any other distribution."
That's really a plus. Last year I tried many distros on another old
machine, and it seemed like they all had the same bugs. Puppy gives you -new- bugs!
A full backup of the 16gb partition takes 130 minutes. Here is how I do it:
1. Boot from wakePup and the CD
2. Make sure that hda1 is not mounted and that hda3 is mounted.
3. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hda3/backup.2010.aug2.dd bs=2M
That backup can be mounted using loopback if you ever need to recover
a few specific files.
The Setup icon helped me configure what services I wanted.
I was able to disable cups by renaming the cups file in /etc/rc.d/init.d
and using chmod to make it not executable.
The ftp daemon is easy to use. It gives a good way to copy files back
and forth to my regular PC.
Puppy gives me a familiar Linux environment.
The bad:
The 760XD has a loud shrill fan that turns on after about 30 minutes.
It is very unpleasant.
The 760XD will not boot from CD. Instead, you will need to use
wakePup and an external diskette drive. I used the proprietary 46H5748
Thinkpad drive which has a unique connector.
The BIOS does not support dual boot. I tried a lot of tricks, and
just could not make it work. In fact, the Puppy hard disk install would not
boot until I shrank the hda1 partition to 800mb. Once I got the hard disk install
to successfully boot, I resized hda1 to 16GB and all is well.
The browser works, but this machine is not up to the task of displaying
many of today's web pages. For example, when the browser is already
loaded, it takes almost 30 seconds to load the eBay home page. The mwave sound
card is not compatible with Puppy or any other Linux. With no sound and
a limited video card, any kind of web video is pretty much hopeless.
The disk seems really slow. Thanks to the forum I found out about
hdparm, and discovered that this box does not support DMA! However,
it helps to add this statement to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit right after functions4puppy4:
hdparm -A1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
Some of the fonts do not work.
I put the appropriate settings in .Xdefaults, but they do not have any effect
on my favorite editor. Instead, I had to recompile the editor to get all my
favorite defaults. Puppy compiled more than 20000 lines of C in about 5 minutes.
Congratulations Barry, the compilation had no problems with libraries or
external variables.
Nothing in the operating system can really get around the machine's
basic limitations. It's still just a 166MHz processor with 104MB of memory.
Conclusion:
Puppy lets me get the most possible function from this old hardware.
It has 104MB of memory, a 166MHz Pentium MMX processor, a modern 320GB hard drive,
and no USB. I did a hard disk install, including a 1GB swap partition.
The good:
Puppy boots my machine in 102 seconds. It has great hardware compatibility.
The display is 1024x768 with 16 bit color. The display is -fast-.
A command like "cat *.c" does not have any trouble writing quickly
to the screen, unlike some other distros.
Networking works fine, I successfully use a 3Com PCMCIA 10/100 Ethernet card
and a Cisco Aironet 350. (Like all PCMCIA wireless cards, only WEP
encryption is supported.)
My "5 in 1" PC card reader with a 1 gigabyte memory card works fine.
It is a convenient way to copy files.
I installed the devx_412.sfs package, so now I have a C compiler,
a C++ compiler, Perl, and Bash.
I recompiled the kernel specifically for the Pentium MMX processor.
Recompilation took several hours, but it improved the boot time and memory footprint.
As Wikipedia says, Puppy "is not based on any other distribution."
That's really a plus. Last year I tried many distros on another old
machine, and it seemed like they all had the same bugs. Puppy gives you -new- bugs!
A full backup of the 16gb partition takes 130 minutes. Here is how I do it:
1. Boot from wakePup and the CD
2. Make sure that hda1 is not mounted and that hda3 is mounted.
3. dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/mnt/hda3/backup.2010.aug2.dd bs=2M
That backup can be mounted using loopback if you ever need to recover
a few specific files.
The Setup icon helped me configure what services I wanted.
I was able to disable cups by renaming the cups file in /etc/rc.d/init.d
and using chmod to make it not executable.
The ftp daemon is easy to use. It gives a good way to copy files back
and forth to my regular PC.
Puppy gives me a familiar Linux environment.
The bad:
The 760XD has a loud shrill fan that turns on after about 30 minutes.
It is very unpleasant.
The 760XD will not boot from CD. Instead, you will need to use
wakePup and an external diskette drive. I used the proprietary 46H5748
Thinkpad drive which has a unique connector.
The BIOS does not support dual boot. I tried a lot of tricks, and
just could not make it work. In fact, the Puppy hard disk install would not
boot until I shrank the hda1 partition to 800mb. Once I got the hard disk install
to successfully boot, I resized hda1 to 16GB and all is well.
The browser works, but this machine is not up to the task of displaying
many of today's web pages. For example, when the browser is already
loaded, it takes almost 30 seconds to load the eBay home page. The mwave sound
card is not compatible with Puppy or any other Linux. With no sound and
a limited video card, any kind of web video is pretty much hopeless.
The disk seems really slow. Thanks to the forum I found out about
hdparm, and discovered that this box does not support DMA! However,
it helps to add this statement to /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit right after functions4puppy4:
hdparm -A1 -c3 -m16 /dev/hda
Some of the fonts do not work.
I put the appropriate settings in .Xdefaults, but they do not have any effect
on my favorite editor. Instead, I had to recompile the editor to get all my
favorite defaults. Puppy compiled more than 20000 lines of C in about 5 minutes.
Congratulations Barry, the compilation had no problems with libraries or
external variables.
Nothing in the operating system can really get around the machine's
basic limitations. It's still just a 166MHz processor with 104MB of memory.
Conclusion:
Puppy lets me get the most possible function from this old hardware.