Wary is excellent as always, the most usable ootb linux distro for my hardware.
I'd like future versions of Wary to have this version of glipper-lite.
It's about the same size, UI is better, but more importantly it's more likely to survive tray restarts.
I tried glibc upgrade of wary 5.5 to run firefox 19.0. See:
Or if not on i586 you can try the latest Seamonkey which, despite its ever-increasing size, has improved tremendously with overall responsiveness since version 2.6. It doesn't need newer glibc, just dbus (or nobus)
[color=green]Primary[/color] - Intel Pentium 4 2.40GHz, 571MB RAM, ATI Radeon 7000. Linux Mint 17 Qiana installed.
[color=blue]Secondary[/color] - Pentium 3 533MHz, 385MB RAM, ATI Rage 128 Pro ULTRA TF. Precise Puppy 5.7.1 Retro full install.
I didn't catch the release candidate thread before it was closed, so I'm putting my user's note here.
If you install pdfedit, it will probably need a libaudio library, which is absent in wary 5.4.90. Why an audio library in a text processing program I do not know, but pdfedit refuses to launch without it.
I did a micro-version update from 5.4.90 to 5.5 so it's impossible to re-check now in my 5.5, but nevertheless, if you install pdfedit in wary 5.5 and it does not work, try to think of this solution.
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Manual frugal to ext3 and booting with grub4dos.
Using 10yr old Acer laptop.
Seamonkey offered to update when selecting HELP icon on desktop - nice - all smoothly done.
Top indicates low resources and hardinfo shows temp at 53c (both similar to Wary) nice.
Generally all the basics seem to be working OOTB. Luvly Puppy.
session wrote:Wary is excellent as always, the most usable ootb linux distro for my hardware.
I'd like future versions of Wary to have this version of glipper-lite.
It's about the same size, UI is better, but more importantly it's more likely to survive tray restarts.
I tried glibc upgrade of wary 5.5 to run firefox 19.0. See:
Or if not on i586 you can try the latest Seamonkey which, despite its ever-increasing size, has improved tremendously with overall responsiveness since version 2.6. It doesn't need newer glibc, just dbus (or nobus)
SeaMonkey has the same problem as Firefox. Cannot compile latest versions in Wary.
Dell Lattitude 6470: Racy will not shut down normal way. It will clear screen, but wallpaper remains. And stay in this phase. It will not show the black screen showing "saving to ...".
ASUS EeePC1001HA: works fine WIFI, screen, audio, battery etc,, Installed some eye candy, then played with function keys on EeePC (volume up/down, brightness up-down) all fine, until I tried WIFI on-off (FN+F2). WIFI turned off. But this key cannot enable WIFI anymore. I enabled WIFI again via SNS. But when I shut Puppy down, no save file update happened. I lost all my eye candy....
Not sure what happened, might have been an accident, but FN+F2 caused problems in many puppies. as long as you don't use it Racy works fine.
Only thing I miss in Racy is the option to have only 5 icons on the desktop. (Slacko has it). But I have to congratulate with the size. This series of puppies is in the 120Mbyte range. Others (Precise/Slacko) are 150mbytes+.
Naming: what is mainstream puppy now ? I know Wary 5.5 is for older stuff, but Racy 5.5 / Slacko 5.5 / Precise 5.5 ... all offer more or less the same. Which one will be mainstream and maintained ?
session wrote: An official build of Seamonkey 2.17b1 (which I believe parallels Firefox 20) runs perfectly fine on stock Wary.
I had to install dbus-glib (I keep the pet handy) but SeaMonkey 2.17b1 is running fine here as well.The official builds are quite a bit larger than Barry K's compiles though.
My frugal with firefox works fine on my new hardware, a laptop with celeron and 2 Gb RAM. My old desktop is gone. From this frugal with glibc upgrade, if you install the original glibc from repository by PPM, you can obtain the same of the original wary where I run seamonkey 2.16. It works fine, too.
Grub Legacy Bootloader Config is broken in Wary 5.5. The problem is with Xdialog and GTK, specifically the menubox widget. It is now throwing an error message into 2>/tmp/xxx. So grubconfig cannot parse the results.
This is patchable. However, fans of Legacy GRUB may prefer to use the light-weight replacement here. It will appear in the System menu as Legacy GRUB Config 2013.
FYI, I have searched for other apps that may be affected by this bug. The only one I could find is the podcast grabber.
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Both work well on an old 2001 Asus 701 Eee PC, 4 GB SSD, 512 MB RAM.
The original Linux would not boot. The SSD had 4 partitions. I booted from an external CD, GParted to one partition ext2, manual frugal install, grub4dos, now happy as a clam (shell).
Wireless is better than some larger laptops.
2.5 hours battery life, it was 'stored' for 2+ years!
Compiled Sylpheed 3.4.0beta2 works great.
Compiled vim 7.3.843 also works great.
Did you try http://www.opera.com ?
Deb(other) usually works, except Slacko, of course, but mick usually attends to all our needs on that score, notwithstanding an interim issue with Norway.
Did you try http://www.opera.com ?
Deb(other) usually works, except Slacko, of course, but mick usually attends to all our needs on that score, notwithstanding an interim issue with Norway.
Yes, but this is something I have yet to learn, which distribution, which package model...