WB7ODYFred wrote:Hello Steve_S and Sylvander...
Howdy again, Fred!
I have joined the Portable Apps site, but I'm wondering what exactly people are trying to do.
In other words, although I've had quite a few things work with wine, I don't know that you can't already do what you want to by using native Puppy applications.
In other words, want to edit photos? Gimp. Watch video? Gxine, vlc, etc. Look at documents, Open Office, Koffice, etc.
With Puppy you have the ability to start with a basic livecd and/or all the items that are on the cd (like what you do with an installed usb drive), and a save file and have a customized routine. Many on the other Portable Apps say it's not customizable? Really?! Check out "My Puppy is more gorgeous than yours" thread. Format a drive? Gparted can't be beat.
So, I understand how there are certain programs that people specifically want, and that may require wine (for example I have a thread on how to do Rosetta stone with Puppy and wine) but for most tasks (including looking at my work drive) Puppy can do it.
And by adding sfs files to Puppy rather doing straight installs, I've never seen anything remotely so portable. I've come from and still use XP, but I've used Debian, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, SAM, DSL and various other Linux versions and my favorite is Puppy, hands down. And I'm currently using it on a PIII laptop, so it works great with older stuff.
I guess I just don't know what you are looking to be posted on that other thread as it seems to be a bit all over the place and I just am looking for some more explanation...
**Edit: sorry, I'm not trying to sound rude, I just am not sure what extra apps they might specifically need wine for. For example, without wine right now on my laptop, I run Thunderbird, Foxit pdf reader, Geany for text editing, all kinds of games, Firefox, OpenOffice, Opera and a whole bunch of other things. A virus scanner, even though I never use it 'cause Linux just doesn't get viruses, for lack of a more thorough explanation.
Then all the Puppy people keep coming up with their own programs that are even better than a lot of stuff I've seen out there (Pburn, for example).
Like I said, I use wine, but not for any of those apps listed above.