I've been comparing the condition of Bookworm before and after a Save. Creating an application to capture the changes made to the former before shut-down no longer seems as simple as I previously suggested. Maybe I've got it wrong. But I need to take a break. Will post my notes tomorrow.
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- Fri May 17, 2024 12:32 am
- Forum: Utilities
- Topic: nicOS-Utility-Suite
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18699
- Thu May 16, 2024 8:27 pm
- Forum: Utilities
- Topic: nicOS-Utility-Suite
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18699
Re: nicOS-Utility-Suite
amethyst copyrighted the code he wrote for each module without specifying any limitations. Never studied copyright law. Human Laws are not self-executing. So while someone might consider the approach some of my clients took --catch me if you can; sue me and waste your time and money trying to overco...
- Thu May 16, 2024 6:49 pm
- Forum: Utilities
- Topic: nicOS-Utility-Suite
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18699
Re: nicOS-Utility-Suite
If ametjhyst should change his mind rockedge should consider banning the membership of anyone using his address. The last thing a 'do-archy' needs is an unreliable member who uses the creations and advice of other members to create applications others relying on don't independently develop, then rem...
- Thu May 16, 2024 5:00 pm
- Forum: Users
- Topic: Lowest RAM and CPU puppy?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 388
Re: Lowest RAM and CPU puppy?
If you like BookwormPup64 but want something lighter maybe you'll like Vanilla Dpup. Under the hood it's mostly the same but has fewer packages installed out of the box (for example, no conky) and the preinstalled Firefox is tuned for low resource consumption. In general, it should consume less RAM...
- Thu May 16, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Creating archive to install program and dependencies on offline system.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 172
Re: Creating archive to install program and dependencies on offline system.
Ditto what bigpup asked, which 32 bit Puppy? There are several and each is different. But all have this in common. The iso you downloaded contains several READ-ONLY files and file-systems which will be written to a storage media: CD/DVD, USB-Key or Hard-drive. It will include a file-system with the ...
- Thu May 16, 2024 3:10 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: how to install new Pale Moon version?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 211
Re: how to install new Pale Moon version?
As there already is a menu listing for Palemoon, if you open /usr/share/applications/palemoon-(something).desktop in a text editor, you'll see a line beginning with Exec=. It currently points to a binary or symlink to palemoon's binary. You can edit that line to point to the LAUNCH script in portabl...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Creating archive to install program and dependencies on offline system.
- Replies: 3
- Views: 172
Re: Creating archive to install program and dependencies on offline system.
Why Thunar file-manager? Almost all Puppys use the Jwm-rox combo; there are a couple which were built to use the xfce-thunar combo. With rox as file-manager, ancillary window and file-managers can be installed via the Package Manager or loaded [See https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/...
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:42 pm
- Forum: Utilities
- Topic: nicOS-Utility-Suite
- Replies: 82
- Views: 18699
Re: nicOS-Utility-Suite
amethyst, what's with the OP and link to the application having been deleted?
- Thu May 16, 2024 2:12 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Unable to copy/paste in Fossapup terminal
- Replies: 6
- Views: 127
Re: Unable to copy/paste in terminal
Use Puppy Package Manager to install Lxterminal. Highlight what you want to copy and select Edit>Copy from LxTerminals Menu. Create/open the text or word-processing file and select Paste from its Menu.
URxvt may be great. But my fingers aren't. 
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:58 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Post script to the above about 'binary-compatibiity'. AFAIK, opting for a 'light-weight' Window-manager breaks identity even within a Linux Distro, itself. With JWM and radky's enhancements being absent, I opted to test the XFCE versions of Zorin and LinuxMint to try out the SpeechNote flatpak. Foll...
- Thu May 16, 2024 1:09 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Good feed-back. Not surprisingly the main objections in all had to do with SFSes. Clarity's suggestion to drop 4b entirely is very tempting. I'll explain below why I'm reluctant. You may find this surprising about someone who spent his life writing. While my ability to visualize things in four dimen...
- Tue May 14, 2024 9:38 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
The reason Editors exist is that authors are too close to their work to be unbiased, The following draft "Information Page" needs a new set of eyes. Puppy Linux is a family of operating systems published by members of the Puppy community using the open-source, configurable and modifiable, ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:56 pm
- Forum: Browsers and Internet
- Topic: Google-Chrome 'portable' 64-bit browser - (with updater!)
- Replies: 298
- Views: 108646
Re: Google-Chrome 'portable' 64-bit browser - (with updater!)
Increasing security when running Google-Chrome as 'root'. Install the extensions shown in this screenshot: GC-Extensions.png In particular Ublock-origin, privacy-badger, Clear Cache and Forget. Together, the extensions shown will keep you away from malicious website. Some enable configuration. Most ...
- Tue May 14, 2024 2:13 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: Can files be transferred from an ext4 drive to a FAT32 drive without file corruption?
- Replies: 18
- Views: 519
Re: Can files be transferred from an ext4 drive to a FAT32 drive without file corruption?
Under Linux everything is a file including symbolic links. Fat32 can not handle symbolic links. If an application employs a symbolic link, transferring it to a Fat32 partition will break it.
- Mon May 13, 2024 3:22 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Answering one of my own questions: (1) Deny access to hard-drives and (2) do not have a Swap since it (as I understand it) being on the hard-drive presents a passage into it and (as I understand it, unlike RAM) is not completely cleared on shut-down. What else? In essence Puppy, itself, is a contain...
- Sun May 12, 2024 7:47 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
There as been a very useful discussion regarding Puppy's nature on this thread. :thumbup: Making it very difficult to finalize even a draft of the revision to Puppy's DistroWatch page. :cry: :lol: :lol: Wiak, "Having said that, I don't believe there is any truth at all in any claim that Puppy i...
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:58 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Thanks for the quick reply. Have some 'real world' stuff to do. Will pick this up when I get back. In the meantime, would appreciate from anyone the suggestions for a technically accurate statement of Puppy's use of AUFS or Overlays.
- Thu May 09, 2024 3:35 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
dimkr You're right. I wasn't taking into consideration what I've often referred to as 'alphabet' SFSes, e.g. ydrv.sfs; only 'application' SFSes, e.g. LibreOffice.sfs. Or distinguishing those from the mounting of a SaveFile, e.g , puppy_version_#-save.sfs. And, of course, the puppy_version_#.sfs --t...
- Wed May 08, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
The RAM consumption of an external AppImage or portable having a menu entry is that of the text file in /usr/share/applications/, a pixmap, and maybe a symlink., Little. The minimum requirement for most Puppys is now 2 Gb = 2048 Mb 5 Mb / 2048 = .2% = little. Several years ago I tested the ram consu...
- Wed May 08, 2024 1:47 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
The info statement that is at the top of the Puppy Linux DistroWatch section. Really needs to be generic and not about a specific Puppy version. Your statement seems to be better for the specific info about BookwormPup. If you clicked on the DistroWatch link to specifically BookwormPup. That pops u...
- Tue May 07, 2024 11:14 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
While working I had Hot Stripper music playing in the background, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phtcAd8j6Ro&list=PLTmaZB7buLocZN6Lyehs60FgMBkXcGVbS&index=6 ;) I guess I got carried away. :lol: Maybe: BookwormPup64 is the current flagship among the Puppy family of maintained operating syste...
- Tue May 07, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: BookwormPup
- Topic: How to Use BookwormPup to Run Amazon Kindle
- Replies: 17
- Views: 706
Re: How to Use BookwormPup to Run Amazon Kindle
JusGellin, mouldy has an extensive thread on running Kindle under Wine, viewtopic.php?t=2397. Don't forget to thank him.
- Tue May 07, 2024 7:30 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Once I got BookwormPup32 running I discovered other problems. It is likely they can be fixed. But this is neither the thread to discuss them, and this is not the time to devote to doing so. So, I thought it best to just note the availability of 32bit Puppys in the 'Advert' on Distrowatch. Found it v...
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:31 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Thanks, dogcat, for replying. And a big THANK YOU, bigpup, for the 'nox' command. That did the trick. I'm even posting now running bookworm32 from my desktop which doesn't like 32bits.
Will have breakfast, then give it a spin on my laptop.
- Tue May 07, 2024 2:03 am
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Don't think I can test bookworm32. Have tried both the latest and the next previous versions. Neither would fully load on my desktop (it doesn't like 32bits) nor my Dell Laptop which is OK with 32bit. In fact, I'm posting from jammy32 which ran OOTB. Downloaded bookworm32 twice, the second time into...
- Mon May 06, 2024 9:04 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Firstly, wanderer, thanks for the effort and time you've put into this. I'm glad someone is keeping an eye on the road. My suggested text will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm very familiar with Bookwormpup64, but never tried Bookwormpup32. Thought it best if I was to say anything about 32 that I di...
- Mon May 06, 2024 5:12 pm
- Forum: Development
- Topic: Firmware and driver Cutter -- Coders needed
- Replies: 1
- Views: 170
Firmware and driver Cutter -- Coders needed
Development is way beyond my ability. Just wanted to bring this to the attention of anyone who may want to pursue it. Although Puppys are very efficient in their management of RAM, inclusion of unnecessary files has to have some negative effect. To obtain the firmware required by a specific computer...
- Mon May 06, 2024 4:39 pm
- Forum: Kernels
- Topic: Trimming Large Firmware Collection to Create fdrv SFS
- Replies: 9
- Views: 596
Re: Trimming Large Firmware Collection to Create fdrv SFS
Thanks, backi, for rediscovering technosaurus's zdrv_cutter. I wonder to what extent it still works. I remembered it, but couldn't find it and asked about it a couple of times. If I'm not mistaken it's objective was to produce a zdrv.sfs containing only those drivers and firmware required by the use...
- Mon May 06, 2024 3:57 pm
- Forum: Beginners Help
- Topic: How start new Palemoon instead of preinstalled version ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 356
Re: How start new Palemoon instead of preinstalled version ?
If bigpup's suggestion doesn't work you can do the following: Download Mikewalsh's portable from here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=4251#p4251 . Right-Click the 'tar.gz' or 'tar.xz' file and select an extractor from the pop-up menu. Rename the extracted folder to just 'palemoon'....
- Mon May 06, 2024 2:23 pm
- Forum: Announcements
- Topic: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
- Replies: 275
- Views: 12170
Re: DistroWatch needs a newer Puppy version listed for Puppy Linux!!!!!
Jasper's request for higher resolution snapshots reminded me to take a look at what information our page on Distrowatch provides. Currently, with S15pup being displayed, it reads: "Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet q...