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mikeslr

Puppy offering to install txz packages. Repeating bigpup's question early on: Which Puppy? Is it a 'Slacko'? I almost always use a Puppy based on debian or Ubuntu. Packages for those are either '.pets' or '.debs'. So didn't realize Puppy Package Manager could handle txz. Your screenshot shows at the...

mikeslr

Links to other, newer than dpup-stretch, Puppies are on this thread, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewto ... 47#p100547

mikeslr

Getting back to your OP, there are two factors I think important: (1) Floorp web-browser was forked from firefox but retains firefox's structure and system for managing files; (2) Puppys are not its only target audience. Very few LinuxOS can manage SFSes. While other LinuxOSes can use portables --I ...

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@FloraMae As I am using LibreWolf as a SFS. Once you have got the initial boot screen and chosen your settings and saved them. The Profile is a hidden folder in your root directory ./librewolf This should be approximately 50mb or thereabouts. This can be moved to another location and ' sym-linked '...

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You can limit the amount of files copied into RAM on boot-up --and thus the time it takes-- by adding the 'nocopy' command to the boot arguments. Using grub4dos, there's a line that starts with the word "kernel" and continues often ending with pfix=fsck. grub uses the same format and comma...

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rockedge, "It was right around the time I posted on a topic of one of his remaster utilities, that while I was using it, suddenly deleted the contents of an entire directory." I've used his utilities many times without ever experiencing a problem. However, it's important to remember (a) we...

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Haven't had breakfast yet so will only address the smtube '.txz' issue. I'm not familiar with the smtube you downloaded. But 'txz' is a packaging wrapper technique. When an application has several parts to avoid having to download each separately they are placed in a specifically named folder and an...

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I've also run into problem trying to setup a dual-boot with Puppy and recent Linux's whose installation of grub became the primary boot-loader. (See the "grub2config" replaces thread). But I was willing to wipe the entire drive and start from scratch. You probably aren't. Can you still boo...

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Just to note that wizard has published remasterme2, https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=117427&sid=8e04004aa697f7390f6c3d2d0acdd9b4#p117427 and shinobar's remasterX can be obtained here, http://hg.shinobar.server-on.net/puppy/opt/ . There are instructions somewhere. Note that it predate...

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@mikeslr and others. All the stuff that I posted on this forum is in public domain and can be used by anyone. The utility suite for example has been included in some recent puppys so is readily available anyway. The reason why I deleted some stuff is because I won't actively be participating on thi...

mikeslr

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.

mikeslr

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...

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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...

mikeslr

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...

mikeslr

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 ...

mikeslr

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...

mikeslr

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/...

mikeslr

amethyst, what's with the OP and link to the application having been deleted?

mikeslr

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.

mikeslr

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...

mikeslr

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...

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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, ...

mikeslr

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 ...

mikeslr

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.

mikeslr

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...

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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...

mikeslr

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.

mikeslr

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...

mikeslr

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...

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