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| Thread ID: 95945 | 2008-12-22 07:51:00 | Puppy Linux | gary67 (56) | PC World Chat |
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| 731789 | 2008-12-22 07:51:00 | just downloaded Puppy and having a play with the live CD and I'm blown away with the speed, compared to Ubuntu which I have used a bit this blows me away. I knew it ran from inside the RAM but even so it's quick and it's even telling I still have one gig of my 2 Gig free. | gary67 (56) | ||
| 731790 | 2008-12-22 12:59:00 | Yeah its pretty cool! :D Damn Small Linux is nice like that also Basically, loading from memory makes it uber-fast! That and a nice light-weight desktop window manager ;) |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 731791 | 2008-12-23 00:14:00 | So would this be suitable for installing on a old PC - small HDD and bugger all RAM? | johcar (6283) | ||
| 731792 | 2008-12-23 00:48:00 | Surely would. I haven't tried it myself, but it is around 93 MB in size so will fit on small hard drives. www.puppylinux.org |
Jen (38) | ||
| 731793 | 2008-12-23 04:54:00 | I would say so direct download here (www.puppylinux.org) :thumbs: | gary67 (56) | ||
| 731794 | 2008-12-23 07:34:00 | Surely would. I haven't tried it myself, but it is around 93 MB in size so will fit on small hard drives. www.puppylinux.org Am I hearing that I should try this? Remember that I have NEVER had anything L-based run for me up to now. Is this the day it all changes? Or not? |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 731795 | 2008-12-23 07:40:00 | So would this be suitable for installing on a old PC - small HDD and bugger all RAM? Gotta ask this: "How big is a "bugger-all RAM"? Is it larger or smaller than 1gig? How about 256k? My Margaret Beaufort's Dictionary doesn't know the term . |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
| 731796 | 2008-12-23 09:26:00 | Sorry, Joe - Bugger-all RAM is a technical term used to describe any PC originally built in the last century or the early part of this one. I have a doorstop, I mean Compaq Desktop EN sitting around doing nothing but catching shins (it's a PIII running Win2K - last time I fired it up it struggled with that, so I'd be surprised if it had more than 64MB of RAM). Thought I might try something a little different when I'm not in an alcoholic daze sometime in the next week or two (especially if the weather isn't conducive to sitting around the pool, encouraging skin melanomas).... |
johcar (6283) | ||
| 731797 | 2008-12-23 10:14:00 | Am I hearing that I should try this? Remember that I have NEVER had anything L-based run for me up to now . Is this the day it all changes? Or not?Let me be honest here, in the nicest possible way . Linux is not for everyone . If you can't get any Linux distro to run without problems, then Puppy will not be different . I don't think Linux and Joe are meant to be . :) |
Jen (38) | ||
| 731798 | 2008-12-23 19:37:00 | Sorry, Joe - Bugger-all RAM is a technical term used to describe any PC originally built in the last century or the early part of this one . I have a doorstop, I mean Compaq Desktop EN sitting around doing nothing but catching shins (it's a PIII running Win2K - last time I fired it up it struggled with that, so I'd be surprised if it had more than 64MB of RAM) . Thought I might try something a little different when I'm not in an alcoholic daze sometime in the next week or two (especially if the weather isn't conducive to sitting around the pool, encouraging skin melanomas) . . . . Wait a minute! That's the problem! I NEED to be in an alcoholic daze to make Linux work! Jen will be SO-O-O-O proud of me if I get it to work this time! I just know it! |
SurferJoe46 (51) | ||
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