Subj : Compiling binkD fun in Linux
To : Nicholas Boel
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Apr 14 2016 09:09 am
Hi! Nick,
On 13 Apr 16 16:33, you wrote to me:
PQ>> versions: they're all simplistic pimped, small, fast, GUI
PQ>> blowjobs for the unwashed consumer masses. I'll try to keep an
PQ>> eye out for any other prospective multi-user Puppy.
NB> I thought the whole idea of Puppy Linux was to keep things minimal?
NB> Now they come with GUIs? Sigh..
I think you may be thinking of Damn Small Linux (DSL)? Geeze, it's been a
while since I looked at that one.
Nah, Puppy has always had a GUI. Well, at least ever since I started using it
at version 2.14CE back in the mid-to-late 2000s. Their target user base is
aimed at people running older hardware, with Puppy requiring only a minimum to
operate on. Older versions only needed 128Mb RAM but newer versions 'like' a
gigabyte. They were so GUI that most ex-Windows users don't know the
difference. In fact some commercial configurations include internet cafes.
Hence, it is my OS of choice in a vBox setting: two PCs running with 256Meg RAM
and the older one using 512Meg, basically because it runs several multi-media
LAN shares [including a DLNA server]. I use the same reasoning in running the
two Win98Se vBox PCs as well: they only use 128Mb RAM each.
But I do have to say, the other day I had a religious experience with the
latest Puppy that I have. I had a bit of spare time to lament the lack of a
decent RDP/Terminal server/Remote desktop connection 'client' app in Puppy. (I
say decent, as I already have a crappy Gnome thing and a command-line
incarnation but both are somewhat primitive.) So, I booted my netbook with
that USB stick; went to the 'package manager' and searched for something
(_anything_) better.
The package doo-hickey replied with dialogue to the effect 'not a prob, here
look at this one...' and once I hit the tit, proceeded to install something
from a *Ubuntu* repo. It's a real beaut! Very nearly a Windows doppleganger
and way better than anything I have, and very reminiscent of something I ran on
an older Puppy years ago. Whoo!hoo! That Puppy may yet replace this Windows
8.1 that I'm "Remote desktop"-ing to my main Fido node from right now. :)
Oh, crap. I've been frothing at the mouth again. Sorry.
Cheers,
Paul.
... For a good time call 86753099 (Jenny)...
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
* Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)
