I use Puppy myself for emergency recovery, and I also use it as the 
primary OS on an old laptop. It's incredibly fast, I love it.

I would love to have Factor in my Puppy Linux USB stick and CD's.


At 03:38 AM 1/16/2007, you wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I just wanted to report that Factor, the UI, and Factory all work on 
>Puppy Linux.
>
><http://www.puppyos.com/>http://www.puppyos.com/
>
>I'm totally amazed by this distro. I usually run ubuntu and I'm so 
>annoyed that the hard drive is being hit every once in a while. No 
>matter what I do to keep memory usage low, the hd is used. Even when 
>I launch minor programs like a terminal!
>
>Anyways, puppy linux comes with alot of apps and runs totally in 
>RAM. It's super super fast. :-)
>
>1 - The default X server on puppy doesn't have the GLX extension. 
>Using their package manager, I found an alternate X server with GL 
>support. Install it. Restart X.
>
>2 - Use the disk mounting utility to mount the hard disk.
>
>3 - Run Factor. :-)
>
>4 - Edit the ~/.xinitrc to only launch an rxvt instead of their whole desktop.
>
>5 - Restart X. Run Factory. :-)
>
>Ed
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