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 >------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT >Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your >opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash >http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV >_______________________________________________ >Factor-talk mailing list >[email protected] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk Cecil KD5NWA www.hpsdr.com www.qrpradio.com "Sacred cows make the best hamburger" Don Seglio Batuna ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Factor-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/factor-talk
