linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Is Puppy an idea?

Roy, some of the Puppy take-offs allow browsing as another user, Spot, I think they call it. Perhaps other uses Spot can be used for, too.

Puppy, has various flavors for using Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu libraries, if I remember correctly. It's nice to tinker with or use for repairing computers with. I've had it save my Ubuntu 10.04 computer a few times because of problems with updating and the power going off while doing it.

If Firefox is unstable and crashing, I found Session Manger a great help for restoring and keeping backups, it might be an extension add-on worth looking at.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/session-manager/?src=search

Joan in Reno

From: Linux Canuck <linuxcanuck@yahoo.ca>
To: "LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com" <LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 27, 2014 3:06 AM
Subject: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Is Puppy an idea?

Sure. Puppy is great. Once upon a time, it used to be just something that users ran from CD to fix problems, but it has since grown into a full installable distribution. It is still so small that it can be run from RAM. I find it a bit rough for daily use (uses JWM) and it does not have all that I need, but I am a KDE user who likes lots of control and bling and who runs lots of applications not available in Puppy. It is definitely worth trying, if you have modest needs.

The nice thing about Puppy is that it is not based on anything. It is developed from scratch and can be used to make your own Linux distro based on it using a tool called Woof. The big criticism I would make is that it runs all users as root, so that can be problematic for everyday use for security reasons.

Roy

On Sunday, April 27, 2014 5:40:01 AM, "highskywhy@yahoo.de" <highskywhy@yahoo.de> wrote:

good morning

how to stop STRG ALT F1 PIDOF KILL ?

The browsing is blocking the cpu

the machine has 3 gb ram.

Is Puppy an idea?

Is there only one puppy?

Regards
sophie