Questions tagged [puppylinux]
Puppy Linux is a popular lightweight linux distribution that can be run entirely from ram
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How to make #tee take in -append instead of -a option (bionicpup32-8.0)
I'm trying to run team viewer on my bionicpup32-8.0
Running the command teamviewer returns:
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tee: unrecognized option: append
BusyBox v1.30.1 (2019-04-24 21:49:26 +08) multi-call binary.
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Will Puppy Linux make Google Drive go smoother my old netbook?
I'm trying to reactivate an old Intel Learning Series netbook, for educational purposes. I'd like to use it to explain my high-school pupils basics of online, multi-platform, office tools, especially ...
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How to install Windows 10 from Linux (Puppy) live CD
I have very old PC which has 4GB of RAM and can only install from CD (700MB) - no usb or DVD.
All I can do is load Linux Puppy http://puppylinux.com/index.html#download from Live CD and can see (...
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Your xorg.conf does not contain any XkbLayoout options Error in puppyLinux
I don't know what I did wrong, was it a wrong package or something else. Now I can't change the keyboard layout. Is there a way to reset the setting of xkb to fix this problem?
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How do I share a virtualbox folder on a linux puppy guest?
I'm trying to find a smaller alternative to ubuntu for virtual machines, but I can't share data between my host system and puppy. When I try to install the guest addons it produces the following ...
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Using the "DVD Maker 2" (EM2980 chip) on Xenialpup
The not so well documented product "DVD Maker 2" from kworld I find only has an official driver for Windows. The two possible solutions I could think of is acquiring a driver for linux, or somehow ...
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Downsizing to almost embedded linux
I have a thin client machine with Puppy Linux on it and it works well.
I would like to make it fast something like embedded Linux.
All it needs to do is to run one Procesing sketch/app (java) in ...
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SFS file not found error when booting live Puppy Linux
This is a very old problem that is still with us (Puppy Linux cannot boot and http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84558 are 4 years old; an 8-year-old posting exists).
There are many ...
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FX5200 performance boost on noveau drivers?
Title. Been using tharpup 6.0.5 32 bit (PAE) on an usb since the hard disk died. Most of my games run badly on the nouveau drivers. Any tips to improve performance?
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Do light versions of linux compromise security?
I was planning to install some light version of linux (e.g. SliTaz or Puppy) in an old 512 Mb RAM Thinkpad.
My question is if the use of any of these light versions, as compared to standard Ubuntu, ...
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installing puppy linux bootable on usb flash: does the size of the drive matter? [solved]
While looking for information about puppy, I read this:
""To give an idea of what is "enough" RAM, a PC with 256M RAM matches well with a 128M Flash drive. The pup100 file will be about 60M, and ...
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Puppy Linux hangs at Recognizing Optical Devices
I have been trying from many days to bring back the life to my old Pentium 4 machine having 1GB of RAM. But first when I boots it stucks here ( shown in the image)
Then I decided to to run the live-...
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PCI system error (SERR) for reason b1 on cpu 0
I am trying to boot the SLAX OS using pen-drive but every time i boot it shows this error message "pci system error serr for reason b1 on cpu 0" and after this it says "Linux Kernel Dazed and Confused"...
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How do I map Alt+Space in Linux with xmodmap?
I am trying to map Alt+Space to Escape in Puppy Linux. Specifically, this is for vim, but I could not get it to work there. So, I thought I better try to do it globally, but I have no idea what is the ...
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passwd fails with passwd: pam_start() failed, error 26 in tahr puppy 6.0.2
From the messages log:
Dec 17 08:08:28 puppypc30098 authpriv.err passwd[8265]: PAM _pam_load_conf_file: unable to open /etc/pam.d/common-password
The file /etc/pam.d/common-passwd is indeed missing:
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