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Run bochs for puppy linux3/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Slacko Puppy 7.0, compare? Or wold some other non Ubuntu version serve me better? How would a version that's NOT based on Ubuntu, e.g. ![]() I'd forgotten what a sweet, easy-to-use Puppy it was.! That disappeared after a few months - for reasons I won't go into - and I re-installed the final version about a year ago. was first putting it together, and really liked it. I initially ran one of the 'beta' versions nearly 5 years ago, when Phil B. I may be biased here on top of a bunch of 64-bit Puppies, I also run 32-bit Xenial myself. On top of which, Canonical introduced a lot of new concepts with Bionic Beaver, some of which STILL haven't quite been fully fixed yet. Xenial has had 2 more years of development, and figuring out the weak points. Well this may sound daft (and it's only my personal opinion, when it boils right down to it).especially in a world where we're conditioned to think that newer ALWAYS means better/'safer'. Whether you agree with my assessment or not, you've been "conditioned" to think that way. If it only JUST went EOL, would I not be better off with BionicPup32 8.0, where EOL is two years from now? What's the main diference/diferrences compared to BionicPup32 8.0?ĭon't take this the wrong way, but you're displaying the 'classic' symptoms. (That's a direct link to the ISO file, BTW.) Its 'parent', Ubuntu 16.04 'Xenial Xerus' has only JUST gone EOL hence, everything will still be working on it for a good long while yet.browsers, etc, especially. Just for the hell of it, give a 64-bit Puppy a 'test-run'.then tell me you've come across another distro that's more functional, and more lightweight.Īs for suggestions, give Xenialpup 7.5 a look. You can't tell me you haven't got a 64-bit box somewhere there. ![]() The only stuff that SHOULD be kept 'up-to-date' is anything that faces t'internet browsers, e-mail clients, chat clients, etc. If it continues to do what you want from it, where's the point in upgrading it? If it ain't broken, don't try to 'fix' it. Puppy software may not have the fancy 'eye-candy' & 'bling' that you're perhaps used to with other OSs, but it's functional, and gets the job done. Nevertheless, it's an inescapable fact that there's a ton of halfway decent, (mostly) Linux-friendly second-hand 64-bit machines out there, many of which can be picked up for VERY reasonable prices.if you know where to look for 'em. Way of the world, I'm afraid it's called (hah!) "progress". Folks didn't want 16-bit to die, but eventually it did devs stopped supporting it, and building for it. But, like everywhere else, things are inexorably moving towards 64-bit 'totality'.Ħ4-bit hardware has been around for nearly 20 years, at this point. She's designed, above all, to be lightweight AND efficient, specifically for keeping older hardware still productive & useful. Puppy is rather different, both in philosophy AND operation, to most of the mainstream distros. ![]()
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