Month: December 2023

And it worked on my Panasonic toughbook. So I hope to try it a little.

So far I have tried bionic puppy 8, and xenial puppy. Both 64 bits. Bionic puppy was slow on my laptops so I switched to xenial 7.5. That was a lot faster.

Everything was working OK until I panicked when programs did not open right away. I had tried to open ppm with the shell. That did not work. So I tried to open a browser, no good. Then I tried to get the shutdown menu to come up. Nothing.

So I pressed my laptop button and heard the bark and saw the puppy shutdown pop with the amount of time until puppy was going to shut down. Then not long before shut down time all the programs came on.

I thought oh, good. Instead of pressing cancel on the shutdown popup I thought I wonder what suspend does. So I clicked on suspend. Puppy went of the screen went dark and then puppy was on my screen again.

Then I decided to shut the computer down. I tried booting puppy up again and that is when I saw an error. I thought oh, no. Tried booting puppy again.

So I went to my Panasonic laptop. I thought it would be simple to put puppy linux back on the thumb drive.

There was one problem. The drive did not show up in my computer. Windows said it was an unidentified USB drive. It did not have a driver.

I was not happy with myself. I should have waited for the programs to open or I should have pressed cancel on the puppy linux shutdown dialog box. At least I only messed up the usb drive and not my computer.

So I got a new usb thumb drive and thought since I have to put puppy linux on it anyway I might as well try a version I have not tried before.

I hope someday to see if I can put a driver on the other usb drive. I can’t wait to try out FossaPup64 9.5 and see how it works on my computers.

I figure the computer going off and then on so quickly messed up the usb drive. Oh, well.

So as I said I installed devx on it. But, have not tried to upload to git or made any programs yet.

And don’t know what I can do with devx. I hope to find out.

I did try to run rebol veiw but, there was an error. Rebol core seemed to work though.

I hope to try pharo on xenial puppy.

And other program I want to see if it works or not is obs studio. I don’t know if it will work. I will try.

I also hope to use blender and krita in puppy linux.

Maybe it says something about my life or lack of a life that I am so excited about using a new version of puppy liux.

I also hope to learn bash.

So now time will tell if I do the times I mentioned able or not. I hope I get around to all those things.

I thought everything would go smoothy. It did not.

So I went into xp and used rufus to create a bootable usb drive of xenial64 7.5. I went to the dell and tried to boot into puppy. Nope. There was an error. so I went back and burned slack64 on my usb drive. I got the same error when I tried to boot it up.

I thought I have messed everything up. I had a new fun operating system and I screwed it up and will not get it back. Why couldn’t I leave well enough alone. Sure bionic was slow but, at least it worked.

So I got on the internet. Rufus thought my usb drive was a cd drove. So I looked up the problem and found that I needed to reformat the USB. So I went into xp and reformatted the USB to fat32.

Then I used rufus to create a bootable USB of xenial64 7.5. Then I went back to my dell laptop and to my relief it booted int puppy Linux.

I had been so upset because I did not have another big enough USB and could no get one right away.

I used palemoon to get seamonkey 2.53, godot, and devx. I also created a save file. And xenial puppy seemed to be a lot faster on my dell laptop than bionic had been.

Also the reason I did not install the new versions of puppy on my dell or Panasonic laptop was because I did not want to lose all my old data if I messed something up and also I could carry that operating system around with me. And I thought if I hard drive failed I could still use my computers.

I was happy to find that godot 3.5LTS works on my laptops. I tired godot 4.2 and that did not work. I am not sure if 4.0 would work. I have not tried it us. Now I can use godot on my laptops. Which I thought was cool.

The end. So now I get to fool around with a newer operating system and websites that did not load previously now load on the new version of puppy.

The laptops are a dell xps, and a Panasonic toughbook by the way. The toughbook came with windows xp and the dell came with windows vista.

So onto more of my story. So the exciting day came when I tried creating the usb bootable. I chose to do bionic64 puppy. I thought that the desktop background looked so cool and the operating system looked so cool.

I got on the internet with it which is could because I am not sure everything would work. Oh, I booted bionic up on the dell laptop. Which is the laptop I said had sat around for awhile. I am surprised it still works.

Then I had to wait a few days to try out puppy. I could not wait. So I tried firefox. And everything worked great except that the next day after some firefox updates the browser would not start.

So I had to look for a different browser. I had tried netsurf but, that did not start up. And when I updated palemoon it would not start either. By that time I had created a 1gb save file on the usb. So I did not have a usable browser.

So I deleted the save file and logged into puppy. I got a hold of the newest seamonkey 2.53. And it worked good. So I created a new 1gb save file.

And I used that for about a day but, was unhappy with how slow everything was on my computer.

So I decided to try a different version of puppy linux.

So recently I because obsessed with installing a new version of puppy Linux on the 2 laptops. why I did not want to upgrade earlier I don’t know.

So I booted into widows vista and found that I used burncc to burn the puppy iso. I thought somehow I had made a bootable usb with another program. I was wrong. I made the bootable usb with puppy linux after I ran it the first time.

So I started looking at programs that would make bootable usb. Programs such as ventoy and rufus.

So I tried ventoy on slacko puppy 5.7 but, I could not get it to work. I thought I was never going to be able to install a new puppy on my laptops.

Then I wanted to try rufus but, did not have a computer to install it on. So I thought. Then I realized that I may not have new versions of windows but, I could install rufus on xp or vista.

So I looked up which versions of rufus were comparable with xp and vista. And I downloaded rufus version 2.17 I think. And ran it in xp.

Now all I needed was a usb drive since the biggest usb I had was 64MB. Oh, I had installed tiny linux with rufus on that drive. It booted up to a gui on one of my laptops but, the other laptop only had a console.

And that reminds me I thought one of my laptops could not boot from a usb drive. I was wrong. Why I thought that I have no idea.

So I got a hold of a 4GB usb drive. And I downloaded versions of puppy I wanted to try on my external hard drive and put those versions on the windows machine.

My laptops are from 2009 I think. One has about 2 gigabytes of ram and the other has 3 gigabytes. That is not what I thought they had. I thought one had 512 megabytes of ram and the other had 1 gigabyte of ram. I don’t know why I thought they had so little ram. I am glad they had more ram than I thought they had.

One of the laptops came with windows xp, and the other one with windows vista. And in about 2014 I needed a new operating system because windows was ending security updates for windows xp.

I had know about puppy Linux for awhile. I am not sure when I had found out about it or even how. And I had been obsessed with running Linux on my computers. So it was much chance to try Linux.

Both of the laptops have dvd drives but, one of them was/is broken. So I used the one with the good dvd drive to download and burn a cdrw of slacko puppy 32. And then when I ran puppy I made a bootable usb for the laptop that had the bad dvd drive.

Also I installed puppy on the hard drives of both of the laptops. And I have used that version of puppy on the laptops ever since. Though one of that laptops sat around and did not get much use for awhile.

One thing I also learned about my laptops is that they are both 64 bit. I thought one was 64 and the other was 32. I was wrong. Both are 64 bit because I can run a 64 bit version of puppy Linux on both of them.

One probably I had with Slacko puppy 5.7 was getting a modern browser. I was running palemoon 28.16.0 which was the last 32 bit browser for Linux. And it does not load websites that it used to.

Also I don’t remember why I chose Slacko 5.7. I don’t remember if there were other versions of puppy Linux on their website at the time. I am almost sure that were though.