Subj : Compiling binkD fun in Linux
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Wed Apr 13 2016 05:03 pm

Hi! Nick,

On 04/13/2016 11:31 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> Quite old, for sure.  My bad.  I'm just flogging a dev environment I
 PQ>> took great pains to build years back.  I have a couple of USB boot
 PQ>> sticks with later Puppies, which is its usual user environment, but I
 PQ>> wouldn't trust any of those to run Fido.

 NB> Are you talking about those specific USB boot sticks? Or newer versions
 NB> of Puppy Linux in general? I would think they're a lot more secure
 NB> nowadays than they were back then?

Well, umm... both.  The 'dev' PC (i.e. the only one of three with gcc & make, 
etc) and this ~/1384 node are installed versions of Puppy, originally booted 
using a USB stick (different versions).  The first was originally installed to 
actual hardware, and then in late 2010 converted to a VirtualBox (vBox) 
appliance.  The Fido node was created as a vBox from USB.  I no longer have 
those USBs formatted as such.

I do have USBs formatted for later Puppies: v5.25 & v6.02(/Tahr?), each with 
multiple saved session settings for booting three PCs: two desktops & a 
netbook, for booting each for different reasons or situations (wired network 
versus wifi).  E.g. I am using the v5.25 USB on the netbook to write this note. 
 I can boot any PC with either USB if the BIOS allows.  I think you know this 
and you know about the Puppy distro, and I regret having to write this down.

This node's Puppy, v4.2.1, was developed as a one-off project by a bloke who 
promised that he would not be maintaining it, nor would he improve on it.  Fair 
enough.  It's a miniature version of most OOtB Linux distros.  OTOH as with any 
other Puppy, the default user is root AKA the admin user in windows terms.  One 
big difference with this one however is the ability to run daemon jobs 
goober-style (bash scripts in the background), and exit/logout.  The vBox & 
jobs keep running.  Do that with any other Puppy and the machine shuts down.

I'm exhausted.  Mmm... what was your question.  Oh, later versions: they're all 
simplistic pimped, small, fast, GUI blowjobs for the unwashed consumer masses.  
I'll try to keep an eye out for any other prospective multi-user Puppy.

Cheers,
Paul.

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