Subj : Compiling binkD fun in Linux
To   : Nicholas Boel
From : Paul Quinn
Date : Thu Apr 14 2016 09:09 am

Hi! Nick,

On 13 Apr 16 16:33, you wrote to me:

 PQ>> versions: they're all simplistic pimped, small, fast, GUI
 PQ>> blowjobs for the unwashed consumer masses.  I'll try to keep an
 PQ>> eye out for any other prospective multi-user Puppy.

 NB> I thought the whole idea of Puppy Linux was to keep things minimal?
 NB> Now they come with GUIs? Sigh..

I think you may be thinking of Damn Small Linux (DSL)?  Geeze, it's been a 
while since I looked at that one.

Nah, Puppy has always had a GUI.  Well, at least ever since I started using it 
at version 2.14CE back in the mid-to-late 2000s.  Their target user base is 
aimed at people running older hardware, with Puppy requiring only a minimum to 
operate on.  Older versions only needed 128Mb RAM but newer versions 'like' a 
gigabyte.  They were so GUI that most ex-Windows users don't know the 
difference.  In fact some commercial configurations include internet cafes.

Hence, it is my OS of choice in a vBox setting: two PCs running with 256Meg RAM 
and the older one using 512Meg, basically because it runs several multi-media 
LAN shares [including a DLNA server].  I use the same reasoning in running the 
two Win98Se vBox PCs as well: they only use 128Mb RAM each.

But I do have to say, the other day I had a religious experience with the 
latest Puppy that I have.  I had a bit of spare time to lament the lack of a 
decent RDP/Terminal server/Remote desktop connection 'client' app in Puppy.  (I 
say decent, as I already have a crappy Gnome thing and a command-line 
incarnation but both are somewhat primitive.)  So, I booted my netbook with 
that USB stick; went to the 'package manager' and searched for something 
(_anything_) better.

The package doo-hickey replied with dialogue to the effect 'not a prob, here 
look at this one...' and once I hit the tit, proceeded to install something 
from a *Ubuntu* repo.  It's a real beaut!  Very nearly a Windows doppleganger 
and way better than anything I have, and very reminiscent of something I ran on 
an older Puppy years ago.  Whoo!hoo!  That Puppy may yet replace this Windows 
8.1 that I'm "Remote desktop"-ing to my main Fido node from right now.  :)

Oh, crap.  I've been frothing at the mouth again.  Sorry.

Cheers,
Paul.

.... For a good time call 86753099 (Jenny)...
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
 * Origin: Quinn's Post - Maryborough, Queensland, OZ (3:640/384)

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