[sf-lug] Slacko-Puppy is back!

[aaronco36]

Quoting Bobbie Sellers <bliss-sf4ever at dslextreme.com> from [1]:
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Puppy Linux is back in a Slack-based edition. Does not use systemd and has 
32 and 64 bit versions.  Unlike its recent imitators it does no use Ubuntu 
repositories.  It is built on top of Slackware Linux 14.2.
     Distrowatch has some more details but I see this as a positive
step for the Puppy. Downloading it right now and the bigger version is 343 
Megabytes.
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Yeah, I already took a brief look at Distrowatch's Puppy Linux 7.0 
"Slacko" Distribution Release announcement at [2] as well as some further 
details of the Slacko Release Notes webpage at [3].

Quoting Slacko 7.0's Minimum System Requirements from [3]: 
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Recommended for 32 bit: 900MHz processor (P3 or AMD K7), 512MB RAM and 
either bootable cd access, usb boot or network boot access. A Hard Drive 
is not required

Recommended for 64 bit: 1.6GHz processor (IA64 or amd64), 1GB RAM and 
either bootable cd access, usb boot or network boot access. A Hard Drive 
is not required
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Further quoting from the same referenced webpage of [3]:
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Features
...
* JWM-2.3.2 window manager from Joe Wing and Rox Filer
...
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and also...

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Which version? 32 or 64?
So which version is best? It all depends on your hardware. Slacko (32) 
should be fine on most hardware, however if you have over 4GB RAM and a 
compatible IA64 or amd64 processor then you may want to use Slacko64 
[version] to take advantage of your processors capabilities.
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Therefore, am wondering whether Slacko 32 might run decently as a 
sufficiently low-resource VirtualBox liveCD guest distro in an 
"appropriately tweaked" VirtualBox running on the laptop having 4 GB RAM 
installed and using a lightweight Linux host as mentioned in the last 
third of posting [4]??
Slacko 32 with the lightweight JWM (IIRC even lighter in using system 
resources than the larger Lxde of Lubuntu) seems to have a great deal 
going for it in this regard.

The VBox tweak mentioned in [4] of upping memory allocation to and 
slightly past 2048MB for a guest Slacko 32 VM could even hopefully show 
some performance improvement on that 4.0 GB RAM machine.....

So thanks for that Slacko 7.0 release mention, Bobbie! :-)

-A

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REFERENCES
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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2021q1/015131.html
[2]https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11125
[3]http://slacko.eezy.xyz/notes.php
[4]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2021q1/015132.html
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