Saluki
Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 20:15
 | I came across Saluki today: It is a Puppy based distro with modern HW in mind. Lightweight like puppy. This thing looks interesting - does anyone have any experience with this? |
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Re: Saluki
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 04:38
None here, but I so want to try it now, on the netbook. The only thing that throws me is one user, and that's it. They talk about customizing it - I may do that in order to have at least one other user.
Re: Saluki
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 13:27
I have tested it a bit in VB and like all puppies this is a charmer. I love the snappiness and the speed and the ability to adapt it to my own needs.
This is perfect for maintaining and rescuing. I installed Avast AV so I can scan infected Windows boxes. Nmap of course, and Firefox + flash and Java.
Saved the settings - and voila it was all there when I restarted Saluki.
This is perfect for maintaining and rescuing. I installed Avast AV so I can scan infected Windows boxes. Nmap of course, and Firefox + flash and Java.
Saved the settings - and voila it was all there when I restarted Saluki.
Re: Saluki
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 17:46
Nice.
Avast - a very good AV, btw. Good choice.
Avast - a very good AV, btw. Good choice.
Re: Saluki
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 02:17
I think there is room, here, for a Puppy-related story. If not, my apologies. 
I found a new toy on Craigslist for
$5! 
It's an EBX form factor and darned hard to find an enclosure for it: GCS15-BN
In the meantime, I've breadboarded it with an old ATX PSU, 128M of old pc133 laptop ram I have lying around, dvd drive that needs the paper clip to open, standby hobby monitor connected to onboard video, and wireless usb mouse/keyboard set:
It happens that a Puppy 4.1 from some years ago was the first CD I figured out how to boot. As for all good Puppies, it boots and is very easily configured for lan wired to my switch, has a capable gtkam for offloading the camera shots, and mtPaint screenshot utility:
I tried to upload the images to dropbox.com in the Puppy Seamonkey browser but 128M of memory was getting overtaxed, it seems. I wanted to ssh in but this Puppy didn't come with sshd, so I found a pet for one and installed it over sneakernet
Yes, Puppies are pretty special.
I found a new toy on Craigslist for
$5! It's an EBX form factor and darned hard to find an enclosure for it: GCS15-BN
In the meantime, I've breadboarded it with an old ATX PSU, 128M of old pc133 laptop ram I have lying around, dvd drive that needs the paper clip to open, standby hobby monitor connected to onboard video, and wireless usb mouse/keyboard set:
It happens that a Puppy 4.1 from some years ago was the first CD I figured out how to boot. As for all good Puppies, it boots and is very easily configured for lan wired to my switch, has a capable gtkam for offloading the camera shots, and mtPaint screenshot utility:
I tried to upload the images to dropbox.com in the Puppy Seamonkey browser but 128M of memory was getting overtaxed, it seems. I wanted to ssh in but this Puppy didn't come with sshd, so I found a pet for one and installed it over sneakernet
Yes, Puppies are pretty special.