Saluki

[viking60]

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?

[dedanna1029]

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.

[viking60]

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.

[dedanna1029]

Nice.

Avast - a very good AV, btw. Good choice.

[rolf]

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

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[rolf@localhost ~]$ ssh root@192.168.1.103
Warning: Permanently added '192.168.1.103' (RSA) to the list of known hosts.
root@192.168.1.103's password:
# cat /proc/cpuinfo
processor       : 0
vendor_id       : GenuineIntel
cpu family      : 6
model           : 8
model name      : Celeron (Coppermine)
stepping        : 10
cpu MHz         : 851.539
cache size      : 128 KB
fdiv_bug        : no
hlt_bug         : no
f00f_bug        : no
coma_bug        : no
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 2
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
bogomips        : 1704.36
clflush size    : 32

# cat /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:       124820 kB
MemFree:         12356 kB
Buffers:         16828 kB
Cached:          55228 kB
SwapCached:          0 kB
Active:          38580 kB
Inactive:        50784 kB
HighTotal:           0 kB
HighFree:            0 kB
LowTotal:       124820 kB
LowFree:         12356 kB
SwapTotal:           0 kB
SwapFree:            0 kB
Dirty:               0 kB
Writeback:           0 kB
AnonPages:       17316 kB
Mapped:          14172 kB
Slab:            11692 kB
SReclaimable:     6956 kB
SUnreclaim:       4736 kB
PageTables:        440 kB
NFS_Unstable:        0 kB
Bounce:              0 kB
CommitLimit:     62408 kB
Committed_AS:    28636 kB
VmallocTotal:   901112 kB
VmallocUsed:      2292 kB
VmallocChunk:   898676 kB
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Yes, Puppies are pretty special.