I have an old Macbook Air 2013 and another 2014 to install linux on--will Puppy work?

Two old defunct Macbook airs fell into my lap to wipe and recycle for my family, and I thought why not fix them up with linux I boot Puppy sometimes, but I have xubuntu installed on my old lenovo. I like Macs and found several apps on xubuntu to use with apple stuff...

I know Puppy is not a full featured, but I've made movies, art and business stuff on it.

Just curious if anyone has a good experience with puppy on the MBa?

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Toshiba Satellite bought in 2004
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Puppy for gaming

Hey :)

Is anyone using Puppy for gaming? Ive tried a quick google search but didn't really find anything. Does it work well? I'll try myself in the near future but just wanted to ask :D.

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No suitable driver for old VIA graphics

Hi all,

I'm trying to run the latest puppy on an old ASUS P5VD2-VM motherboard that uses a VIA P4M900 chipset with integrated Chrome9 HC graphics.

Xwin always crashes. I tried installing openchrome driver and manually editing xorg. I used nomodesetting boot option. Nothing works.

The only linux distro that can load a graphic environment on my system is Knoppix (but Knoppix can't install updated web browsers).

Is there anything I can do? I have already spent hours doing what AI chatbots suggest with no success.

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Impossible to register on puppy linux forum

You have to answer security questions that don't make sense, such as "London..." and "twentyfour hours to go and you want to...".


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puppy linux asking for password

puppy linux is asking for password even tho i never set any password

ive already tried "woofwoof" and did not worked too

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Still not ready for Prime Time

I'm a huge fan of Debian generally and have a few older laptops that could be useful. Windows XP is the correct era for the hardware. Network access would be great but getting on the Internet is a no-go with XP.



Puppy seems to be mostly a tech demo for running on low ram systems. It technically works but it is buggy enough that it hampers real usability.

I'm running this on a netbook from 2009-ish that has the Intel Atom Z520 CPU and 2Gb(!) of ram with a 30GB SATA ssd.

I'm running the Bookworm flavor of Puppy, 32bit



Here are some of the major lowlights:

\- Network utilities are pretty bodged together and don't work well in concert to provide connectivity. The firewall control simply just doesn't work. The PaleMoon browser is very slow. SSH client or server is not provided by default. Installing them runs into another problem (see below)

\- Installing new programs is mostly not acknowledged by the OS. 7zip, filezilla, openssh-server can be installed but not used because the desktop never surfaces them after install. (bug?)

\- the underlying networking seems to be broken. Even after stopping the firewall service I couldn't ping other IPs, or have clients like Putty or gFTP connect (because of the previous problem) Internet access did work though. (?!?!)

\-Synaptic will allow all kinds of programs to be installed (like 7zip, filezilla, etc.) but even if they appear on a menu somewhere invoking them just results in nothing running.

\- There is no search facility for already installed programs. You're on your own finding programs by navigating through all of the menu items.

\- USB keys are not mounted automatically. So... those aren't usable.

\- The basket of utilities that the OS comes installed with are not that usable or even explanatory. And to my mind, unnecessary. For example, there are three or four archive utilities. None of which understand .rar or .7z. Installing 7zip made no difference. I couldn't invoke the app. RAR and UNRAR were successfully installed but wouldn't show as options in the shell. So I had to use it in a command line.



Some of the above can be addressed by just invoking things from a CLI but that wasn't the expectation. Why have a desktop at all? Also, some things like networking, seem to have parts well and truly broken.

I wanted to like Puppy because of the small footprint and the potential to resurrect old netbooks. But it's too buggy and unfinished to be usable.

FWIW - The way I was able to use this netbook was to install XP and put an SSH server onto it. It's not on the Internet but it's on my home network (by not specifying a gateway and having my router block services to its static IP.) That experience was way easier than trying to configure Puppy and finding out things were just broken.

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I just found this beast in my old house, should i install Puppy Linux on it?
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2x puppylinux HD Install: UEFI PC
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ibNXNPjpfq4&si=MhlNX3kHLcI8ketA

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KapiPup

I made an puppy Linux distro based on NoblePup called KapiPup it’s the same but more frutiger aero (still in alpha version exactly 0.5A)

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Puppy Linux users — how far have you pushed it?

I’ve been playing around with Puppy Linux and it’s wild how light it is. I’m curious how far other people have pushed it. What’s the craziest thing you’ve managed to run on it or fix when it broke? Any weird tricks, optimizations, or custom setups that made it run like a full system? I want to know what Puppy can really do if you push it to the limit.

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latest deadbeef install in puppylinux
https://youtube.com/watch?v=sc4vAy8TNZ4&si=ykUw9GrJTa2qZC9N

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i want to create an puppy linux distro

can someone help me because i wanna help the community of puppy linux and frutiger aero and i want to learn something new

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Vivaldi browser won't install, says I need more ram

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When we shoud use Puppy linux?

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Slow mirrors

Anybody recently tried to download bookwormpup64 for ibliblio or its mirrors? I understand if it's slow like 200-500kbps, but 16kbps? And in all mirrors, too.

Has anybody else have this problem or just me?

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