Macpup with E17

[Abarbarian]

http://macpup.org/

Tried a new Live CD in the last few weeks Macpup which features E17. Well worth a look as it is fast and very pretty.

 

[EvanDavis]

http://macpup.org/

Tried a new Live CD in the last few weeks Macpup which features E17. Well worth a look as it is fast and very pretty.

Just downloading now. Been looking for a new distro for an oldish laptop

 

[Abarbarian]

It will work best as a Live CD on a CD or a CD-RW(so you can have a persistant folder) or on a USB stick.Installing to hdd is something I have never done.

Not an expert on puppies but have a bit of knowledge if needed.

 

[EvanDavis]

Just having a play with it on Virtualbox and loos pretty good so far. Although I have no sound.

 

[Abarbarian]

Why on earth run it in VB it is a Live distro.

 

[EvanDavis]

Why on earth run it in VB it is a Live distro.

I always run things in VB just to have a look first.

 

[Abarbarian]

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=49526

This is a good source of information if you are going to explore. If you are going to play with E17 then there are some links to some darn funky themes in the above.I'm dead impressed with E17, a bit flakey and needs some debugging but the potential is awesome.I'm running the Ecomorph OpenGL compositing manager (compiz compositing for e17) on my main pc and some of the effects are really neat.
I have run Macpup on a very old 1.4 Athlon and it flies.

Enjoy.