![]() I have developed my pupsaves over time, transfer them from machine to machine, break the OS experimenting, and reload yesterdays backup savefolder. These puppy-linux community distros are the kind of tool that grows with you. If that's not the kind of thing your looking for, no harm done. In other words, your participation will enhance the end result. It's a forum for the development of the OS's and distros as much at is a 'support' forum. So if you're the type of computer user who values those above mentioned strengths, than puppy linux will deliver, but in order to use it well, asking questions and giving feedback on the forum is a valuable resource. Size and speed are obvious, fossapup runs on my Toshiba 1.2GhZ single core laptop with 2gb of ram. ![]() Regardless, one pup is enough once you learn how to use it. In fact on those 5 laptops I'm running KLV-airedale, fossapup, bionicpup, vanilladpup, and fatdog, 3 of which I consider daily drivers, but the others will probably arrive at a similar status. I'm running KLV-airedale on 5 different laptops at the moment, and I can do a days work on all of them, and KLV isn't even out of beta stage yet. That being said, the puppy linux "brand" is on the cusp of more polished offerings like KLV-airedale, which is in fact a mainline distro with the puppy linux portability and syncability. The one I shared is actually more powerful, even more than what I've seen on windows machines, of which aren't any of mine! Just download and click on the dcontrol pet and you should be set to go. I'm currently running the beta25 version of KLV-airedale, which is a first rib build of void linux, uses the Xfce desktop, and has screen brightness built in, but it's a different tool than the one I shared with you. Because pups are small and many, the tools included will vary, in your example, the screen brightness control. A doubly powerful combination.Ĭustomization comes from the number of puppies, among the other new community developments known as psuedo-full installs, or first-rib builds, which are effectively the root file system of popular linux distros built to use the 'frugal-like' install properties of puppy linux. If you spend 5 hours installing applications on one machine, simply copy your pupsave folder to another machine and boot into it. Which creates the environment for syncability.īy syncability, I mean that since all of your user installed applications and settings are stored in folder or file, your favorite configuration of the OS can be transferred from machine to machine, from older revived hardware, to the newest computer, in essence running the exact same system on all machines. The fact that the 'clean' base operating system is an sfs file system, means that a clean system can be booted at anytime without losing any of your personal modified OS. Puppy doesn't care if it's running from an internal harddrive, or external drives. ![]() Puppy linux is innovative in portability, meaning there is effectively no reason to do what other OS's consider a full install. Almost all pups are effective in that area. I believe you said the puppy you're running revived an old laptop. Backward compatibility, portability, syncability, customization, size, and speed. ![]() I consider a few factors in choosing an operating system. Thank you all, I'm still new to Puppy and I really want to like it, but its infuriating to see not even basic functions like brightness control is already easily accessible but has to be asked for on a forum like this. When no gui slider app is provided/installed on system, I use a commandline program simply called 'light' on mine (these commandline apps are in the upstream repos of my Arch-Linux-based distro, but also available for most distros from their repos).įor intel_backlight you can also simply alter brightness via suitable command from an open terminal.įor example, you can check max_brightness allowed and brightness currently being used with commands: If it uses intel_backlight then xbacklight program would do the job, but I've heard that one is a bit unreliable on some machines. ![]() Could someone please help me out?ĭon't have fossa on my system at the moment so can't check which, if any, brightness control apps it has. Hello, I'm new to Puppy linux, I looked around for something to revive my old laptop and it works like a charm! But I can't figure out how to change the brightness of my screen, not dim the color but actually control the backlight. ![]()
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