On 12/30/2014 02:36 PM, Israel wrote: > ... > Hi Nio, > I don't think this is inline with the goals really. It is very hard to > install major packages from Ubuntu into Puppy. There are a lot of > underlying differences, and some issues when installing things from > Ubuntu in Puppy. I have tried very hard to install a full suite of > things from Ubuntu into Puppy, but have not been able to do so reliably > in the past. Barry is also no longer developing Puppy, so the only > remaining editions will be community versions. Ubuntu has a much more > reliable (at least currently) stable release model. > > It will also benefit other Ubuntu users if we can just 'sudo apt-get > install torios-desktop jwm jwm-settings-manager' from a PPA. Then users > can simply try out the DE on top of their current DE. > > Besides all that Puppy is SLOW on really old hardware... it actually > does not boot unless I tell it not to load into RAM on my old ME era > machine. It gets stuck trying to load things into RAM. Tori boot very > fast (for an old computer) and has a live environment, as well as a very > quick install. I think ToriOS can be a good bridge from Puppy to Ubuntu > for people. This way you can install things normally and easily from a > large variety of sources. > Hi, Please reply to this one in lieu of the mailinglist guidelines :)
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