Running with the Dogs

So, I haven't really been that cyber-loquacious as of late.

Work has, of course, been intruding.  I have not, as of yet, found a (legal) way to free myself of the usual wage-slavery.  And far, far too many people seem intent on continuously sending me these bill things...  Strange...

I do want to make a quick sort-of correction.  I think I gave a very wrong impression of my impression of FatDog64 from last time.  I seem to have come across rather negatively, and that certainly wasn't the case.  I do like it, a lot.  It's a very handsome implementation of Puppy, with an excellent set of features.  I do admit to being rather vexed as to why it doesn't like the trackpad on the T400 (as far as "clickability" is concerned), but that's a relatively minor gripe.  And one I could probably fix if I were to switch off my lazy factor and look for a solution.

Also have to admit that I didn't really use many of the Puppy USB implementations I had with me this week.  Some test run0throughs with FatDog, of course, and couple rounds with Precise and Saluki, but that was it.

Bodhi handled most of the week for me.  And that includes both work and personal functions.  I found myself using the T400 for much of what I was doing.  (I didn't use my MacBook for more than cruising movies in iTunes, which kind of saddens me.)  Everything from online ArcGIS mapping to medium heavy spreadsheeting (involving current format Excel sheets opened in LibreCalc) was handled without a burp.  I was impressed.

Of course, I haven't abandoned my fiddling with the Puppy stable, however.  While on the road, I did some reading/watching up on PhatSlacko, which sort of looked interesting.  I've never really fooled with Slackware, and honestly haven't been inclined to.  I was pretty well into the Ubuntu & Debian side of the farm, so...  But PhatSlacko seemed fairly complete, and I wouldn't have to mess with getting into the Slackware repositories, so...

So, I ended up downloading a .iso while on the road.  Didn't have any blank CD-R's with me, so I waited till I got back to the house.  Just ended up burning it to CD, and (yes) am now running Firefox under liveboot.  And, yes, I've already installed it to USB.

Which is a slightly amusing sidenote.  Here's PhatSlacko, one of the "heaviest" of the Puppy distros, and I just installed it on the tiniest USB drive I own.  (A miniscule PNY thing that I bought from the  discount of a Staples somewhere...)

OK, it's only amusing to me...  But...