Still Running with the Puppies

It has been a bit of the week in the Unnecessarium's great OS stable.

Big news is that I just upgraded my Precise Puppy up to 5.6.  Did that this evening, downloading and burning the .ISO, and installing to USB.  I'm running it right now on the ThinkPad X60s, and it's working flawlessly.  Absolutely no setup bobbles, picked up all the hardware with no sweat.  Network setup a breeze, as always.  Running fine.

The other news is a bit more of a problem.  My FatDog64 USB install seems to have gone on the fritz.  I noticed that it had installed its "save" file on the T400's hard drive.  I immediately removed that, rebooted, and told it to install on the USB.  Then I rebooted again.  The system refused to see the copy on the USB, and acted like there was no save...

Sigh.

And FatDog had been doing so good through the week.

I know there's a way to reset the system if it's "refusing" to see the save, but I just don't feel like it.  I think I'm just going to nuke the system and reinstall.  There's also an off chance that this might be due to a bad USB, as I used a very old, and fairly well-used thumb drive when I created the install.  On top of that, it's a PNY, so I'm not 100% confident in it.  However, I'll keep fiddling with it, just to check...

Other than that...

My partner at work seems to have taken to ZorinOSLite.  I ended up installing WINE on it, so he could run the copy of MS-Office 97 (!?!) he seems so enamored to.  (Yes, I did try to explain to him about Libreoffice, but that's a lost cause.)  He's still shaky with Chromium, but is averse to loading anything else.  I think Chromium is starting to grow on him, though...

I guess it's sort of another chalk-up for Linux.  We'll see how long it lasts...  He's stated over and over that, once he gets enough money saved up, his next purchase is going to be a Mac.  Anything's better than the HP WinBoxes he's been picking up.  Granted, the hardware isn't bad, but the software bloat they come with.......

Oh well...

I'll keep my fingers crossed.

Meanwhile, back to Puppy...