Did some further testing of MacPup 550 the other evening. Enough to know that it's not overly fond of the Dell XPS. The trackpad is sluggish, and I had a devil of a time in ALSA getting the sound to work properly. But, for now, I'll restrict its usage to the Thinkpads. (Of course, I haven't really played with it on all of them yet, so stay tuned...)
In other news, last night I downloaded yet another Puppy distro, this one entitled Puppy Slacko 5.5 XL. This one is sort of along the lines of PhatSlack, basically a really tricked out version of (as the name implies) Slacko 5.5. The distro was put together by a gentleman going by the handle "koulaxizi" over on the Puppy Linux Discussion Forum. The cool thing about this is that "koulaxizi" is not a professional developer, etc., but just a typical user who decided to play around and see what he could do in the line of making a distro. That I find quite cool. (Here's the discussion thread so you can read what he has to say. The download link is there, as well.)
I've burned a CD and did a test live boot with great success, so I went ahead and did a frugal install to a 16 GB thumb drive. He has done an exceptional job, especially for a first shot at a distro. I'm sure they'll probably be some teething problems along the way, but I certainly have run across any. He's using Openbox plus Extras for his interface, and has included a very snazzy collection of software.
It's a slick distro, well worth a look. I'm running it right now, and am looking forward to tooling around with it for a while.
Also, I did a bit of an impulse download earlier today. Grabbed a copy of Trisquel 6.0 LTS. I've been wanting to try some of the FSF-approved systems, just to see how they ran. Ages back, I downloaded a copy of gNewSense, but I just never got 'round to burning nor installing. My inherent laziness and desire to follow the herd kept me from doing so. But Trisquel looks to be a bit...well, a little bit better for work-averse herdlings like me...
Unfortunately, the Trisquel .ISO is in the download folder on my desktop at the moment, and I think I used my last CD-R for the Slacko XL burn. (I know I've got some DVD-Rs about, but I obviously don't want to use those on an .ISO specifically set to burn to CD.) I may have to make a store run tomorrow...
All in all, a good Linux week. I am, of course, still waiting for the new battery for the T410s, which will allow me to go fully mobile with it. I'm beginning to get impatient.
I'm going to try to spruce the old blog up here soon. I need to start doing some screen shots and the like, to show what I'm doing. My entries tend to be a bit spur of the moment (bet no one has noticed that), with me just jumping on and writing. But, I'm going to actually try to put some real effort into it.
As for now, it's getting a bit late, so I'm off to veg out a bit...
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