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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/30/2014 02:04 AM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
> ...

> Hi Ali and Israel,
>
> Did you ever consider making ToriOS a branch of Puppy Linux?
>
> Wary Puppy, Precise Puppy, Tahrpup, Quirky, Slacko Puppy ... ToriOS
> Puppy (or Tori Puppy)?
>
> Best regards
> Nio
>
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.

-- 
Regards

-Israel
ToriOS Team