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[Israel <israel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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,
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-Israel
ToriOS Team