Puppy To The Rescue!

[PuppyHome]

Oh good old FossaPup F96-CE!

When cleaning up I discovered I DID bring my very old first work station. I3 Dualcore, 4GB of RAM. Very old school.
I knew there where a ton of pics (family stuff and sentimental drivel) and a ship load of movies and music.
For YEARS I thought I lost all of this and I was adamant that this PC was lost as I was "sure" I forgot it when I moved here where I live now some 4,5 ys ago. have been beating myself up for years over that.

I can't express how elated I was when I found it in a corner of a closet full of stuff. After some 10 years(!) I plugged it in again and Parrot Home was installed and of course no idea what the password was.

So I grabbed one of my Puppy USB's and now I'm copying all I thought I lost to an external drive.
Man I'm all over the place over this. Posting from a machine that hasn't been running for 10 years, using a Pup I've installed about 3 years ago and it feels like yesterday!

Puppy Is Top Dog.!!!!

 

[CaffeineAddict]

Puppy Is Top Dog.!!!!

Woof, woof!
(puppy barks)

 

[PuppyHome]

That's right @CaffeineAddict

 

[KGIII]

I'm now reminded of a horrible, horrible song. This isn't something I should face alone, so I'll share the only lyrics I know from said song.

"Who let the dogs out. Woof Woof"

 

[dos2unix]

"Who let the dogs out. Woof Woof"

For the masochists amongst us...

 

[KGIII]

For the masochists amongst us...

I refuse to press the play button.

And, while it's not new, I refuse to be the old person who says today's music sucks. That'd be an inaccurate statement (from my opinion on the matter). It's just that I don't like a lot of what's both new and popular.

Anyhow, that is indeed the song. No, no... I don't want even more of the lyrics in my head.

 

[PuppyHome]

Yeah, that song IS terrible.

 

[Mike-BTU]

Can Puppy be fixed so that the user doesn't always run as root? As it is, it scares me a little. Kinda dangerous.

 

[PuppyHome]

Can Puppy be fixed so that the user doesn't always run as root? As it is, it scares me a little. Kinda dangerous.

Doesn't need to be fixed. Puppies filesystem is very different than 'regular' distros. It runs completely in RAM and even IF some malware or virus would slip through it wouldn't do any damage IF it could be executed at all which is a very very low chance of ever happening. Once you close a Puppy without saving the session there will be no traces left on the machine.
Unless of course you specifically saving something to your drive.

Again, even then a virus or whatever couldn't do anything with the filesystem even if said virus would be written to attack Linux machines.

See, when running Puppy from a frugal install all drives are unmounted by default and almost the whole file system is read only.

 

[PuppyHome]

@Mike-BTU EasyOS takes this approach to an extreme level where every application has its own user profile and you could even choose to use web facing applications to run as "spot" which has NO elevated rights whatsoever.

The "spot" setting is also available in all pups and dogs (Dogs are a Puppy fork) so the choice is yours.

So yeah, not to worry about these things UNLESS a user will kick aside common sense to an violent extreme. I mean, everything someone creates can be destroyed in the end.
But Pups are safe to use even as "root".

 

[Mike-BTU]

Ah, very good, thanks!

 

[PuppyHome]

Ah, very good, thanks!

You're welcome

 

[Deleted member 197709]

With my older PC I loved my puppy CD and then usb. I used it so much for back ups, cloning, and just general rescue stuff. My New PC with NV drives and uefi bios doesn't seem to like Puppy very well, I probably didn't fiddle long enough to find the right pup though.

 

[MikeWalsh]

@PuppyHome :-

Thanks for those clarifications, my son. Nice to have somebody else beat me to it (for a change!)

Every little bit helps to educate, instruct & inform those unfamiliar with our Pup's wee "quirks"..!


Mike.