Paint.NET - VERY capable free image processing software. Just trying to provide some viable alternatives.Free alternatives (and powerful in their own right) that I use rather than the big, expensive applications are:įree Office (by Softmaker) - smaller package, less resource-hungry, and more MS Office-compatible than OpenOffice or LibreOffice. Again, this was tested to 'prove' the theory! They will also run, quite happily, from a USB flash-drive, plugged in & mounted as & when you want to run them. Just as a test, these both ran without issue in, for instance, Lucid.which has a very elderly 2.10 or 2.11 glibc, and which under normal circumstances wouldn't entertain either of these items. I've also put together a 'portable' build of Thunderbird 45.8.0, again utilising the glibc 'tweak'. Goes without saying that the best place for this is somewhere outside the save-file/folder, thus avoiding the use of 'Puppy-space'. This, along with several other packages I've assembled, follows the same format as Fredx181's 'portable FF-Quantum totally self-contained within a single directory, making use of a 'launch script' that on first run creates a profile folder within that directory (and puts the profile in there), and on second & subsequent runs will always start the browser using that 'internal' profile, so long as you use the 'launch script' to fire it up. You may also be interested in a 'portable' version I put together, of watchdog's Palemoon 27.9.4_sse (the final SSE-only build, together with a built-in version of Tahr's glibc-2.19), which permits running on older Puppies that have too old a version of the glibc. Mike's given you links to watchdog's original packages. A better browser for Puppies running on elderly, 'limited' hardware I've yet to find. I whole-heartedly concur with Mikeslr about Palemoon. Scsijon wrote.He uses Firefox for internet and I crossed him from Eudora to Thunderbird some years ago so hopefully they are available, and they (of course) are why he has to update as some of the site he works with won't allow access with the 'older' versions he is using anymore and just error him out. And all those the Gimp is only version 2 6 4, it has all the plugins and python support to do everything. oh, and because of all the python I had to add it has a full Python IDE. of all the things I lost, I think my backup hard drive hurt the most! Lol.Īnyhow, I believe you'll find Paw to be quite usable still, especially on older Hardware. I was actually almost finished doing so before the fire. If I do rebuild paw, I believe I'll use e16 as the window manager, and base it on The other OS on the old Celeron is upupdd with E16. I recently lost everything else in a house fire, but when I get a new, more modern computer, I intend to build a new Paw. I've been using Tahrpup, with a 4.9 kernel, on an old Celeron, with one gig of RAM, and it works fine. If you want to use the latest Hardware, you need something based on a newer kernel. If I remember right it conflicted with all the python stuff I had to install.Īnd there are a multitude of apps available for Puppy 4.12. This is the same version of Cinepaint I provided a link to in my previous post.Ĭinepaint.png Cinepaint under Slacko 5.7.2CE (207.54 KiB) Downloaded 252 times The attached Screenshot shows Cinepaint apparently working under it. So I'll plug the Slacko 5.7.2CE I constructed to include all libraries needed by current applications but still run on old computers with limited RAM. There's a 'wealth' of applications which can run under it, including the latest palemoon and firefox quantum if all dependencies are met. And recently a great deal of work has been done to update Slacko 5.7, based on Slackware 14.0. 590#974590 reputed to run well on older computers. Note that the versions with the "sse" designation will be required if the computer lacks hardware for encryption developed later.įor what its worth, I particularly like radky's dpup-stretch. It includes the required gtk and glibc libraries. As it is -with websites that offer graphics and video offering graphic rich graphics and video and not allowing browsers unable to handle such content even to have access- perhaps the only web-browser which older Puppies can use is watchdog's special package of palemoon. I didn't continue reading that thread so I don't know if all the problems were resolved or even if the cinepaint package which was installed is still available.įrankly, I really think that if you have to update to a newer Puppy, updating to the newest Puppy that your computer can handle is the best course: easier to find applications you may want, especially web-browsers. There's a discussion of cinepaint under PAWS beginning here.
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