Porteus 3,0 First Newbie Look
Posted: 24 Dec 2013, 12:01
Seasons Greetings!
Thanks for the early present!
First newbie quibble: Booted up okay into XFCE on flash, logged out as guest and back into root, changed password. All okay. Spent 20 minutes configuring the panel, making a top and bottom one with GIMP and SeaMonkey and OpenOffice icons which all worked. Logged out, logged back in -- all panel work evaporated like never was. No warning to save session or how. I did go into Porteus utilities to find a way to save a session, and it seemed to default to making a session module which swelled over 200 megs before I stopped it. Tried to create a file to save session but it balked that it can't save with acfs(?) filesystem. (flash is formatted in FAT, which maybe is why I was able to install Porteus over an existing Puppy install without it deleting anything -- that was neat and a migration timesaver!!!) I highly suggest to make Porteus newbie-proof by flagging a warning and option to save a basic session prior logging off -- even automatically as a safety-catch if possible. I don't understand why save module swelled over 200megs if all I first did was configure the panels and desktop. I can see saving the whole banana bunch ala Time Machine, since I did move over OpenOffice and SeaMonkey from my other stick and they work, but is it necessary to include those apps in a save session file when just recording their and desktop and panel and such configurations and settings should be enough and infinitely smaller, like saving sessions in Puppy? Outside that 3.0 seems to work well but I haven't checked out the time-stamp thing yet -- not until I'm sure all that setting up isn't all going to evaporate later. Get to you shortly on that.
Have a Merry!
Jim in MYC
Thanks for the early present!
First newbie quibble: Booted up okay into XFCE on flash, logged out as guest and back into root, changed password. All okay. Spent 20 minutes configuring the panel, making a top and bottom one with GIMP and SeaMonkey and OpenOffice icons which all worked. Logged out, logged back in -- all panel work evaporated like never was. No warning to save session or how. I did go into Porteus utilities to find a way to save a session, and it seemed to default to making a session module which swelled over 200 megs before I stopped it. Tried to create a file to save session but it balked that it can't save with acfs(?) filesystem. (flash is formatted in FAT, which maybe is why I was able to install Porteus over an existing Puppy install without it deleting anything -- that was neat and a migration timesaver!!!) I highly suggest to make Porteus newbie-proof by flagging a warning and option to save a basic session prior logging off -- even automatically as a safety-catch if possible. I don't understand why save module swelled over 200megs if all I first did was configure the panels and desktop. I can see saving the whole banana bunch ala Time Machine, since I did move over OpenOffice and SeaMonkey from my other stick and they work, but is it necessary to include those apps in a save session file when just recording their and desktop and panel and such configurations and settings should be enough and infinitely smaller, like saving sessions in Puppy? Outside that 3.0 seems to work well but I haven't checked out the time-stamp thing yet -- not until I'm sure all that setting up isn't all going to evaporate later. Get to you shortly on that.
Have a Merry!
Jim in MYC