aidakp.blogg.se - Portable linux apps

There is no need to run a specific installation program. Portable Apps provides a USB flash drive with a mechanism for launching applications directly from the drive. There is no need to run the normal Wireshark installation package, Wireshark will be ready to run as soon as the machine recognises the device. While new kernels support more and more relatively new hardware, the support for older hardware was dropped from the main kernel.You can now install Wireshark onto a PortableApps enabled device that will allow you to run Wireshark on any Windows XP & 2000 machine that you plug the device into. Also asking an operating system to support all hardware, well this is a dream which never will happen probably. So talking of linux without GUI as not being finished or complete is not that much clear. The closest similarity to linux and ms operating systems can be somewhere with older windows systems like w3.1 or w95 or w98 where operating system was dos (having no GUI) and the GUI was kind of an add on to the dos. This is different to the microsoft windows. The actual operating system does not provide any of those functions. There are many windows manager subsystems and many applications providing graphical user interface. Desktop under Linux is simply an additional application, needing some windows manager (nothing to do with windows operating system) and this application will then run with the help of the windows manager. It has nothing directly to do with the operating system. Puppy is, though, still a better choice than DSL, that the last time I tried it had no decent support for typing diacritical marks.Īlso, I don't think Puppy should loose its small size, I just think a better apps selection would make it even smaller and nicer. For example, I know where are the Applications menu entries on all gnome distros, it is the same place everywhere, on Puppy I don't know

It wouldn't harm to make the apps settings to be compatible with other distros, seriously, so I could make something the same on every distro.

I don't think it would make Puppy too heavy to come with Tango Icon theme and Clearlooks.

And provide an icon theme that styled toolbar buttons too. And I know Puppy has a very complete support for GTK themes.

Provide a GTK theme that styled more than just buttons, a simple theme that relied on a simple engine would work.

Provide better apps (come on, ROX file manager sucks, I would go with PCManFM or Thunar instead).

Run on a limited user and provide su or sudo to make root tasks.

To provide repos with updated apps and be compatible with apt or yum packages.

To provide Firefox or Seamonkey 2alpha as default.

Stupidly incomplete GTK theme and icon themeįor me to choose it as a daily OS it would need:.Incredibly small and outdated repos that are not compatible with any other thing.

I don't like Puppy a lot for a few reasons: