Knoppix and My Puppy Linux Love

My first love of Linux is Puppy Linux which.was less than 100 MB and I could boot a 32 bit computer with ease.
Then went through a period of Pendrive Linux (the site is still present in the web) and gradually settled downed to Debian having discarded Side and Redhat.
But looking at my records I have more Knoppix distributions or CD / DVDs than Puppy Linux.

Puppy has grown in fat or MBs and FatPUP is full of graceful utilities.

My migration to BSD was accidental but thoughtfully integrated since it destroys Microsoft Laptops with ease.
Latest of course is Endless OS that gives scant regard  to Microsoft.

I used to get Knoppix on a regular basis with Linux.Magazine.

It has the most beautiful of all desktop and nothing to beat its flexible and pleasing windows and workplaces.

Linux, especially Knoppox is creatively multitasking and working  on several workplaces has become second mature to me.

Try this on this on Microsoft it FREEZES.

I am.amazed of such a shoddy operating system dominated the world for so long.

Android has become a part of my life and blog scenario (which is going to come to an.end by mid July).

But working in.front of a PC monitor is not like watching TV but intellectually gratifying.

Writing a book with Android is impossible but laptop or PC is entirely different ball game.

That is why I was annoyed botj witj.Mobitel and Dialog for rudely interrupting my Knoppix download twice.

This would.not have happened with wired Ethernet connection which I pulled down hastily.

But I.will survive without wire pulling.

If you have not used Knoppix at least once you are missing a lot.

It has this amazingly unique persistent volume and you never lose anything that you have been working on.

Knoppix comes from Germany and it takes the name from its original.developer.

What a road journey it had covered  for almost over 3 decades.

I think one should send a wireless  USB stick with Knoppix running a Drone on Mars instead of an Android Droid.

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Tiny Utilities

When I travel abroad I go almost empty handed except money and a few USBs and Small CDs.

I was looking for Linux utilities and they had nothing in 2009 in Singapore.

It is true even today.

They cater for big companies and hardware and not for OUR needs.

Instead I look for a good Laptop or some fancy handheld scanners.

Coming to small utilities I bought two small CD cases holding only 12  small CDs.

Two of them I did not look for some time and we're full of Puppy Linux, Gparted and Linux Partition Magic CDs.

Now with 64 bit computers running most of the Puppy Linux CDs we're unusable.

The RW CDs I formatted and I kept only Precise 5.5 series Racy Pup 5.5 series and Slako Pup that could boot on a 64 bit computer.

Even Wary was not bootable.

Mind you these CD had only 200 MB capacity and only Puppy could write a sfs file under 200 MB into the R and RW CDs.

It is sad to see these Puppy derivatives dysfunctional except on 32 bit computers.

I wanted AbiWord for my work and even FATPup support LibreOffice.

While I was doing that I found a Data CD with some of my blog writing made in AbiWord.

Accidentally I clicked a file and to my amazement LibreOffice current version reads AbiWord but won't save an edited version in AbiWord format.

This is in Debian 10 distribution and I do not have to convert them NOW to LibreOffice or Words format to read them or edit them.

Thank you very much LibreOffice and you should allow saving new AbiWod documents under LibreOffice hood.

Both backward and forward compatibility.

It is all about removing Macros.

I used Open Office to remove Macros from Words but lately it was only AbiWord.

Since Android cellphones do not support AbiWord, the strategy for LibreOffice should be to support AbiWord and it (a MUST) going to be a real booster for AbiWord users like me.

I am getting tired with Polaris and WPS word formats.

They are bulky.

This is ready not a draft.

Bees are coming again

First of all let me say that *Early bees store the pollan and honey instead of early birds catches the worm.
Two varieties. One comes for pollen from lilies and the other from the palm blossoms.
I'm fact the smaller bee I could record in my  spare cellphone camera.
Before I could bring my real camera it had gone away.
Not only early it is quick.
Within one hour they disappear.
Then there is a single wasp or bamara who roams daily in two visits.