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alu:
typing this from my gecko with puppy last issue 4.3.1 on it. i have to say, it is a very pleasant experience for lot of reasons:

- r6040 is there, so that you don't have to worry about your ethernet connection which will be recognized without much to do; wireless was recognized too (puppy has the rtl8187 module for my dongle);
- the gecko behaves very fast which is a very good news; i have chosen a standard installation procedure with system loaded into ram at boot; you won't see it directly at first boot, but at second and third boot, the boot time decreases and you can enjoy a very fast os behaving with most apps you need;
- flash: sloppy as usual, but really less than what i have experienced with slitaz or ubuntu.

downsides:

- there are no alsa driver for the soundcard - given the fact that this is also the case for slitaz and ubuntu, one has to recompile the driver for the realtek soundcard.
- xorg runs in 800x600@16, and choosing 1024x600@16 let you jump to a 1280x1024@16 resolution (even if you modify xorg.conf manually) - i tried to find help in the internet, but did not find anything - xvesa gives you the 1024x600@24 resolution as expected;

multitasking is possible and quick even with xorg as Xserver; some puppy pets are really doing a great job (such as the puppy html viewer which is actually a internet web browser with flash enabled, and which processes very quickly). So 8/10 for puppy on the gecko since it definitely provides a very good computing experience.

alu:
updated news:

after my email to Michael Barnes, i have got the web site where you can find some drivers for the gecko: http://www.deviceonchip.com

there i have found the driver for the soundcard (snd-hda-intel with the ALC262 driver from realtek), which works nicely with kernels 2.6.29 and 2.6.30. i have also found the driver for the VGA out enabling to use an external monitor or a projector with the gecko, and which works fine only if you load xorg7, but it works.

so the only remaining drawback is flash now. i shall to look for some solution.

alu:
update:

thanks to gerald_clark and his glibc initramfs i had the opportunity to test the gecko with microcore 2.8. in short: disapointed. For everything, mc behaves much more quickly than any other distros have tested with the gecko, and alsmost everything works without issue (sound with a little bit more effort, but it works). Working with open office, and do multitasking work is ok, it was expected.

But there is one drawback also common to the other distros which i had not expected that critical: flash. I was unable to use either shiretoko or opera 10 with flash enabled. Shiretoko ended with a segmentation fault, opera crashes. Compared to puppy linux or slitaz which loaded the browser with flash enabled and let me access to web pages  like youtube (even if the result was not satisfaying), it was impossible to load shiretoko or opera with flash enabled, and thus to browse internet.

i know that the xcore86 cpu of the gecko is not that optimal in the managment of apps needing flash, but i was very surprised to see that i can not at all run a browser with flash enabled using mc, as i can usually do that with my other machine (800 Ghz cpu and 256 MB ram, so less than the gecko). Maybe it is me, and i shall wait for the new 2.9 in order to put the gecko at test with tc/mc again.

curaga:
Could be one of the flash deps has 686 code.

alu:
it is my guess, which is one of the cause of my disapointment: not only glibc, but probably other extensions and deps could cause difficulties with certain (though highly current) hardware which means more work at the side of the re-compilation. It is very unlucky because otherwise, i was really very happy with a static use of mc (say mail, office, internet with links), it fits the machine and give out the most of it. hopefully we have to solve these problems in a near future.

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