Fatdog64 Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Fatdog64 Linux Average rating 8.3 from 12 review(s) What are your thoughts on Fatdog64 Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 903814813812810720710 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 903 Rating: 8 Date: 2026-01-13 Votes: 0 This version I run as live, and it has worked very well. My only beef is LibreOffice, which I dislike very much. Fact is most do not need an Office suite, just a good WP, and I always go with AbiWord, even in WinOS which Abi is no longer updating, but Linux Abi is more WP than most of us need. Furthermore, FatDog has made it difficult to install AbiWord. Libre is tiresome to set up and use, and it's defaults stink. Fatdog 903, however, setup very nicely with NO problems...even on this old Gateway which I normally have to insert an i915 graphic mode line in boot to get many a Linux to display. Using FF Nightly, but Midori on another laptop, Midori does more but requires a close setup. A later Handbrake than I usually work installed easy, and converts to even smaller, for instance, an 8GB movie converted to 600MB with all bells and whistles, but I generally just go 5.1 surround and English VOB. I am using Fatdog now; I did make a 1GB swap file, because this Gateway only has 4GB RAM. Only use ethernet connection. Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 901 Rating: 8 Date: 2024-02-15 Votes: 1 I do not know why it uses sh by default instead of bash, or why a broken copy of dpkg is included on the system, lacking the /var/lib/dpkg* folder is missing, since its supposed to be using slackware's package management. From my Test, at Idle it only uses 219 MB of RAM, and with its included browser open, with a few tabs, and a few other things, it used about 660 MB of RAM out of the 2 GB of RAM my system has. The Installer was kinda hidden away in a menu inside of the control panel. Also the Firefox downloader didnt work for me, i got an 'Exec format error' when launching firefox using the lastest downloader, however this might be a me issue and not a fatdog issue. Overall, this kinda goofy pile of Puppy-like functions, a decent palette of built in programs, and a decent package library (in terms of independent Distro standards), I think this is a fairly decent, albeit kinda unclean distro Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 900 Rating: 10 Date: 2023-09-28 Votes: 5 I've had no issues with 900. For wifi I just clicked the tray wifi icon, located my SSID, entered my password and saved that configuration. The extra ram usage even on my old laptop is well managed and goes unnoticed. Programs seem quicker. And the as-is install pretty much covers my needs excepting I install/use chrome. Much of the bloat isn't down to Fatdog, but rather the likes of Libre and extra libs in general. Bloat isn't the right word however as its still very lean compared to alternatives. The developers are active on the message board, are pleasant and quick to help. 10 rating from me Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 12 reader reviews of Fatdog64 Linux...