Retro-Precise Puppy


Please use the "normal" Precise Puppy, unless you have a specific need for Retro-Precise.

The "normal" Precise Puppy requires an i686 (or greater) CPU that is PAE-capable.

Some early Pentium CPUs, such as some of the Intel Pentium-M series, are not PAE-capable. All later CPUs are, including those made by AMD.

Those Pentium-M's were manufactured around 2001 I think.

If you try to boot the "normal" Precise Puppy on one of the PAE-incapable CPUs, it will fail to boot.

Some other differences


Note, if you have nVidia graphics hardware, in some cases the 'nouveau' X.org driver (in the "normal" Precise Puppy) may not work. In that case, you may find find success with the older and simpler 'nv' driver in the "retro" Precise Puppy.
Though, the "normal" Precise also has the 'nv' driver, and you can fall back to using the 'nv' driver if the 'nouveau' driver fails, except that some users have reported difficulty with the procedure for doing this -- somewhat difficult to know what to do when you just get a black screen!

Regards,
Barry Kauler
December 2012