So far, I've got Squeak installed on Puppy 210 and 2.16 disk installations. No go for CD / multi-session CD, no surprises there. Need to stick symlinks in appropriate places and try again. I hope it's a unionsfs issue and not a VM issue.

Update: July 20, 2007

It not so much an installation problem for Puppy multi-session as a problem of the fundamental operation of the Smalltalk environement. Any change to the Smalltalk image file gets saved once to ram disk and then again to the directory on CD/DVD for that session. Each image file runs 15 to 20 Meg and that's going to add up to a very slow load after a few sessions. It might work with a frozen image for deployed Squeak Smalltalk applications, but not as a develop environment, too much boot overhead.

On the other hand, the disk installation of Squeak runs with less drag-drop streaking and screen jitter than any KDE environment I've run.

Potential Problem: the Squeak VM for Windows may be more optimized than the Linux version. Squeak runs visibly better under Windows 2K than under Linux, which is a first for the many applications I've used that are common to both ( such a Open Office ). I'm usually using the Xorg driver, maybe I'll fiddle around with it. Changing screen depth from 32 to 16 seemed to help a bit. Is the BitBlt simulation module working OK ?