just getting back from a week's travelling so I'm playing catch up here... Sunburnt: Thanks for the explaination - I really had been confused by that. As for access speed: I kept reading about super fast booting on older hardware, hardware even slower than the 1G PIII I was using up until a few days...

Take your time, seriously. famous last words... My goal is not to leave a whole lot that you will have to re-implement. You should not have to code functions into your gui that the underlying program could do. That's what I've gathered. I'll certainly start working only on dropping a gui on top of ...

oh boy, this is *really* time for some vacation ;) Wish you a nice week, say a warm hello to these things... how are they called... that scream so loud in the morning when you live at the countryside and try to go asleep. Ah, remember: birds or so ;) Warm hello? would a flame thrower have counted? ...

sunburnt - thanks for posting that. I need a little help interpreting it, though, if you would... I see that squashfs 2.1 is faster and smaller than those it is compared against, but I don't get how that would compare against the same tasks on the same data just sitting on an ext3 partition. Does my...

I don't have an answer, but I'd love to hear what you're doing with it...

This is for anyone, but those of you playing with barebones may wish to take note in particular. Simply put, currently puppy allows you to be stupid and pay the price. Barry said he will fix this, but for now: I booted into ram so I could create detailed instructions for new users installing stuff. ...

Cool, thanks sunburnt! Haven't downloaded yet (just read your post) but perhaps sccat could learn what is needed by checking out your code? Wouldn't need to probe since he (?) already knows where it is, right? You'd need to probe to add it so it could be used by different people, if I understand cor...

Raffy, I think the confusion is from Paul, typoing G instead of M - I doubt he'd need a swap partition if his computer could hold 256 GB of swap and 100 GB of boot partition, not if he had been following the 2X ram heuristic for swap size! :) Wow, I'd like 128 G ram. Paul, I'd say you have a decent ...

I have the same question, only involving partitions on same HDD, using puppy 2.01. They are ext3 partitions, and hold other files, not puppy. If you are answering the first question above please also give the general case - though if obvious from your answer don't worry about it. Mostly, I'm unclear...

I think it is a great idea. I am very partial to the paw print logo found on puppylinux.org: http://puppylinux.org/user/images/puppylinux1smalla.gif though for a shirt the glare/highlight should probably go. It is a great, slick, fun logo and looks professional - don't know who made it or when. I do...

Thanks for the help. those were the only things I've missed so far, plus other key bindings. Somehow I'd overlooked the .geany folder so wasn't aware there were such files.

I'll sed future stuff as you ask, that makes sense.

Thanks!

Deadeye, Thanks for geany, I use it all the time. I'm a vi (and now vim) person at heart, but there are two modes I work in in text files: loose, quick catching of thoughts - anything from writing a forum post that requires more than a quick paragraph and needs real editing to grabbing notes as I do...

One more thing: Nathan, I'm going camping Monday through Friday - a few days more than I believe I had said previously. While planned for some time - before I found Puppy, actually - this clearly comes at an inconvenient time (though I can't really complain about heading off to the north coast redwo...

I'll start with the last of each previous 2 posts first: Well, long post here. I hope I'm not just talking to myself. Not at all! I mean, yes, a long post, but a helpful one with an audience. And I'm afraid to say mine (this one) seems longer. That happens with complex issues discussed asynchronousl...

Nathan, please check out http://forum.puppylinux.net/viewtopic.php?p=814#814 and the post after it when you have a moment. It summarizes where I would like to go with the gui, and I would like to make sure it seems sensical to you. Both in terms of design and in using tcl/tk. Either are easily chang...

Just yesterday opera (9) started bugging out on me. Not due to email, as with Nathan, but randomly. It would just crash, taking x down as well. Not pretty. Of course it tended to happen right when I was about to save or submit something I had worked on for a while :?: ........ :!: ......... :x ........

[quote=oldguy]I thought the documentation with Puppy, included on the CD, was great but the forum was amazing. Asked some dumb newbie questions and got courteous answers quickly.[/quote] I agree here. The forum is fantastic, and then there is the irc channel, the developer's forum, all the people ad...

I forgot: adding the new search field to the tool bar is easy as well. You have to have your personal bar showing. Right click on personal bar and select "Show Searches". Select the search you want to add, such as the swiki or man page search, and then it is there. You can also right click...

Useful, yes, especially if used to search Puppy Linux sites, a ready way of doing so will help a lot of Puppy users. Lobster has already set up a good puppy linux swicki: [url]http://puppy_linux-swicki.eurekster.com/[/url] It runs the search from puppylinux.org/wiki (Search, not Search Wiki) Silly ...

Yes, this is a case where a little goes a long way. [....] I have noticed that those two particular libs you mentioned come up an awful lot. I finally burned those two to a cd with all my 'usual' pups and gets after so many times rebuilding and forgetting I needed to get them as well. I imagine it ...