macadavy wrote:Congrats, TazOC, on the best Puppy yet IMHO!
Just a coupla minor glitches to report so far:
Running Shanghai Solitaire majongg game comes close to smoking my CPU. The culprit seems to be something called wish8.5 (usr/bin/wish8.5) which fires up two instances and kicks Xorg into overdrive: the CPU is maxed out at 100%!
The only other problem, again minor, is that audio streams (e.g.
<a href="http://www.radioparadise.com"> ... radise</a>) stutter in Xmms when scrolling in web pages, also with Gxine, but not when played in RealPlayer10 - go figure!
That's it! This is one
very polished beta, at this rate v1 will approach perfection! Certainly its head & shoulders above a certain other WAboy who foists his beta-testing on an unsuspecting public and overcharges them for their pains.
All Puppy is cake - but you've really put the icing on that cake!
To do list:
try out K3B (intigrate .sfs's in remaster?)
install & configure CUPS printing
download & install nVidia drivers & try out 3D
sys specs:
Lighthouse Puppy v2.15Sea_Mbeta4 + v2K3B & Mariner .sfs; Intel PIII 450mhz (o.c. to 600mhz); 512 Mb SDRAM; VIA ApolloPro130x mobo; C-Media CM8738 sndcd; Macronix MX987x5 LANcd; nVidia NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440] vidcd; 52x LG CD-R; 44x Yamaha CD-RW; 2x40G Samsung RAID HDs; 2.36G swap.
(Anyone know if there's a Puppy HW database where the above info can be posted for all to see? Feel free to copy & paste if such exists.)
I reckon the highest praise one can offer any developer is this: "It just works!" This is the best combination of beauty & utility I've ever seen.
btw - Since there's no PayPal link on your Lighthouse site (hint, hint!) I've taken the liberty of sending Barry K. a USD 25 contribution and I invite all Puppy lovers to match or better it... throw that dog a bone!
macadavy,
Thank you for your feedback and praise! Barry and many Puppy developers deserve most of the credit. I'm sure he will make good use of your contribution to further Puppy. I've been looking at some great improvements Barry and the team are working on in Puppy 2.20 pre-alpha in development.
I found the post you mentioned with the nice screenshots here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 488#139488
I have not tried Shanghai Solitaire but have seen strange effects with wish/TCL based apps in Lighthouse, though not quite sure why the CPU usage would spike as it did for you. What I observed was hundreds of whiteout files appearing with Puppy mixer, so I use zmixer instead.
(Edit 8 Sept 07) Same problem with Shanghai on my machine; 100% CPU. As muggins suggested I've replaced it with xmahjongg including a .desktop file so that it will be in the menus for beta 5.
Jactek, thanks also for your comments. I haven't had a chance to play with Wine in Lighthouse. I can't wait for myself to get busy and finish up with beta 5 as well. Probably sounds kinda strange me saying that. I'm struggling a bit with potential upgrade vs. clean install issues but the changes are fairly minor so hopefully it won't matter.
John Biles, thank you very much! Just this week I was looking at TEENpup at my buddies place. He was running Lighthouse and decided try something else and so I went over and checked it out as well. I think it's so cool how Puppy encourages custom builds and everyone contributing what they know best. Keep up the good work!
Take care everyone,
-TazOC
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