Turbopup Xtreme v1.0 - The fastest dog on Earth
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So far I have played with alpha 1 and 2 both looking good, nice and quick too. Keep up the good work Synth. I particular like the changelog, its interesting learning the sorts of things you go about changing to make improvements. I especially liked the entryy:
"- Less crap,more speed"
With regards to updating my turbopup, am I right in thinking that if I already have a frugal install of turbopup then to install a new version all I have to do is create a LiveUSB with new release, boot from LiveUSB and then copy
initrd.gz
pup_xxx.sfs (whatever the new version is called)
vmlinuz
from USB to frugal root and thats it?
"- Less crap,more speed"
With regards to updating my turbopup, am I right in thinking that if I already have a frugal install of turbopup then to install a new version all I have to do is create a LiveUSB with new release, boot from LiveUSB and then copy
initrd.gz
pup_xxx.sfs (whatever the new version is called)
vmlinuz
from USB to frugal root and thats it?
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Oh, so THAT's what the word "WIP" means in the changelog!!!synth wrote:Still a WIP (see changelog)
~90% done.
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I know what you mean. To take it one step further,there are even people who do not know what the letters RUDE stand for.alex12 wrote:I thought everyone knew that, but then again I know people that don't know what MISC means either.ComputerBob wrote:Oh, so THAT's what the word "WIP" means in the changelog!!!
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I remember, back in the early 90s when PCMCIA devices first came out, someone wrote an article that jokingly said that PCMCIA stood for
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
People Can't Memorize Computer Industry Acronyms.
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98% done.
There are two bugs blocking this release.
If you want alpha 3 badly,I can release it right now, but don't complain if anything goes wrong.
Bugs like this one (reported by panzerpuppy):
There are two bugs blocking this release.
If you want alpha 3 badly,I can release it right now, but don't complain if anything goes wrong.
Bugs like this one (reported by panzerpuppy):
can be bad for your old low-spec boxpanzerpuppy wrote:The tcl shell script executes mtPaint and takes a screenshot after a specified delay.Code: Select all
tclsh /usr/bin/mtpaintsnapshot.sh
After editing the image and closing the window,mtPaint ends nicely,but the tcl shell script remains active (isn't terminated).
After making 100 screenshots with mtPaint,you get 100 instances of the shell script running in the background,wasting precious resources.
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Alpha 3 delivers! - 5 MiB* less crap,less RAM usage and faster boot timesGebbly wrote:I especially liked the entry:
"- Less crap,more speed"
* = extracted (the ISO size is 2 MiB smaller)
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Wireless
I've made a frugal install for testing and I'm stuck when trying to establish wireless network connection for my Fujitsu Siemens Amilo with a Intel 2200BG card. The ipw2200 refuses to load. I've tried to use the Network Wizard from the menu (won't start when clicking desktop icon) and tried to load module from Boot Manager after having made a save-pup. Maybe I'm too accustomed to have everything just work?
I'm running Tuxx' version of Puppy 4.2 without any problem on the same laptop.
I'm running Tuxx' version of Puppy 4.2 without any problem on the same laptop.