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Nice machine, love that the "Details" tables are
out of allignment.
For example:
"Memory: nVidia Geforce GTX 765M"
Inspires confidence...
0. Learn how to use your system well enough that you can answer most newbie questions.
1. Become a packager for packages that are important to you or interest you in some way.
(just building the packages will teach you the broad picture of how things interconnect and to some extent how the compile process works)
2. Start applying useful patches that you come across to the packages you maintain.
(This will expose you to code, the patch process, version control systems etc...)
3. Tweak some of the code in an existing package(s) to conform it to your own expectations.
(This will familiarize you with the packages code as well as the toolkit(s) it is built upon)
4. Write your own app/applet to fill a niche... preferably using something similar as a starting point.
(This will build on the previous knowledge and further it from the research done in search of a "similar package")
5. Learn how to learn what you need to learn.
(After a while you will begin to learn what to search for to get a good starting point quickly... for instance if you want to write a gtk app in c that does mounting operations, it becomes clear that you can do an search for "#include <gtk/gtk.h>" and "#include <sys/mount.h>" ... or to use manpages as a starting point to know what functions/enums/includes/etc you need to search for.
This is useful to help well intentioned devs to correct problems efficiently)
6. Once you start to see how everything works (or doesn't) get creative, question assumptions, make mistakes, fix them, start over, do the things that others say cannot or should not be done, and change the world.
7. Mentor others to do the same.
I think your post encapsulates the ambitions that make this such a great forum - individual interests linked by mutual sharing. I particularly like this snippet above - if someone says it can't be done - go ahead and find a way to do it. I started using puppy as a complete linux newbie and now I can actually DO stuff. Not fancy stuff, and not with great depth of understanding, but with the coaching of other puppy mentors at least I can now start to change the things i want to change and build the things i want to buildtechnosaurus wrote:do the things that others say cannot or should not be done, and change the world.
would be nice indeed.greengeek wrote: I still want to find the latest / fastest / most powerfullest
and most sweetest laptop that runs without UEFI and
persuade someone with more skills than me to set up
the best possible puppy for it...).
So most likely the new model you refer to will be sold in Sweden too.Acer C7 Chromebook 11.6"
Intel Celeron 847 dual core processor
Google Chrome operative system
2 GB RAM / 320 GB HD
Chipset Mobile Intel HM70 Express
So this is the lowprice model that does not have touch
Low price model that only cost 2,290.00 SEK = 362.50 USD
Very good question I stood there at the retailer and they are so cheapgreengeek wrote: Does anyone know of a puppy that has been made to run on a Chromebook?
Or are they somehow locked to google code only?
I have this model and use it a quite a lot.nooby wrote:
Very good question I stood there at the retailer and they are so cheap
compared to other brands. Acer having big built in HD was the one
me fancied most.
But not knowing if it would boot Puppy or not using USB
or frugal install I never bought it.
I gave it my real name, I don't own,need, or want a mobile phone so I don't remember if it asks for that.nooby wrote:Billtoo it shows how dependent I am on Puppy OS.
Sure I could use ChromeOS it is already loaded and
boots fast and have access to the apps and so on.
But it wants my real name and maybe mobile phone number too?
Didn't you have to give them that? I have the money
but something within me says. If it does not run Puppy
easily then buy something else for same amount of money
(Given that their primary target is Ubuntu I had been expecting them to say that their laptops used a special Ubuntu UEFI key so it's pleasing that they offer a completely alternative route...)Hi,
Thank you for your interest in our laptops! We don't currently have any laptops with a UEFI Bios. We engineer a custom bios. Please let me know if you have any other questions.
- Emma Marshall ( System76 Sales )
greengeek wrote:Actually I live in New Zealand in the South Pacific so I think Sweden is possibly closer to system76 than I am
If you could pop in and collect one of their laptop samples before you come down into the southern hemisphere summer for a holiday that would be great...
Very warm down here today!
system76.com ... To my knowledge they do not exist here in Sweden,
and unfortunately it seems that they do not deliver outside of North America.
One other thought, the higher cost may be relative for a machine guaranteed to work with Linux.
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