Geoffrey wrote:It's not dead but dormant, it's been slow for the simple fact it works ok as is, we were going to release a update, but it would of only been updated installed applications
Ahh yep, hard to improve on perfection eh? Either way, I'm glad Carolina hasn't been abandoned.
Marv wrote:The more I use this the more I like it. Stable, the 2005 era Pentium M loves it, all of the saluki/lina polish and repo, xfce4.10, and verry verry sparing of resources on these middle aged laptops. I've stripped out acpid, swapped in the xfce4 battery monitor for vattery, and suspend to ram with a launcher calling sleep.sh. A minimalists delight!
I've got to say, I like that screenshot Marv, that low CPU usage brings joy to my heart
battleshooter wrote:Well peebee, you appear to be the man/woman to go to for Broadcom drivers. I had a go at compiling the ones found here (version 6.30.223.141), and put wl.ko in a pet, have I done that right? I'm not really sure because I have none of the hardware to test it on.
Because of the changes to the kernel I had to apply this patch and the code change mentioned here, but other than that it appeared to compile cleanly.
Hi battleshooter
Your pet worked for me - it creates eth1 rather than wlan0 but that's no biggy - but dmesg does report wl related crashes - see attached.
I tried to compile my usual source....
First I had to copy 2 symlinks from /lib/modules/3.15 to /lib/modules/3.15.0 - so I think there's a bit of problem with your devx directory naming
The compile failed, so I would probably need to apply the later patches for k3.15 to get my usual source to compile. I've compiled successfully for k3.12 previously ... if I get chance I'll investigate further.
peebee wrote:I had to copy 2 symlinks from /lib/modules/3.15 to /lib/modules/3.15.0 - so I think there's a bit of problem with your devx directory naming
Ahh yes , I forgot about that, I fixed it on my own system manually but clearly need to transfer that fix over.
peebee wrote:The compile failed, so I would probably need to apply the later patches for k3.15 to get my usual source to compile. I've compiled successfully for k3.12 previously ... if I get chance I'll investigate further.
Yeah, kernels past 3.10 have changed proc functions and past 3.14 and again with 3.15 there seem to be more minor function changes. Like I mentioned before I had to apply this patch and the code change mentioned here.
Looking at dmesg, the only error I can spot concerning wl is
I wonder why it takes to long on a new install to write the /carolina/<savefile> before shutting down? (I think that's what is happening as there is no info displayed while this takes place, and that could be minutes)
Why not write this file earlier in the shutdown process so information could be displayed as to what is happening and how long it might take?
marmalade wrote:I wonder why it takes to long on a new install to write the /carolina/<savefile> before shutting down? (I think that's what is happening as there is no info displayed while this takes place, and that could be minutes)
Why not write this file earlier in the shutdown process so information could be displayed as to what is happening and how long it might take?
I have noticed that when I used usb flash drives plugged into usb ports on the front of my pc, was quicker in a rear port, usb 2.0/1.1?,
though some flash drives are slow no matter what, but it's fast with a frugal on a ext4 HDD.
1.4.0
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- Add option to switch position of categories and launchers.
- Add waiting for grabs; allows modifier as shortcut.
- Add padding to username.
- Add single panel row option.
- Add about entry to context menu.
- Load applications immediately.
- Recognize keypad enter as return for searching.
- Set menu window type hint to DIALOG.
- Translation updates: Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Taiwan), Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish.
Repacked skype-4.2.0.13-lina, there is a pet and sfs in the repo, the pet is smaller wheres the sfs contains the qt library files to make it a standalone, this can be used in Carolite which doesn't have qt pre-installed.
The latest applications for Carolina compiled by battleshooter did made me curious and so I downloaded Carolina 1.2 a few days ago.
Yes, this is a nice OS and it seems to work fine - as far as I could test.
Just a single issue noticed so far when using DE interface.
When switching to de (de_DE) all the menus are in DE (as far as they have those [de] entries). But when enabling UTF-8 all the menus are returning to EN.
The latest applications for Carolina compiled by battleshooter did made me curious and so I downloaded Carolina 1.2 a few days ago.
Yes, this is a nice OS and it seems to work fine - as far as I could test.
Just a single issue noticed so far when using DE interface.
When switching to de (de_DE) all the menus are in DE (as far as they have those [de] entries). But when enabling UTF-8 all the menus are returning to EN.
Any tips on this?
RSH
I changed the language to DE and toggled UTF-8 restarted x, I couldn't see any distinguishable difference in the menu, all the DE entries showed.
Maybe someone else has this problem and can shed some light on it.
I downloaded the Slimboat update & gstreamer files.
I put the gstreamer files where instructed /slimboat/libs but am unsure what to do with the Slimboat update so that it will update the original & not create a second install.
Help, please?
Also, lina1.2 looks and works great on a Samsung NB30 Netbook.
edoc wrote:I downloaded the Slimboat update & gstreamer files.
I put the gstreamer files where instructed /slimboat/libs but am unsure what to do with the Slimboat update so that it will update the original & not create a second install.
Help, please?
Also, lina1.2 looks and works great on a Samsung NB30 Netbook.
Thanks!
I have added the latest slimboat-1.1.50-lina.sfs to the repo, look in the PPM SFS Downloads.
This is still slow for me when using Google image search.
Changelog:
Version 2.1.1
* Bugs
- Correct invalid window position in region and freehand capture on linux
- Editor: correct an incorrect save/restore for rectangle/ellipse item
- Editor: change in palette wasn't correctly restored
- Editor: invalid restore of maximized window state
focuswriter-1.5.2
Changelog:
2014-07-20 version 1.5.2:
* FIXED: Incorrect handling of mimetypes in copy-paste
* FIXED: Keywords in .desktop file should be separated by semicolons
* Translation updates: French, Hebrew, Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazil)