(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

playdayz wrote:Bigpup, The config page for Pupcontrol does have some apps listed for each one that is blank on the drop down menu. I agree it might be good to go ahead and choose a default for each one, and they could still be changed if someone wanted to.

I could do it myself, but let's see what radky thinks.

Hi playdayz,

No problem. You can set the defaults to match the base applications in Lucid as you see appropriate. Make sure there are no dead buttons.

I did an upgrade of a full install of Lucid 5.2 that had been highly modified and added to.
Update seemed to work very well.
Did have the no sound issue, but delete /etc/init.d/10alsa fixed it.

Is 5.2.1 good enough for everyday use?

Well I have intermittent broadband, and a key board
that I spilled water on, so I have to use numbers from the keypad
at the moment.

I am limping along . . .
5.2.1 is doing its part.

The only fault I can find is trying to edit the wiki in Firefox 3.6.6
the page jumps one line up and down - but this might be the PHP code.

Other than that Geany, viewnor and other Puppy components working
much as in 5.2
VLC, Transmission and other quickpet downloads are OK
Before I forget Barry has some new games under fun in
Wary - at least one of them with sound
- maybe someone can remember the name?
That might be a simple addition/replacement
for a non sound game in Lucid?

I have been trying to work out how to burn a non puppy ISO
to USB and UNetbootin is recommended but no working pet
for Lucid exists. It works on Ubuntu I take it?

Great to have the control panel built in now . . .
Upgrade, use, report any anomalies.

Thanks to playdayz and our loyal Lucid team

Puppy Linux
Woof Woof

Lobster wrote:Well I have intermittent broadband, and a key board
that I spilled water on, so I have to use numbers from the keypad
at the moment.

The main input device shorted out with who knows what cross linked and Puppy still works.
I am impressed!

playdayz wrote:Whatever Barry chooses to replace Lucid will need to begin at the beginning of its development cycle

That's right.

I think the right candidate for the next Puppy series (5.3) is spup. I don't have much time to spend on Puppy development, both due to my life style and my work on Calf Linux, my experimental independent distro.

I'm exploring the "back to the basics" approach - I'm learning how to use T2 because I truly believe it's the best way to go for 6.0. If T2 proves to be reliable with Calf, I'll try to build a tpup from its packages probably, but that's just my secondary goal - my primary intention is to implement all my creative ideas for 6.0 and do a hands-on experiment with my vision of 6.0

(And yes, my main goals are KISS, modularity, one-X-per-Y and simplicity)

And indeed, 5.2 is a great release that future puppies will have to compete with

reckrhodes wrote:... Please include binaries or repositories of edubuntu(educational version of ubuntu). I find it hard to install their latest educational applications.

Excellente idée

Luci-251 is the most leading-edge Lucid ever. It is posted int he first message of this thread.

We are well on the way to Lucid 5.2.1. Please test..

Fresh frugal install of Luci-251 on the old P4 test box. Everything working on initial boot. Installed Xorg_High, SeaMonkey 2.1 b1,VLC and Pwidgets...everything working well.


VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 251

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
1375 frames in 5.0 seconds
1452 frames in 5.0 seconds
1508 frames in 5.0 seconds
2000 frames in 5.0 seconds
1941 frames in 5.0 seconds
2046 frames in 5.0 seconds

I have a silly question that I hope no one will mind my asking: what is the system running on this time? JWM or OpenBox?

DM was on fire! wrote:I have a silly question that I hope no one will mind my asking: what is the system running on this time? JWM or OpenBox?

Luci still defaults to starting with Openbox.......I just immediately switch to JWM as in the above screenshot.

That's what I figured, but I wanted to know for sure. I am so madly in love with OpenBox I don't want to give it up.
Thank you James!

The main input device shorted out with who knows what cross linked and Puppy still works.
I am impressed!

I have run Puppy when all my Hard disks have failed and USB booting was not available, using multisession . . .
Brave Pup . . . wants to run . . .

In 250, will download latest if I can,

In jwm the OOolight SFS displays so far up the screen you can not access the maximise and other buttons from the mouse - this is not the case with openbox, where it is OK

Is it possible to have a chat button much like the browse button
which gives the option of a variety of software - xchat, pidgin, ayttm, web based?

It looks like Openssl 1.0.0 won't work. Sylpheed wants 0.9.8 but will accept a symlink, but gftp also wants it and will not accept a symlink. The best (and simplest) solution is to go back to 0.9.8 in luci-252. 0.9.8 is what Natty is using so it is state of the art, even if it doesn't have the nice 1.0.
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educational applications.

James C found the edubuntu desktop. etc., but I doubt we could run that. I had assumed there would be many applications that were included.

playdayz wrote:It looks like Openssl 1.0.0 won't work. Sylpheed wants 0.9.8 but will accept a symlink, but gftp also wants it and will not accept a symlink. The best (and simplest) solution is to go back to 0.9.8 in luci-252. 0.9.8 is what Natty is using so it is state of the art, even if it doesn't have the nice 1.0.

I'm using openssl-1.0.0d-w-20110209 without problems; needed it for TOR, but sylpheed and gftp is working.

playdayz wrote:

educational applications.

James C found the edubuntu desktop. etc., but I doubt we could run that. I had assumed there would be many applications that were included.

Long,long ago when Edubuntu was a separate release I seem to remember everything being available in individual packages....now that it's just an addon to Ubuntu it appears they just combined everything.

Upgraded from 250 to 251 - simples, went well
Choose the simple desktop icon arrangement that James C has depicted earlier in this thread - oh I like that . . .
Aer, Argo gold and other icon sets are a separate download? Their buttons appear [without icons] in the 'desktop icon switcher' selector but they are not included?

Did a fast frugal install on the NTFS where I have my other Puppies too and installed FF and tested to do streaming video on our local TV station.
Then looked at some pictures of Cats and Dogs trying to look cute and played an old cover of Rock'nRoll from 1960.

Looks okay from here.

I use nosmp with this one. should I test without it? I am on Acer D250 and Lupu usually don't boot consistently if I exclude the nosmp.

what does the nosmp take away? Is it better to do without it and only use if it is the only way to boot?

No criticism and not a request or demand either but what is it about Fluppy and Snow Puppy that allow them to use the RFKILL and Threaded something and a third thing that allow these puppies to reliably boot while Lupu need an added nosmp for to boot? Why can not Lupu have the RFKILL and threaded thing too? Just me trying to understand.

Using the fontwizard.pet in 251
from Lucid news
http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/LupuNews/index2.html

turning all the options on
it seems to make my fonts flicker when viewed close up
does it offer improvements for LCD users or eyestrain?

hi playdaze, in lupu 520 when copying files, the 'quiet' option did not work. Forcing you to click multiple times to overwrite stuff. Is it possible to fix this in luci251?

cheers 666philb

Changing virtual desktops in JWM fails in Luci-251.

For JWM-500, the Desktops tag in jwmrc.personal has changed to a new width/height format, such as: However, jwmrc.personal in Luci-251 has the old Desktops tag, which JWM-500 does not recognize: Also, the corresponding configuration files in /usr/local/jwmconfig2/ should be updated, similar to 01micko’s modifications in Spup.