Puppy Ultimate Edition - beta
Posted: Tue 31 Jul 2012, 04:16
New DVD version has arrived for those silly enough to check it out....
MD5sum = 0dafccd9ab1f458386bddc087c5ff45f
Download link
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?05vvedpvd3xgnxl
For development notes, commentaries and other stuff check on my Wordpress blog - see below for link.
A new CD version plus data-file will be released soonish....
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Puppy Ultimate Edition ...... beta! maybe alpha!
http://toowoombalinux.wordpress.com/
This ridiculous OS is based upon Puppy 3.01. Get out the knives boys as it is huge and appears to go against the Puppy ethos which is light, fast, efficient and bloat free! Apart from using 5 gigs of space I reckon it sits quite well with the Puppy ethos. All that space is used for Apps which I personally use; or there a significant chance that I will use in the near future. I have stayed with JWM; however I have a Control Panel (which does other things as well) which allows you to choose a Desktop that's suitable for your purpose -
Simple - for low resource computers;
General - is the standard Ultimate Desktop;
Kids - looks and sounds fun with violent games removed;
Austere - inspired by Crunchbang!;
Chokka-Blok - name says it all
I have focussed on the making it usable for the computer illiterate (family and friends are already using it) - looks nice and looks like it's easy to use and to keep it under 40mbs at idle (the real-deal Ultimate Edition uses over 250mbs!). Although, I haven't finished Help! yet - it's an on-going tutorial experiment for the computer illiterate. It is for computers and laptops which are more than 5 years old - which don't need to have an Internet connection. I use PUE almost exclusively on my older lappies so it ain't too shabby as my App requirements are fairly heavy.
Originally I was considering having a number of different DEs and WMs such as LXDE, IceWM, Enlightenment but just decided to stick to JWM (as it uses less resources) and just make it stick - btw - it does have KDE but as a limited extra. Having those other Desktops are just superfluous and additional bloat (there's already enough of that!) and ... ok they're Desktops which I have never used!
Another whinge I hear is that I am not using later Apps. Well apart from Firefox and Thunderbird (which are still a little outta date!) it was just too monumental (and mostly impossible) a task to compile the newer versions on the 2.6.19 kernel. Also, if the App works to my needs then why should a newer one be better? Also, newer generally means more functions which increases complexity.
No it doesn't have SMP.
No it isn't IPv6 compatible.
Yes I will be working on Help!
You will notice that I've been experimenting with Spot in a /home/puppy directory - well this ain't active yet as some service don't communicate when using Spot. Don't want the little tikes tinkering with System files!
How to install....
There's a DVD version which I need to upload (2.4 gigs takes an awefully long time to upload!) and I'm having network probs!!
So there's currently a CD + data file available - my old lappies don't like DVDs so I created this version. - links are on my Blog.
No the apps on the LiveCD are just window dressing as I've stripped it out.
There is an installation guide and instructions for the data-file (downloading it first is an easier way as you need a working Internet connection which may not be available)
On the LiveCD the command pfix=noram will simply load any pup-save file it finds so the computer must not have any pup-save (yes that's a pain!)
Hope it works for you as I don't want to waste your time. I've already noticed some bugs which I have detailed on my Blog....
http://toowoombalinux.wordpress.com/
Cheers
Martin
Edited - 20 Aug 2012
Updates:
hp-toolbox doesn't work - have fix below
JACK doesn't work - have fix below
qTractor is a nice Audio/Midi Sequencer and now works on PUE - download link below
qt - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y5m4rzvnyg5cvgl
qtractor - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qp2ppgo9pd9rczb
JACK - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7xxfd7z497w5mbd
These updates will be included in the DVD version but as a number of people have already downloaded the CD - these updates are for that version....
MD5sum = 0dafccd9ab1f458386bddc087c5ff45f
Download link
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?05vvedpvd3xgnxl
For development notes, commentaries and other stuff check on my Wordpress blog - see below for link.
A new CD version plus data-file will be released soonish....
_______________________________________________________________________________________
Puppy Ultimate Edition ...... beta! maybe alpha!
http://toowoombalinux.wordpress.com/
This ridiculous OS is based upon Puppy 3.01. Get out the knives boys as it is huge and appears to go against the Puppy ethos which is light, fast, efficient and bloat free! Apart from using 5 gigs of space I reckon it sits quite well with the Puppy ethos. All that space is used for Apps which I personally use; or there a significant chance that I will use in the near future. I have stayed with JWM; however I have a Control Panel (which does other things as well) which allows you to choose a Desktop that's suitable for your purpose -
Simple - for low resource computers;
General - is the standard Ultimate Desktop;
Kids - looks and sounds fun with violent games removed;
Austere - inspired by Crunchbang!;
Chokka-Blok - name says it all
I have focussed on the making it usable for the computer illiterate (family and friends are already using it) - looks nice and looks like it's easy to use and to keep it under 40mbs at idle (the real-deal Ultimate Edition uses over 250mbs!). Although, I haven't finished Help! yet - it's an on-going tutorial experiment for the computer illiterate. It is for computers and laptops which are more than 5 years old - which don't need to have an Internet connection. I use PUE almost exclusively on my older lappies so it ain't too shabby as my App requirements are fairly heavy.
Originally I was considering having a number of different DEs and WMs such as LXDE, IceWM, Enlightenment but just decided to stick to JWM (as it uses less resources) and just make it stick - btw - it does have KDE but as a limited extra. Having those other Desktops are just superfluous and additional bloat (there's already enough of that!) and ... ok they're Desktops which I have never used!
Another whinge I hear is that I am not using later Apps. Well apart from Firefox and Thunderbird (which are still a little outta date!) it was just too monumental (and mostly impossible) a task to compile the newer versions on the 2.6.19 kernel. Also, if the App works to my needs then why should a newer one be better? Also, newer generally means more functions which increases complexity.
No it doesn't have SMP.
No it isn't IPv6 compatible.
Yes I will be working on Help!
You will notice that I've been experimenting with Spot in a /home/puppy directory - well this ain't active yet as some service don't communicate when using Spot. Don't want the little tikes tinkering with System files!
How to install....
There's a DVD version which I need to upload (2.4 gigs takes an awefully long time to upload!) and I'm having network probs!!
So there's currently a CD + data file available - my old lappies don't like DVDs so I created this version. - links are on my Blog.
No the apps on the LiveCD are just window dressing as I've stripped it out.
There is an installation guide and instructions for the data-file (downloading it first is an easier way as you need a working Internet connection which may not be available)
On the LiveCD the command pfix=noram will simply load any pup-save file it finds so the computer must not have any pup-save (yes that's a pain!)
Hope it works for you as I don't want to waste your time. I've already noticed some bugs which I have detailed on my Blog....
http://toowoombalinux.wordpress.com/
Cheers
Martin
Edited - 20 Aug 2012
Updates:
hp-toolbox doesn't work - have fix below
JACK doesn't work - have fix below
qTractor is a nice Audio/Midi Sequencer and now works on PUE - download link below
qt - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?y5m4rzvnyg5cvgl
qtractor - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qp2ppgo9pd9rczb
JACK - http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7xxfd7z497w5mbd
These updates will be included in the DVD version but as a number of people have already downloaded the CD - these updates are for that version....