can ROS be woofed? It is just a matter of time before your laptop will be replaced. anyone interested in taking it on? I must admit I haven't followed puppy linux's progress the last two years, kind of faded out when Barry 'retired' and a couple arguments broke out round here, so I'm not sure what ...

I can't remember if anyone's mentioned this, and its probably a big ask, but if you can get ROS http://www.ros.org/wiki/ going you'll have an awesome base to build from. Its not exactly light though, but if you only build the packages you need it will be reasonably small. We use ROS on all our robot...

The link below discusses a sub $100 tiny pc running puppy. Maybe that would help...

http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS6828123924.html

The file, I believe, you are looking for, is ~/etc/profile. To stop X from loading, go to ~/usr/X11R7/bin and delete the X symlink. Great - that's exactly the info I need. I've managed to speed my total boot time to 34 s now on a 500 MHz processor with 512 MB of RAM. Getting better all the time. Th...

Hi. I've been trying to modify puppy 4.00's boot sequence. (I'm using 4.00 because it is the one that works best with my hardware, and I haven't got time to follow up on all the new 4.1 quirks yet) Basically I'm trying to follow the scripts as they get executed and remove everything that's not neede...

I manually installed the dvb-usb firmware and tried on my other pc (the one with USB ports that work...), but it didn't fix the boot freeze problem. When the USB webcam is plugged in the boot freezes at the stage: "loading kernel drivers needed to access disk drives..." As soon as I unplug...

I an not sure if related but there is a problem with USB tarball - check Barrys blog for 9th October 2008 - part of which is below I had a similar problem with a USB webcam freezing the 4.1 boot. I haven't tested the fix yet because I blew my laptop's USB ports today :cry:, but it seems like that's...

Ok - I've fixed it somehow. I restored the bios settings to default and autodetected the cf IDE hard-drive in the bios, then rebooted and its been picked up now and doesn't reboot anymore.

I'd still like to know what was causing this though...

I'm having a problem with puppy 4.00 and compact flash - I think. I'm using a pc/104 single board computer with an internal IDE CF and boot from a USB pen drive. Puppy boots fine, but whenever I try to access rox the pc/104 reboots. This also happened when I tried to run the puppy universal installe...

He he he. I was recently at a conference exhibiting my robot and a guy from Microsoft approached me and demonstrated Ms Robotics Studio and its visual programming language (which seems pretty cool for the weekend hobbiest). He asked me what IDE I used and was rather put out when I told him I was usi...

You don't have to extract the files first - burn the .iso file directly to cd and boot with that - it should work fine since from your message it seems your bios is already configured to boot from cd.

Hope it works and welcome.

Marblemike - Level 2 I guess. I'm relatively new to puppy (I've been convinced by my short stay), did the puppy unleashed thing to make a puplet for use in an embedded system, have never made a pet or sfs file, but figure that since I can program in C, pascal, delphi, basic, a little assembler, a li...

Hey all, This is just general advertising (which is why its in the spam section), but anyway, I just bought myself a Samsung clp-310 laser printer and was amazed to see that on the driver cd accompanying it was a folder with the linux drivers! Basically I ran a bash script which started the install,...

Hi Spencer218.

You can get info on installing and links to the download pages at http://www.puppylinux.com/install.htm

Thanks for the link Lobster. I was thinking it would be easiest to get try round the dependencies and get a full blown latex system by converting the complete tetex slackware package http://packages.slackware.it/package.php?q=current/tetex-3.0-i486-5 to a .pet, but I hear puppy 4.00 isn't fully slac...

Ok, I understand now. I'd like to try - but i've never done anything like this at all though. I do need to find out as I need to make a different puppy of my own with many different features for another project so I think this would be a good opportunity to learn. I'm keen to try, but as I say, I ha...

I'm all for getting latex going myself - well lyx actually , but I fail to understand what you mean by latex puppy, do you mean a version dedicated to performing all things tex?

Like a latex package manager, collection of frontends, etc?

KF6SNJ I agree with muggins. I'd encourage you not to give up just yet - I was just getting interested and actively following progress to see if there was someplace I could help. 8) Although, I'd still prefer c, I read through the opencobol thread and believe there are still many options available i...

Hi.

You could try DownloadHelper - it's a built in firefox add-on that lets you download media files. Not sure if the add-on will work in puppy though...
I'm happy with seamonkey so haven't tried firefox yet.

Cheers,

Hi. I've been struggling to use the v4l API to get an image from the webcam for processing, which has been a real mission since v4l has documentation that is best described as "in progress". Anyway, eventually found libfg , it's a c library that provides high level interactions with the AP...