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- Sun 04 Mar 2012, 21:05
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Where is the source code for Puppy?
- Replies: 16
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what would be an ideal situation in your opinion? gpl is to stop individuals/companies copyrighting stuff that the authors have given to the commons. :arrow: Yes, and I agree with that aspect of it. In the early 1990s it was possible to put all the source code for a distribution on one or two cdrom...
- Sun 04 Mar 2012, 11:07
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: Where is the source code for Puppy?
- Replies: 16
- Views: 19347
We meet the minimum legal requirement (as explained to me by a solicitor at the Free Software Foundation) by providing source on CD at a basic cost. The GPL is clearly a joke. Puppy does not make the source code available except for a fee (basic cost). TinyCore makes only their modifications availa...
- Fri 24 Feb 2012, 10:07
- Forum: Suggestions
- Topic: The State of Package Management
- Replies: 221
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We could use .debs which are compressed if the PARM project becomes a Upup (similar to Lucid) or Dpup compile . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deb_%28file_format%29 Are there advantages to having our own Puppy debs (optimised and junk removal offered)? Maybe so . . . I believe Android, Apple and ...
- Thu 23 Feb 2012, 20:52
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: install programs not shown in package manager?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 734
Try Here Thanks trapster, that's real close... I don't want anything to do with mySQL or with phpAdmin or whatever its name is, and I do want the ncurses and gd modules. It looks like I'll probably be able to cookbook it from what's in that post... I hope. <g> I am *very* pleasantly surprised to se...
- Tue 21 Feb 2012, 12:22
- Forum: Beginners Help ( Start Here)
- Topic: install programs not shown in package manager?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 734
install programs not shown in package manager?
I'd like to install PHP plus a couple extensions, and APACHE. I don't see anything even close in the installer's listings. Am I out of luck, are there other ways to do this, or what is the situation? (Note that I'm not looking to set up a web-server, and eventually expect to replace apache with a cu...