Hallo, Sheldon. Mm. Well, performing a web seach brought me to this page:- https://www.techjunkie.com/google-hangouts-google-duo/ .....which gives a very good overview of the differences between Google Hangouts & Google Duo . Hangouts has been around much longer, but it's primarily a messaging &...

@ Les:- I hate to tell ya this, kiddo, but part of the problem might simply be your CPU..! And perdido's suggestion might be worth investigating, too; with video, you want maximum resources to do the job properly. The Pentium 4's were billed by Intel, in the early 2000s, as being "multimedia-re...

Hi, Phil. Hm. Gnome-keyring, huh? I must know my Skype login details blindfolded by now; I've been trying to figure out for long enough if there's some way to get Skype to remember 'em..... @ bigphil:- PS - thanks for the updates of Google Chrome Portable Mike. Ah, you're welcome. v84 should be out ...

Mike Walsh, How do you know Quickpet->Info->Bionicpup updates was ever run? Latest update was 2020 jun 03. It was stated that Quickpet was used to install Skype. That did not work. The age was not the issue, yet! Yah; fair comment. Many folks don't seem to know it's even there. Nice to see Phil's s...

Not when I did it. It goes to the Bionicpup64 repository and downloads the deb package from there. ....which is more than 2 years out of date. That's like, er, not much help, bigpup! But it will take a while to fire up.....after all, it's an Electron app under the skin. That's based around a stripp...

@ Fred/Dan:- TBH, I'm pretty certain this isn't at 'release candidate' stage, yet. I think it's quite early days, but then that's normal in the open-source world. We don't wait until an app is 100% functional before publishing ("1.0"); they often get pushed out-the-door at "0.1"....

Afternoon, kiddiwinks. Some of you might find this useful, and fun to play around with. It's a general-purpose Electron app that will not only allow you to view YouTube "off-line", but will actually work for ANY "tube" website.....called FreeTube Max Headroom put me onto this ear...

Guys! Job is not done. In this case you're need to publish instruction how to launch windows app using wine too. I mean third party apps too, not excepting build in apps (who do use wine to launch explorer, calculator, paint, etc). I use portable wine to play old windows version Stars! game. I spen...

I never can figure out quite where Distrowatch get their figures from. It's not like the majority of Linux distros go through an official "registration" process like MyCrudSoft & Crapple users have to. Yes, it's nice to see Pup that high up in the rankings, and I would tend to go by us...

I have half-a-dozen Pups currently in the "kennels". It has multiple advantages, not least of which is ease of recovery. All Puppies run from sub-directories on the main sda2 partition. (Sda1 being reserved for all that FAT32-formatted, UEFI boot crap, of course.) In the normal course of t...

I know bugger-all about this kinda thing, but it seems to me that perhaps an adaptation of Barry's EasyOS might be a good base from which to work.....since it already uses "containers" anyway?

(*shrug*)

Just a thought, FWIW.


Mike.

Hi mike, jrb has already rolled out april-zoom iso. Just needs upgrading to latest zoom. Yeah, I know! I already tried it:- http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1057053#1057053 See, I have "issues" with Quirky64-lite. It's a lovely Puplet, and it works fine (mostly), though th...

Just to update:- Using the .deb package, everything's running OK in Xenialpup64.....with the exception of recording, for some strange reason. But I can live with that; I don't have a need to record sessions anyway. Quirky, however, is a different kettle of fish. It could be because jrb stripped it d...

@ Mike:- Okay! I give in, mate; I take my hat off to you.....you're absolutely right. The differing .debs do work properly. Up until now I'd been using step's SFS package he originally built for FatDog. FatDog, of course, runs every internet- & network-related app as user 'spot'..... by default ...

Hiya, kiddiwinks. I know Zoom is rather new to most of us at the moment, but ATM I have it behaving itself in both Xenialpup64 7.5 and Bionicpup64 8.0. I've been playing with josejp2424's DPup Buster 64 in recent weeks. When I try launching Zoom - from the terminal - the GUI does appear, but Zoom is...

@ Rolandradio:- If you follow xenial's link, you'll see that you need to tell Firefox to use apulse when it fires up, i.e.:- Exec=apulse /path/to/firefox Apulse lets Puppy carry on as normal with ALSA, while fooling Firefox into thinking that PulseAudio is installed on your system..... Mike. :wink:

Evening, guys'n'gals. For anybody who uses the Windows Jarte word-processor, running under WINE, the app appears to have reached the end of the road. Carolina Road Software, the developers of Jarte, used to offer two versions; the "standard" Jarte , and " Jarte Plus ", which offe...

@ musher0:-

musher0 wrote:Still friends?

Of course. What's a few typos between friends? It'll take a lot more than that to make me fall out with anyone.......


Mike.

TBH, Mike, as far as I'm aware the 32-bit compat SFS is an optional "by-product" of the 64-bit Woof-CE Puppy 'build' process, in the same way that the zdrv is, or the devx & kernel-sources are. I don't think it's actually anything to do with version2013.....unless I've got my facts tot...

The only thing I'll add to this is that I prefer to get the 32-bit compatibility SFS loaded and set up before going anywhere near WINE. But that's just me.....


Mike.