Hey emil Very Interesting ! The main point from building with debian is you know what to expect from a very large team of players with many years of perfecting upon the base system this is why they can provide so many archs. and you start out with thousands of carefully made packages that won't bork...

There have been several lost names that new forum users (dont remember) those that have tried to make puppy more linux like and follow open source standards I see that this is a strong desire by several out of the box thinkers When Dr. Ian Malcolm heard that by design there would be no life produced...

Terry, about the mime types, note it is new area for me as many others. Can you give me the exact steps to add the missing mime types and which one we need exactly A few more links and ideas old code but it may be helpful http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?search_id=1168779869&t=634...

Hey guys Just some thoughts A few years ago I also worked to make a puppy type distro but using slackware as the base *kernel and package management with dependency info* at that time is was not "politically correct" because I did that without using the now "forced" build tool .....

saintless DebianDog - any objections about this name? I like it more and more Well this could mean different things to different people but anyway I see this as puppy (growing up to become a dog meaning maturing ) because its using the best packaging system around 40,000 packages more or less and s...

Hey Terry (sunburnt)

The wallpaper setter looks interesting when your done post the sources
and I can give it a try (you know where to find me )

Could be fun making some small apps *especially in BaCon

Joe

HeyToni (saintless) Well when you get ( the compiler ) running I built you BaCon and the GUI for wheezy-7.2 and compiled it for GTK2 so here is a special package hope it works since I compiled it on the official wheezy-7.2 http://basic-converter.proboards.com/thread/612/bacon-precompiled-binaries-wh...

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Hi, Question is: can I manipulate the bits of the parallel port using BASH scripting or should I be looking at a different approach? IBM Thinkpad 600E 288megs 366mhz Puppy 4.3.1 Hey kj4bnh Its not common for me to post here but you may be really serious about trying to connect the parallel port for...

I have moved on to other things and I used to hate gtk myself too the code still looks ugly though but if you put a little make up on her you can take her to the party until I found a way to embed it with BaCon I wrote numerous GTK2 and GTK3 and even glade examples here http://sourceforge.net/p/baco...

Hey rmcellig If you would like to save time bandwidth and money and offer a lite version of your program for mp3 players you can reduce your 162mb files to 27mb that's a 6 times reduction the sound quality is good on a mp3player here is a sample of what the script produces 27mb mono http://www.puppy...

I will be helping the Porteus team
because its better to join something you agree with
their design goal

Joe

who is next ? when I was a kid there was a rule when you where in a fight with more than one person against you and that was hit the biggest one first so... they see megaupload as the biggest one very predictable what they are targeting ...upload sites if you have any large files (linux related) on ...

Hey Lobster I went back an did a minor edit to my prior post I wasn't talking about TXZ_pup I was talking about Porteus! Porteus the best live cd I have tested in years puppy has its good things and people but puppy has gone down a different road that I havent walked in more than two years Porteus i...

Hey I have been testing Porteus ! http://porteus.org/ my package tools works perfectly on Porteus so I dont need to use modules I can install TXZ packages directly with a GUI ... isnt that cool ! because I built my tools around slackware I can use them elsewhere 8) on Porteus and all of my packages...

Hey I am very happy using Porteus ! my package tools works perfectly so I dont need to use modules I can install TXZ packages directly with a GUI ... isnt that cool They did an excellent job I signed up to their forum also will keep you posted on the progress I offered them my tools for those who pr...

Thanks raffy for all your work you did a great job setting everything up And I agree with the temporary closing to reorganize and clean things up for the better I would agree "Keep all discussions civil or you are gone. No exceptions for anyone." I agree 100%! And I will add helping others...

saintless Is really the name Pussy linux holding back the help of puppy developers? SouthPaws wrote: I wonder what would've happened if Pussy was just renamed... Shocked ttuuxxx I didn't get involved with your release well because I didn't like the name. I had posted this but you ignored it to your ...

Amusing Married Men Only Story Men Only Will and Guy have no information as to the veracity about this funny tale from the USA. Apparently in a small town somewhere in the USA there is a large factory that will only recruit married men. One of the local women, one Brenda Davy, a feisty young lady, w...