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Slackster-700
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello, and a Happy and Prosperous New Year 2019 to all! First things first: if it hadn't been for greengeek's half-joke (here), I wouldn't have done it and wouldn't be initiating this thread. So thanks, g/g, for that little pique! Also thanks to peebee for his kernel 3.16.45 4G kernel, without which this Pup targeting older PCs would not exist. Pls download from here. The best way to describe "Slackster-700" is to say it's an edit of 01micko's slacko-6.9.9.9, with some things out, some things corrected and some things added.
I managed to shave ~ 70 Mgs off the original puppy sfs, by putting a lot of stuff outside in the /mnt/home/"slacko" dir. Not sure if it's a new concept or not. (Probably not, and it does not matter.) I am still offering some sfs's in there. But the thing is: it is ready to go as a small Puppy. (-- Beginning of edit --) 138 Mb's for the main sfs plus 17 Mb's for the adrv = 155 Mb's. I don't remember seeing a Pup this small in quite some time. ( -- End of edit --) If you want to add stuff, you may. You only have to unlrzip and unzip what's in the directory. It will work off the bat, no rebooting needed, because it's pre- symlinked in the main Puppy. (Lrzip is uncluded, BTW.) The following may go against popular belief concerning the Pups I produce, but please note: "slackster-700 is NOT a French or a French-Canadian Puppy. It's a Puppy derivative, period. You, the user, can add to it any locale you need but I have included none ex-factory. ~~~~~~~~~~~ The devx can be downloaded from here and the support directory from here.
I'll be announcing the URL(s) of the remainder tomorrow in the post below. Enjoy! In the meantime, please feel free to test the new bugger, and to comment and/or ask questions below if need be. BFN.
_________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) Last edited by musher0 on Wed 02 Jan 2019, 09:00; edited 4 times in total |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello all. Many thanks to forum member augras for his "hospitality". ~~~~~~~~~~~ The latest java JRE (as of this writing) in sfs form, and a couple of java apps are available for the slackster-700 Pup at this online directory: http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=musher0/Slacko-700/Java-et-applis_java Every Puppyist worthy of the name knows how to mount an sfs, yes? 
~~~~~~~~~ The optional set has now been uploaded at http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/musher0/Slacko-700/MntHomeSlacko-700_optional.zip For convenience, a listing of the two mega-archives follows:
Remember: step 0) consists of unzipping those two mega-archives. The "surface" zip is only for convenience in transport. Then copy their contents to /mnt/home/slacko-6.9.9.9-uefi. Now use the little script called unlrzzip1.sh to unpack the first set. Study it a bit and you'll easily understand how to unpack the second set. ~~~~~~~~~ I beg forgiveness from those of you who use mhwavedit: I forgot to move the /root/.mhwavedit directory to /mnt/home/slacko-6.9.9.9-uefi and to bring a symlink of it back in /root. Could you please do it? Thanks for your understanding. If you do even only a bit of sound editing with mhwavedit, this cache will fill up your pupsave in no time. In any case, may I suggest that you empty this dir. when done editing or listening to a song or instrumental piece. To be cont'd. BFN. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) Last edited by musher0 on Wed 02 Jan 2019, 14:23; edited 3 times in total |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hello again all. Kernel 3.16.45...4G comes with an fdrv, which you can get here. It's part of the kernel that peebee has compiled and provided. In my experience so far, this Pup does not seem to need this fdrv to run, but it contains extra firmware, which may be handy to have. I have added it, and the Pup did not complain. To be cont'd. Have a great day! _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) Last edited by musher0 on Wed 02 Jan 2019, 14:26; edited 2 times in total |
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pp4mnklinux
 Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 369 |
HAPPY NEW YEAR _________________ Distro: xenialpup64 7.5 XXL Desktop Panel: JWM ~ FbBox 5.0 |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
And to you, pp4mnklinux!
_________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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ally
 Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1973 Location: lincoln, uk |
hi musher getting 403 forbidden from the downloads page
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
5 min. later: I had not given it enough permissions. Sorry about that. Should be ok now. Let me know? TIA. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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ally
Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1973 Location: lincoln, uk |
sorted now, thanks mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Slacko
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Many thanks, ally. Some day you will get the Nobel prize for Archiving. You should, anyway!
~~~~~~~~~~~ Slackster-700's first script for it is ffplay-mus-appel.sh. It allows one to play any music format in a quasi-GUI window.
à la don570. The complete UniversalisADF font can be found here; it's licenced under the GPL. Scrot and pet attached. Enjoy.
_________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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tallboy
 Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1646 Location: Drøbak, Norway |
Yet another Puppy for frugal installation only? In every recent Puppy or derivative, the possibility to choose to run from and save to a multisession CD-R is no longer included. Why the empty words that the Puppy in question is designed to run on old hardware? CD's are old news, but they will last a lifetime, and CD players/burners are found in most older hardware. I find it to be a fault not to include the fundamental flexibility in Puppy's design; the coice of installation method and media. _________________ True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Pipe down, tallboy. You sound like the brick-layer who is mad because the carpenter got a new tool from his wife during the Holidays... True, this is a new design I came up with for a frugal installation. I know it works as a frugal installation, but where do I say in the above that I am shunning Puppy running from CD/DVD? I suspect that this concept could be used in a CD plus thumbdrive frugal setup. But I confess that I have not yet tested the Slackster-700 booting from CD/DVD. So please throw another brick at me. Regards. _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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6502coder
 Joined: 23 Mar 2009 Posts: 670 Location: Western United States |
Tried to do a LiveCD test on my Compaq Presario 2200 laptop, which is currently running a frugal install of Tahr606. 1.3 GHz Celeron M nopae CPU and 1 GB RAM. Burned a CD. Booted and got as far as the "Starting X, specs in..." message. Then got "Exited from X...." message. Ran xorgwizard, set resolution to match my 1024x768 display, and ran "xwin". No joy. Ran xorgwizard again, set color bit depth to 16, and ran "xwin." Still no joy. Ran xorgwizard again, didn't see anything else I had enough knowledge to mess with, so just exited. Ran "xwin" again. This time, it booted all the way to desktop. But after about half a second, the display went blank and threw me back to the console. While the desktop was up, I noticed that all the icons had little rectangles where there should have been text, implying some sort of charset or font problem? Ran dmesg but saw nothing helpful. Then tried to cd to "/etc" and that's when I noticed that the "/" key instead produced the "e" with acute accent. Also noticed that the "|" key produced the ">" character. Since the keyboard mapping was clearly hosed, I threw in the towel at this point. Sorry I was unable to do a more thorough test. |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Very strange indeed. Thanks for your report, 65902coder. I'll burn a CD and will try to mimic the behaviour. Your bug means that xorg.conf would have been altered somehow? Or that the whatchamacallit xkbset exec would be on the loose? Hm... But hey! The Atari4 DOS was weird too!!! 
Happy New Year, BTW! _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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peebee
 Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 4234 Location: Worcestershire, UK |
Hi There is no fdrv in the iso - so the kernel does not have any firmware.... https://sourceforge.net/projects/lxpup/files/Other/huge-kernels/fdrv.sfs/download is the one that goes with my kernels - will need to be renamed appropriately. Cheers! _________________  LxPup = Puppy + LXDE
Main version used daily: LxPupSc; Assembler of UPups, ScPup & ScPup64, LxPup, LxPupSc & LxPupSc64 |
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musher0
Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 14860 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada |
Hi peebee. Thanks for the heads-up, but I had noticed and already informed people in this post. Have a great day! _________________ musher0 ~~~~~~~~~~ "You want it darker? We kill the flame." (L. Cohen) |
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