Does this forum need a Dog section?

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Does this forum need a Dog section?

#1 Post by bigpup »

First, Dog Versions are very good OS's and I am happy to see them being offered!

It is great that this forum is giving them a place to be offered, supported, and talked about, etc......

I think it is time to make a specific section of the forum for the Dogs.
A place you go to and nothing but Dogs and stuff about the Dogs is there. No Puppy stuff!

The rest of the forum stays strictly for Puppy Linux.

I am starting to see too much mixing of questions, info, support, etc..... between Puppy and Dogs.
It is starting to get confusing to follow and provide help.
Puppy is not a Dog and a Dog is not Puppy.
Dogs even have their own repository at ibiblio.org.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/

This forum is divided into specific sections that does make it easier to find things. You can expect to go to a specific section and see stuff related to the title of that section.

Flash,
I would be willing to help with doing this :idea:
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#2 Post by backi »

This would be a real good Solution ......Situation as it is now... is quite a bit confusing .

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#3 Post by ITSMERSH »

Hm, just wondering what the migration compact would have to offer on this issue?

Isn't separation almost a bad thingy?

Do we really need to separate the newcomers?

Just kidding - of course.

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#4 Post by s243a »

I would have thought that the dogs would go in the "Puppy Derivatives " subforum. Currently though they seem to be posted in the "Puppy Projects Subforum". Maybe I misunderstand the point of the "puppy derivatives" sub forum.

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#5 Post by s243a »

ITSMERSH wrote:Hm, just wondering what the migration compact would have to offer on this issue?

Isn't separation almost a bad thingy?

Do we really need to separate the newcomers?

Just kidding - of course.
I thought that for something to be an official puppy it had to be built with woof. Consequently, I would have thought that any puppy built a different way (e.g. remastering) would go into the puppy derivatives sub forum.

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#6 Post by bigpup »

As I said, there is confusion :roll:
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#7 Post by rufwoof »

When I highlighted the confusion months (and months) ago of having what is paramount to a Debian live-boot base distro's/derivatives intermixed into the Puppy forums, the consensus was ... Meh! So in the main I simply stopped offering help. Now, I have no puppy boots, just Fatdog (multi-session liveCD), Openbsd (main) and EasyOS (secondary frugal boot). As a general OS board it might be easier to just re-title the current forums?
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[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028256#1028256][size=75]Fatdog multi-session usb[/url][/size]
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#8 Post by keniv »

I see myself as a user rather than being very knowledgeable like many here.
I use a number of older puppies and have also tried a number of dogs of which my favourite is bionic dog which I use regularly. I accept that they are different in many ways but in one particular way they are the same and that is you run as root. I have bionic dog, ubuntu, XP, lucid 5287 and even the i386 version of raspbian running on the same machine. I rarely run ubuntu other than to make changes to grub and update/upgrade. I find it easier to run as root in both the pups and dogs. I don't think it is necessary to separate them to achieve greater clarity in the forum although I would not object to them being in the puppy derivatives if it is thought this would help.

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#9 Post by dancytron »

rufwoof wrote:When I highlighted the confusion months (and months) ago of having what is paramount to a Debian live-boot base distro's/derivatives intermixed into the Puppy forums, the consensus was ... Meh! So in the main I simply stopped offering help. Now, I have no puppy boots, just Fatdog (multi-session liveCD), Openbsd (main) and EasyOS (secondary frugal boot). As a general OS board it might be easier to just re-title the current forums?
Once again with the revisionist history. By "highlight" you mean "sabotage" some threads you didn't like to make them unreadable.

By "meh" you mean you got temporarily banned for it.

See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 43#1005643


http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 78#1005678

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#10 Post by rufwoof »

dancytron wrote:...
I saw and was angered back then by the confusion it had for new Puppy users to have a bunch of arrogant posting about non puppy's spread widely across (intermixed into) the puppy forums. Over that ... moved on (clearly you haven't - still Trolling).
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#11 Post by rufwoof »

[size=75]( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) :wq[/size]
[url=http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1028256#1028256][size=75]Fatdog multi-session usb[/url][/size]
[size=75][url=https://hashbang.sh]echo url|sed -e 's/^/(c/' -e 's/$/ hashbang.sh)/'|sh[/url][/size]

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#12 Post by ITSMERSH »

To me the forum section Puppy Derivatives is the right place for Puppies being remastered (no matter by script or manually) from an Original Puppy.

E.g. my LazY Puppy or L.A.S.S.I.E. which were remasters of Lucid and Precise.

Regarding to this understanding to me the forum section Puppy Projects is for those Original Puppies. I'm not sure if Scripts for Puppies will fit to this section in general. Though, some bigger Scripting Projects or something that Sits on Top of a Puppy might fit as well.

E.g. like my T.O.P.L.E.S.S. and N.E.M.E.S.I.S. stuff, That's why I'd put this into Puppy Projects.

In that sense I think Puppy Projects is fine for the Dogs.

The running as root factor is a good point in general - no matter where placed in the future.

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#13 Post by wiak »

I've never noticed forum members actually having any control whatsoever over the organisation of the forum so in that sense it seems irrelevant to suggest a Dog section - though maybe John Murga does pay attention behind the scenes, but perhaps such reorganisation would be complicated or not desired?

I note, from first post of this thread, that there is also a confusion in that there are two main types of Dog: FatDog and DebianDog (which include Ubuntu-based Dogs) - FatDog and DebianDog(s) are not related to each other at all. Per its website, FatDog was originally derived from Puppy but no longer is at all.

It is also clear to me that Dogs are not derived from Puppy. Debian/Ubuntu-based Dogs are specially configured Debian-live based system (i.e. they are not only derived from Debian/Ubuntu, they are pretty much fully-compatible with that source).

I personally thus feel, that if there is no dedicated, DebianDog section (and no dedicated FatDog section), then the Puppy-related Projects section is the nearest to appropriate that can be achieved. All these Dogs have (to some limited extent) tried to offer some of the look/feel and basic functionality of Pups, but they are not Pups and they are not derived from them.

EDIT: What would be good would be to have a sticky post in Projects section, explaining what FatDog is, what Debian/Ubuntu Dogs are, and also of course a summary of what actual Pups are: in each case providing a link to the websites for each of these projects. That is:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/

https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/

http://puppylinux.com

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#14 Post by fredx181 »

wiak wrote:EDIT: What would be good would be to have a sticky post in Projects section, explaining what FatDog is, what Debian/Ubuntu Dogs are, and also of course a summary of what actual Pups are: in each case providing a link to the websites for each of these projects. That is:
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However a special "Dogs" section would be nice (to avoid confusion) but it has been mentioned earlier and apparently the moderators do not feel for that, but a sticky post in Projects section is a great idea.

Flash, can that be done ?

P.S.
bigpup wrote:The rest of the forum stays strictly for Puppy Linux
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I agree that there should be no posts about Dogs in other sections (e.g. Users section) only in the dedicated Dog topics.
(after all, the Dogs are sort of a guest in the Puppy forum :wink: )

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#15 Post by BarryK »

wiak wrote:I note, from first post of this thread, that there is also a confusion in that there are two main types of Dog: FatDog and DebianDog (which include Ubuntu-based Dogs) - FatDog and DebianDog(s) are not related to each other at all. Per its website, FatDog was originally derived from Puppy but no longer is at all.
FatDog was created by kirk and jamesbond, and was originally a fork of Puppy, using Puppy Unleashed, the precursor to Woof. That was many years ago, and it gradually deviated.

Yes, I have seen many posts where people are thinking that FatDog and the DebianDogs (and their kindred) are the same thing. They definitely are not.

As I have a Puppy-derivative, well, has it's origins in Puppy, named EasyOS, I am enforcing EasyOS posts to only be in the Puppy-derivatives section, and only in one specific thread.

I suggest that the other derivatives, especially those that are very different from Puppy, should be only in the Puppy derivatives section, and the moderators should enforce this.

Note, I did setup a forum just for EasyOS, but the Puppy Forum is such a great place to come and read about interesting happenings, I find that I come back here almost every day, and forget to look at my EasyOS forum.

The thing is, the cross-pollination of ideas in the Puppy Forum is great, so we shouldn't start banning all the derivatives, just keep them under control, clearly separated.
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#16 Post by wanderer »

I apologize for putting in my 2 cents
since I contribute little and offend much

but wouldn't puppy projects be a better place for non-puppy contributions
since they are not "derived" from puppy
simply a "project" to add to the puppy universe

also would it be a do-able idea for each non-puppy project
to state at the beginning of its thread that

1. the project is not derived from puppy

2. and direct all questions to that particular thread

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#17 Post by musher0 »

Hi guys.

How about their own forum? Forget section.

It's the only logical solution, IMO.
Antix and MX are derived from Debian, and have their own forums
WattOS is derived from Ubuntu, and has its own forum.
CentOS is derived from RHEL but has its own forums.
Etc., etc.

If I may:
jcink.com offers hosted forums free; or 10$US a month (80 $ a year) if you want
attachment capacity. Maybe ask your members $1 when they join, and you'll be
good for a few months; that dollar also will keep trolls away.

I mention jcink.com because it accommodates many languages OOTB, It's based on
the Invision forum software, so it's simple and efficient. Almost like here.

I'm not an owner or shareholder; this is just a suggestion from someone who
researched the subject of hosted forums a bit. I thought jcink was the best overall,
not the best per each feature. To me, its multi-language capacity was the deciding
factor; for other people, it will be something else.

If you look at other forum hosts, please be aware that some will kick you out on the
spot if your post in any language other than English. Some say so openly, some
don't. It's their right, but it's no good to a dev who wishes to build an international
community around his distro.

I would be a bit sad to see multi-talented people less often. But hey, you've not
been banned, you can come back anytime to share on Puppy things.

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#18 Post by bigpup »

Good example of why Dogs need to have their own section in this forum.
Latest announcement of Fatdog at Distrowatch.
https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=10475
Fatdog is not a Puppy Linux and they tell you this in there announcement!
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#19 Post by musher0 »

Hi bigpup.

Not surprising.
They know zilch about Puppy, plus they have it in for us.
Nice combination...

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#20 Post by wanderer »

how about using this subforum

the misc section

for non-puppy contributions

it would keep all non-puppy stuff out of the way

yet still allow people to contribute non-puppy related ideas

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