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Rhino · Last edited by Rhino on Thu 19 Jul 2007, 09:56; edited 1 time in total

myPup is designed to replace the existing Puppy applications with "web 2.0" alternatives, allowing constant access to your files from anywhere. Of course, you can do this with Puppy already with bookmarked links, but this puts them on the menu and makes them easily accessible. This also gives us flexibility to add new applications quite simply and extends the versatility of Puppy without increasing its size.

All of the applications I chose are based on replacing Puppy applications and hopefully provide good support. You can always add applications back in by using Pupget. Although there are several options for a replacement of say gnumeric, I tried to choose just one that worked well, so as not to get a menu totally full. I am certainly open to suggestions for a better selection of applications.

There are similar projects out there based on other distros, but they are either quite large or limited in functionality. I think Puppy may be the perfect platform for this type of project. I kept many of the capabilities of Puppy intact, such as Gxine for music and video, many of the the smaller files tools and utilities for managing your local machine to keep this is a fully functional distro. I did simplify the menu a bit, so if you are looking for a Puppy application or utility it may still be available from the command line.

The iso weighs in at 88Mb (I was hoping for slightly smaller, but my smaller attempts all crashed and burned or I lost significant functionality that I could not repair).

As for the appearance, I kept JWM, but added wbar to reduce desktop clutter. I added a couple of jwm themes and small wallpapers. I also set the tray to hide to give the desktop a very clean appearance.

Bugs:
-Occasionally have to restart X if wbar does not render its faux transparency correctly.
-You have to click on the desktop to get wbar to show up sometimes.
-Printing-can you print with this? I have no way of testing this as I don't have any linux compatible printers. Please let me know.
- can't get divx to stream in Gxine...would we be better to add mplayer instead? My gut is to leave it as it is. You can always d/l the divx file and play it, rather than stream it.
- when streaming large files, you can max out your ram...you need to d/l the file first I think.

Yo can get the iso at http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-07-to-12/

Rhino

Rhino · Posted: Wed 18 Jul 2007, 23:14 Post subject:

Just so you know what you are getting, here are some screenshots of myPup including some of the web2.0 applications available.

Default desktop: Featuring JWM with simplified menus, new menu icons (in part), wbar and autohidden jwm-tray. (jwm-vu theme with pizzasgood background)

Documents: Featuring Google Docs & Spread, Google Calendar, Flowchart, Dictionary.net, Medgle, and Wikipedia. (jwm-human theme with suede background)

Chat: Featuring meebo chat, ircatwork,ICQ2Go and Chatzilla embedded in Seamonkey-automatically logs into #puppylinux at freenode.net for instant help. (jwm-black theme with snakeriver background)

Multimedia: Featuring Pandora, Last.fm, gcast-podcast creator, TV Links internet tv and movies. (jwm-vu theme with bliss background)

Games: Featuring online games such as Asteroids, Space Invaders, LineRider, Sudoku and Chess. (default theme and background)

Also included is mail and news featuring GMail and Google News, Maps, and Reader.

Hope you like it and I look forward to your suggestions!

Rhino

Gekko · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 01:13 Post subject:

Try using "strip /bin/*" and "strip /usr/bin/*" and "strip /usr/local/bin/*". This should shrink the size quite a lot. You could also consider using UPX to compress the executables.

MU · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 02:52 Post subject:

http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-07-to-12/
Mark

Gekko · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 04:14 Post subject:

Also, shouldn't you make the Seamonkey windows load without menus and such?

Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

Why is the Download refused with a marked forbidden error 403? when I attempted to get it with wget -c?. I use a Dial up modem - is it a speed thing?

cb88 · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 1160 Location: USA

Where can I get that seamonky theme?

Rhino · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 10:01 Post subject:

Rhino · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 10:06 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 12:00 Post subject: Re: New distro

Rhino · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 12:09 Post subject: Re: New distro

MU · Posted: Thu 19 Jul 2007, 15:49 Post subject:

I had to add a check to reduce bandwidth-abuse on puppyfiles.org.
So you need to download using a webbrowser as Lobster did.

Sorry for this inconvenience, but that is still better than overload with account-suspension, where you will be refused to download anything. Rolling Eyes

Mark

tazoc · Posted: Fri 20 Jul 2007, 17:31 Post subject:

Nice job Rhino! I like the clean layout and creative use of online apps. Wbar looks cool too, got to try that out. I will d/l myPup as soon as I can. Thanks.
-TazOC

Lobster · Posted: Sat 21 Jul 2007, 23:56 Post subject: Rhino and XUL online

Here are some on line links
http://mashable.com/2007/07/20/online-productivity-god/

The city 'square mile' of London is a hot spot that will spread to the rest of London, other UK cities - and eventually global coverage. I believe Sigapore has a similar system and Washington . . .On line services as a public service rather than a franchise will emerge. At the moment these services are free, then they will start charging . . . and after that they become services . . .

This process will take years.

So what Rhino is doing, show the way to Puppy on PC compatible phones and connected laptops etc.

I believe that a Puppy XUL customisation of Seamonkey
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/xul/
has still not been explored and is another possibility that would turn MyPup into a feature of every Puppy version . . .
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=1621&sid=32b6349f768a6f220b7ca0b977713e94

I enjoyed using this Puplet very much hope it will spark some ideas and possibilities Smile

Rhino · Posted: Sun 22 Jul 2007, 19:38 Post subject: Re: Rhino and XUL online