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#161 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hi guys I've been working heavenly behind 4.2, I like where its going. Butttttttttt I've been spending so much time on gnome and kde while the versions advance so quickly, Take a look at Slackware for example usually they release an update every 6 months or so and a new release number every year plus. So what I've been debating while helping is maybe going it alone like graphpup has done, puppy has came to the point now where the latest kernel suites almost all the little laptops etc.
I would like to include a default compiler etc. It would add a bit of bloat, maybe 40-50MB but it would make the OS so much better.
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#162 Post by Subito Piano »

Boy, there's a good question! Inasmuch as Barry has "retired" and Puppy is falling to the community, one could say it's time for you to branch out and go it alone -- after all, nobody knows how long Puppy will keep going. On the other hand, you are an important part of the Puppy community and i for one would hate to see you go. Or were you thinking of both splitting off LW AND staying involved with Puppy development? That might be biting off more than you wanna chew, idk.

Curious if you have the stats on how many downloads of LW/FH you've had? That may help you answer your question...

BTW, i like the compiler idea. I've only needed to compile a few times, but i never could figure it out and had to substitute or do without.

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#163 Post by Aronzak »

Sorry if you've already said this, but does it look like LXDE is in at this stage?

BTW, there is a program in portableapps that uses sword. I wonder if it could be integrated? But I'm probably the only person that would appreciate such a feature.

.ppt's are probably fairly important for church users if they are ever going to use them in a church. If you are feeling adventurous, you might also include wine and openlp. http://www.openlp.org/

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#164 Post by Subito Piano »

Did you try OpenSong? It's available for Puppy and i forget, it's either in the alpha of the next LW or ChurchPup Concordia. It generates not only presentations but also lyric sheets with transposable chords for the instrumentalists, very handy.

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#165 Post by Aronzak »

Subito Piano wrote:Did you try OpenSong? It's available for Puppy and i forget, it's either in the alpha of the next LW or ChurchPup Concordia. It generates not only presentations but also lyric sheets with transposable chords for the instrumentalists, very handy.
No, I haven't tried it. Will get a release.

OpenLP had some features like CCLI integration that some churches might like. Then again, if there's a native alternative, that should be used.

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#166 Post by ttuuxxx »

Hi guys I dropped 302 and 5.0
and so my plate is clear
I'm on my way out but quickly I'll explain what I need

which puppy version should it be based on
4.0 4.1 4.12
4.12 seems to have a few issues

Gnome Sword or kde bibletime ?

VLC or Gxine

plus which applications would you like to see

I'll work on ttuuxxx tv tomorrow

It will be icewm as the window manager and Firefox 3 series that I'll optimize for puppy.

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#167 Post by Jim1911 »

ttuuxxx,

Glad that you're focusing on this update, however, I hope that you will continue on 5 and help on 4.2.

My preference is a full KDE and Bibletime with the ability to switch between KDE and icewm. Most computers today can easily handle the KDE environment, even my 5-year old clunker.

Thank you for all the help that you continue to give us puppy users.

JIm

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#168 Post by bill »

Post from Jim:
Thank you for all the help that you continue to give us puppy users.

Hello ttuuxxx,Let me echo what JIm posted previously.your counsel ,to me and various users on this forum have been a great help in understanding the Puppy operating system helping new users find their way around.Some of it answered my questions and some of it left me with more questions. :lol: but I submit this is all part of the learning curve..

I guess I would ask "Exactly what IS a "operating system" ? To me it is simply a base foundation where upon a user adds a few applications that allows him/her to work in areas that are of need or interest to each user specifically.Once this happens ,I am lost in trying to figure out anything else it should do.Each user has their own likes or dislikes of any Puppy Distro but while auditing many of the Puplets various users have submitted I have to say,some are very clever but on the whole,all are still somewhat incomplete because whatever problem a user encounters in one Puplet,more than likely,they will have the same
problems in another Puplet.This to me is the crux of where you gurus should make your additions (education and applications),if of course you have the interest and desire. Then I say ,let the user modify,add,delete whatever they so choose.Then if they can post up a Puplet that suits others,the I say this is fine business.
I suppose in the end I would have to make this statement and it goes something like this "Give a man fish and he can feed his family for a day,but TEACH a man to fish,and he can feed his family indefinitely" Thanks,bill


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#169 Post by rjbrewer »

INDEFINITELY?

Teach man to fish; in a few centuries the "living" waters will be dead.

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#170 Post by bill »

ha ha rjbrewer,This of course depends on exactly how much tenure each of us have left on that fishing hole. :lol: cheers

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#171 Post by rjbrewer »

Even some of us cynical heathens are hoping for an
eternal trout stream "up-yonder".


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#172 Post by Subito Piano »

My two cents -- FWIW!

AMEN regarding thanks for all you give, ttuxxx. (5?? I don't even know about "5" - i assume it's Puppy 5.)

Bill - yes about teaching a man to fish...BUT there are a lot of frustrated people who want something better than Windoze, yet simply don't have time to learn how to configure everything. "Just give me something that works out-of-the-box!!!" I guess that means that ideally, we should have several distros/puplets available that are drop-in Windoze replacements, with appropriate software prepackaged, (As an example, i just configured OpenOffice for a friend so that everything automatically saves in MS formats -- before i did that, the program was useless to his family. His girls couldn't take their work to school to work on or print b/c they didn't know enough about saving with the correct extensions.) Yeah, this is my soapbox with Linux distros -- some HAVE to be quite intuitive to the MS crowd or they feel forced to always stick with a frustrating OS from Redmond.

Ttuuxxx--i prefer BibleTime but that's just me -- it seems easier to reference to the Strong's lexicons. Which causes less headaches for you to include? TtuxxTV is great - but i don't use it (wish i could get PBS on the computer, i don't use television). For the rest of you proposed choices -- i'd stick first with rock-solid reliability and secondly with user-friendliness. Which version to base it on? I'm not sure of all the differences, but i thought 4.1 was better than 4.0. Oh -- does Gxine include all the codecs like VLC? Lastly, don't kill yourself and your family time!! :shock:

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#173 Post by bill »

Hello Subito Piano,Thanks for your post.Personally I feel there is already an operating system as good as M$ and it is Puppy. The main difference I see is simply what you spoke of considering how the young ladies could have portability of files to a system that has held a mortal lock on all computers for a long time.What I am suggesting is nothing more than a few apps that can convert a rpm2pet or deb2pet etc. etc for ease of installing apps that a new user might require.I can't envision a software that can be all things to all people but these routines could help a new user become more empowered to learn new things.Even M$ has a learning curve.I would believe this would simply be a starting point for a new user,the rest would be entirely up to them.Oh ! and by the way,your two cents is as of equal value as anyones . :wink: cheers

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#174 Post by ttuuxxx »

ok guys from your responses I take it will be bibletime, and which version of puppy? 4.0, 4.1, 4.12 ?
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#175 Post by Jim1911 »

I vote for 4.1.2 or better yet the latest based on kernal 2.6.27.5

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#176 Post by Evil20071 »

4.0 with Kernel update to current version.
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#177 Post by Aronzak »

VLC should be fine, but I'd heard that the Windows version could be illegal in the US (dvd css thing?). I don't think libdvdcss2 is bundled in the Linux version...

Are you going to move any discussions to your own forum?

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#178 Post by bill »

I would say 412 because the only issue I have had with it,is the loose screw on the keyboard . :D cheers

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#179 Post by ttuuxxx »

I haven't tried 4.12 yet just 4.1 Gxine in 4.1 is really buggy is it the same in 4.12? I was thinking of keeping it as a backup, But if its buggy its out-of-here. like if you leave a space at the end of a url stream by accident, it freezes then you have to kill it, but it stays running so then you have to run Pprocess and manually kill it
try this link and include a space at the end of the url before hitting enter for 4.12 users.

rtsp://rmlive.bbc.co.uk/bbc-rbs/rmlive/ev7/live24/radio1/live/r1_dsat_g2.ra

I also need urls or websites, I can manually find them for the online streams for ttuuxxx TV, I have a few new ones. But more the better I guess :)
also for now I'll keep using this thread, once I get a tester going I'll make a new one
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#180 Post by OldMan1928 »

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