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Béèm · Posted: Wed 11 Mar 2009, 15:26 Post subject: This thread

I can completely agree with Whodo's comment about bickering in this thread.
This thread is about bugs and fixes. In this case rc2. Nothing more nothing less. Period.
All other comment about wishes how things has to be done is out of line here.

Having said this, I feel there is a lack of another thread about wishes and rants or whatever.
There is a possibility of wish list on the Wikki, but a separate thread in projects might be more intuitive.

Hope that people gets their act together, so the project is not in danger and I wish Whodo lots of patience. But I think he took a good decision to act more as a 'dictator' then he was before.

This thread and previous bugs and fixes threads weren't actually fun to read/follow.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Wed 11 Mar 2009, 20:20 Post subject:

Hey WhoDo heres your abiword, what a pain 3 times I had to start over, and when I mean that, basically erase my 18gig pupsave and basically restart, takes about 15mins, so its not that bad. Anyways
http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/puppy420/RC2/abiwordfinal/
In that directory posted above are basically all the files needed,
I made abiword, plus extra, plus plugins,plus enchant all in one package. so that gets rid of 4 packages
next aiksaurus is a couple of kb smaller and has the missing .desktop file:)
Goffice is almost 100kb smaller compressed Smile

I recompiled lib jpeg to hope that it would stabilize the pictures better, I didn't strip it, sometimes when you strip.so they mess up, so I was thinking maybe thats what happened to it.

There's 2 link grammars, the small version is just the libs and no text, so it basically won't work, but it should stabilize the system somewhat. and the bigger one has all the text, Its not needed for the dictionary to function. We don't really need it either, maybe just the libs, anyways most of these packages are smaller than the originals, so it should be very close in size. If you want to read up on link grammer, here's a link
http://www.abisource.com/projects/link-grammar/
Next I'll work on the shutdown and email.
take care and feel better WhoDo
ttuuxxx

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 07:36 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 8744 Location: qld

WhoDo

Glad you made 'that' post.

que sera sera

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 07:55 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 08:06 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 08:22 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 08:51 Post subject:

Hi WhoDo this is the typical difference in size posted by Barry on one of his Blogs

Browser, Mail&News, Composer: 10095KB
Browser, Composer: 7592KB
Browser only: 7328KB

So to answer your question around 2.5MB compressed, around 2MB compressed more than Claws.
So I just don't think thats an option, Also did you get the abiword and extras? its pretty good with the templates, they only take an extra 25kb but to offer things like resume, fax cover letters, business letters etc, I think its well worth the 25kb? Roughly I think everything combined is around 100kb +/- which is really good with openxml format, Thats goig to make a heck of a lot of users happy. If we could figure out the mime for it, that also would be good.
ttuuxxx

Lobster · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 11:30 Post subject:

Tried rc2 on an Eeepc
Universal Installer - followed instructions - very easy

Boot up on Eeepc and set up no problem.
Connecting to the Internet?
Not with w-ifi
Only TigerPup (that I know of) has the modified wi-fi driver for the Eeepc.
So had to use ethernet . . .

Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 11:34 Post subject:

Lobster · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:26 Post subject:

[url]anyway we can get that driver in puppy 4.2? is it big?[/url]

PM dinky or Tempestuous or do a forum search for it . . .
Smile

ttuuxxx · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 12:33 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 16:34 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Thu 12 Mar 2009, 16:39 Post subject:

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 246 Location: France nr Lyon

WiFi worked out of the box for me on a EeePC901 using a frugal Rc2 install on a USB stick as I reported earlier in this thread. Which Eee did you try?

Mike