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ravensrest · #21 Post by **ravensrest** » Sat 18 Apr 2009, 23:04

Just downloaded upup-416, burned an iso, and tried it. Here are my results thus far:

Fotox index image fonts almost unreadable
Pmusic won't play anything but does generate a playlist
Abiword now opens my old Word files with good fonts
Scroll wheel doesn't do anything, anywhere
No menu icons
Leafpad misaligned in menu
"Menu" on tray button is not centered
No gxine, hence no play when clicking icon
Background colors in tray icons are not consistent

I also don't care much for incorporating the pet package manager and puppy installer on one popup. Would prefer them as separate functions.

Thanks so much, so far.
BS

tronkel · #22 Post by **tronkel** » Sat 18 Apr 2009, 23:45

I wonder if Lobster could let me know what medication he takes .....
I've been in this forum too long and I think I might need some of that.

I've just thought of a new word - "woofable"

This description could refer to another linux distro and not Puppy.

e.g. Ubuntu and Debian are "woofable" distros in that their packages can be used to build a Puppy version. Some versions could be more "woofable" than others etc. "woofability" is a characteristic of a distro.

Please tell me I'm still normal.

Is it significant that Lobster appears perfectly normal to me?

trapster · #23 Post by **trapster** » Sat 18 Apr 2009, 23:52

No sound after running alsa wizard in upup-461.
ES1988 Allegro1 Rev 12.
All puppys since 103 have had sound on this laptop.
Also get this with alsamixer:

Code: Select all

# alsamixer

alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No such device
#

First puppy that "File-Sharing" has found my puppy server shared folder!

Ray MK · #24 Post by **Ray MK** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 01:13

Hi

Just a small something - went to use pmount, to copy/transfer some files, and when I clicked mount button for any of the un-mounted partitions (sda1 already mounted), pmount just disappeared.

Thought you should know - hopefully nothing too serious.

Best regards - Ray

rhadon · #25 Post by **rhadon** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 07:38

Hi

@ rcrsn51
Thanks, problem with password is solved now, but new problem. I get the error:

Bad device-uri "socket://fritz.box:9100"!

I've had no problems before with this url. Will try to solve but not so important for me.

@ tronkel
Wlan works with upup out of the box on my EeePc900

. Before it worked only with the madwifi driver from tempestuous.
'woofability' sounds good to me.

Btw. I'm the only person I know who is normal

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~ Rolf

Lobster · #26 Post by **Lobster** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 08:47

I've just thought of a new word - "woofable"

You are developing further puppytude.
Language evolves - sometimes through misuse

are elements of future Pups woofable?

Something is woofable - that is doable - yes we can
with the right tools

Woof is that tool

Dpup is woofable - I hope that will be in Kennel
Woof Woof is part of the Puppy Bow wow language and now so is woofable . . .
http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/miscella ... ion/bowwow

#27 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 09:47

Well some thing are woofable, but I have woofability

Woofability Define: The process of using woof and creating and booting a custom woof release made up of downloaded internet packages from multiple locations.
ttuuxxx

tronkel · #28 Post by **tronkel** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 10:37

Woofability is something that another distro has.

For example, Ubuntu has a high woofability rating because it can easily be used to make a Puppy Woof version that uses its (Ubuntu's) packages.

Whereas Fedora has no woofability. (not yet anyway).

Debian on the other hand is highly woofable.

Lol! what am I going on about? People from other distros reading all this stuff must really get the impression that all Puppians are nuts!

Remember you heard it all here first!

rhadon · #29 Post by **rhadon** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 10:53

Most ingeniously people were called nuts in the beginning. The tragedy: not all nuts are ingeniously

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~ Rolf

#30 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 12:37

tronkel wrote:Woofability is something that another distro has.

For example, Ubuntu has a high woofability rating because it can easily be used to make a Puppy Woof version that uses its (Ubuntu's) packages.

Naaa I wouldn't call that woofability, I would call tha "Woof food" lol we eat it all up

how about dewoofified, the results after having a first time woof experience, lol like being deflowed. lol
ttuuxxx

tronkel · #31 Post by **tronkel** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 16:32

ttuuxxx wrote:

how about dewoofified?

Ah yes, de-woofification is a really serious matter though when it concerns a Puppy base version.

Definition:

De-woofification can occur when a previously woofified version of Puppy Linux has been found by Ecomoney (hereafter referred to as The Plaintiff) to have too many serious bugs.

On official application to WhoDo (hereafter referred to as The Defendant) for clarification of a bugfixed release schedule - and in the case where The Plaintiff gets no joy on this, he has the right to apply to Higher Authority (i.e.Lobster) who has the final say on whether or not the offending version is to be de-woofified and returned to the less noble state of an ordinary Puppy base version.

If no agreement can be reached on this by all of the involved parties, then it has to go to an appeals panel consisting of Alienjeff, Otropogo and myself.

Take it or leave it.

raffy · #32 Post by **raffy** » Sun 19 Apr 2009, 18:20

Ahhhh, make it an excellent jury of two, 'coz. you'll have to be the judge.

I understand you've had some success with dpup (Debian-based woof), and ttuuxxx has tried hard to feed that puppy (Hey, I like it, too). You must be playing with him (dpup) now - it shows in your mood.

davec51 · #33 Post by **davec51** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 01:02

These are early experiences:
1. Any of the shurdown options leads to refreshing of wm, can't shut down or reboot through the menu.
2. "Play" icon does nothing; no media player in start menu.
3. Installed Freecell 1.2, but can't start it.
4. Pnethood can't find my wired network. I don't seem to have SAMBA.

The muted desktop is great.
PII intel, 400mhtz, Xvesa only, 256 RAM. All previous Puppies have been good and faithful hunting dogs.

#34 Post by **BÃ©Ã¨m** » Mon 20 Apr 2009, 09:56

A good definition of Jaunty.

John Doe · #35 Post by **John Doe** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 06:39

GROWL!!!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 355#297355

BarryK · #36 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 12:14

ravensrest wrote:Just downloaded upup-416, burned an iso, and tried it. Here are my results thus far:

Fotox index image fonts almost unreadable
Pmusic won't play anything but does generate a playlist
Abiword now opens my old Word files with good fonts
Scroll wheel doesn't do anything, anywhere
No menu icons
Leafpad misaligned in menu
"Menu" on tray button is not centered
No gxine, hence no play when clicking icon
Background colors in tray icons are not consistent

I also don't care much for incorporating the pet package manager and puppy installer on one popup. Would prefer them as separate functions.

Thanks so much, so far.
BS

Some of your bug reports are very strange. Did you attempt to upgrade from a 4.2 pup-save file?

BarryK · #37 Post by **BarryK** » Tue 21 Apr 2009, 12:19

tronkel wrote:Woofability is something that another distro has.

For example, Ubuntu has a high woofability rating because it can easily be used to make a Puppy Woof version that uses its (Ubuntu's) packages.

Whereas Fedora has no woofability. (not yet anyway).

Debian on the other hand is highly woofable.

Lol! what am I going on about? People from other distros reading all this stuff must really get the impression that all Puppians are nuts!

Remember you heard it all here first!

tronkel,
That could catch on. I am already thinking of distros in terms of their woofability

`f00 · #38 Post by **`f00** » Wed 22 Apr 2009, 00:35

possibly might be taken oddly in some instances - hereabouts 'woofing' is a softer version of the 'hurling' experience of overly enthusiastic participants in the sport

updated earlier post, too - fwiw

tronkel · #39 Post by **tronkel** » Wed 22 Apr 2009, 14:40

As an experiment I tried to get Synaptic, and apt-get to run on the latest Upup based on Woof 4. See attached screenshot.

I got Synaptic apt-get and aptitude running and configured using the /etc/apt configuration directory from my real Jaunty install. Simply copied over the folder from the Jaunty partition.

I installed what I could of apt-get using the Puppy Package Manager plus some missing stuff that I downloaded directly from the official Jaunty repo.

Synaptic then ran and also updated its packages list OK.

It downloads the packages and all the dependencies for a particular package just as normal, but fails on the final install. Apt-get complains about possible circular dependencies and aptitude complains about missing PATH configuration for ldconfig and update-rc.d

I feel that I'm not far away from perpetrating yet another major chutzpa on Ubuntu!

Would be great if this could get fixed. Please let me know if you know how to fix this.

FlyingRedGoat · #40 Post by **FlyingRedGoat** » Wed 22 Apr 2009, 23:35

Pentium III 512 M ram

Loaded Woofie, selected vesa. I never got the window allowing me to select my screen size.

Was able to log in to the wireless network.

Seamonkey worked fine.

Ayttm started, but when it was time to log in, the window just disappeared. Was not able to restart it.

Noticed no drive icons on screen. Tried to run pmount. Pmount identified My drives and partitions, but disapeared when I tried to mount a drive. I was able to restart pmount, and got the same results.

Finally (out of time) I tried to reboot. The drive icons appeared and it didn't reboot. Now I was able to mount partitions.

Second time I tried to reboot, puppy did.

The most serious bug I found, was my dog decided to play with my roomates cat.

This never happened when I was running 4.12.

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