Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

ecomoney · Posted: Sat 17 Jan 2009, 11:16 Post subject:

Hi, yes, Ive seen dogles posts and his PM's to cindy, who is one of ecopup's long time users. Ive had the experience of introducing puppy to a couple of hundred people at least, as well as supporting home/business/voluntary sector users. While Im far from being an expert on the technicalities, we do have a broad wealth of experience in acutally implementing puppy in real life environments.

Whats constantly frustrating to me is that many of the simple useability improvements that Ive made to puppy (gleaned from actually watching and supporting a great many people use it) are not being introduced into mainstream puppy. I would be happy to post a thread to tie this experience together, but perhaps permission from the forum mods would be in order first.

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ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 09:48 Post subject:

I've used pay for internet services before like at a hostel many years ago while traveling, you pop like $1 in a machine, and it turns the monitor on for 20 mins, but say if your using email etc and don't look at the time, the monitor goes off and the next person within a few minutes will have your email account, thats what I didn't like about it, no on screen warning, eg timer. But with puppy some smart developer build a script that monitors the video output to the monitor and once it sees that the monitor is unplugged it could start a killall script for the default browser. Plus if you had the browser not save any info on restart, which is easily done then it would be far more secure. Also that script could clear the temp cache also. Thats the way I can see it working securely.
ttuuxxx

Enrique Corbellini · Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 86

My country is Uruguay, South America (we speak Spanish here).
In my country, and in many countries of our part of the world, is common to have very agressive companies like Microsoft, trying to kill the rights of common citizens.
That's why we have experience in having kicked out (expulsed? is it the word?) some companies and enterprises who gave us too much pain.
Now we are having some discussion about microsfot in www.ubuntu.org.uy, and i'm speaking about Puppy there.
I hope we can also destroy Microsoft, as our neighborghs the brazilians and the venezuelans already did, at least inside some important areas of there economy.
I'd love to see you friends of English speaking, joinging us on this hopefull adventure.
Cheers
huertapp@montevideo.com.uy

ttuuxxx

sidders · Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 470 Location: Bolton, uk

I'm planning on getting the kids HSB, Edupup, whatever you want to call it in Spanish as i visited a kid in Ecuador, who's school had a pc, their first. Alright it was four years ago. I can do the locales bit i need someone who can habla castellano to maybe do a little write up or a few simple instructions on whats on it and what kids can gain from it..

Sorry i didnt travel through Uruguay, saw it from Argentina though.

|I did the kids thing via Plan International, which is whom i intend to send the project.

Enrique Corbellini · Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 86

gee
i see you seem to be a very good programmer, cos i just visited your page.
never mind for my difficult to express, i did my best but it's definitive my natural language is not English.
i don't prefere ubuntu, that's why i'm a puppy user.
the thing is that... ubuntu doesn't remember the free software spirit, which, i understand, is to freely use and catch everey software resource, to use or to modify it. Freely means fast and easy, but ubuntu thinks more in Windows than in that.
But we don't have a Puppy Community in my country, i don't have that luck, may be in the future?
good luck

sidders · Joined: 23 Jul 2008 Posts: 470 Location: Bolton, uk

comience una comunidad

You could be the first in South America

Enrique Corbellini · Joined: 20 May 2009 Posts: 86

well, i just looked at http://plan-international.org because of what you said.
Here in Uruguay, in Montevideo city (where I live), I belong to an organization which cooperates with de Red Cross, and there we have a partner who's also been working in Ecuador.
I have no choice now a days to do something about that of Ecuator, excepting to speak about that with that friend of mine who uses to fly to that country. Possibly he could tell me more about plan-internationa.org since i'm not a professional in helping children.
About creating a Puppy community in South America... I really don't know if a community like that exists in any other country of this part of the world... i saw there's a pupplet created by a guatemalan called "oxigen", but that isn't so much, is it?
Anyway, i find useful to discuss with ubuntu users about why not to use both puppy and ubuntu at the same time, especially because i think we deserve a linux system that has all the advantages, which doesn't exist yet.
If you know some Spanish you can see some of those talkings in ubuntu.org.uy , there i'm the one called Uko.
If you are interested in giving education to children, you can also search inside that page for everything related to the uruguayan Plan Ceibal, and may be asking to your international organization if they know something about that, don't you think it's a good idea?

legendofthor · Posted: Mon 13 Jul 2009, 09:50 Post subject:

G'day,
Enrique you have joined a larger worldwide cause in promoting free and open source software. I am thrilled that you are promoting Puppy - it is the best.
Perhaps consider starting a Linux Users Group in your local area to promote and Market Linux in your area - from there you can expand by encouraging others to do the same in their area. Here are a couple site that will help you get started.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Linux_PR/newlug.html
and
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/User-Group-HOWTO.html
Good luck.
Cheers
Martin
PS: I am so glad Australia doesnt have to play you anymore in the World Cup qualifiers Very Happy

Antipodal · **On Thu 28 Aug 2008, 10:54 you wrote:**

Dear benali72:
I've been using Puppy for about 6 months.
I like it and would like to promote it.
I've considered thoroughly all the ideas that have been exposed about Puppy's promotion in this forum but, currently, I feel that the only way I can promote Puppy is by putting into action your last idea:

Lobster · Posted: Sat 22 Aug 2009, 12:35 Post subject:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=3

Antipodal

Dear Lobster:

Aitch · Joined: 04 Apr 2007 Posts: 6825 Location: Chatham, Kent, UK

Antipodal

Hi
Hope I'm not treading on toes here, but I think you make a good case!
I hope I speak for everyone in saying,
'If we inadvertently sent out a "Beware Puppy" warning, it was unintentional, and will be rectified'
I would hope JohnM, or pizzasgood, maybe, could add the requested subgroup to the forum

Some useful tips could be included under that heading, as a starter, especially the work done on localization scripts & multi-language support, at various threads in the forum & wiki

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=38371

http://www.puppylinux.org/?q=wiki/localization

Perhaps we could get a multi-language welcome, with a 'follow-the-language-linked, subgroup selection? [Droope, care to help?]

Perhaps you could also link to this, here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42593&start=90

Just a few thoughts.....things I'd like to see

Aitch Smile