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#101 Post by Eyes-Only »

Really nice pic Dejan! I like it! :) I'll have to send you the two that I'm using for mine. :lol:

Keep up the really great work. I'm glad to see that you've decided to take this "bull by the horns" and do more fine-tuning of this KDpup - developing now your OWN specialised puplet/distro. You yourself well know how much I enjoy this variant of Puppy! :D It's the very best of any puplet/distro out there bar none IMHO! However, for me? I much prefer the original-roll version that you first released, even if the .iso file was "rather large". Hey! It was still far smaller than downloading the full version of Debian-Lenny itself with KDE. Plus you gave several other very nice window managers for variation as well. :)

The one thing I added to mine which made it even more individualised - and hence special for me - was gposil's work with Synaptic/Apt. Granted, it doesn't work perfectly and I wouldn't recommend it to someone new to Linux per se ( for those I'd send them to PPM ). But for someone with a few years under the belt ( i.e. "Knows what they're doing" ) it works out perfectly in the fact that all of Debian-Lenny lies before them - and I've yet to discover anything that doesn't work ( excuse me - except XFE but that's another story ).

Anyway, just wanted to let you know once more what a fabulous and worthwhile project I believe this to be Dejan and what a priceless service you're performing for the Puppy Community at large. Thank you so much and I just wished I could help - and I would at that - if not for my present circumstance/situation...

Bonne Chance!/Good Luck!

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#102 Post by steve_s »

Dejan! It looks great!

We just had to reinstall xp on one of our 'puters, so I set this one up to dual boot and, just for fun, gave KDPup a run...very sharp! Looks great! This is the smoothest run of KDE I've ever used and I've used PCLOS, Knoppix and a few others with KDE. Of course, this is the first with Puppy under the hood, so that's probably why.

Nice job! 8)
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#103 Post by dejan555 »

Thanks Steve, glad you like it!
Which are the specs on that PC?
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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#104 Post by steve_s »

dejan555 wrote:Thanks Steve, glad you like it!
Which are the specs on that PC?
Oh, it's pretty quick: ASUS Crosshair "Republic of Games" motherboard, couple gigs of ram, good video card...it used to be the "game" computer of the house and still gets gamed on.

The hard drive is partitioned with NTFS in the first partition as like 80% of the drive, then a 1.5 gig swap partition, and like a 5-10 gig ext2 partition. I put grub on that one, have grub as the bootloader and it defaults to WinXP so the XP obsessed have really no idea or care that it's Linux that is booting the computer. I set the bootloader with hiddenmenu and default to WinXP after 2 seconds.

But whenever I want I can just hit escape and boot to the frugal install of KDpup. Great stuff dejan! 8)
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#105 Post by willem1940NLD »

Back to 501 and again and again .... also after disappointing experiment 508 bêta3.

Possible cause of my troubles: not all Puppies seem to support Ext4 format .... ??
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#106 Post by grimoire »

do you have a lite version of kpup? at least 256mb. :D
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#107 Post by dejan555 »

Oh I did make a lite iso but haven't uploaded yet it's about 220 MB :)
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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#108 Post by steve_s »

dejan555 wrote:Oh I did make a lite iso but haven't uploaded yet it's about 220 MB :)
Sweet! It's hard to do anything "Lite" with kde...
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#109 Post by steve_s »

Oh, I'm sure this isn't the right place, but I wanted to mention:

That computer has a Nvidia Gforce 7800 GT video card and Puppy hates it! I used a very complicated and high-tech work around:

I run xorgwizard, set it for the right monitor, then test it, then select "Tweak" then hit Esc like 8 times, toggling back and forth.

For whatever reason this changes it from the originally selected driver that Puppy likes to use (this is ALL versions of Puppy) and seems to switch it do a generic driver (or something).

Then it works prefectly, I set up the save file and I never have to do that again. 8)

I'm sure someone knows the deal with that video driver and a more scientific way to go about changing it, but I don't know if any other way would be quite as fun. :D
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#110 Post by willem1940NLD »

New attempt to install (ext2 only). "KDE Session manager" seems to contain lies only, changes are not obeyed to and I could not reboot, only "leave session" ending in command screen.

Note: the other time the download was, if I well remember, "484 bêta 3" but this new one reads "bêta 4".

2 attempts bêta 4 failed, formatting down 2nd time now.

Note 2: I am trying to achieve double (triple) boot on master HD, sda1=swap, sda2=lupu501, sda3=484 .... 1st attempt as "full" and "update grub", 2nd attempt as "frugal" .... resulting both negative.
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#111 Post by dejan555 »

Kde session manager indeed only has "End current session", it's already mentioned in this thread and there's solution to put shutdown dialog if you don't want to go to command line.

This iso is kdpup 484 beta 4 which is based on dpup 484 beta 4 and it's name hasn't been changed, maybe you tried dpup and not kdpup that was beta 3?

I don't really understand your install problems seems it works for others...
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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#112 Post by willem1940NLD »

It all happened within this very thread and not long ago; cannot recall what I had exactly because I am very quick at disposing of CDs, preventing pileup.

If more than 1 types/versions have download links within this thread, quite possibly I had another one first.

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#113 Post by steve_s »

dejan555 wrote:Kde session manager indeed only has "End current session", it's already mentioned in this thread and there's solution to put shutdown dialog if you don't want to go to command line.

This iso is kdpup 484 beta 4 which is based on dpup 484 beta 4 and it's name hasn't been changed, maybe you tried dpup and not kdpup that was beta 3?

I don't really understand your install problems seems it works for others...
I wish I could give feedback on the end session item, but every time I shutdown it's

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and that works like a champ...
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#114 Post by Rupp »

I know in slax that if you go into kcontrol you can set the option for shutdown dialog. Go in there and check. that is if it is truly integrated into puppy.
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#115 Post by GustavoYz »

I would like to test this pupplet (seems good :shock: )...
But I also have a few -semi-estupid- questions about it:
1- The .pet packages works?? And the .deb ones??? :lol:
2- It is better a EXT 2 or 3 (or 4) partition??
3- How much puppy-functionality have??
(By the way, Im running Win XP, LuPu501 and Ubuntu 10 on a Intel Core2 duo 1.8 Ghz with 512 Mb RAM and 1 Gb of SWAP).
In the meanwhile, Im gonna download and try it on a USB :wink: .
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#116 Post by dejan555 »

1 - Yes, supports both
2 - I use ext3
3 - All of the puppy functionality
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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#117 Post by GustavoYz »

Wow, that was fast... Thanks a lot Dejan.
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#118 Post by GustavoYz »

Im posting from KDE pup right now, in live CD (puppy pfix=ram)...
:shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
THIS IS AWESOME !!!!!!!!
Great software collection inside and very fast to load
(512 RAM + 1 GB SWAP), and also way more nice to a
puppy-friendly guy that Ubuntu 10.
This is really Great... Frugal instalation coming soon...
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#119 Post by steve_s »

dejan555: you got that "lite" version yet? I got a laptop with a 4 gig drive I want to put it on... 8)
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#120 Post by dejan555 »

Err.. sorry about that people :oops: , I have the iso ready I'll see if I can give it to someone to upload.
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
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