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l0wt3ch · Guest

EliteOS emphasizes elegance, simplicity, and ease-of-use. It runs well on older computers, and comes with tools for the physically-challenged and visually-impaired.

EliteOS is based on Puppy Linux 511, and released under the GPL.

Visit the new website at eliteos.ca!

(Note: While it may work with less, it is recommended that EliteOS be used on computers with a minimum of 512 MB of RAM.)

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raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4734 Location: Manila

Thanks. Could you tell us about its contents?

Roy · Joined: 31 Dec 2008 Posts: 441

l0wt3ch,

This is nice! Obviously, you have put a lot of thought into making this.

One quick question, though: Is there a way to allow the user to drag'n'drop a text file onto the desktop speech synthesizer (and it would be automatically read)?

-Roy

l0wt3ch · Guest

@raffy: Watch the video for a quick introduction. Smile

@Roy: Thank you. As for your question, why, yes, you can!

First, make sure "Read a text file" is selected in Fala:

Then, drag-and-drop the file into the field next to it:

Hope that helps!

Lobster · Posted: Thu 14 Oct 2010, 01:14 Post_subject:

You might find some of the programs used in Twinkle useful (based on Puppy 4.3.1)
http://tmxxine.com/twinkle/setup.html

l0wt3ch · Guest

New video up at dailymotion.com.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 745 Location: UK

Hi 10wt3ch

Very nice and running well on my 10yr old laptop. Manual frugal to ext3.
IBM A21m with 190mb ram, P3 coppermine proc. and a swap partition.

Very surprised at how well it runs on such a ram challended machine.

Many thanks for such a nice puppy.

Very best regards - Ray

P123 · Posted: Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:06 Post_subject:

I am surprised that NoSquint or Cute Menus (there are 3 different versions) wasn't included in Firefox instead of setting the minimum font so high. But I can easily add them.

I do not recommend testing this puplet in Virtual Box as all the internet browsers crashed on me - Midori & Firefox (default) & I downloaded Chromium which then crashed. However everything worked when ran from a live disk.

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4422 Location: merriam, kansas

l0wt3ch · Guest

Why settle for four buttons when you can have a rich, customized, desktop experience?

The screen magnifier on the desktop works very well. I can easily read all the little terminal type from three feet away without my glasses on; it's intuitive and easy to adapt to. (Just remember to use the "big" cursor!) The level of zoom can easily be adjusted by right-clicking the icon, and changing the "4" (under "Arguments") to another number (as high as 16).

@P213: Thanks! Do you have any other suggestions?

@Ray:Glad you like it!

tlchost · Posted: Thu 14 Oct 2010, 23:31 Post_subject:

l0wt3ch · Guest

tengzelius · Joined: 15 Oct 2010 Posts: 11

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Terryphi · Posted: Fri 15 Oct 2010, 06:07 Post_subject:

Interesting, l0wt3ch ! What program are you using for the speech synthesizer?

P123 · Posted: Fri 15 Oct 2010, 06:24 Post_subject:

Could you include a HiVis theme for Firefox? Please nothing blindingly bright.

As for extensions Smarterfox (also known as Fasterfox or Fastestfox), Flagfox (I shop on amazon dot com & dot co dot uk), Image Toolbar (to download free wallpapers from gnome-look without having to right click & scroll down a long context menu) & then of course there are site advisors like WOT or McAfee or some other anti virus company's small free web tools.

I have many more extensions installed but not all would be suitable for this project.