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[pemasu]

We were today at the annual market place happening. There were wobbler seller to whom I had sent last year my taken picture of my 10 year old son with 3 kg pike perch which has been taken by the seller's wobbler at the same night.

The picture was in his best pics catalog, where was pics of big fishes taken by his wobblers. The seller told that picture was one of the best in his catalog.
My son's name was under the picture and he was little proud. The parents and grandparents were prouder.
We got good discount from the wobblers we bought this year.

[nooby]

My late Dad would have loved to be with you guys catching that big one.
He loved to go fishing and he had hundreds of wobblers and other such to get the big ones.
He also loved to sit on the ice and get fish through a hole he bored.

[stu90]

Hi pemasu,
thank you for sharing your pictures - it looks like you have some beautiful surroundings in your part of the world - That fish looks half as long as your son is tall, i bet the fish put up a good fight for him.

[Iguleder]

Hey pemasu - after using the 64-bit kernel with 5.2.5 for some time I reached the conclusion I like it a lot.

Also, I got Puppizard to build E17 from SVN automatically and it works flawlessly on Puppy - I just needed a small tweak in restartwm/xwin/etc' (similar to Barry's tweak for Xfce that kills xfce4-panel) and a Puppy menu for E17.

I think I'm gonna build the first "hybrid" Puppy - start from a 5.2.5 as you did, transplant the x86_64 kernel and add E17 on top ... That would be ... MidnightSolarMacLucidPup

I really like your work and I'd like to contribute - if there's anything I make that can be useful for you, be sure I'll upload it

EDIT: forgot to mention. I'm running this hybrid beast with about 50 MB of fonts installed, aterm (1/3 the size of rxvt-unicode and better), Opera 11.50 (faster than 11.0, best browser I've used) and this week's build of E17

[pemasu]

Iguleder. Your plan sounds still fascinating. I like that you will try with Ubuntu based build. I am surely gonna test your build.
Ubuntu base is great when compiling. You get needed dev libs straight from the repo. No need to hunt them down.
Well...squeeze would be as fine.

But your tests can easily start new era in Puppy builds. I wait your first test result and upload eagerly.
About windowmanager, I am conservative with my needs as you have seen. What is under the hood interests me more.

About your contributes. I learn all the time something new just by reading and testing your stuff. Your kernel builder is great. I have used it to build my latest 2.6.38 kernels. And I have tested your PUR compiler also. Great stuff. Keep them coming.

[Iguleder]

Here's my fresh E17 build from today. Enlightenment itself is version 60941, latest at the time of writing.

The most interesting number is the total size - 6 MB for a full desktop environment, with great artwork, power management, etc' built-in. Very good in Puppy terms

I built some useful extra modules and I picked only maintained modules.

[jim3630]

[James C]

Did another frugal install of Midnightsun Pup 002 ..... and I actually used the installer. Everything good on boot and working correctly.

Sun 3 Jul 2011 Operating System: Midnight Sun Pup-002 Linux 2.6.35.7
0.0 VGA compatible controller: Trident Microsystems CyberBlade/i1
oem: Copyright 1998 TRIDENT MICROSYSTEMS INC.

X Server: Xorg Driver: unknown
X.Org version: 1.7.6
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: SGI
server glx version string: 1.2
OpenGL vendor string: Mesa Project
OpenGL renderer string: Software Rasterizer
OpenGL version string: 2.1 Mesa 7.7.1

AMD Athlon(tm) XP 1700+
Core 0: 1466 MHz

...the above also recorded at '/tmp/root/report-video-glx'.
# glxgears
188 frames in 5.0 seconds
185 frames in 5.0 seconds
165 frames in 5.0 seconds
201 frames in 5.0 seconds
187 frames in 5.0 seconds

# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 1026620 373012 653608 0 46024
Swap: 1704956 0 1704956
Total: 2731576 373012 2358564

[gcmartin]

Tazoc made a system report tool. Here's a report from his tool.

All looking well after several days of Live media running. A very good catch.

[pemasu]

Gcmartin. That sys info tool seems to give really good info. I will add that one to the next version. Well....not quite since Midinight Sun Pup 003 has been uploaded.

Midnight Sun Pup 003 has 2.6.38.4 kernel with intel atom optimization, highmem+pae enabled, low latency kernel.
Ndiswrapper and wl modules are included. I included script to the /etc/init.d which might handle wl module loading. If not, grab the pet from Polarpup thread.
Beem needs nolapic, I am sorry.
I will upload this kind rolling releases with different kernels now for awhile. Maintaining several threads is time consuming and it is now my vacation.

I wanted to have full featured Fotoxx since I am going to test it with my summer pics. So, I have compiled exiftool, ufraw and exiv2, all the latest versions and included them. I removed Filezilla because I am testing FireFTP Firefox addon, Flashblock and Adblock are the other extensions I use all the time. I didnt include those, because making default profile adds 20 Mb fat to the iso. I removed also Thunar so that iso size wont grow. It is in fact now smaller 237 Mb.

Gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer are 1.04 versions. Gnome-mplayer has 3000 rows of new code so it is really updated.
Latest gtkdialog3 now handles Partview quit button and supports new apps which uses updated code. Thunor has really energized the gtkdialog improvements. We will wait first apps to use those new functions. Thank you Smokey01 for finding the glade bug.
If you want to download latest flashplayer, there is console script to download it. In console: dldflash and it downloads the latest version. The script has no version checking, so it downloads the latest even if you have it already, so use it only when you know there is newer version available. I dont know how to check what version you have.

Download link: http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/MidnightsunPup-003/

Check the md5sum !!!

[James C]

[Tman]

Pemasu,
I got your message in the Solidpup thread...your welcome, and thanks again for your significant contributions to the puppy community.

I like the new look of your midnightsun pup.
-- Here -- is my surprise for you. They are my lastest versions; the bluesky jwm theme has changed and I've managed to reduce the size of the icewm themes without sacrificing looks.

Also here is something customized for your current release of snowpuppy/midnightsun. If you don't use them I will feel..

[James C]

My usual multi-session dvd test of Midnightsun Pup-003.Everything working on boot,as expected.

-Computer-
Processor : 4x AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 620 Processor
Memory : 3884MB (236MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 04 Jul 2011 12:07:38 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1366x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Software Rasterizer
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : HDA-Intel - HDA NVidia


Looking good......

[pemasu]

Tman. Really nice surprise and I am grateful that you posted your good looking themes.
When I woke up and checked the thread, this is as magnificent present as I can get.

I deleted all the old themes so that I can check easily your new themes. They look really good.
I will include them happily. Thank you of your contributions and your talent of aesthetic improvements.
These I include to the next build happily. I think that I should same time reduce a little the gtk themes selection.

Tman, thank you of all you have done so far....

[pemasu]

Tman. I installed the submenu pet which should modify the /usr/share/applications. I deleted previous stuff from there and then installed the pet.
I didnt see any difference. The submenus are as they were, I mean the default Puppy look.
Your themes looks great still...I have now only your new themes installed and I play with them....