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Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 06:43 Post subject:

The ISO is up! Posting this from it, seems good. Abiword and Gnumeric work and I don't see the tearing bug we had in Lucid.

And thanks, pemasu, I guess I'll add those libraries and Flash to the next build. It's smaller than 100 MB, we have 26 MB to waste ... Laughing

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

Iguleder. Diff command not found in your first alpha.

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 06:58 Post subject:

Alpha 2 has diff in the devx ... isn't that normal? Maybe it's responsible for the desktop icons problem.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

Iguleder. It might be good idea, to take one day break before uploading next version, so that people have time to hunt possible missing stuff and trace the needed packages.
Lol. You have so great energetic speed in your creations that ordinary people dont keep up with you.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

Iguleder. DIff and several other diff related binaries are found in base sfs.
I took snapshot of my Midnight Sun Pup base sfs findings.
I think you need to include diff to the base sfs.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 07:09 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 07:14 Post subject:

Don't worry, ttuuxxx.

I want to experiment with Abiword and Gnumeric, especially the former, which has many dependencies.

As I said, I won't be home for a few days, so I won't be able to work on it, so I want to build both next week, towards weekend.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

http://iguleder.info/puppy/dpup/squeeze-4.9.9.1-alpha2/

The download links in the first page does not work. Above link works.
Keeping bloat out. I would start with leaving Abiword and Gnumeric out. And offering them as pet and sfs and also latest Libre Office as pet and sfs.

With smallest ttuuxxx compile abiworgd, goffice and gnumeric takes as decompressed 27 Mb. I think that is for many bloat.

It isnt big thing to install them if you need them. And if you dont and want to use Libre Office or Softmaker 2008 or 2010 you are ready to go without almost working Abiword and better working Gnumeric.

Well....probably war starts now and I emphatize that above is my HO. Nothing else. Every distro builder do his own decisions and that is the priviledge when you are the one who do the hard work.

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 07:32 Post subject:

I'm not going to participate in any flame war.

Anyway, the next release will take time, I'm gonna give alpha 2 a long life of a week or two.

I need to rebuild the kernel, Abiword, Gnumeric and E17. So far, the next build has Flash (and the Mozilla libraries required for it) and Diffutils in the main SFS.

The first thing I want to deal with is the kernel, I want it to be good like 2.6.32.42.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 07:51 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 08:39 Post subject:

I added liblzo for the squashfs_tools 4.2 I just built. I decided to add lzop too. I'm also rebuilding the kernel at the moment, with some improvements that should make Aufs much faster.

I started a clean build in a directory called "beta" and I want it to be beta quality. Once the kernel is ready, I'll rebuild E17 so I have a solid base to work on.

I also want to experiment with LZO compression, which should make the main SFS much bigger (+20-30 MB), but way faster. Shell scripts simply fly with LZO, because the main SFS decompresses transparently and you get near-native speed.

EDIT: the new kernel is ready, here.

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 09:48 Post subject:

stu90 · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 09:57 Post subject:

Iguleder · Posted: Sat 30 Jul 2011, 10:01 Post subject:

Here's the development one. A 'lil bit better, has some fixes.

It also contains two patches, one to choose the compression (gzip, LZO or XZ) in 3builddistro and another one with fixes required for E17.

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5175 Location: Finland

Testing now the uploaded 2.6.39 kernel version distro. I unsquashed the main sfs and added those missing stuff mentioned in this thread. I unsquashed it in Lucid 266 devel version, It needed different squashsfstool to succeed.
Diffutils addition didnt fix the drive icons problem after mounting. Still the same bug.
But...I can write now straight. Great !!!
You got icons to the menu. Another great !!!
My wired atheros nic is now recognized. Third great !!!

Oops. I seem to have forgotten to add ntfs prog, I can open ntfs read-only only.

Overall, getting better.

EDIT. ntfs-3g package fixed the read-write to ntfs partition.