Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Aitch]

Devs who are you, what do or don't you do, and how can we, the Users, help?

Recently amigo posted his [snipped] views.....

[Keef]

I developed a nasty skin complaint once. It was 'Open Sores' but thought it best not to share....

[Aitch]

Gee, thanks, Keef - a moment of light relief after a heavy read, was it?

Quite funny, but I rather wish you didn't share...

Aitch

[ttuuxxx]

[sickgut]

sickgut here

Comming from a hacking background i first identify the flaws in something and then proceed to exploit it and see just how far a certain flaw can be manipulated and how much damage you can do with the minimum of tools in the simplest way with the minimum effort.

recently ive decided to turn my life around and not focus on such destructive behaviour as this has contributed to the deterioration of personal relationships and personally a guilty consience that seems to trap me in a dark place. So in the last couple of years ive decided to reverse the process, still attain the same sense of accomplishment and use the same skills i have by identifying a weakness in something but then setting about to improve it in the most efficient way with the least amount of tools with the minimum of effort.

i believe that something can be made better by eliminating weakness.

It seems pointless to go on about the good things that Puppy linux has as we all know what they are and to list them will make this post too long even compared to my lengthy ramblings. But as will all highly specialized things there are flaws, puppy is the ultimate in small fast general desktop OSes but this lends itself to 2 main downfalls, the first is package management and the seccond is the lack of techy linux commands and server stuff that can be used at the commandline.

These are my goals:

1) Bring package management to Puppy that is as good as the debian apt-get system and that uses a major distros repository and auto slims these packages down for use on puppy. The benefit being that the devs dont have to spend all their lives compiling packages for puppy, if we can leech of a major distros repo then more manpower/ labour is available to spend on the OS itself.

2) Create a package or set of packages for puppy that let puppy be used without a running xorg/ gui with a frame buffer console that supports higher resolutions and establishes all network connections automatically and starts a ssh server ftp server webserver etc and something similar to anyterm that provides a http to ssh gateway. I would like to be able to turn puppy into a OS that can be used by VPS providers. For this to work I will need to setup the package management stuff first.

And there you have it
this is me and what i am planning to do for the community here.

[disciple]