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[DaveS]

Is Flash REALLY up to 18MB now? Wow.............

[sc0ttman]

here it is, updated, faster, i18n'd

****EDIT: you may need to check "defaultaudioplayer" works OK...

[Sylvander]

1. Seems I'm unable to do this with my "live" CD-RW of "Slacko-5.29.5 RC (k2.6.37.6)...
i.e. Edit the isolinux.cfg file in the ISO used to burn the CD...
So that it treats a pupsave file on anternal HDD as though a pupsave file on a Flash Drive.
And then I can do the necessary to be able to choose if/when to save manually during a session, and...
Be given the choice at shut-down "to save or not to save".

2. If I'm unable to do the above with any Puppy, I'm much less inclined to want to use that Puppy.
It's VERY useful to be able to choose to not-save a session.
Lupu does it, but not Slacko.

[8-bit]

Toshiba Satellite Intel graphics, Intel 8280 sound card, 512megs ram booting Slacko RC from USB flash drive.

When I first booted, sound was fine.
After savefile was created, a reboot showed sound as muted. changed that with retrovol full and rebooted.
Sound still muted on reboot.
Is there a fix for that?
It is just extra work to have to goto retrovol-mixer and recheck the boxes and crank the volume back from zero on each boot/reboot.

Other than that, everything appears to work.

[sc0ttman]

[sc0ttman]

Updated Pup-Advert-Blocker

- noticably faster, i18n'd, de, es, en, fr, ru translations included


(I am posting the updates of my apps now, as I have been late to see the RC status of Slacko.. I hope it is not too late to include the new 'defaults'chooser', or this updated 'pup-advert-blocker'..)

Advert blocker is setup differently in Woof than in my puplets, so I have just attached an archive with the files needed - they will need to be placed in the right place...

I think the main script will go in /usr/sbin/, and the .mo files in /usr/share/locale/*/LC_MESSAGES/ (as usual)...

[tasmod]

Can someone in the USA who has their timezone set please run a command for me in the terminal?

I believe that the USA now changes it's DST in November.

I'm getting the old October date reported.

This is the command :-

[Tman]

It's funny; I didn't like the rockstar-GTK theme at first, but it seems to have grown on me. Strange how that works.

[8-bit]

tasmond,
Here you go for member in US Pacific time set.

# zdump -v /etc/localtime | grep 2011
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 13 09:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 13 01:59:59 2011 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
/etc/localtime Sun Mar 13 10:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Mar 13 03:00:00 2011 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 6 08:59:59 2011 UTC = Sun Nov 6 01:59:59 2011 PDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-25200
/etc/localtime Sun Nov 6 09:00:00 2011 UTC = Sun Nov 6 01:00:00 2011 PST isdst=0 gmtoff=-28800
#

And that is spring ahead, fall back as far as which direction to change time to in the US.

[JackWagon]

[tasmod]

Yep, all correct.

My bad

I used Arizona as a test. Not knowing that Arizona on MST does not use DST.

I was concerned just for the USA

I was just doing checks on Psync when I inadvertently used the only one that appears differently.

[emil]

after some hard work I finished math-slacko.sfs (75 MB)
it contains several math applications (maxima, octave, R, gnuplot)
forum thread & Download

Hope the sfs works smooth. All the best to the slacko project!
emil

Some comments after using slacko for several days:

worked out of the box as expected.

slackware packages from repos worked (just tested small apps, big apps led to exploding dependencies).

tested some older apps - most of them still worked, seems more tolerant in that respect than the ubuntu puppies.

Is there any chance that slacko will boot straight to desktop ever?

shinobars sfs_load on the fly is in! its just great - I compiled all apps from initial boot with the devx loaded on fly.

There is also a gui system for creating the savefile by shinobar (quickset editions). Any chance that something similar goes in?

Currently installing of packages is a bit confusing, at least for everybody who is not a Puppy Linux insider.
I counted the following possibilities (just the ones offered from the GUI):
a) slickpet
b) ppm
c) sfs_load on the fly
d) Bootmanager configure bootup
e) Get Flash install Flashplayer
f) Install icon on desktop, with SFS download from official repos
IMHO it would be an improvement if ppm would handle the above cases.

I am not sure about font rendering in slacko, I *think* I have seen smoother fonts in lucid.

desktop background color went from black (in B5) to grey (RC). so couldn't read some of the text below the desktop icons (drives). Changing the text color to make it readable is not obvious (right click on icon , ROX Filer, Options, Pinboard).

regarding drives, I read here, that there would be the possibility to show drive labels.

[peebee]

A tiny point - but I get white pixels left when windows close and these show up on the black background....see screen attached

[MinHundHettePerro]

[Lobster]