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James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4742 Location: Kentucky

Precise-MATE looking good and working well here so far. Smile

Jejy69 · Posted: Mon 13 Aug 2012, 16:16 Post subject:

Hello !

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2353 Location: Texas, USA

josejp2424 · Joined: 01 Aug 2010 Posts: 113

muy bueno amigo .

Jejy69 · Posted: Mon 20 Aug 2012, 17:06 Post subject:

A Mate SFS ? Yes sure !
I need more time, there are some libraries... But it's possible.

Eyes-Only · Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2012, 11:21 Post subject:

Hi Jejy!

WOW!! Shocked

This latest Mate which you've based upon Precise... I think this is the "way to go" if at all possible - although I do realise how difficult it is to maintain two builds of Mate upon two versions of Puppy. ( Meaning: One Mate desktop per Slackware base and one for Precise. ) However, for those of us who are completely unable to run the Slacko version of Puppy but would still like to have a modern, updated, Puppy with new kernel and latest possible software ( not to mention the long-term service offered by Ubuntu Precise ), and if Debian-based builds run perfectly fine upon our machines, then it only seems logical to keep maintaining such a version for us if at all possible. I just so wished that I could do it for you so as to take the burden from off your shoulders as you are doing so much hard work around here!

And so very many of us appreciate it as well!

At any rate, you've now created this Mate-1.4 desktop upon Ubuntu Precise so that as long as I remain upon this planet at least I'll have a modern and updated Puppy that I can so easily enjoy on my piece-of-junk computer.

Vive Jejy69! Wink

Merci mille fois mon chum, et mille fois plus! ( "Long live Jejy69! Thanks a million buddy, and a million times more!" )

Cheers/Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 907 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Hi Jejy

Just wanted to report how well Precise-Mate is working for me - I particularly like how well integrated the networking is integrated into the system. It's a pleasure to be able to open normal windows to both a samba-share and an ftp site and to simply copy items between them. There must be quite a lot of traditional puppy bits that could be deleted as they are now redundant.

I've successfully added:

Broadcom WL driver for my wifi
Frisbee
Chromium browser
Flashplayer
Libreoffice and JRE sfs's
Suspend via the acpi deamon

The only oddities I have to report are:
1. the prescence of 3 "loop" devices showing in the computer view - presumably from sfs's

2. the large number of "system" packages that the Puppy Package Manager is showing....

see the 2 attachments

Hope you will keep going with this "experiment" when new versions of Precise appear.

Cheers & congrats
peebee

Jejy69 · Posted: Sun 26 Aug 2012, 08:32 Post subject:

Hello !

Thanks Eyes-Only, an updated desktop is indeed the main goal of this Very Happy

. Now, I try to create the SFS package for it.

Hi Peebee !

I didn't test the network, I'm glad it works, you can thanks the gvfs packages Laughing

, it is really useful.
For issues :
I'm sorry, I have forget to clear the PPM, I use some packages to prepare mate desktop for Puppy. I'll clear it in the next release, I hope with Mate 1.5 & the final Precise Puppy. Very Happy

There is indeed a bug at the mounted file. all SFS, saves files are named "loopxx", but I don't know how to rename this locations...
It is not practical at all ... "loop" are not exactly devices in fact... Confused

mrokosz · Joined: 28 Jan 2012 Posts: 25

Mate desktop looks professional, I like it. I hope You continue Your work and will release the final puppy precise with mate desktop. Is it possible to create similar interface under JWM or replace JWM with Mate. My old computer consumes much more CPU resources and duble the RAM usage. Also icons looks excellent comparable to the puppy JWM versions. I runing Mate on HP mini pro, but I can't use on my old P3 500MHz Sony Vaio with 256MB RAM cause it runs to slow

mdisaster2 · Joined: 22 Dec 2006 Posts: 107 Location: Rome, Italy

Precise Mate is working very well on my Toshiba laptop - Mate is gorgeous and all the hardware works as expected (ok, I didn't test the webcam yet, but it doesn't work out of the box with any linux and even in Windows it's not that great either) Cool

Some things I noticed on my machine:

1) gparted crashes at startup, wit this error message:

Daniumta · Joined: 18 May 2009 Posts: 11 Location: Uruguay

Great job!!

How can i use something like pwidgets using mate?

it seems to work fine in jwm, but don't show anything in mate desktop...

Can u help me?

Sorry about my english...

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 907 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Payoon · Posted: Tue 23 Oct 2012, 03:24 Post subject: Mate for precise 5.4

Hi Jejy69,
that would also be my question. Any idea about precise 5.4 with lxde?

Currently I use lupu 528.05 with some makeshift older lxde version, but I found your mate puppy quite elegant. So I would be glad to upgrade.

Regards

Payoon

mini-jaguar · Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 402

There is actually an .sfs for Slacko in the link from the o.p.

I can't get it to run though, is there a secret?

I've already tried the Slacko .iso and I will try the Precise version sometime, but I just want to try this .sfs now.