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rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 20:10 Post subject:

I was going to try compiling an older cifs module for 5491, but I don't think that the kernel sources are posted anywhere.

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 693

Precise puppy 5.4.90 :
- users and groups are still wrong for many files.
- /home should exist for adding new users.
- scripts and files could be simpler and follow "standards", the distro to follow would be "arch linux". One example is /etc/group which should look like :

linuxcbon · Joined: 09 Aug 2007 Posts: 693

Precise Puppy 5.4.90 :
- Files bigger than 10Mb

jrb · Posted: Tue 12 Feb 2013, 23:46 Post subject:

peebee · Joined: 21 Sep 2008 Posts: 908 Location: Malvern, Worcs, UK

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 672 Location: UK

Hi pemasu

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 1487 Location: France

Puppy is comprehensive, practical, lightweight and efficient. This is obviously the OS that I use daily.

But I'm missing an essential application for my life easier: an email notification (icon located in the taskbar).

I use six differents email addresses and I can not find a free application that allows me to notify the presence of emails on these six addresses.

Would it be possible to provide for Precise Puppy a lightweight application that allows to notify emails found on different addresses?

Cordially

drblock2 · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 118

I've downloaded and installed Precise 5.4.9.1. It looks good, but I cannot test it properly without the devx and the kernel sources (kernel-3.8.0-rc7-nopae-i586). I have not been able to find them in the usual places.

I can confirm that pnethood and YASSM fail to connect to a Puppy machine (running Slacko 5.3.2.7), but do connect to a Windows XP share.

Hogweed · Joined: 12 Feb 2011 Posts: 85

OscarTalks · Joined: 05 Feb 2012 Posts: 327 Location: London, England

Hello BarryK,

Just a little comment/suggestion if I may.

I always feel that the little Seamonkey icon (of which there are several instances) in the menu does not match most of the other icons in terms of graphics quality.

There are some nicer icons with different ones for the different Seamonkey components in /usr/lib/seamonkey*/chrome/icons/default and although they are .png files I was wondering if it might be possible to make use of them.

If so I feel it would greatly improve the look of the menu out of the box.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 672 Location: UK

JFYI - Puppy 5.4.91 is working exremely well on my 10yr old Acer laptop. Really nice.

Manual frugal to ext3 partition and booting via grub4dos.
Fast, very low resource usage and temperature.

Everything seems to be working just fine OOTB.
(posting from it now)

Hardinfo report JFYI - but from this end on this machine, all seems good. Luvly Puppy.

irishrm · Joined: 14 Mar 2009 Posts: 182

ASRI éducation wrote:
[quote I use six differents email addresses and I can not find a free application that allows me to notify the presence of emails on these six addresses. [/quote]

If you are using gmail you can do the following:

Direct all your email addresses to gmail.
Install gmailtray from the thread below. (thanks to tasmod)

Once you have configured both you will have a tray icon which will tell you when you have new emails.
It will take a bit of work but works for me.
(doesn't work in fatdog)

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58353

ETP · Joined: 19 Oct 2010 Posts: 310 Location: UK

I am curious as to why these are only ever displayed as USB icons rather than card icons.
Is this a hardware issue or a bug? - It seems to afflict Slacko as well as Precise.
It applies regardless of the theme being used. Here is an example:

ASRI éducation · Joined: 09 May 2009 Posts: 1487 Location: France

@ Hogweed à irishrm
Thank you for your answers.

don570 · Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 2462 Location: Ontario

PupX worked correctly to change the keyboard settings.

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