Creating application packages on Vector Linux

[Kayaker]

Evanston, Illinois, USA

Dear Barry and Puppy-fans!

I stumbled onto a couple recent rave reviews of Puppy Linux, and a friend and I are both excited about what we read. I took renewed interest lately in Puppy when I learned Puppy now has a full BASH shell! Great!

I've followed Puppy going on two years now. I always thought that the idea of loading a ca. 60 MB distro fully into RAM is a very good idea. We like that your site goes into the preparation of application packages.

I especially like Puppy forking internally instead of trying to be one size
fits all.

[GuestToo]

unionfs is fairly simple
for example, to turn off /usr read/write, just type umount /usr

this is an interesting package system
http://oblisk.codu.org/
everything is in one app dir
it can be run directly from the dir
or it can be installed to any dir you choose

[BarryK]

Actually, Bash is not yet the default on 1.0.4.

#!/bin/sh

in a script still runs the old Ash.
You have to do this:

#!/bin/bash

I'm cautious! Will probably put Bash as the default shell for 1.0.5.

[Flash]

<snip>this is an interesting package system
http://oblisk.codu.org/
everything is in one app dir
it can be run directly from the dir
or it can be installed to any dir you choose

Isn't that basically the same thing as a DotPup? I thought DotPups were applications-in-a-directory.