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#21 Post by rg66 »

Elroy was generous enough to offer to host X-precise on his ftp site. See the first post for the new download link. Packages link is in the second post.

Thanks elroy!
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#22 Post by TheBlackSheep »

hi rg66

having always been a big fan of Gray's puplets I decided to try this on my Aspire One but the trackpad isn't working out of the box - is there a quick way to enable this without having to permanently resort to a mouse?

Edit: Ignore this - I rebooted and tried again and the trackpad works fine.

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#23 Post by rg66 »

X-precise-1.1 delta file has been released, see the first post for the download link.

-added adrive support

Elroy has converted the Carolina custom builder into an X-precise custom adrive builder. I was hoping to have this in v1.1 but am still trying to get the lib check sorted out, it should (hopefully) be released soon.

I've successfully converted precise-5.6.1 to Xfce only and, with the help of Geoffrey, am currently trying get everything working properly. This will be the next release and is more of a trial for precise-5.7.1, or whatever version is out when this is finished.
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#24 Post by rg66 »

I've made an xdelta pet to make the v1.1 ISO. It can be downloaded here: http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-pr ... recise.pet
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#25 Post by inoxidabile »

Hi rg66,
I'm considering X-precise for the next installation I will have to do but
I would have a coupe of questions:
- In case of Nvidia driver (or AMD) what are the right procedures? I suppose it's similar as in Carolina, but I would prefer to have Your confirmation (and instructions, if needed... :) )
- About Firefox update, I remember that in Carolina it cannot be possible. Is it the same in X-precise?

Once again... Thank You for the efforts and this Puppy version !

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inoxidabile wrote: - In case of Nvidia driver (or AMD) what are the right procedures? I suppose it's similar as in Carolina, but I would prefer to have Your confirmation (and instructions, if needed... :) )
I haven't tried to install Nvidia drivers yet but I would assume it's the same procedure. You will need the dexv sfs and the kernel sources.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/precis ... _5.4.3.sfs

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_pa ... atched.sfs
inoxidabile wrote: - About Firefox update, I remember that in Carolina it cannot be possible. Is it the same in X-precise?
No, you can use the latest firefox or opera etc.... I'm using firefox 22.0 to post this.
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#27 Post by rg66 »

Myself and elroy (mostly), have made an X-precise custom adrive builder.

It's based on the Carolina custom builder script but dep and lib check have been disabled due to too many problems. Make sure your packages have all needed dependencies. It adds all packages to /root/.packages/builtin_files and creates an adrive-installed-packages list. Deb packages are also supported

After installing it can be found in Control Panel > System > X Adrive Builder
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X-precise-2.0

#28 Post by rg66 »

X-precise-2.0 has been released.

Version 2.0 is not based on gray's NOP and is not a remaster, it was manually built using precise-5.7.1. More apps were left in to give a basic functioning system.

See the first post for more info and download link.
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#29 Post by pchan »

Great! I am looking forward to a latest precise that have all the goodies of carolina and saluki.

I keep returning to carolina because it has xfce which supports tiling of windows. Of course, windows tiling is not the only features that makes Carolina great.

I find that in the xprecise 1.1, some of the useful carolina features are missing.

I don't quite understand the compatibility between precise puppy and ubuntu precise because the precise puppy pakage manager seems quite limited even though i have updated the database. Is it just me but I found that the presise puppy pakage manager took a long time to update.

Well, that was before xprecise ver:2.0. I am sure many things will start to be improved from xprecise 2 onwards.

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#30 Post by rg66 »

pchan wrote:I find that in the xprecise 1.1, some of the useful carolina features are missing.

Is it just me but I found that the presise puppy pakage manager took a long time to update.
What features from lina were you looking for? Geoffrey has made an xmenumaker for X-precise, you can download it here: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precis ... recise.pet

I was going to add the updated repo package lists to the sfs but completely forgot.
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#31 Post by yr1945 »

very good work... I like it very much... you may want to take a look at the suspend function... suspend does not work on my 7 yr old toshiba laptop... i removed shutdown-gui and added acpitool and pupshutdown... now, it suspends just fine... THANK YOU for x-precise...

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#32 Post by pchan »

rg66 wrote: What features from lina were you looking for? Geoffrey has made an xmenumaker for X-precise, you can download it here: http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precis ... recise.pet

I was going to add the updated repo package lists to the sfs but completely forgot.
Thank you very much rg66. Yes, I was looking for the xmenumaker.

Thanks for x-precise 2. Trying to like it as much as I like carolina. It is working well in my acer intel atom netbook so far. Now i am trying to get my atheros bluetooth to work. i have never found any puppy that works well with my bluetooth.

I tried downloading and installing blueman and its dependencies from pakage manager but my netbook bluetooth just refuse to work.

I really prefer puppy than something like ubuntu.

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#33 Post by okokoook »

i just downloaded the x-precise and had it running on my asus. everything seems working, and it is very impressive to have precise puppy in carolina style.

i am a fan of Saluki and Carolina puppy. it is really sad to see both Saluki and Carolina stop development. i went to check the precise puppy repository and i found out that some apps like wine, conky, libreoffice seem to be missing on the list. i was wondering can we just simply grab all the goodies from Carolina repository to have them running in x-precise?

i am aware that i could download the apps from precise puppy ppm. but the truth is that most of time when i try to download a 5MB app, i also need to download 50 MB dependency for it. to be honest this is not that desirable.

i just have a minor question regarding the thunar in x-precise. it seems that we have the pup-volume monitor installed in the x-precise. but i did not see the little triangle button that used to appear next to the partition for unmount purpose in the left lane of thunar. we have that in x-precise 1.0, is this a new feature in x-precise 2.0 ?

thank you for everything, i really like it!!!

best regards

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#34 Post by yr1945 »

my 2 cents worth... I like very few apps... eg, I don't ever use "official" puppies because they are crammed with everything... the fewer apps the better... keep the iso minimal... and, let others add to it... Thank You...

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#35 Post by rg66 »

yr1945 wrote:very good work... I like it very much... you may want to take a look at the suspend function... suspend does not work on my 7 yr old toshiba laptop... i removed shutdown-gui and added acpitool and pupshutdown... now, it suspends just fine... THANK YOU for x-precise...
Precise seems to come with APM only which my desktop doesn't even support. I tried the acpi pkgs from lina and they didn't work so I dl'ed "acpi-support" and all the deps from package manager and suspend worked, hibernate didn't. I'll make a package with all 9 deps included so at least suspend is functioning.
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#36 Post by rg66 »

pchan wrote:Now i am trying to get my atheros bluetooth to work. i have never found any puppy that works well with my bluetooth.

I tried downloading and installing blueman and its dependencies from pakage manager but my netbook bluetooth just refuse to work.
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I tried and failed a few times to get bluetooth working in lina, I don't think precise will be any different. When I have some time, I'll give it a go.
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#37 Post by rg66 »

okokoook wrote:i went to check the precise puppy repository and i found out that some apps like wine, conky, libreoffice seem to be missing on the list. i was wondering can we just simply grab all the goodies from Carolina repository to have them running in x-precise?

i am aware that i could download the apps from precise puppy ppm. but the truth is that most of time when i try to download a 5MB app, i also need to download 50 MB dependency for it. to be honest this is not that desirable.

i just have a minor question regarding the thunar in x-precise. it seems that we have the pup-volume monitor installed in the x-precise. but i did not see the little triangle button that used to appear next to the partition for unmount purpose in the left lane of thunar. we have that in x-precise 1.0, is this a new feature in x-precise 2.0 ?

thank you for everything, i really like it!!!

best regards

michael
A lot of the apps from lina seem to work in precise, give them a try and the package manager should list missing deps.

I've also found that the Ubuntu repo requires a lot of extra downloads to get something working. I guess that's the price of having an under 200mb OS. If there is enough demand, I'll try and make some of the more popular packages available for download.

No, the unmount triangle isn't there. I'm not sure if it's thunar, or precise. I tried an older pup-volume-monitor and it didn't change anything. You have to right click the partition and select unmount.
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#38 Post by rg66 »

yr1945 wrote:my 2 cents worth... I like very few apps... eg, I don't ever use "official" puppies because they are crammed with everything... the fewer apps the better... keep the iso minimal... and, let others add to it... Thank You...
I tried to have a basic functioning system unlike v1 which was a little more stripped down. Since I added adrive support, I might separate the apps from the core system for the next one.
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#39 Post by slenkar »

thanks for xprecise, working very well
will the xdev for puppy 5.7.1 work with this?

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#40 Post by rg66 »

slenkar wrote:thanks for xprecise, working very well
will the xdev for puppy 5.7.1 work with this?
Glad some people are liking X-precise-2.0

It's still precise 5.7.1 so the devx will work.
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