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dennis-slacko531 · Joined: 18 Jan 2012 Posts: 103 Location: Oregon

I've been using it all day. It has everything and even normal stuff like FireFox seems more awesome. I'm trying to get my site (Puppy Only) more popular.
It's called Linux Without eyes (or i's)

WWW.LNUX.COM

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

I think your Slack-55 did an excellant job of covering bases. A lot of the suggestions I've seen here should be pets that can be added according to taste.

Browser, A/V, e-mail, Chat client, paint w/viewer, Office, java, Flash, and pdf Read is a lot on just a CD. I do think your combination in slack-55XL is a good start. Offering Opera, Skype, Gimp, AAC codec (YouTube has "officially changed"), and file encryption for Clouding are good "what else's".

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

I made img to CD using my 702 model Eee. No problem there. Configured the netbook to boot from USB first, and it did fine until...

XWIN

Seems it dropped out of X because the Video was not supported. And sure enough, there are a few 640X480 resolutions, but no 800X480 support.
(NOTE: there is support for 1024x600, so my ATOM version should go OK)

I need a little help here eventually. What I need is Vert, Refresh and Rez listed in the default XORGWIZARD listing. The i915 driver was found apparantly. Anyone with a 700 series Eee could help, and thanks.

Using the first 640x480 choice on both screens worked OK, and Slacko 55-XL did run OK, but as the mouse moved to drag things (simple Logitech 2 Button +scroll wheel w/button Model M100) Video got very jittery.

Connected to internet and moved around a bit after configuring FF23 to my liking. Shut-down w/o save, and will try with the ATOM-Eee later.

I think this will work quite ok as the ATOM version

Thanks very much for all the efforts here, quite a nice Puppy

Thorium

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

Though I still have much configuring of SW to do, up and running nicely w/o video bugs. CD--->USB stick. Stick was formatted ntfs/vfat Gparted as ext3.
FF23 configured, and FireFTP installed. Then shutdown w/save.

Typing this from slack55XL on the ATOMicEee.
The introduction is good.
Wifi not playing right, but ethernet solid (and more secure at home).

Thorium

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

These buggy atheros chips (esp the 5007EG) are indeed quite particular. Frisbee IS the onlly manager that correctly parses the address of both sides of the chip. ETH is 10.0.0.6, and Wifi is 10.0.0.4. Barry's SNS does NOT make this distinction, and therefore cannot complete a WiFi cnxn. Frisbee OTOH sees both sides and can connect. HOWEVER, one cannot have an ethernet cnxn configured (that means physically d/c the cable from the computer) while attempting to establish a WiFi cnxn. Once this is configured, go to the 2nd tab and press the "Restart DHCP" btn. then go to front page.

Frankly the ath chips are half-baked and need hand-holding. Nonetheless just sticking with Frisbee ONLY will get one thru the hoops.

I have been able to get both going... acid test was if I press the hot-key to shut-off Wifi antenna, then restart. Tricky, but works. All of these prgrms look for eth0 first.

Thorium out

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

Using File transfers from sdc (SDHC) to sdb (Thumb-Dr.) are MUCH faster than on the original Eee's using same equip. and drives. Some of my files are quite small and numerous, and yet I have an mp3 or two just to check speed.

The one mp3 is abt. 10Mb and took 6-7 seconds... now about 1-1.25. The card reader (SDHC) is not the culprit, it appears the OS was.

I imported MPaint 344.04... Gimp is over my head. All the other things I'm used to from the Fx keys to shutdown is quite familiar. I find the experience nearly transparent, except for the tabbed, big icons. Now I have room for real pix as wallpaper. Cool

Very nice job, and very well done. Thanks much.

Thorium

umair · Posted: Thu 28 Nov 2013, 23:52 Post subject:

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 431 Location: Greece

Sorry for not answering all this time but i had some problem with my account and i couldn't login!

@umair Thanks for trying Slacko XL! Glad to hear that your issue was solved. However, i have no idea why did this happened... Confused

@dennis-slacko531 Glad you liked it my friend! And thank you for mirroring the ISO. Nice site by the way... Wink

@ThoriumBlvd Thank you very much for this analytic reporting! I'm really happy that my puplet was useful to you!

Some apps tested on Slacko 5.5 XL have been uploaded here... More are about to come... Thank you all for testing, helping, commenting!! Very Happy

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1892

Hi Christos. Unfortunately I had X Windows freeze up on me when I was trying to install Opera, and I had to press Ctrl-Alt-Backspace to escape from it and return to the console; when I did, xorgwizard wouldn't work.

Can you (or someone else) please advise me about what I should do to get xorgwizard working again when it breaks?

Thanks in advance,

Colonel Panic.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1892

Sorry, but I've given up now and installed PuppEX into the same partition, instead. It just wasn't usable without a functioning X Windows.

koulaxizis · Joined: 17 Jul 2011 Posts: 431 Location: Greece

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 1892

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

Elsewhere in the Puppy Forums I discovered this FreeOffice Suite . Looks to save valuable room in Slack-55XL (about 120Mb !) by not having the rather bulky LO4.x AND Java installed. Is there a possibility of a FreeOffice version of Slacko-55XL?

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 488

Freeoffice in puppy is simple.

Go to their website, make a free account, and you can download an archive. Textract this archive to ....anywhere .. I used /home/applications

It will run. It contains all the libs it needs.

It is slightly more work that single clicking a pet, but not that much more.
Making the account, and waiting for the confirmations is most of the work.

Compatibility with MS is good, but the free version has limitations. Read about it on their website. LO does not have these limitations.

ThoriumBlvd · Joined: 04 Oct 2013 Posts: 159 Location: N.E. USA

I have done all my Spreadsheet/Word Processing for 6 years on OO2/LO4. So my main "compatabiity" is such. The minor is PDF, and reading M$ type files. IIRC these are all quite transparent. I have been to the FreeOffice pages, and thats why the idea was posted. Alot less space and quite probably better performance.

The only problem encountered is registering the FO version at start-up, some folks might not like the idea.