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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9099 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 11:40 Post subject:
Quirky Xerus 8.1.4 for Raspberry Pi2 and 3 Subject description: Quirky is a fork of Puppy, Xerus 8.1+ is based on Ubuntu 16.04 DEBs |
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For anyone who has a Raspberry Pi2 or Pi3, you are welcome to have a play with this!
December 13, 2016, Quirky 8.1.4
Announcement on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00473
Puppy Forum discussion for 8.1.4 starts here:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=935672#935672
November 31, 2016, Quirky 8.1.3.1
Read the forum thread from page 28:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=934054#934054
Also note, a fix for hdmi sound after reboot:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=934127#934127
November 25, 2016, Quirky 8.1.2
Bug fixes, especially the Service Pack mechanism.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00457
Feedback on page 25 of this forum thread:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=933610#933610
November 9, 2016, Quirky 8.1.1
Important bug fixes.
See announcement:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00450
Forum discussion from page 18:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=108132&start=255
Take special note of fix posted for SimpleVP:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=931950#931950
October 24, 2016 Quirky 8.1 final
Quirky 8.1 is the first official release of Quirky for the Raspberry Pi2 and Pi3.
Announcement and download links on my blog:
http://barryk.org/news/?viewDetailed=00441
Forum discussion starts on page 12:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=929684#929684
October 18, 2016 now at 8.0.98 Release Candidate
Forum discussion starts on page 9:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=928832#928832
Readme file:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/armv7/releases/pre-alpha/readme-quirky-pi2-pre-alpha.htm
Download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky6/armv7/releases/pre-alpha/
WiFi currently broken, don't yet know why. Has anyone got an ethernet connection to Internet, find out if that works?
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5503 Location: GB
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 12:33 Post subject:
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Any chance of more progress on the armv6/11 architectures? At least we know Puppy works on it.
Two reasons: more of the early ones were sold, presumably many still in use, than the total expected for these later v7, both now and for the foreseeable future; secondly, this is the architecture of the zero which has a massive potential user base in view of it's price point, albeit appealing to a slightly different audience. v2 &3 are more directed at PC-substitute browsers with a bit of novelty? Zero is being most strongly supported with add-on HW, too.
All very interesting, but sad that ARM sold out. Harold Macmillan must be turning in his grave "...selling off the family silver.." , deja vu all over again.
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ttuuxxx

Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 11240 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 13:33 Post subject:
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Hi Barry nice to see your giving the Pi2 Quirky another go, I tried your first release like almost a yr ago when I got my Pi2. I'll give this one test in a bit Thanks
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pakt

Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1156 Location: Sweden
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 16:37 Post subject:
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Nice! Both eth0 and wlan0 (with WPA) work on my RPi3, but I had to make a symbolic link to dhcpcd from dhcpcd5 first to get them working.
Will test more...
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ally

Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: lincoln, uk
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 16:54 Post subject:
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I had a quick spin, was unable to get ethernet or wireless working (pi2, rtl8192 & wpa2)
will try the symlink
looks fantastic and booted very quickly, unable to test further as family here
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ally

Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: lincoln, uk
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 19:11 Post subject:
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@pakt
can you be more specific on which files to link please
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eowens2
Joined: 27 Aug 2008 Posts: 177
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 22:17 Post subject:
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I did the installation to MicroSD card on an Asus laptop running Fatdog64.
The process seemed to have a problem with the installation shell command, which gave the following output: Code: | sh: --stdout : command not found |
So I did the extraction and dd’ing to MicroSD card as separate steps which worked fine.
As described above both wireless and ethernet did not work OOTB, but thanks to pakt’s post above
Code: | ln –s /sbin/dhcpcd5 /sbin/dhcpcd |
resolved both issues.
"Set Time and Date" seemed to work alright.
Puppy Package Manager appeared to update appropriately. I tried to download and install “HPLIP”. PPM found the package and identified a bunch of dependencies, and when I clicked to install, the program reported that it was checking to see if the files were in the repo, but at that point it hang and the window became unresponsive, requiring a restart of the X-Server to get rid of the window.
I tried to install Chromium and the same thing happened.
The keyboard directional (arrow) keys did not work (they worked fine running Raspbian). Maybe there is a keyboard configuration setting I haven’t checked yet.
Geany and Gneumeric both opened and accepted input.
However Abiword did not open for me by clicking on the desktop icon or the menu entry.
That’s as far as I got.
looking good for a pre-Alpha.!
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gcmartin
Joined: 14 Oct 2005 Posts: 6730 Location: Earth
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Posted: Wed 07 Sep 2016, 22:36 Post subject:
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Anyone know if this distro has bluetooth enabled, OOTB?
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slavvo67
Joined: 12 Oct 2012 Posts: 1617 Location: The other Mr. 305
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 01:55 Post subject:
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BarryK:
Please be careful with the Emtec brand. It may just be me but I've had very bad experiences with their brand.
Kind regards,
Slavvo67
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5503 Location: GB
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 07:11 Post subject:
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Reported within the hour, RPi passes 10million sales:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-37305200
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5397 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 20:11 Post subject:
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I installed and my experience is mostly positive. the only real negative is the
keyboard keys.
-right alt key is dead
-the arrow keys in the numpad must be used.
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Here is some more observations.
-no 'defaultterm'
-eth0 was tricky to set up as previouly reported
-old version of pmusic doesn't play
Code: | pmusic -B /usr/share/audio/2barks.wav |
so pschedule can't be used as alarm.
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vi is apparently the only terminal text editor. It's not my favorite
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leafpad can't be piped text. I've never seen that behaviour.
Example:
Code: | docx2txt.pl example.docx | leafpad |
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5397 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 20:21 Post subject:
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Here is some useful apps I've packaged for use on quirky prealpha
docx2txt-v7-1.4.pet --> open microsoft docx documents with a right click.
Geany opens with the text. Supports foreign characters. Config file in /etc
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playmusic-v7-0.1.8.pet ---> thunor script to play a folder of music files.
Config file in /root
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fatdog_connect-1.12.pet ---> uses mount-Full command to
connect to a server in a network. I use it to quickly connect to a Window server.
EDIT: updated to version 1.13 (bugfix - inserting old address at launch)
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ptm-timer-v7-1.4.pet --> input number of minutes until a note is shown
and a mp3 file is played.
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simple timer alarm to play mp3 file
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edit sound files
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Thunor script to play a folder of music files
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Open microsoft docx documents
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don570

Joined: 10 Mar 2010 Posts: 5397 Location: Ontario
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 20:44 Post subject:
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I was able to get omxplayer to work by adding a lot of libraries.
https://github.com/huceke/omxplayer
http://elinux.org/RPiconfig#Audio
https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9099 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 22:44 Post subject:
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Thanks to pakt for the fix for dhcpcd.
Scan now works in SNS, except it only lists my neighbours wifi network, not mine (which is right here in the same room).
Tried all sorts of things, it just doesn't want to see my wireless network.
I am doing another build, 8.0.9, with the 'iw' package, as I read that is better than wireless-tools. Will play with that.
I also found all of the missing deps for abiword ...quite a lot. In the past, I have compiled abiword myself, this time using the official DEB, hence huge number of deps.
I fixed Dia, now starts. Just needed a symlink 'dia' to /usr/bin/dia-normal
Fixed retrovol.
Added pure-ftpd
8.0.9 won't get uploaded, just for me to more testing.
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BarryK
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Joined: 09 May 2005 Posts: 9099 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Thu 08 Sep 2016, 23:17 Post subject:
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I have added these extra packages to (hopefully) get abiword to work:
clutter
cogl
evolution-data-server
libchamplain
libsecret
...these are the generic package names. Each consists of one or more DEBs.
EDIT:
Needs this also: json-glib
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