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Firefox · Joined: 03 Nov 2006 Posts: 171 Location: UK

Hi pakt
I`d love a dial up modem like gnome-ppp, it lets me turn of the noise!.
Requires wvdial 1.53.
A great distro- can be the basis for anything!

Firefox

KJ · Posted: Sat 03 Feb 2007, 10:26 Post subject:

Thanks pakt.

Lookin' forward to taking 'em out for a run.

KJ

ecomoney · Posted: Sat 03 Feb 2007, 18:17 Post subject: Run in memory

Am I right in thinking that this will run in memory on a 64mb machine? Were doing a recycling project and were always short on RAM. Would this be more suitable say for 128mb setups with extra .pup files added? What is the basic theory behind it.

Todd · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 311

I have placed a copy of BarelyPup at the following address:

http://www.toddrichardson.com/archive/

Todd

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4843 Location: Manila

And a small browser on it (say, hv3 or Opera) will make it a wonderful educational software.

EDIT: I added the small browsers - download from here.

slvrldy17 · Joined: 17 Feb 2006 Posts: 292 Location: Mid western USA

Been playing with this pup since you posted it - with mixed results. Am using an IBM T21 Thinkpad - P3 700Mghz, 512MB RAM. Have added a couple of browsers/applications - Iceweasel and Dillo and MT Paint installed/worked successfully. Some others - Firefox 2.0.0.1, Opera 9.1, and Abiword install OK according to the Pupget pkg manager and show up in the menu but will not open or run. Not sure why. Others like GQview install but there is no menu entry to pick for starting them. Haven't tried adding a media player yet. Don't get me wrong - BarelyPup is what we need as a base for all mannner of custom Pups. In many ways it is like the Barebones Puppy's that Barry put out last year. Version 2.02 if memory serves. One way he saved room was using the Xvesa X server only - Xorg was easily added if wanted from Pupget.

OK - some suggestions - first off when trimming the menu down leave all the catagories (left column) from the standard Puppy menu. And leave the complete list of wizards from the setup catagory intact - some of us will need the dial up wizard, firewall wizard, wireless wizard, etc. One thing to consider as an add on package might be all the standard puppy desktop icons set up to allow only those needed/wanted to be added. I suspect that even with the small changes I've outlined this Puppy will still be well below the 50MB level of a mini distro. Good work Paul!

alienjeff · Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2291 Location: Winsted, CT - USA

Alice and others, I reiterate:

polux · Joined: 15 Dec 2006 Posts: 11 Location: Switzerland

Congrats!! This is a wonderful puppet. Very Happy

Alien you made your point, and let me add: Please lets not demand the others to be quiet and let the other users express themselves. Cool

reference:
Freedom of expression in planet Earth.

pakt · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1156 Location: Sweden

Reggie · Joined: 28 Jan 2007 Posts: 12

Cooool!
pakt - you the Big Dog!
Thax for the little puppy.
& Mark - thank you for the file hostin'.

- I'll use this as a seed for my own flavor of puppy.
(like Media Puppy - GIMP / Audacity, all the fun stuff for graphics, videos, music.) One key thing I need to add is fan control and the cool and quiet AMD code.
(My AMD laptop loves puppy, but the fan and cpu stay on 'high' - never stepping down to the cool & quiet lower speed settings.)

Maybe the French guys would like to try it for their build too?
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9010159&intsrc=news_ts_head

rcrsn51 · Posted: Mon 05 Feb 2007, 14:42 Post subject:

When I run BarelyPup from the CD or a pristine savefile, I get the cool blue desktop background. Since Barely doesn't have the JWM configuration tools, I can manually change the background by assigning a new graphic to /usr/share/backgrounds/default.jpg. However, when I run Barely with my updated 2.12 savefile, I just get a plain gray background and no amount of tweaking will change it. Everything else from my old savefile works fine - Firefox, Thunderbird, RealPlayer, etc. Any suggestions?

Todd · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 311

Rename your preferred background "default.jpg".

Todd

lvds · Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 340 Location: Near the window

Hi,

First of all this is a good work Paul and i am (like others) really thanksfull !

Next, may you tell us what could be the process to retire jwm and to insert another window manager for exemple (so to save space and not have 2 windows managers) ?

And, perhaps it would be good to have a document explaining differences between barebones, barelypup, emptycrust etc. as i have problem to understand and to choose the right one when having to build a distro and we get lost among all of this software tools. Something like a spreadsheet telling for each distro the puppy-base-version-number, the xvesa or xorg, the window manager, the sizes of sfs, full iso size, etc.

Best regards,
Laurent.

pakt · Joined: 04 Jun 2005 Posts: 1156 Location: Sweden