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xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1

#1 Post by musher0 »

Please Note --

Some URLs below were changed because forum member augras (whom I thank
most sincerely) changed the French PuppyLinux repo from one server to another at
the end of October.

I tried to be as precise as possible, but should you have a problem finding a file
listed in the following posts, please let me know, I'll correct the URL ASAP.

Thanks for your understanding.

musher0


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Hello all.

This thread to present what I feel is a missing link in Puppy evolution:

xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1

While 666philb has done a more than excellent job putting the XenialPup
together and similarly, ETP proposing variants of it, those Puppies all
come with the 4.9 kernel. Now on my machine (see hw listing attached),
kernel 4.9 makes anything run as slow as molasses in winter.

So this evening I whipped up a new xenialPup with the help of wiak's
excellent automated script.

I didn't bother editing anything in the woof template, I simply produced a
small pupsave file with what I think are essential additional configs.
Unload, unpack and use this pupsave only if you wish to.

Contrary to what I usually do, I left this iso as close to the original as
possible. Only an additional background (the default ones are so ugly!)
and some simple configurations, in particular a proper drop-down
menu of directories in ROX and a digital clock in the traybar that you can
see without glasses. Also a logical repositioning (IMO) of the desktop
icons to leave room to potential ROX bars.

To the core of the matter: xenialPup-7.0.6 with kernel 4.1 now works
speedily on my old box. Hopefully, it will run at a reasonable speed on
your old box as well.

Available here:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/musher0/xe ... -7.0.6.iso
Enjoy!

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PS. FYI, ubuntu's xenial xerus comes with kernel 4.4.
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lshw.lst.zip
HW listing for my old dual core portable.
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xenialPup-706-k4.1-799x499.jpg
This is what it looks like with the small bebop.2fs pupsave file loaded.
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Sums.zip
The various checksums for the iso, the devx and the bebop.2fs.
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#2 Post by musher0 »

With icewm as WM.
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#3 Post by belham2 »

musher0 wrote:With icewm as WM.

Doggone, Musher, you are becoming a bona-fide Artiste with icewm! :wink: It ressemble à un renoir classique et élégant.

Downloading now to give it some use in a 'frugal' install. Merci!

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#5 Post by musher0 »

belham2 wrote:
musher0 wrote:With icewm as WM.
Doggone, Musher, you are becoming a bona-fide Artiste with icewm! :wink: It ressemble à un renoir classique et élégant.

Downloading now to give it some use in a 'frugal' install. Merci!
My pleasure. Thanks for the kind words, belham2,

but I have no merit. That beautiful picture of a sunset on ranching
operations in the Australian outback is from a talented photographer
named Tobias Keller. You'll find that picture under #104263 on
unsplash.com. https://unsplash.com/photos/ucdh5HMkRMg

As to the icewm version, I had Puppyfied a development v. last March
(the one here, if anybody wants it:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... tch/Bureau)
so it was no trouble this time.

Finally Great Wizard Wiak has removed any ;) effort from creating a Pup!

So you see, basically I have no merit. I saw a hole on Puppy Road and I
filled it. Plain and simple.

BFN.
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#6 Post by musher0 »

Many thanks, ally!
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Re: xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1

#7 Post by sheldonisaac »

musher0 (in part) wrote:xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1
Downloaded a few minutes ago.
Booted with

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title xenial706
  root (hd0,0)
  kernel /xenial706/vmlinuz psubdir=/xenial706 pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck
  initrd /xenial706/initrd.gz
sfs_load Iron browser 58.0.3050.0

Posting from it now.


Merci beaucoup, et bonne nuit.

Sheldon
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Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
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#8 Post by musher0 »

Thanks, Sheldon.
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#9 Post by musher0 »

Good evening.

For those of you who have an old box with 4 Gb's of RAM or more, here
is a 4.1.2 PAE kernel and zdrv: ALTxenialPup706-PAEkrnl+zdrv.zip
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... AutreNoyau

It's the same kernel as the one in the iso, but with PAE enabled. I like the
idea that my Pup can use all my available RAM.

All thanks go to stemsee for compiling this kernel:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#856290

I just renamed the modules sfs and repackaged the files for this xenialPup-7.0.6.

Before copying and using these files, please make sure that you
have stored the originals in a safe place.
Please also note that this
replacement operation has to be done from another Pup or Linux distro.
Once the replacement is done, reboot your xenial32-706, and you're back
in business.

Enjoy!
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#10 Post by musher0 »

Hello again.

Here is Apache Open Office 4.1.4, released two weeks ago. It comes in two sfs's:
the suite itself and the en_US package. Please download the general suite from:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... OpenOffice
The help, resources and menu files in US English, aOO-4.1.4_en-US.sfs,
are in the same ftp directory.

Once the archives have finished downloading in /mnt/home or in your
Puppy's directory, load the two sfs's with sfs_load one after the other.

Please download also a small pet archive in that directory named
"aOO-4.1.2_dsktp2.pet": once installed, it will set up the icons properly for the
Puppy menu. The *.desktop files provided by the aOO people do not work ex-
factory, they had to be massaged to work on Puppy.

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Why aOO? I recently had the occasion to work on a highly formatted docx
file in both LibreOffice and aOO. aOO did a much better job of rendering
the docx layout. It took me a couple of minutes in aOO to reproduce the
original layout, whereas it would have taken at least half an hour with
LibreOffice. (My client had been kind enough to also provide a PDF version
of the document, so I could readily compare.)

Enjoy!
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#11 Post by roadkill13 »

I installed this to my little EEEPC 901.
System: Host: puppypc3376 Kernel: 4.1.30 i686 (32 bit) Desktop: JWM 2.3.5
Distro: xenialpup 7.0.6
Machine: Device: laptop System: ASUSTeK product: 901 v: x.x serial: EeePC-1234567890
Mobo: ASUSTeK model: 901 v: x.xx serial: EeePC-0123456789
BIOS: American Megatrends v: 2103 date: 06/11/2009
Battery BAT0: charge: 50.4 Wh 100.0% condition: 50.4/57.6 Wh (87%)
CPU: Single core Intel Atom N270 (-HT-) cache: 512 KB
clock speeds: max: 1600 MHz 1: 1599 MHz 2: 1599 MHz
Graphics: Card: Intel Mobile 945GSE Express Integrated Graphics Controller
Display Server: X.org 1.18.4 drivers: intel (unloaded: modesetting,fbdev,vesa)
tty size: 83x29 Advanced Data: N/A for root
Audio: Card Intel NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controller
driver: snd_hda_intel
Sound: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture v: k4.1.30
Network: Card: Ralink RT2790 Wireless 802.11n 1T/2R PCIe driver: rt2800pci
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: 00:15:af:e6:83:46
Drives: HDD Total Size: 12.1GB (33.5% used)
ID-1: /dev/sda model: ASUS size: 4.0GB
ID-2: /dev/sdb model: ASUS size: 8.1GB
RAID: No RAID devices: /proc/mdstat, md_mod kernel module present
Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?
Info: Processes: 112 Uptime: 33 min Memory: 200.2/2006.3MB
Client: Shell (bash) inxi: 2.3.8
It seems to be running quite well at the moment.

Thank you very much.
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#12 Post by musher0 »

You're welcome, roadkill13! Nice background!
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#13 Post by musher0 »

Hello all.

I found the official logo for this xenial ground squirrel! :D
https://fossbytes.com/official-logo-mas ... nial-xerus

You may want to use the attached at the icon for the xenialPup directory?

BFN
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xenial-xerus-mascot-48x.png
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the 4.1.2 PAE kernel and zdrv

#14 Post by sheldonisaac »

musher0 (in part) wrote:Good evening.

For those of you who have an old box with 4 Gb's of RAM or more, here
is a 4.1.2 PAE kernel and zdrv
Good morning. I'm on the Dell E6410 with 4GB. It's from about the year 2010. I don't understand "old box"; is this 32-bit Xenial not good for this computer? Please excuse me: I still do not understand the advantages and disadvantages of a 32-bit vs 64-bit operating system on a computer with a 64-bit processor.

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uname -a
Linux puppypc24708 4.1.2-EmSee-32-pae #1 SMP Wed Jul 15 12:39:34 BST 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Is that correct for this latest version? I'm using it now, with the Iron browser.
Dell E6410: BusterPup, BionicPup64, Xenial, etc
Intel DQ35JOE, Dell Vostro 430
Dell Inspiron, Acer Aspire One, EeePC 1018P

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Re: the 4.1.2 PAE kernel and zdrv

#15 Post by musher0 »

sheldonisaac wrote:
musher0 (in part) wrote:Good evening.

For those of you who have an old box with 4 Gb's of RAM or more, here
is a 4.1.2 PAE kernel and zdrv
Good morning. I'm on the Dell E6410 with 4GB. It's from about the year 2010. I don't understand "old box"; is this 32-bit Xenial not good for this computer? Please excuse me: I still do not understand the advantages and disadvantages of a 32-bit vs 64-bit operating system on a computer with a 64-bit processor.

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uname -a
Linux puppypc24708 4.1.2-EmSee-32-pae #1 SMP Wed Jul 15 12:39:34 BST 2015 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
Is that correct for this latest version? I'm using it now, with the Iron browser.
Hi Sheldon.

Same as mine!
uname -a
Linux puppypcNNNNN 4.1.2-EmSee-32-pae #1 SMP Wed Jul 15 12:39:34 BST 2015 i686 athlon i686 GNU/Linux
It is not so much a question of "latest version" as a question of "pae".

When I say "old box", I mean any computer, 32-bit or 64-bit, that becomes sluggish
when running a variant of xenialPup, or any Pup or distro, equipped with a recent
kernel (e.g. a 4.9 kernel). My portable box is 10 years old and is a 64-bit dual-core.

As a matter of personal choice, I prefer to run 32-bit Pups on it, because I like
a Pup to be "snappy". On this machine of mine, 64-bits Pups are rarely "snappy".

Also, as a matter of personal belief, I think 64-bits multi-core computers are only
required if you want to calculate the probabilities of a manned space craft NOT
crashing into a comet on the way to AlphaCentauri.

In other words, I believe that normal humans doing normal day-to-day activities do
not need the power that multi-core 64-bits computers provide.

We commoners push our 32-bits to the limit and spend whatever little money.we
earn each week for more essential things: food on the table, for example. Or buying
your child or grand-child a little present.

No one should be forced into buying a multi-core 64-bit computer when the one they
have is still working nicely. We adapt the software to what people have. We do not
force people to have the hardware that cutting-edge developers want people to have.

That's what I say.

I hope this answers your question. BFN.
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#16 Post by roadkill13 »

@musher0
We commoners push our 32-bits to the limit and spend whatever little money.we
earn each week for more essential things: food on the table, for example. Or buying
your child or grand-child a little present.

No one should be forced into buying a multi-core 64-bit computer when the one they
have is still working nicely. We adapt the software to what people have. We do not
force people to have the hardware that cutting-edge developers want people to have.
Well said!

I do not remember where I found the background. It was in a Google search. I will post a link if I come across it again.

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#17 Post by Sailor Enceladus »

Two things I like about this distro:

- My weak wifi signal cuts out a lot as my laptop is quite far from the source. In this puppy the "connected" icon on the bottom right updates right away when it drops so I know not to refresh a page when the icon (with two computers) has an X on them (in all other puppies I'm aware of, the taskbar icon still shows as connected so I have no indication of when it cuts out).

- When I put a song on loop on DeadBeef, the looping is flawless, there is no "silent pause" like in GNOME-Mplayer (about 0.5 seconds) and pMusic (about 5 seconds). I have made some mp3s that at the end flows back into the beginning when looped and DeadBeef is the only one I know that can loop it without having to "pause and think" between the transition (at default settings)

Question: Is there a screen recorder included in this puppy? In Slacko I used pavRecord, but only noticed audio recorder in menu.

I used Palemoon Updater to 27.5.1 and it worked, and changed the wallpaper so I could see the text under the icons (though it was not a big deal as I know what they are haha). I might boot into this OS as my main one on my Pentium M laptop for a while.

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#18 Post by musher0 »

Hi Sailor Enceladus.

Many thanks for the positive report.

As I said, I just "whipped up" this xenialPup. My only merit is providing a pae 4.1
kernel for it. All thanks for the compiling of that kernel go to stemsee; all thanks for
wifi performance and choice of audio apps go to 666philb and the woof-CE team.

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As to a screen recorder, I won't suggest anything, because I don't know the
subject and I've never used one. I'm sure there's info about it on this forum and
on the Internet.

For starters, maybe flip through the pages of 666philb's two threads for his
xenialPup:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 070#899178
and
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 070#910078

Good luck.
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#19 Post by musher0 »

Please Note --

The pet archives that were previously attached to this post are now at:
http://augras.eu/puppy_linux/?dir=mushe ... stFenetres

Thanks for your understanding.

musher0


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Hello all.

Please find at the above location the echinus window manager compiled from
the git repo version (2017-10-27), on and for this xenial32.

This package is different from the previous echinus packages I have compiled in
that it contains a theme chooser for echinus. Echinus now has 38 themes
to choose from.

What you do is you open a terminal in /root/.echinus/ and then you type

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./ChooseTheme.sh
Then you type the name of the theme,
Asphalt-01 (a greyish theme) or
WaterFall-02 (a theme with white and blue) or
any theme that strikes your fancy.
(I may make a GUI out of this script some day! But for the time being, it does
the job!)

If you're interested, I've included a little folder with the pictures and sources I got
the ideas for these themes from. For more info about these echinus themes, please
see here : http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... ost#967628

To also get the menu working, you'll need these execs.

You can edit file ~/.echinus/echinusrc to your liking, but please read the docs first.

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Also at the above location is the bmpanel2 traybar and panel, again compiled
on this Pup. It contains 50 bmpanel2 themes. Again, you can adapt files
~/.config/bmpanel2/bmpanel2rc and
/usr/share/bmpanel2/themes/[name of theme]/theme
to your taste, but please read the docs first.

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To get them echinus and bmpanel2 working together, you will need to install this
small Startup script: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... &id=112497

Please see my reply to forum member westwest a couple of posts down for an
explanation of how this Startup script works.

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With both installed in this xenialPup32-k412, the result should look like the attached
screen shot.

Enjoy.
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Re: xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1

#20 Post by sheldonisaac »

musher0 wrote:xenialPup-7.0.6 32-bits with kernel 4.1
An advantage of Xenial is that Google maps' 3-D feature works, whereas it doesn't in Tahr.
However, I've not been able to run claws-mail; I think I got it from you, musher0?
I tried doing ln -s to some of the libraries in Tahr; so far no success.

It would be nice to do what I read a few times in this forum: somehow run the same programs from a few different Puppys.

Thanks a lot.
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