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musher0 · Last edited by musher0 on Sun 31 Dec 2017, 21:37; edited 6 times in total

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/xenialPup-706-k41/distro/xenial-7.0.6.iso
Enjoy!

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PS. FYI, ubuntu's xenial xerus comes with kernel 4.4.

musher0 · Posted: Sat 21 Oct 2017, 04:30 Post subject:

With icewm as WM.

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1664

ally · Joined: 19 May 2012 Posts: 1912 Location: lincoln, uk

mirrored here: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_xenialpup

Smile

musher0 · Posted: Sat 21 Oct 2017, 12:20 Post subject:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 21 Oct 2017, 12:21 Post subject:

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 841 Location: Philadelphia, PA

musher0 · Posted: Sun 22 Oct 2017, 00:31 Post subject:

Thanks, Sheldon.

musher0 · Posted: Sun 22 Oct 2017, 23:10 Post subject:

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=musher0/xenialPup-706-k41/distro/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.php?p=856290&sort=lastpost#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!

musher0 · Posted: Sun 22 Oct 2017, 23:52 Post subject:

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=musher0/apacheOpenOffice
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!

roadkill13 · Joined: 10 Aug 2011 Posts: 153 Location: United States

I installed this to my little EEEPC 901.

musher0 · Posted: Mon 23 Oct 2017, 04:03 Post subject:

You're welcome, roadkill13! Nice background!

musher0 · Posted: Mon 23 Oct 2017, 04:14 Post subject:

Hello all.

I found the official logo for this xenial ground squirrel! Very Happy

https://fossbytes.com/official-logo-mascot-ubuntu-16-04-lts-xenial-xerus

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

BFN

sheldonisaac · Joined: 21 Jun 2009 Posts: 841 Location: Philadelphia, PA

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