Classic Pup 2.14X -- Updated 2 series

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davesurrey · #2381 Post by **davesurrey** » Wed 18 Nov 2009, 12:20

Hi 01micko
Thanks for your kind words. She seems a little better today when I spoke to her. It won't be speedy but she will get better. Fingers crossed
Cheers
Dave

Minnesota · #2382 Post by **Minnesota** » Wed 18 Nov 2009, 13:02

Dave:

Good News.

Our health is so important....we sometimes forget it....

))

davesurrey · #2383 Post by **davesurrey** » Wed 18 Nov 2009, 20:57

Yes I certainly agree Minnesota.
But hey guys, I'm sorry for hijacking this thread. It's supposed to be about 214X.
My apologies
Cheers
Dave

#2384 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Thu 19 Nov 2009, 05:42

davesurrey wrote:Yes I certainly agree Minnesota.
But hey guys, I'm sorry for hijacking this thread. It's supposed to be about 214X.
My apologies
Cheers
Dave

Dave the way I look at it is that we are all friends here, and there is now way I would consider a crisis situation a hijack, feel free to continue, We are people first and computer nerds second

ttuuxxx

clarf · #2385 Post by **clarf** » Thu 19 Nov 2009, 15:32

Dave, life is short enough to forget things that real care.

I´ll say health and friendship shall be the top in everyone list. Don´t forget that people´s friendship gives love with not regrets and also gives support were it is needed (intellectual, phisical or mental support).

You are not alone mate, we will accompany you in your pain.

clarf

davesurrey · #2386 Post by **davesurrey** » Thu 19 Nov 2009, 16:03

This really makes me feel very humble and I can't think of a better example of the friendliness of this community and especially the "214X gang."
Thanks fellows.

Now where's that 214X RC ttuuxxx... Only joking.

Cheers
Dave

Puppyt · #2387 Post by **Puppyt** » Fri 20 Nov 2009, 02:16

ttuuxx,
you mentioned in a previous post that retro editions might be on the cards at a later stage - what about a barebones (BB) edition? I keep imagining that a sub-50Mb 214X, with a touchscreen pet added, would be fabulous ported over into an old ARM- or XScale-based PDA, and help weed out the WinCE. I think it would do a much better job than the Angstrom distro anyways. Not being of the computerlitterati however I might well be barking entirely up the wrong tree...
Again, I'm very appreciative of you and all your collaborators for structuring such a beaut puplet/off-shoot/redux as 214X, though I wonder whether you could repackage most of the apps as optionally-extra SFS's to get a sub-50Mb BB up and running? Perhaps you could nickname it as a "neckbrace" (NB) edition, given the nature of the recent thread hijacking?

davesurrey and GF,
I was horrified when news of the accident was first posted - I know of no way to state my support for strangers in your situation that won't appear glib or shallow, other than my heart goes out to you both, and you are never really far from my thoughts. There may be dark times ahead in the path to full recovery, but hang in there.

James C · #2388 Post by **James C** » Fri 20 Nov 2009, 05:38

Just wanted to add my best wishes as well.Here's hoping for a speedy and successful recovery.

plankenstein · #2389 Post by **plankenstein** » Fri 20 Nov 2009, 18:51

Dave,

Sorry to hear about your girlfriend

,but glad to hear she will recover.

I'm certain it will be a long hard road for both of you, but just take it one day at a time and I'll keep both of you in my prayers.

Ed

#2390 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Fri 20 Nov 2009, 23:02

Hi guys I built a computer for a buddy this weekend, he's usually a windows user, but I converted him over to linux, well linux mint, its a quadcore AMD have a look, I wonder if one day we'll have a quadcore puppy version ?
ttuuxxx

davesurrey · #2391 Post by **davesurrey** » Sat 21 Nov 2009, 00:39

double post
sorry

davesurrey · #2392 Post by **davesurrey** » Sat 21 Nov 2009, 00:40

Hi Guys.
Thanks for all your kind words.
She's doing just fine.
More than my asus eee 901 with Puppy is!

Dave

davesurrey · #2393 Post by **davesurrey** » Sat 21 Nov 2009, 22:08

I've been trying to get Puppy onto my Ausu eee 901. netbook

So far I've tried Puppys 412, 421,and 431 plus tuuxxx's 420v2 and 431.1
But of course I wanted to try good old 214X.

The most important thing with a netbook to me is wifi connectivity. And I need wpa not just wep.

The asus 901 needs the rt2860sta driver. I installed the RT2860-v2.2.0.0-k2.6.18.1.pet Unfortunately it says Unable to connect to the network. Any ideas guys? Did a search and can't find another driver except a v2.1.2.0 which I don't believe does WPA.

The other important thing for me is the display. The 901 needs 1024x600. This is not available in 214X as far as I know. How do I change it?

Can anyone help, please?

Cheers
Dave

MinHundHettePerro · Sun 22 Nov 2009, 00:54

Hello, all

!

I'm actually doing real, proper work now, (as opposed to my normal tinkerin') using 214X16!!!!

Writing on a manuscript, draft at work in MS-Word as usual - but, presently working a lot from home, so wanted to do this in 214X.
Tried AbiWord, OOo220 - kind of works, but scr**s things up when viewing the manuscript in MS-Word again (myself, I don't need to view it in MS-Word again, but in order to have my co-authors review/comment on the manuscript ...).

Installed TeX-Live 2007 (in the end, the manuscript would likely have to be submitted in LaTeX-format anyway) on a separate partition, after a bit of tinkering, it's working like a charm.
To my utmost joy, I discovered that Geany even has highlighting for LaTeX syntax and, moreover, even built-in build commands for LaTeX

.

When writing in LaTeX, I normally work in (WinXP

) MikTex/TeXnicCentre but, TeXLive/Geany/CLI works perfectly.

The built-in "tiff2ps -e" even converts the working-copy-.tif's to the required .eps's.

Just wanted to share this - I'm overly satisfied!!!!

Cheers

/
MHHP

#2395 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 22 Nov 2009, 07:32

MinHundHettePerro wrote:Hello, all !

I'm actually doing real, proper work now, (as opposed to my normal tinkerin') using 214X16!!!!

Writing on a manuscript, draft at work in MS-Word as usual - but, presently working a lot from home, so wanted to do this in 214X.
Tried AbiWord, OOo220 - kind of works, but scr**s things up when viewing the manuscript in MS-Word again (myself, I don't need to view it in MS-Word again, but in order to have my co-authors review/comment on the manuscript ...).

Installed TeX-Live 2007 (in the end, the manuscript would likely have to be submitted in LaTeX-format anyway) on a separate partition, after a bit of tinkering, it's working like a charm.
To my utmost joy, I discovered that Geany even has highlighting for LaTeX syntax and, moreover, even built-in build commands for LaTeX .

When writing in LaTeX, I normally work in (WinXP ) MikTex/TeXnicCentre but, TeXLive/Geany/CLI works perfectly.

The built-in "tiff2ps -e" even converts the working-copy-.tif's to the required .eps's.

Just wanted to share this - I'm overly satisfied!!!!

Cheers /
MHHP

I'm converting my wifes PC over to puppy right now, she's a long term windows user, I selected puppies 4.3.1.1 just because her pc isn't very old, has 1gb ram ddr400 ram, AMD 3300, 700GB HD, 20GB swap, only 13GB shows, So I'm going to try install wine and Office 2003 so her docs will work perfectly, She's a councilor so it has to be 100% compatible with her work doc's etc.
I'll let you know how wine works, I've compiled it in the past, but never used it, so its all new to me

ttuuxxx

#2396 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 22 Nov 2009, 09:24

well I have it working now, msword 2003

My wife is going to be real happy

The fonts look like they need a bit of work, kind of pixelated a bit, so in about 1hrs time I should be able to start working on 2.14X RC1
ttuuxxx

James C · #2397 Post by **James C** » Mon 23 Nov 2009, 08:04

Anxiously awaiting 2.14 X RC...........

#2398 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Mon 23 Nov 2009, 13:54

Hi Guys been working on RC1 and well basically its has all the conversions over to "X" for all the sfs's, and Nox boot option, I also added a new application called gmanedit, which is a man page editor/viewer.
What I would like to see in the next release by reading the forum post is that better support for camera's, pcmcia support for usb, icon theme switcher, I had that working once, but its a pain to convert icons etc, hmmm maybe a weekend project

Probably the last 2 releases could of been RC status, lol Its a great Os version of puppy, Thanks guys for you continued support with 2.14X.

PS time to start making some SFS for 2.14X for people to enjoy

http://www.puppylinux.asia/tpp/ttuuxxx/ ... 4X-RC1.iso

ttuuxxx

sullysat · #2399 Post by **sullysat** » Mon 23 Nov 2009, 16:10

This is AWESOME!

Thanks ttuuxxx, for this beauty and all your hard work. Thanks also to all the guys that have been so meticulous in trying to break it so that it works well.

I've been out of touch with a broken business machine for a couple weeks. Just downloaded X16 last night, actually. Ended up building a whole new machine, but went with Linux as the main operating system (WinXP in virtualbox for ONE Win only app that I have to use for a client), so after 2 years of testing, I finally took the step and it feels great!

I will rework the software lists asap (hopefully over the holiday break this weekend) and post for comments, suggestions, and such. Then start uploading stuff. My hope is that all the packages and extra stuff that has been a by-product of this project is available when the distro goes Final.

Thanks again,
Sully

gerry · #2400 Post by **gerry** » Mon 23 Nov 2009, 17:46

Tried 214X16 on my old 600MHz 256MB ram machine. Looks fabulous. Two problems:
Running live cd-
Every time I boot, it takes 2.5 minutes (yes 150 seconds) to do the "Copying /pup214R.sfs to tempfs.

When I set up my printer (a Canon i965 connected to a Windows computer) setup went easily, but it won't work. Can't see why. I'll post again if I find what's wrong. (I know all the things that usually go wrong.)

Gerry

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