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01Micko

Thank u for the link to the pets to update seamonkey and firefox and the warning that mozilla autoupdate hasn't worked in puppy.
As said before, I am up to date with both browsers so testing will be much later.

BK

01micko

First tested with JWM & then ICEWM which I can confirm is now working again. Detailed below are the pets & SFS tested.

TODO
compile fglrx
update libreoffice sfs and add pet
add any other suggestions?

With regard to suggestions I would recommend the inclusion of the fontwizard pet as it dramatically improves clarity on an LCD screen. I install it on all my pups and note that Saluki now includes a similar hinting utility. Roxterm & tickr may also be possible candidates.

On a couple of shutdowns I have not been presented with the save/no save option – just a black screen & no led activity on the flash drive followed by power off. This has never happened to me with 5.3.2.7.

Finally the obligatory screenshot.
Link to full size image:
http://postimage.org/image/slthcgnnr/

• SFS's loaded
  /mnt/dev_save/p5328/avplayersj2-slacko-i686.sfs
  Pets loaded
  faenza_lrx_new|no description provided
  Blue-Tripack|JWM themes
  PupControl-2.0|PupControl panel
  PupSnap-1.6.3_Scrot-0.8_32Bit|PupSnap screen capture
  PupClockset-1.6.3|PupClockset manager
  Pup-SysInfo-2.0|Pup-SysInfo system information
  fontwizard|Configure fonts for LCD
  chromium-18.0.996.0-slacko|Browse the Web
  nvidia-295.20-k3.1.10-slacko_4gA-s|Configure NVIDIA X Server Settings
  wmswitcher-0.18|WM Switcher Switch windowmanagers
  icewm-1.3.7-i686-s|Icewm Configuration Change Icewm Settings
  PupShutdown-1.8|PupShutdown manager
  tickr-0.6.0-i486|GTK-based highly graphically-customizable Feed Ticker
  flashplayer-11|Adobe flashplayer plugin
  smplayer-0.6.9-i686|A great MPlayer front-end
  lm_sensors-3.1.2|sensorsfor cpu, motherboard, fan
  tempicon-0.06|monitors CPU temperature with tray icon
  conky-1.8.1-i486|lightweight desktop widgets

Special beta 3 and a half..

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/slacko5.3.2.8.5/

.. iso and checksum in that folder, sorry, no PAE ver, I'll do a full beta, maybe RC on the WE.

Iso has grown 2M because seamonkey have upgraded their lib requirements of cairo and libvpx .. (updated to 2.9)

I was hoping to get a full beta out today but I have ran out of time, I had this very strange woof issue which forced me to redownload pristine woof, cost me some hours

Also, I have reverted from shino's pupsaveconfig to Barry's shutdownconfig (the ugly yellow one, may alter that) patched for ext4 savefiles.. I tested with heavy encryption too, works fine.

ETP, great about icewm, looks nice. I'll get together all the conky stuff and make a special pet I think. I'll look into shutdown issues too. Is the drive showing corruption or loss of data? TIA

CTHISBEAR.. I need some files off you mate, see previous pages..

gcmartin.. I have an idea to address your hostname issue. You are aware that when you see the connect screen after all the other startup stuffs you get the "congratulations, you are already connected" message, well, I can detct if you changed hostname at that stage and restart the network, should update the routing table in the router/dhcp server.

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The push is on guys... I want 533 out the door by May 7. The base is pretty stable, if we can fix a few niggles (shutdown, cthisbear's wireless) then the rest is polish. It will be feature freeze as of the next beta/RC.

I'm getting to the pointy end of my college course (yep only a six month course, then job killing time ) and the work load will increase in about 2 weeks, hence it's May 7 or July 4!!! The kernel is already getting "old".

Thanks to all and we're almost there.

Cheers.



[who wants to first to post a comment.. see sig VVVVVVV]

Running from live dvd with save file on usb flash drive.

Wed 25 Apr 2012 Operating System:Slacko Puppy-5.3.2.8.5 Linux3.1.10-slacko_4gA
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200] (rev a2)
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98[GeForce 9300 GE](rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.9.5
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce 9200/integrated/SSE2/3DNOW!
OpenGL version string: 3.3.0 NVIDIA 295.40

Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2499 1: 2499 MHz

# glxgears
7196 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1439.089 FPS
7237 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1447.227 FPS
7209 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1441.781 FPS

04:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT2860

Working fine so far.

shinobar wrote:There is a room to improve the pupsaveconfig for this case. But do not expect in short term.

If you don't want to alter the functionality right now, then at least issue a warning dialog to the user before blindly removing all slashes. One of the principal jobs of a good GUI is to validate input, but the way it is now, adding a slash like 'boot/slacko' causes an unwanted side effect.

Respectfully, (and only related to the deeper subdir functionality), your pupsaveconfig is a step backwards from Barry's legacy code in that Barry's WILL automatically allow a savefile to go into a deeper directory if PSUBDIR is specified and yours will not. Please reconsider adding my one line fix.

01micko

Is the drive showing corruption or loss of data? TIA

Checked ext4 save file & volume – no problems found. Also checked for whiteouts – once again clean.

I was able to convert pmirror so that it
can mirror 5 folders now.

I call the application 'Puppy backup'

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77685


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Fresh manual frugal install of 5.2.8.5 on the Athlon XP box.......Zero problems so far.

Made a typo.....should have been Slacko 5.3.2.8.5

Special beta 3 and a half..

http://www.smokey01.com/01micko/slacko/slacko5.3.2.8.5/

AMD fglrx pets are uploaded for both A series kernels.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... es-slacko/ and look for "amd_fglrx-12.4-3.1.10-slacko_[YOUR_KERNEL_SUFFIX].pet", latest versions, work ok too.

Not sure of your suffix? (ie kernel version..) ..click the green (or orange or red) save icon in the tray, pops up the top, also with disk usage stats in a window.

Have fun

James C wrote:Fresh manual frugal install of 5.2.8.5 on the Athlon XP box.......Zero problems so far.

528.5 is Lucid
5.3.2.8 is Slacko

Wrong thread ?

C'mon Mick I can hardly keep up with all these puppies
Let alone make XO builds.
Nothing bad to report anyway. Just to point out that my multi-term, multi-repo search PuppyPackageManager pet works fine in Slacko 5.2.8.5 (and earlier)

Volhout wrote:

James C wrote:Fresh manual frugal install of 5.2.8.5 on the Athlon XP box.......Zero problems so far.

528.5 is Lucid
5.3.2.8 is Slacko

Wrong thread ?

Right thread..... just a silly typo.

Slacko Libre Proof of Concept

ICPUG wrote: Another incredible thing for me is that we now have a fully functional Office suite to business standards with in-built offline help, AS WELL AS the normal stuff, all in an ~350MB download. No other distro with this functionality gets near to this size. How does Puppy do it?

I might add that because Puppy runs from ram Libre Office runs quicker than any other Linux distro.

The latest Slacko beta with Libre Office 3.5.2 built-in and integrated with the desktop, icons, and run-actions. Java is also built-in because Libre Office requires that for the Find function in Help and for Base database operations. It will load into ram on any machine with at least 768MB and consequently Libre Office will run with alacrity (which solves one of the traditional problems with it).

The thing is: it should be smaller. Slacko is 115MB, Libre is about 158MB and Java is 37MB. That totals around 310 but the iso is 330MB, and I even removed Abiword and Gnumeric. What I *think* might be happening is that the original Slacko iso is built using a newer more efficient compression, but when remastered mksquashfs uses the older compression.

http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/slacko-libre-poc.iso
ee3a7e6a072695ecbf0d6327e314c0e4 slacko-libre-poc.iso

Credits: the Libre is a modified version of the Libre downloaded by 01micko's get_libreoffice script and the java is the sfs built by shinobar.

mtPaint Help

This little pet will enable the Help in mtPaint. It is one folder to go in /usr/share plus an rc for /root.

01micko wrote:[who wants to first to post a comment.. see sig VVVVVVV]

Nice mustache

01Micko wrote:...should update the routing table in the router/dhcp server. ..

Yes, that always works!

I still think that FirstRUN should be the logical place as this will probably the place that many/most will use to change the hostname. That single screen is so very useful for localization....as you already know. Glad to see that Playdayz, you, and Jemimah, continue to work with Shinobar on his implementation for system localization starts.

Thanks in advance.

playdayz wrote:Slacko Libre Proof of Concept ...

Thanks Playdayz. I know the value of what you present for us.

Question for thought (no requirement to reply)
Could your work be collapsed into a PET? (say, a Libre PET that offers a JAVA dependency as it installs while accomplishing the desktop integration)

I know you (& others) have probably thought of this, before, and there are probably some hurdles that are involved.

Anyway, THANKS. I will Live media test your ISO ASAP, do a save-session after normal (for me) localization changes and report on whether this is propagating the JAVA issue, already reported to you.

Where should this report be sent....Is there a thread for this??? (PM me with your answer.)

Here to help

" CTHISBEAR.. I need some files off you mate, see previous pages.. "

Grrrrrh!!!!
Dos was easier.

And Slacko wouldn't run the wireless on a mates Eee Pc.
Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU N270 @ 1.60GHz
Socket Designation: PBGA 437

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... start=2760

This was for Saluki....I had no time left to post >> Slacko.

Chris.

Chris..

Nice report mate... but the wrong bloody slacko version!!!

The kernel changed a couple of weeks ago and you are running the experimental [and old, now] unionfs version.

Here is the latest

Can you give that one a try?

Ta mate.

Just compiled and uploaded firefox-12 for Slacko

Seems a lot better than 10 which was my last compile.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... 12.0-s.pet 17M