a year of grafpup news (in brief) work in progress
Posted: Sun 18 Mar 2007, 09:28
grafpup is (imo) the greatest puppy there is. for puppy 1, grafpup 104 is nothing short of the most amazing thing i've ever seen. if you ever thought puppy is the greatest os ever (and it is...) and you ever wished (man, i wish it was a little more tweaked and a little better looking...) grafpup is the ultimate in quality. (at least of what i've seen.)
i rely on puppy 2.11, for a number of reasons including some hardware support, but i wish grafpup 104 worked in the few cases where i need puppy 2. grafpup 104 is only 80 mb, the only apps i miss are abiword and mp, (sadly mu's dosemu doesn't work in 104 but dosbox does) and the deluxe version (less than 400mb and all .sfs modular addons to standard version) has a fully working (but only includes some of) kde. (optional.) grafpup has icewm by default and opera.
grafpup 2 will be mutiluser capable (for those that always wanted the option) and will be based on puppy 2. so far it is buggy but in alpha (testing only.) i've tried it. (it really had some bugs in the alpha i got, no kidding.) i just hope standard will be less than 100mb (about 100 now) and deluxe will stay under 400- i have no idea (actually i asked in another thread and i should go check the reply, i don't remember.)
grafpup's repository is larger than puppy's (new data notwithstanding the repo is maybe twice as big) and if you like puppy you REALLY should try grafpup. my own preferences aside, i have nothing against any other puppy derivatives, i'm also eager to try puppy 2.15 (can't today, but eager) and meanpuppy (50mb, can today, still haven't yet)
this post is actually an INCREDIBLY BRIEF version of: http://www.grafpup.com/news/
...note that each line here represents almost an entire news entry (most of which are multi-paragraphs long.)
march 2007 (which is already in progress):
151 grafpup 2 will have abiword instead of ted (AND) it will have english spellchecking (yes!)
150 grafpup 2 will have nfts3g 1.0, lucent winmodems are no longer supported ("martian" series is.)
149 nathan is experimenting with aufs and hoping to make grafpup more modular
148 squashfs code isn't quite read for lzma, better with gzip, wireless and winmodem support may lack vs. puppy
147 alpha iso is uploaded and should NOT be considered stable... run with pfix=ram suggested
146 404 not found (don't look at me...)
145 menu and mime cleanup (contral panel is "system", setup is "settings") some command line tools removed from menu
144 new wine binary uploaded, user management tools expanded well beyond "new user"
february 2007:
143 blender package is back in the repository
142 following puppy, grafpup has latest gtkdialog, gins, gnocle, and glade- also an increasing number of bash and tcl/tk apps
141 lxpanel has issues with plugins, grafpup may return for now to fbpanel
140 bugs “should
i rely on puppy 2.11, for a number of reasons including some hardware support, but i wish grafpup 104 worked in the few cases where i need puppy 2. grafpup 104 is only 80 mb, the only apps i miss are abiword and mp, (sadly mu's dosemu doesn't work in 104 but dosbox does) and the deluxe version (less than 400mb and all .sfs modular addons to standard version) has a fully working (but only includes some of) kde. (optional.) grafpup has icewm by default and opera.
grafpup 2 will be mutiluser capable (for those that always wanted the option) and will be based on puppy 2. so far it is buggy but in alpha (testing only.) i've tried it. (it really had some bugs in the alpha i got, no kidding.) i just hope standard will be less than 100mb (about 100 now) and deluxe will stay under 400- i have no idea (actually i asked in another thread and i should go check the reply, i don't remember.)
grafpup's repository is larger than puppy's (new data notwithstanding the repo is maybe twice as big) and if you like puppy you REALLY should try grafpup. my own preferences aside, i have nothing against any other puppy derivatives, i'm also eager to try puppy 2.15 (can't today, but eager) and meanpuppy (50mb, can today, still haven't yet)
this post is actually an INCREDIBLY BRIEF version of: http://www.grafpup.com/news/
...note that each line here represents almost an entire news entry (most of which are multi-paragraphs long.)
march 2007 (which is already in progress):
151 grafpup 2 will have abiword instead of ted (AND) it will have english spellchecking (yes!)
150 grafpup 2 will have nfts3g 1.0, lucent winmodems are no longer supported ("martian" series is.)
149 nathan is experimenting with aufs and hoping to make grafpup more modular
148 squashfs code isn't quite read for lzma, better with gzip, wireless and winmodem support may lack vs. puppy
147 alpha iso is uploaded and should NOT be considered stable... run with pfix=ram suggested
146 404 not found (don't look at me...)
145 menu and mime cleanup (contral panel is "system", setup is "settings") some command line tools removed from menu
144 new wine binary uploaded, user management tools expanded well beyond "new user"
february 2007:
143 blender package is back in the repository
142 following puppy, grafpup has latest gtkdialog, gins, gnocle, and glade- also an increasing number of bash and tcl/tk apps
141 lxpanel has issues with plugins, grafpup may return for now to fbpanel
140 bugs “should