NOP (Nearly Office Pup) 3.01 final available for download
Thanks, Gray,
If I understand, what we just did used the menu cache, and was a way to change the appearance of the existing menu, removing items from displaying, or moving their display, but not adding new ones. Do I have that right?
So I have reverted to the original menu.xml. The menu editor remains one of the few minor disappointments in Xfce.
If I understand, what we just did used the menu cache, and was a way to change the appearance of the existing menu, removing items from displaying, or moving their display, but not adding new ones. Do I have that right?
So I have reverted to the original menu.xml. The menu editor remains one of the few minor disappointments in Xfce.
NOP becomes OP
Greetings, Gray,
I have been using puppy for a couple of years and specifically NOP since available. This is solid and polished in my configuration - the best Linux I have seen.
I have tried to use puppy in my work but it means awkwardly booting back and forth with windows for those windows programs I cannot do without. Until linux can run these it will be stay "nearly office pup." The close ones don't count!
Wine is inevitably flakey even when it "almost works" and it doesn't work at all with some of the needed programs (which are not exotic and easily run in win98se). Wine is not a contender. Virtualization seems to be the only hope. From what little I know I would like to run NOP as host with windows as guest. I already have my super small 98Lite installed on the hard disk (also on a ghost image backup CD)
So here is the suggestion/request/challenge for you - Make NOP into "OP" by creating a QEMU enabled version that regular people like me could use with a small windows guest. You would be famous and appreciated even more than you are now!
Henry
I have been using puppy for a couple of years and specifically NOP since available. This is solid and polished in my configuration - the best Linux I have seen.
I have tried to use puppy in my work but it means awkwardly booting back and forth with windows for those windows programs I cannot do without. Until linux can run these it will be stay "nearly office pup." The close ones don't count!
Wine is inevitably flakey even when it "almost works" and it doesn't work at all with some of the needed programs (which are not exotic and easily run in win98se). Wine is not a contender. Virtualization seems to be the only hope. From what little I know I would like to run NOP as host with windows as guest. I already have my super small 98Lite installed on the hard disk (also on a ghost image backup CD)
So here is the suggestion/request/challenge for you - Make NOP into "OP" by creating a QEMU enabled version that regular people like me could use with a small windows guest. You would be famous and appreciated even more than you are now!
Henry
menu ?
Henry: I didnt mention the update menu question as a sly comment - I genuinley dont know if replacing the menu file with the cache menu will still work for updates. It will be neat if it does. ( may try myself if I get time - but it is rugby season and I have three teenage son rugby players/supporters that eat my time at this point of the year - go the Tahs !!).
Menu editor, Virtualisation
Gray,
I have not tested this thoroughly either. I did install a new petget. It did not automatically appear in the menu, but was easy to add with the new menu editor, so I'll keep that for the present.
Re virtualisation: Please keep in mind for the future a simplified path to Qemu, or possibly Virtualbox (but it should work with 98se).
Anyone else with suggestions on this?
Thanks
I have not tested this thoroughly either. I did install a new petget. It did not automatically appear in the menu, but was easy to add with the new menu editor, so I'll keep that for the present.
Re virtualisation: Please keep in mind for the future a simplified path to Qemu, or possibly Virtualbox (but it should work with 98se).
Anyone else with suggestions on this?
Thanks
QtEmu
Gray and all, I posted a question on virtualisation at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 348#189348
Henry
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 348#189348
Henry
As updated versions of Opera are released, is there an easy way to update to them without having to wait for a new release of NOP ?
eg update Opera 9.26 to 9.27
........
mmm, I just updated a laptop from NOP3.01r1 to r6 by changing the pup_301.sfs file. The fonts in Opera have gone horribly small, and I think I made changes originally to make it all look good. Only problem is I can't remeber what tweaks I did ... I guess it's back to searching the forum to find out how i did it.
eg update Opera 9.26 to 9.27
........
mmm, I just updated a laptop from NOP3.01r1 to r6 by changing the pup_301.sfs file. The fonts in Opera have gone horribly small, and I think I made changes originally to make it all look good. Only problem is I can't remeber what tweaks I did ... I guess it's back to searching the forum to find out how i did it.
Let's make NOP into OP!
Hi, Gray,
The report of my collaboration with Bruce on Qemu is at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=75
If Qemu could be added by a petget the result would be a real breakthrough Linux. And I bet you could facilitate it. (Maybe you're waiting for 4.0 :-)
Henry
The report of my collaboration with Bruce on Qemu is at
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 8&start=75
If Qemu could be added by a petget the result would be a real breakthrough Linux. And I bet you could facilitate it. (Maybe you're waiting for 4.0 :-)
Henry
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Re: Menu
I think doing that procedure does disable the automatic menu updating, but I'm not sure. I'm trying to get XFCE in DIngo right now.gray wrote:Henry & Turpin : I hadn't thought about using the cache menu as the actual menu. When you add a new package does the menu update or do you have to manually edit the menu to add the new item now ?
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Hello
I made a pet package for pencil, This one NOP user has a class of students that would like to use it, They are using Nop r1, I've been trying for hours to get this fixed. Basically it runs fine but at the most important stage it crashes. When you export to swf
here's the link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28513
heres the error
pencil: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4) error
I am still left with the segmentation error on trying to export.
I've tried to change a to few different versions of libpng without any luck
to get it going you need 2 files
QT4 http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet4/qt4-4.3.2.pet
Pencil http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9317
Any help would be great
thanks ttuuxxx
I made a pet package for pencil, This one NOP user has a class of students that would like to use it, They are using Nop r1, I've been trying for hours to get this fixed. Basically it runs fine but at the most important stage it crashes. When you export to swf
here's the link http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=28513
heres the error
pencil: /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libQtGui.so.4) error
I am still left with the segmentation error on trying to export.
I've tried to change a to few different versions of libpng without any luck
to get it going you need 2 files
QT4 http://www.puppylinux.ca/pet4/qt4-4.3.2.pet
Pencil http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... ch&id=9317
Any help would be great
thanks ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)
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says thanks to ttuuxx for trying to get this to work and adds to his request for helpThis one NOP user
I reckon animation is a really good tool for education. Suddenly static ideas become a movement that can explain process!
I use NOP as my main system at home and would like to develop it more in the classroom with my 10-11 year olds.
Animation and video editing are the main gaps in the toolkit along with a user friendly logo type software for simple programming. Any ideas welcome!
Thanks for all the inspiration and support!
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WOW, i just got informaed about this THANKS!
im downloading now from;
http://puppylinux.org/wiki/archives/old ... ownloadnop
Thanks!
im downloading now from;
http://puppylinux.org/wiki/archives/old ... ownloadnop
Thanks!
I really like XCFE, Thunar and Opera, so obviously I really like NOP. But for some reason the fonts in Opera don't look as good as they should. It's like it isn't correctly anti-aliasing them or something, as they look OK in the rest of the UI.
It can make text quite hard to read in Opera at high resolutions. Does anyone else notice this?
It can make text quite hard to read in Opera at high resolutions. Does anyone else notice this?
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Problem with USB wireless mouse
I was running NOP for a few weeks, and now my usb mouse stoped working. Sometimes after a re-boot it will work again, but only until I start moving it. Any ideas what is causing this?