TEENpup based on Puppy 4.0.5 IDE Test results
Posted: Tue 05 Aug 2008, 23:57
Hello Everyone,
After working late into the night, I had 65% of TEENpup's apps working in Puppy 4.0.5
These were the same versions as TEENpup 2008. What was discovered was the very poor start up time. About 3 times slower. I might as well go and install something like SuSe or Mepis.
I'm running these experiments as I feel that unless I can update TEENpup's base LIB's EG: glibc 2.3.5 to 2.5 or latter, the changes to Adobe flash and new web browser standards that are slowly coming in will make TEENpup far less useful for Teens surfing the net. Who wants an O/S that can't view youtube.
I have tried every alpha/beta/finally release of the Puppy 3 and 4 series and they are aways done something that made them inferior to me than the Puppy 2 series. I know that it has something to do with the changes to the base system to give it Slackware compatability.
I feel I have no choice but to either stop developing TEENpup or take the journey into creating a new version of TEENpup based on the Puppy 2 series with updated base LIBS. Something tells me to stay with the same kernel.
Any advice from anyone on how to do this would be very helpful and speed up the next release which adds desktop widgets and alot more. So if you want to see a new version of TEENpup and can help with advice on updating it base LIBS please respond.
If not I will try my hardest to do it myself.
If in the end no one really cares, let me know as I'm getting tired of doing this stuff and are sadly enjoying my new XP based EeePC which I've Vista themed and looks excellent and everything just works. (Slow ly of coarse it's Windows)
Maybe like Barry it's time for a change.
Lastly what every happens, I'll never ever use Windows to connect to the internet.
After working late into the night, I had 65% of TEENpup's apps working in Puppy 4.0.5
These were the same versions as TEENpup 2008. What was discovered was the very poor start up time. About 3 times slower. I might as well go and install something like SuSe or Mepis.
I'm running these experiments as I feel that unless I can update TEENpup's base LIB's EG: glibc 2.3.5 to 2.5 or latter, the changes to Adobe flash and new web browser standards that are slowly coming in will make TEENpup far less useful for Teens surfing the net. Who wants an O/S that can't view youtube.
I have tried every alpha/beta/finally release of the Puppy 3 and 4 series and they are aways done something that made them inferior to me than the Puppy 2 series. I know that it has something to do with the changes to the base system to give it Slackware compatability.
I feel I have no choice but to either stop developing TEENpup or take the journey into creating a new version of TEENpup based on the Puppy 2 series with updated base LIBS. Something tells me to stay with the same kernel.
Any advice from anyone on how to do this would be very helpful and speed up the next release which adds desktop widgets and alot more. So if you want to see a new version of TEENpup and can help with advice on updating it base LIBS please respond.
If not I will try my hardest to do it myself.
If in the end no one really cares, let me know as I'm getting tired of doing this stuff and are sadly enjoying my new XP based EeePC which I've Vista themed and looks excellent and everything just works. (Slow ly of coarse it's Windows)
Maybe like Barry it's time for a change.
Lastly what every happens, I'll never ever use Windows to connect to the internet.