Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

NoNameAmI · Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 77

I just finished and tested a "Skinny" Puppy 4.0 and it seems to be working good. I need others to test it out and let me know if theres anything I may have missed.

SkinnyPup is made with Puppy unleased and is based on 4.0

Download (53.51MB):
http://ifile.it/4x3a612

MD5:
d9c0899e22c2fff9d9a71d4e5e189af7 SkinnyPup-4.0_a.iso

I removed a lot, added nano, unrpm, p7zip, unrar.

Seamonkey is not installed and neither are any libs from it.

trapster · Joined: 28 Nov 2005 Posts: 1966 Location: Maine, USA

More info please.
What exactly was removed and or added?

NoNameAmI · Joined: 31 Aug 2008 Posts: 77

I'm not sure what all was not added... only things I added were nano, p7zip, unrpm, unrar.

This is the first time I used the puppy unleashed thing. It seemed pretty straightforward, however I'm not sure how to get all the names of the packages that were not included and what packaged were.

If someone could help me with this, I will post the result.

claude · Joined: 14 Apr 2007 Posts: 153 Location: Saint-Jérôme, Qc

That is exactly for what I was looking for. I tried it and it works fine.

Thank you very much (Big Gratia) (Gros merci)

Claude

Puppy Dog · Joined: 21 May 2005 Posts: 58

Anything Fat Free or Skinny gets my attention,
especially if it's browser free.

I'm using Opera-9.52,flashplayer-9.0.48.0 and
REALPLAYER_11 (for.ra and.ram) at
http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/.

I'm sorry to say that I haven't found a way
for flashplayer to play well with the latest
Firefox 3.01-- or Firefox 3.01 to play well
with Puppy 2.13------------ Sad

Thanks for Skinny !
and Thanks Guys for all those great .pets ! Very Happy

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

please, mirror the iso somewhere, because there are errors when downloading file

Todd · Joined: 31 Aug 2006 Posts: 310

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Subito Piano · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 459 Location: UPSTATE New York

Seems to work fine on mine -- Pent1, 166mHz, 48MB RAM, big swap part.

SirDuncan · Joined: 09 Dec 2006 Posts: 836 Location: Ohio, USA

lwill · Joined: 13 Jun 2008 Posts: 168 Location: City Of Lights

I have been playing with Unleashed myself and made a script to make creating and editing package.txt files easier for me. It turned into a lesson learning bash, awk, and grep. Learn by doing as they say, it is ugly but did what I wanted, maybe it would be useful for someone else.

Usage: makelist.sh pakages.txt (or name of your package list) [on|off]
on lists only packages on
off lists only packages off
saves to file mypkglist.txt in same directory
It might list duplicates if there are different version of the same name.
Of course use at own risk, etc.

Lyle

tex · Joined: 23 Jan 2006 Posts: 12 Location: Richardson, Texas

I had trouble making the unleashed puppy so I tried SkinnyPuP. It works great. Thanks!

LaneLester · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA

I downloaded from Todd's site, but when it boots, it looks like normal Dingo. SeaMonkey is there. The CD looks the right size. I have some other Puppies on the hard drive, but I entered 0 when the boot routine displayed the files.

Later: Whoa! I went ahead and installed SP to my hard drive, and when I booted it from the hard drive, it was skinny! No SeaMonkey, etc.!

I have high hopes for this derivative, because I'm setting up a small school computer lab with old equipment that won't run the full-fledged Linuxes. I'd like to run frugal to enhance the speed, but that means I need to run skinny. And since I'm going to use both Firefox and OpenOffice, I don't need a lot of useless (to me and mine) stuff taking up space.

Puppy 4.1 will be out Real Soon Now. Do you have plans to upgrade SP to 4.1?

I'm still a newbie at Puppy; is there a good way to save customizations so you don't lose everything when you upgrade, say from 4.0 to 4.1?

Lane

Subito Piano · Joined: 27 May 2007 Posts: 459 Location: UPSTATE New York

When you ran Skinny, did you have a leftover pup_save file from a previous installation of Dingo? That would explain the erratic behavior. Watch it as it boots - it will tell you it's looking for an old pup_save file and using it. You don't want that until you've settled on a version.

I think you can do the upgrade thing if you do a frugal install of Puppy. Then you just replace the four main puppy files with the same four from the newer version's CD but keep your pup_save file -- something like that. If you load a newer version on an old one, it will "attempt" to do something similar but i believe the results will be somewhat unpredictable. Keep experimenting before you spend a lot of time tweaking (but you know that already).

Somebody correct me if i'm wrong!!! Confused

LaneLester · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA

LaneLester · Joined: 14 Sep 2008 Posts: 209 Location: Rural Georgia, USA

I installed Firefox 3 from http://world-mega-mall.com/puppy-linux/index.htm and I mistakenly selected the background thing instead of the icon thing when I was setting up the desktop icon. The result is that I now have no wallpaper at all.

So I went to /root/.icewm to edit the preferences file... but there isn't one! And there isn't one in /etc/X11/icewm!

Where is it?

Lane