Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[big_bass]

"Ever since the resignation of Gentoo's founder and benevolent dictator from the project in 2004, the newly established Gentoo Foundation has been battling with lack of clear directions and frequent developer conflicts, which resulted in several high-profile departures of well-known Gentoo personalities. It remains to be seen whether Gentoo can regain its innovative qualities of the past or whether it will slowly disintegrate into a loose collection of personal sub-projects lacking clearly-defined goals."

the above quote was taken directly from Distro Watch


if we replace the word gentoo for puppy how does it read
will history repeat itself .

A very important point to ponder

I personally dont want that to happen
and I built my own derivatives from unleashed every pup since 2.13 through 3.01 *including retros * that I can easily update I did think about this a long time ago
and prepared for it
my positive actions in the puppy community reflect that
I will survive and I have many real plans that are in progress

on the "list" or off the list
I fight the good fight and press forward

I am also working with "amigo" an above developer
and I know good results will follow

P.S My thanks to the many multi-talented people in Puppy
that you cant fit into a box


big_bass -----> The fat free series

[tronkel]

@big_bass

I am wondering about that as well. Such a scenario could happen with Puppy and would be bad news.

The number of OS versions that actually function out-of-the-box with any given hardware combination seems to be decreasing. This applies to both Linux and Windows. I know, because I have tested most of the important ones.

One thing that testing has thrown up, is that Puppy - alongside Debian and Ubuntu - virtually always works, at least on the hardware selection I have available here. The rest are distinctly problematical.

This makes Puppy an important tool for me - and most likely many others as well

It is therefore important to ensure that the Puppy Project survives in such a fashion that its hardware functionality stays up-to-date and continues to be innovative as well. It will take a lot of doing to ensure this. Where will all of the necessary expertise come from? There are good competent people in the community, but Puppy is not covered for everything unfortunately. It was Barry who did most of the real implementation and innovation. If he is no longer available to the necessary extent, I fear the project will suffer.

Action needs to be taken now to find a replacement(s) from elsewhere if necessary, to ensure that Puppy does not do a Gentoo. Should we even consider working together with Gentoo as a self-help project?. Two heads are better than one. Both projects might survive better if they collaborate. Gentoo is built from source - something that would certainly help Puppy development as well, since Puppy is basically built from source as well via T2.

[Lobster]

jebaJQ8 is the name of the graphic artist - I could not remember

I have asked him and rastapix for logos
meanwhile . . .



Also darrelljon can you tell us where and how you are doing the documentation?

[jpeps]

[darrelljon]

[HairyWill]

[alienjeff]

[ttuuxxx]

[quote="HairyWill"]

[HairyWill]

[raffy]

About the old site being useful:

1. No, they would not allow ssh access and that rules out the use of GIT in that site;

2. The old wiki is still there and people can put it to however it suits their needs: pupweb.org/wikka

I've been into minimalist systems and would likely continue work in pre-3.xx development, the way big_bass and amigo are working. If I remember right, this was one development direction led by economoney, but he's been silent for sometime.

Net-booting is a feature of the 2.16 release (that is valid with versions 2.13-2.16), so I hope that this part of development continues. Dougal and pakt have also worked in this area (in the development of 2.14R).

[Lobster]

[HairyWill]

I still don't really understand the model under which puppy linux will work after barry stops releasing.
The name Puppy Linux is Barry's. Either he gives it explicity to someone else (person or legal entity) or it makes no sense to use it. You can't have an official puppy linux without Barry's consent otherwise we could all fork and release our own official versions.

I was on holiday 2 months ago when this all kicked off. Weren't there a couple of people that put their names forward then? How did that end up? What was Barry's reaction?

As for an improvement, I would like to see the xorgwizard automated. At the very least there should be a timeout option that will boot straight to a default resolution.

[big_bass]

hey all
and I do mean all
those that posted and those that will post


after quite a pause
I chose to post here again but choose to measure my words with care

1.) being herded is for cows * I hope someone else can spell that out clearer
I wont bog down any of my CPU cycles if you dont get it

2.) people that share interests form friends ,and many friends form groups
at no time are they ever forced to be led and they enjoy because they share something key word --share

3.) I always reserve a place in my mind to interested by a good Idea from someone else

4.) you can never have too many friends the good the bad and the ugly

everyone gets a piece of the puzzle
what makes life interesting is who has the next piece you need

big_bass

[jebaJQ8]

[Lobster]

Thanks jebaJQ8

You are a star . . .

Placed them here
http://tmxxine.com/wik/wikka.php?wakka=PuppyCommunity