How to make custom Puppy for school?

[badsaintz]

I'm a teacher at a local college here in the Philippines offering IT courses I've (personally) already used some of the great distro available i really love suse, ubuntu and PCLinux though i already had my hand on Linux still I'm a newbie in the world of Open Source especially Linux

well my problem is i wanted to do a full Linux setup on all PC in our Lab but since we live in a third world country were still using old/Legacy PC with ram of not more than 256mb so i decided to do some personal evaluation of small footprint distro such as puppy, knoppix, DSL and Xubuntu due to system constraints i have, so far puppy killed all the competition!
1. ease of use
2. installation
3. networking (wired/wireless) and,
4. speed

what i needed for our own blend of puppy is support for the following;
1. OpenOffice/oxygenoffice
2. gambas / realbasic
3. LAMP
4. Firefox
5. blender
6. gimp
7. c++
8. pascal/freepascal

you see I've been in the forum/site/blog anything related to puppy Linux for 2 months now (its our vacation) reading and testing but still could not figure-out how in the world to do it! i could not even install gambas decently nor office application
i still have 2 more weeks before class starts and i really needed help on this. if anyone could just help me out I'm sure with proper guidance i can make thus i really need help badly

right now I'm evaluating 4.20

[dogle]

Welcome, badsaintz! You've come to the right place, I'm sure.

Have you seen this thread which describes a project which I think has some things in common with your own?

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=281402

Be sure to check out Puppy 4.2.1

<edit> I should have added: the new "Puppy's portal page" should give you an easy installation of the 'popular' applications you mention, and I think 'unofficial' .pet packages are available for the remainder. Use this search to get these:

http://wellminded.com/puppy/pupsearch.html

Puppy has almost everything now - learning how to find it is the challenge! ;-)

[cthisbear]

Some help may be right at your doorstep.

raffy. PM him.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/profil ... file&u=133

Good luck.

Chris.

[thoase]

Why don't you give every student a bootable USB with Puppy installed?

Then every student has his/her "own computer" at the USB!!

I have a USB-installation with all the programs i need; OpenOffice, Pidgin, Skype...

And when when i travell, I just put my USB in my pocket and so I have "my computer" with me! Just find a PC and i'm back in business.

[badsaintz]

thanks i'll try to contact raffyM hope would give me a copy of his pinoyPup

@ thoase

i would love to see that one day but our student could hardly afford to continue college! luckily our school owner/founder is more than generous enough to offer the lowest Fees (province/state wide) to our student giving them a chance of life

[raffy]

Hi ya.

You can use this LAMP with 4.2.1:
http://minipc.org/lamp/

Use sfs by putting in in /mnt/home (the partition where your pup_save is) then reboot. Make sure its number is the same, like lamp_421.sfs.

Same with any OpenOffice_421.sfs (download the sfs then rename to your Puppy version). I suggest you use OpenOffice version 3.x.

For old PC,s I've packaged a lot of breeezy goodies (puppy 2.13). Get started with PXE-booting:
http://minipc.org/pxe/
This one is ready for eeePC 701-900.

I will upload other breeezy builds tomorrow.

Please check your PM.

[moogsydodong]

hi badsaintz...

I'm from the Philippines too(specifically Davao)...
heres some of the program you've requested

openoffice
http://puppylinux.ca/tpp/NOP/OpenOffice ... ma_413.sfs

gambas
http://dotpups.de/dotpups/Programming/gambas-1.0.19.pet
beta gambas
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21776

lamp
http://minipc.org/lamp/growler-amp_412.sfs

firefox
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=30434

blender
http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/aragon/ble ... 00.sfs.zip

gimp
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=34612

I believe you can program c/c++ using the devx sfs
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... modules-4/

freepascal compiler
http://puppyrus.org/pub/pet/fpc-2.2.0-0.pet

[badsaintz]

to sir Raffy & moogsydodong thanks sir i'm now downloading all the files needed i just hope i could crack my brain to create what we need keep you posted

[badsaintz]

good day to all~
i've tested pup4.20, Tipsy, Qbit & BoxPup
i love Qbit and Boxpup but the only puppy that gave me near perfect setup is puppy4.20 build (not 4.12) my only problem is gambas2-2.7.1.pet and gambas2-1.9.49.pet wont run on 4.20 it did run on the three other i mentioned earlier but not under 4.20
any info would greatly help


Test Machine:
VirtualBox 2.2.2
core2duo
2G ram

[moogsydodong]

hi badsaintz...

nabasa mo ba yung last post sa link sa gambas na ibinigay ko???...

sabi sa last post ok na daw ito sa 4.2
download mo dito
http://www.gposil.com/pets/gambas2-2.7.1.pet

pki tingnan nlng dito para sa dependencies...
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21776

sana gumana na yan...gud luck...

[badsaintz]

yes bro, download all the needed files(dependency) and installed here's what i did;

installed (in order)

1. xdg-utils_1.0.2.6.1.pet
2. libffi5_3.0.7-1_i386.pet
3. gambas2-runtime_2.7-1_i386.pet
4. gambas2-2.7.1.pet

still may lumlbas na depency err! or is my sequence wrong?

[badsaintz]

from : http://puppy-linux.awardspace.com/

2000-2008 Pentium IV 512Mb RAM Puppy 4 series.
2006-2008 Core 1Gb RAM Puppy 4 series.
2006-present Core 2* 1Gb RAM Puppy 4 series.

are the spec true?
if yes then i'm testing the wrong verion of puppy for my school!

what we have here are 256mb memory units and a couple of 1G!

[paulh177]

that site does not say what the source of it's information is; it looks as though it's what the site owner believes and is not based on any recommendations that I have found, either by Barry Kauler or on this forum.

256MB of RAM should be sufficient for any of the current official released Puppy versions (although perhaps not for a very large "puplet"?)

[James C]

I've tested 4.20 with 128 mb of ram and no swap and it ran fine. As always, more ram is better but 256mb should be plenty.

[badsaintz]

thanks now i could breath a little more not yet done testing my box i still have 4 more days before class starts...

[badsaintz]

good day to all!

we managed to install Puppy 4.2.0 k2.6.25.16-seamonkey on 20 PC!
we just have some minor problem (i think)
1. firefox seems to regularly shutdown (firefox-3.0.3.pet)
2. opera is a bit slow on a 256Ram PC (ch-opera-10.sfs)
3. i cannot install good office (i forgot the file)
4. i can install and use blender but the minute i install open oofice 2.2 the link to the menu doesnt seem to work anymroe (blender-py2.5-248_400.sfs + OO22-flash-java-pgs.sfs)
4.1 the latter office version also installs another copy of blender why is it? i think thats where the problem occurs! (even if i install blender first over openoffice2.2 or the other way around same result)
4.2 i managed to find the link of blender and i manually created a link unto my desktop so i can use it just to inform you guys.
5. openoffice3 (openoffice-3.0.0.sfs) is really slow on 256PC thus i opted to use 2.2 version
6. i installed devx_420.sfs but geany0.16 cannot seem to find the compiler for g++/c++.
7. geany0.16 doesnt show the compiled program either from JAVA/g++/c++/FreePAscal (im using geany0.16 coz its lightweight!)

any suggestion would surely do help!
help is really a grace from up above!

[ttuuxxx]

Sorry I just found this thread, I would of helped out, hmmmmmmm I'll try a few things and if it works, I'll be back with a update.
ttuuxxx