Grafpup with all the trimmings . . .(review)

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Grafpup with all the trimmings . . .(review)

#1 Post by Lobster »

This may be cutting edge or in my case over the edge . . .

Thought I would try the new graphpup - I boot up from a CD Burner and I was just preparing a disk when I realised I was about to burn to Puppy 1.0.6 (much yelping) I clicked cancel and thought I had got there in time but no it went ahead and fried the Puppy 1.0.6 (I use rewritable CD's) - never mind I am gonna test the new 1.0.7 later and stay in grafpup . . .

I did not heed the renaming of my old gafpupfile pup101 to pup100 and so it booted up with my previous settings and I tested to see if KDE was still there (an extra download) I also have Open Office. On returning to icewm I find I have Puppy Mt Paint , Open Office Draw, Graphpup (latest Gimp) and latest Mtpaint and KDE application available. Not sure if this is normal but I like it!

When I loaded Opera it tells me a new 8.5.1 is available - resisted the urge to be bleeding edge (that comes after cutting edge)

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One thing that may confuse newcomers when using KDE (definetly worth trying) - when you come pack to icewm you will be dumped to a prompt, type xwin icewm and all will be luvly (that loads the window manager)

Have Fun. Many thanks to Nathan and all those working with Grafpup :) I really like the idea of a multimedia Pup - good stuff . . .
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#2 Post by Nathan F »

type xwin icewm and all will be luvly
The correct code is actually 'xwin icewm-session2' and here's why. The script icewm-session2 is a startup script that runs icewm and makes possible the running of it's startup script, too. If you run icewm directly without the startup script then things like torsmo, for instance, won't execute as I've got them set up through this mechanism.

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#3 Post by Lobster »

Here is something on the sound side from vorbis - you may need alsa for some of the progs - but speex (a voice only sound codec is of interest)
http://www.vorbis.com/software/

Thanks Nathan :)
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