Grafpup with all the trimmings . . .(review)
Posted: Wed 23 Nov 2005, 13:45
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)
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 . . .
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)
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 . . .