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[Roy]

ttuuxxx,

Thank you for this work... it's fantastic!

I downloaded your first version, loaded it onto a USB stick with Unetbootin, and booted into a nice, clean, well-organized desktop! Then I installed your 2 dot-pet upgrades and remastered a fresh CD -- my first attempt with Puppy's remastering program.
The updated CD works like a charm (I'm using it Live right now).

Monitoring Htop during normal work shows about 65MB of RAM is being used, although browsing with Seamonkey while watching a video movie and performing a full file system search takes the RAM useage to 520MB -- as if anybody in their right mind would do all that at the same time. lol

I'm beginning to think I could run this on an old Toshiba laptop that has only 64MB of RAM, if I create a 100MB swap partition! Of course, the ORIGINAL Puppy 2.14 had Xorg issues with some of those Toshiba video drivers... (Rerwin had posted a cure_for_hanging-probe fix somewhere in the Puppy 4 Beta thread, if I recall.) It will be another month or so before I see that old machine again but will gladly report back with results if anyone is interested. Will 214 Reloaded require that fix I wonder?

A couple of things, though; Which dot-pet series should we look for to add features? I am attaching a screen shot that is requesting an x-shockwave-flash plugin for Seamonkey and in an effort to minimize forum space, looked for the familiar Zip icon on the desktop to compress the file. It's not there! Would it be possible to write a Command Line function example in the Help file for a non-geek end-user to find and use? Of course, there's always Google.

Guys, THIS is why I like Puppy! This looks like a simple, clean, home operating system that works out-of-the-box with nearly all the functionality a home user would ever need.

Thank you, ttuuxxx!

P.S. - Either it's my bandwidth or the forum restrictions, but it doesn't look like my attached screenshot is going to make it. Sorry about that!

[EDIT] I forgot to ask: Since you are updating the filesystem on this distro, will Skype be able to run on it or is that a definite no-go due to other dependencies?

[clarf]

[clarf]

[mawebb88]

[mawebb88]

@ttuuxxx

Please can we have Pnethood from series 4 in 214x? LinNeighborhood does not work correctly with my Samba LANDisk (get giberish file names-common to LinNeighborhood with other distros). Pnethood works fine providing I fix the CIF problem by executing:

[mawebb88]

Seamonkey seems to crash quite often. Examples:

I had great difficulty in logging into My Yahoo.com. Persevered and now it works.

http://france.meteofrance.com/france/accueil crashes if you attempt to look at the weather on a future day. (Clue? i bocked the initial popup using SM's popup blocker)

Rgds Mike

[ttuuxxx]

Its the flash or a combo of plugins located in /usr/lib/seamonkey-1.1.16/plugins if you move the plugins to another location then restart Seamonkey you should be fine, It could be one of the other plugins. I'll keep working on it, maybe I might have to recompile Seamonkey, since all the changes to the backend.
I'll try that. Might have to disable utf8.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

[ttuuxxx]

For Pnethood try this package, please report back if it works
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

wow I just compiled the latest version of Samba 95MB extracted, what a massive program!!.
anyways I'll make a client package and post it.
ttuuxxx

[ttuuxxx]

Ok how did pnethood work for you? I removed the man pages and stripped the bins for samba and its 85MB, I also looked at the help documents, that takes 15mb, but at 85 MB its still a 31MB pet, I compared it to Barry's stripped down version, and well it looks nothing like it. Do you want me to post the 31MB pet of samba? I'll see if I can find a older/smaller version first.
ttuuxxx

[BarryK]

I have also been busy with Puppy2:

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00779

Feedback invited about what reasons you still use Puppy2.

[ttuuxxx]

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[ecomoney]

Wow! So much work going into 2 series! This is really going to save such a lot of old kit. I have used 2 series via ecopup (2.15ce based) essentially since it came out, and now I have some experience of 4 series. I was thinking of switching to offering a 4 series based install to my clients...I might have to rethink that.

The reasons I was thinking of switching were basically because I was having a lot of problems with 2 series with wireless...either new usb dongles or laptops with built in wireless....as well as trouble with it not running the latest applications (which this will solve). I was also having problems with newer printers (especially usb ones).

While its easy to get hold of older computers, getting hold of older peripherals is not. Ttuuxxx I hope you will use some of your valuable time to update the number of wireless dongles/cards automatically detected, as well as updating the Apps/CUPS which youve already done.

Ive got such a lot on at the moment getting the Mission cybercafe working so I can get a little money in, and my "company" is being audited at the moment as they are suspicious weve posted no profit in four years! This leaves me little time for testing this hardware-wise ATM.

When my current projects are done, my next move is to return to and finish the Puppy "Phoenix" CE project. This will essentially be an exercise in testing the "just works" part, as well as making improvements to look and feel, installers, file type handling and improving access to the most used/requested larger "end user" applications (i.e. Firefox/OpenOffice). This updated 2 series is looking to be a fine base for this, and if it is I will make sure you are well credited Ttuuxxx, and everyone else who has contributed.

Any news on the updated NTFS driver? And will you be adding an icewm package? Also a sensitive question...will Zigberts pSeries apps work? These seem to be maturing and overcoming their technical bugs/inefficiencies well.

Keep up the good work Ttuuxxx/others

[ttuuxxx]