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[FloppyDisk1.44]

[playdayz]

Floppydisk1.44

I have been looking forward to Opera 10.60 because it seems nice and fast, but there is some problem with playing media files in 10.60--a ubuntu problem as I understand it. It will be available in the Puppy Package Manager of 5.1 though and it sounds like you have installed it yourself.

[James C]

[Nooblet0218]

hmmm... i'm using opera 10.60 (i've been using it since it came out) on a full install lupu 5.01 and i haven't come accross this media player problem... I play flash/java apps well, and i've tried the opera unite media player and i'm able to play everything well... i used the .tar.gz install from opera to install this though so maybe that's the solution?

[Jasper]

Hi playdayz and all,

I was just reading about Keryx http://keryxproject.org/

Since it seems to collect Ubuntu package dependencies I just wondered (in the unlikely case that you don´t already know about it) if it might be of interest.

My regards

[rhadon]

Hi,

I'm also using Opera 10.60 portable from Michalis (same link, stu90 posted) with luci-209. No problems so far.

~ Rolf

Edit: If you want a different language pack, look here.
Best place seems to be /Opera-10.60-6386-portable (or whatever your folder is named)/share/opera/locale/
Installing: Menu -> Settings -> Preferences -> General -> Language, Details.
Choose your downloaded file (xxx.lng) and that's it

[willem1940NLD]

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

Sadly, I installed Ktorrent today with that packet manager, repeat of the old story and about fifty files to uninstall manually, one by one, to get rid of the disk fattenings. Do not understand yet how Pctorrent works but it is surely not user-friendly. I used Ktorrent in SUSE distros and it immediately came in the moment I clicked a torrent in Firefox.

"Pets" by quickpet are reliable, work fine.

Nevertheless, I grew addicted to Puppy Linux in only a few days; it is lean and quick and the most things that I need are present either in the distro or in quickpet.

I use it on 2 towers, each with 2xHD so always an extra swap partition on the "other" HD to use every bit of speed gain. Old machines, one is 1GHz 2x80GB IDE HD, 780MB RAM and the other 425MHz, 2x20GB IDE HD and only 256MB RAM.

[Béèm]

Couldn't resist trying opera 10.60 also.
Indeed quite more performance then SeaMonkey.
I looked in htop, but can't quite interpret the results.
I see multiple pids/instances for SeaMonkey as well as for Opera.
Should I add the ram footprint for each instance to have the total ram usage?
In that case I have overcommitment of my 1GB ram for SeaMonkey as well for Opera.

[B.K. Johnson]

Is the absence of a md5sum hash checker in lupu-501 an oversight or by design?

B. K. Johnson

[tronkel]

deleted, posted in the wrong place

[playdayz]

[playdayz]

[willem1940NLD]

[edoc]

Just loaded 508b2

Interesting desktop look ...

Still has the scrolling problem in Seamonkey.

[Sathors]

As stated in the title I can't update any packages on my lucid puppy.

When I go to quickpet and click update packages it pops a green window which tells me I have to go on the internet page automatically opened to download the updates, and then I have to click on it for the installation.

Alas the web page does not work any more and it tells me
"The Update is now part of the News
- run Quickpet
then News and click on any updates"
which I don't understand in the least.

Thank you for your replies !