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mories · Joined: 21 Dec 2009 Posts: 43

Is needed for Skype with pulseaudio.

Karl Godt · Joined: 20 Jun 2010 Posts: 4005 Location: Kiel,Germany

luma-002 is printing now with

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hu/lucid-updates/libpoppler5

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7841 Location: qld

playdayz..

um .. you do know I am itching to get hold of the devx Laughing

Cheers!

Iguleder · Posted: Sun 26 Sep 2010, 09:35 Post subject:

Playdayz, I have some tiny fix or suggestion, whatver you call it.

You could move first-run.sh to /root/Startup and add "rm /root/Startup/first-run.sh" at the end, that makes the wizard show up only once - if you restart X you see it again, kinda annoying for nvidia users. Wink

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6017 Location: Kentucky

Ive been trying out the latest Aptosid, the distro formerly known as sidux..........since the 2.6.35.4 kernel is frozen in Squeeze I'm assuming that will be the kernel used in Maverick.Seems like some pretty big improvements there, from what I've read anyway. Laughing

darwinev0lved · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83

Hi, just a quick initial impression. Trying luma-002 (although I think you missed a trick not calling it lump! or mmap) on my Samsung X05 that we all had such fun with for lucid 5. Well, so far, really good news: it booted straight up AND it seems to have immediately recognised the sound card. Hopefully this will be persistant as that was something that still wasn't right even with lucid 5.1.1 So that's great. Will test more thoroughly when I have time - I'll give it a whirl on my eeepc but for an alpha it's not looking at all bad.

scruffy · Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 43 Location: Bristol UK

Luma-002 frugal install.

Initial set up fine. Sound and Internet worked out of the box and both were persistent through reboots.

Pets working OK

Foxit
Gimp
Opera
Wine/Spotify
XFCE4 from Lucid News.
lxde-0.5.0-lucid.pet

I downloaded 2 Youtube videos and played them back with Mplayer in the following WMs

JWM peformance erratic at fullscreen -usually Ok
LXDE - ok
ICEWM - ok
XFCE4 - ok

Luma-002 is already looking very promising. Smile

Many thanks

scruffy

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3789

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2458 Location: Texas, USA

Lobster · Posted: Tue 28 Sep 2010, 00:20 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6017 Location: Kentucky

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3401 Location: Oregon

The easiest email program I have used as far as setup for a brainless person like me with an existing email account is Thunderbird.
I entered my email address and password and it found and set up my account without me having to add anything as far as mail server specs.
I started with Seamonkey and it's mail program that I jumped through hoops to get it set up. When I would upgrade to a different version of puppy, I would copy over my complete /root/.mozilla directory from the earlier version to retain my mail and bookmark settings.
I tried once from scratch to set up seamonkey email on a new puppy version and gave up after entering the same info in settings that I had previously used did not work.
So now you have a brainless person's insight on this! Smile

Iguleder · Posted: Tue 28 Sep 2010, 07:38 Post subject:

If you want both a browser and a mail client, your best choice is Seamonkey. Thunderbird and Firefox share lots of code, if you run both at the same time they take 20 MB more RAM than Seamonkey.

If you want something smaller - Midori and Sylpheed, but those two are limited, unfamiliar and the former is not stable as its competitors.

Also, you could use some web applications to save space, like the Freenode web IRC for the chat icon, as we did on dpup Smile

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5467 Location: Finland

I have Thunderbird folder outside savefile. Inside it is my configuration and mail copies folder .thunderbird. When installing new puppy, I just drag .thunderbird to /root and I make relative symlink. Then I drag the binary thunderbird to desktop. Works fine. And does not growth savefile much.

Default email program is difficult decision because of it is depending on what you are used to use. And that you can get your addressbook easily imported. Small client also does not have features what big client, like Thunderbird, has.

And quite many uses webmail, like gmail, only. They dont care much about mail client.

Configuring my Thunderbird over and over again made me use single Thunderbird installation outside savefile and it has been best solution so far.

scruffy · Joined: 09 Apr 2010 Posts: 43 Location: Bristol UK

I use Opera Mail which allows easy importing of contacts , mail accounts and saved messages.
I still think it would be prudent to include Sylpheed as a mail client is a 'core application'
(which is why most distros include email) along with a browser and those with a slow internet connection may regard this as an essential.

When I have used Sylpheed I've always found it works well.

After having said that I can certainly understand the opposing view. A difficult choice.! Confused