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ldolse · Joined: 23 Oct 2009 Posts: 358

Working on it, apologize for jumping the gun, got excited when I read the post, but need to test it and verify.

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 29 Sep 2011, 04:55 Post subject:

Next Puppy 29092011 is being built right now, with two important changes:
- A dhcpcd bug fix - for some reason the build script got messed up so some files were missing
- Transmission 1.93 - the 2.x series is much bigger and heavier, while 1.9x is lighter and small

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

added to big Puppy list Surprised

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyVersion

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 29 Sep 2011, 06:59 Post subject:

Thanks, darkcity!

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Uploading Next Puppy 5.0.2 29092011, with all the new features since alpha 3. It's simply amazing how much better it is Smile

EDIT: still uploading, it's extremely slow ...

I decided to make small Abiword and Gnumeric packages, too - I want to see how small I can get them.

Abiword's core dependencies (wv and libgsf) are ready and extremely tiny - now I need to get Abiword to compile. Gnumeric (and goffice, its dependency) will follow, hopefully Smile

I'm doing this in protest against ICPUG's comment in Barry's blog, which claims Next Puppy isn't aimed at content creation because it lacks these. This is incorrect, because things like Google Docs exist (and there are more reasons why they're out, like their limited usefulness in a world dominated by LibreOffice).

stu90 · Posted: Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:46 Post subject:

I don't recall ever using Abiword and Gnumeric. Cool

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 29 Sep 2011, 12:50 Post subject:

Good news: I got Abiword and all its dependencies stuffed in ~2.5 MB and now I'm trying to get Gnumeric to build. It has a build-time dependency on scrollkeeper (which is missing) so I'm doing a first testing build of an improved build script that patches the sources to remove this annoying dependency.

It's kinda funny - it builds just fine but the installation itself fails because of this.

I want to do a full build of an E16-powered dpup with Abiword and Gnumeric - I aim at <= 105 MB. This can compete with the size of the early 4.x series easily Very Happy

pacer106 · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 365

Well Damn Iguleder.

You are a whirlwind of ideas Smile

I hope it all works well. I do not use those programs myself but cant hurt to have them IMHO.

About to burn & check out the new released Next Puppy. Already excited about it lol.

New theme probly coming as well once ive checked it all out.

Iguleder · Posted: Thu 29 Sep 2011, 13:31 Post subject:

Yay! Fixed it!

Now we have fresh builds of the latest librsvg, wv, libgsf, goffice, Abiword and Gnumeric. Very good!

Now I'm building a new dpup with Woof and I'm going to remaster it with all these. While Woof is running, I'm learning how to build LibreOffice. I want to see if it's possible to make a small LibreOffice package with just Writer, Impress and Calc that is built on dpup, natively. Smile

pacer106 · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 365

So far this is a winner & can only get better if you ask me Smile

I had kernel panic the 1st try with connecting online using sns. got booted back up & used my frisbee sfs to get online. It was quicker getting an IP this time but still not instant so hopin the next version with the dhcp fix takes care of that.

New screener of desktop.

pacer106 · Joined: 11 Jan 2011 Posts: 365

Here is a new theme i made. I like how on my widescreen monitor it seems to change.

Just unpack to ~/GNUstep/Library/WindowMaker/Themes & enjoy.

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 30 Sep 2011, 02:55 Post subject:

More new stuff - the next build has Abiword, Gnumeric and Osmo. I also decided that D-Bus should be enabled by default, since it's a 'lil bit confusing for novice users.

I learnt how to build SDL - now we have a ~200 KB package. Nothing depends on it at the moment, but it's good to have, because 99% of Linux games want it and MPlayer could use it to provide another video output source.

Now I'm trying to get Freeciv to build, to see if this SDL package is good.

EDIT: ummmm.... weird. Freeciv won't build, but I was able to build, install and play Chocolate Doom Very Happy

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5170 Location: Finland

Iguleder. Enabling dbus is good idea. If you have fresh frugal install or pfix=ram booting, you cant use Bootmanager. It is difficult for even advanced user to enable dbus without gui app to do it.

Iguleder · goffice-0.8.17.pet

There is a GUI for this, but you're right - you can't start it easily in a live session.

By the way - Chocolate Doom is really nice!

EDIT: I just found out that MPlayer can be used as a webcam viewer, so I added a menu entry. This harms the one-application-per-task philosophy, but MPlayer is intended to be a multi-purpose multimedia player and all webcam viewers (except Luvcview, which is extremely ugly and unstable) have lots of dependencies, so this is a good choice.

EDIT 2: here are some fresh packages, built for the next release. The forums won't let me upload Abiword (which is 2.3 MB).

Iguleder · Posted: Fri 30 Sep 2011, 18:12 Post subject:

Here are some goodies: Openbox, Docker (a system tray) and lal (a clock). Much smaller than E16 and more minimalistic.

I'm doing a nice experiment - I'm trying to build something even more minimalistic. Looks great so far. Smile

(by the way, it's the smallest Openbox package I've ever seen)

Shep · Joined: 08 Nov 2008 Posts: 840 Location: GIRT-BY-SEA