Guy Dog 5.0.1
- Lobster
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It is a great plan.I'm also working on revival of my own distro (Calf GNU/Linux), under a different name. I'm currently rewriting it and I want to write some T2-like infrastructure for cross-compilation of the entire distro, from source.
I'm getting two ARM chips soon and I want to be able to develop for them. They're extremely weak (300-400 MHz) and I want to build a truly minimalistic distro with TinyX11.
If it is efficient on the underpowered it will fly on more recent CPU.
Puppy can run well on many older systems. It is only right that 64 bit and touch screen, as well as the zipit messengers you are getting; are potential resources.
I hope you will also be Puppy Pi'ing (PARM) style in the new year . . .
When the MIPS style 'Dragon chip' comes in tablet form we should have new throwaway devices (eventually biodegradable)
Good luck with Moo or whatever Calf2 is called
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I found some nice packages that I want to include in the next version (or a new puplet):
- mplayer2, it's 2/3 the size of MPlayer, with libav compiled statically into it (which replace the MPlayer package's FFmpeg)
- Links, a very lightweight browser - it's good enough as a HTML viewer
- cwm, my new favorite window manager
- Feh, a smaller package
- muPDF, a ~5 MB PDF viewer that is way faster than any Poppler-based alternative (e.g Zathura, ePDFView)
- A new, smaller rxvt-unicode package with some bug fixes
- The Terminus font!
- mplayer2, it's 2/3 the size of MPlayer, with libav compiled statically into it (which replace the MPlayer package's FFmpeg)
- Links, a very lightweight browser - it's good enough as a HTML viewer
- cwm, my new favorite window manager
- Feh, a smaller package
- muPDF, a ~5 MB PDF viewer that is way faster than any Poppler-based alternative (e.g Zathura, ePDFView)
- A new, smaller rxvt-unicode package with some bug fixes
- The Terminus font!
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drag and drop
how can i change the pinboard to allow dragging and dropping icons to the desktop... or, are changes to something other than the pinboard required?
i like to have my "personal folder" on the desktop... that's all...basically, i use the right click menu button to access apps, etc.
i do not use wbar and, thus, have deleted it...
thank you...
i like to have my "personal folder" on the desktop... that's all...basically, i use the right click menu button to access apps, etc.
i do not use wbar and, thus, have deleted it...
thank you...
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hey there this puplet is pretty great! I was looking for a suitable replacement for pupeee in my life and i think we have a winner.
however couple of small little issues with it
1.For some reason on my asus 1005hab the stock network thing never works? so i always just install frisbee which works just fine.
2.It took a little noodling to get the xorg set up right. For some reason it always just cut off the sides way too much but i went through and found a res that works i just forgot the exact res i picked
3. For some reason i can not configure the touchpad? it works just fine and you can do tapping instead of clicking (which is odd) but when i try to use the flsynclient it tells me that there is no synaptics driver loaded. i am at a loss on how to deal with this one any suggestions would be great.
otherwise, everything else works like a charm! great puplet!
however couple of small little issues with it
1.For some reason on my asus 1005hab the stock network thing never works? so i always just install frisbee which works just fine.
2.It took a little noodling to get the xorg set up right. For some reason it always just cut off the sides way too much but i went through and found a res that works i just forgot the exact res i picked
3. For some reason i can not configure the touchpad? it works just fine and you can do tapping instead of clicking (which is odd) but when i try to use the flsynclient it tells me that there is no synaptics driver loaded. i am at a loss on how to deal with this one any suggestions would be great.
otherwise, everything else works like a charm! great puplet!
Hello! I would like some help for my only problem with this excellent puplet.
I installed Guy Dog 5.0.1. through the windows installer method that I saw in this forum, and then installed kde trinity.
My problem is that the system keeps asking for Rox (It says "not installed") when I mount a disk or when I open a file from a browser, which gets a bit frustrating. I tried all the Rox pets I could find but to no avail.
Can anyone please give me instructions on how to set konqueror as default, or link me a working rox pet? Thank you very much!
I installed Guy Dog 5.0.1. through the windows installer method that I saw in this forum, and then installed kde trinity.
My problem is that the system keeps asking for Rox (It says "not installed") when I mount a disk or when I open a file from a browser, which gets a bit frustrating. I tried all the Rox pets I could find but to no avail.
Can anyone please give me instructions on how to set konqueror as default, or link me a working rox pet? Thank you very much!
drag and drop
ah ha... re: my question above... i figured it out... just go to terminal and input rox -p=default... now, i have my "personal folder" on my desktop... i deleted wbar... and, i just use right click for menu...
by the way... this is a great OS... exceptionally fast and very stable...
thanks Iguleder...
by the way... this is a great OS... exceptionally fast and very stable...
thanks Iguleder...
drag and drop
oops... i spoke too soon... when i reboot, the pinboard no longer works and i am back to the original desktop with no drag and drop... i'll keep seeking answers until i find a way to make my pinboard work...
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Create a file under /root/Startup and make it executable:
Code: Select all
#!/bin/sh
rox -p /path/to/pinboard
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drag and drop
Iguleder, mission accomplished... your hard work, long hours and support of various puppy projects is very much appreciated...
- Hesse James
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Closed source Nvidia drivers
Hi Iguleder
I recently installed the Nvidia driver (285.05) on a frugal installation of Guy Dog 5.0.1
Afterwards the system font was enlarged dramatically so that this installation was unuseable. All attempts to decrease the font were unsuccessful. Do you have an idea how to workaround ?
Thanks in advance.
Christian
I recently installed the Nvidia driver (285.05) on a frugal installation of Guy Dog 5.0.1
Afterwards the system font was enlarged dramatically so that this installation was unuseable. All attempts to decrease the font were unsuccessful. Do you have an idea how to workaround ?
Thanks in advance.
Christian
There is no newer release of Guy Dog yet. I believe there might be eventually but for now Iguleder I believe is reviving calf linux I believe it is called. It is his own creation from a little while back.Is there a later release?
Guy Dog is on a back burner for now I think. Iguleder of course will be able to tell you more accurate info on Guy Dog im sure.
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003 is kind of frozen, since I'm very very busy these days. I'm working on many FOSS projects in parallel and I find it hard to work on a puplet with all this mess.
However, I'm working on a nice concept that could evolve into the second generation of Guy Dog. It's a very innovative concept - a mix n' match Puppy with dynamically-loadable SFSs that implement parts of it: each category of applications is contained in a separate SFS.
Also, another nice feature is the user of Xvfb instead of Xorg - it's a framebuffer-based X server that is much smaller, but lacks the hardware acceleration provided by the latter. I want to apply this philosophy in the graphics area too - each user installs a SFS with the right GPU drivers. I'm currently examining its dependencies and compatibility.
By the way, to install PET packages, run "petget /path/to/pet" to install a package. It will complain about a missing directory - just create it.
However, I'm working on a nice concept that could evolve into the second generation of Guy Dog. It's a very innovative concept - a mix n' match Puppy with dynamically-loadable SFSs that implement parts of it: each category of applications is contained in a separate SFS.
Also, another nice feature is the user of Xvfb instead of Xorg - it's a framebuffer-based X server that is much smaller, but lacks the hardware acceleration provided by the latter. I want to apply this philosophy in the graphics area too - each user installs a SFS with the right GPU drivers. I'm currently examining its dependencies and compatibility.
By the way, to install PET packages, run "petget /path/to/pet" to install a package. It will complain about a missing directory - just create it.
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