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gray

Joined: 23 Feb 2007 Posts: 318 Location: Adelaide - South Australia
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 06:59 Post subject:
Racy NOP 5.2.2 Subject description: Nearly Office Pup based on Racy 5.2.2 |
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Nearly Office Pup is an XFCE based puplet, so called because it is a no frills pup without office apps. The idea being that you install to USB pendrive and add an SFS file of the office package.
Racy NOP 5.2.2 is based on the recently released Puppy Racy 5.2.2 with JWM and Rox removed and replaced with XFCE4.6.2 and Thunar.
Note I tried XFCE4.8.3 but had lots of issues - especially with the new Thunar and gvfs dependency hell. Still not mature enough for any real use.
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Seamonkey suite replaced with Opera 11.52
Added modified Pwidgets
Removed Geany, Notecase, Homebank, Planner, Ayttm, Osmo, Inkscapelite, Games and of course Abiword & Gnumeric.
get racyNOP-5.2.2.iso (122Mb) from http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop
Also at same site is LibreOffice3.4.4.sfs and NVIDIA-290.10-k3.0.7.pet
update to revision 1 Jan 16 2012:
racyNOP-5.2.2r1 is a small update, upgrading Opera to V11.60 and adding lmsensors, and xarchive unrar and 7z capability.
Last edited by gray on Mon 16 Jan 2012, 03:53; edited 1 time in total
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Ray MK

Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 773 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 08:00 Post subject:
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Hi gray
Many thanks for this - absolutely fantastic.
Flies on my old Acer TravelMate 243LC laptop. Manual frugal to ext4 and a 800mb swap partition.
256mb ram, 2.5Ghz Celeron Proc. Wifi via pcmcia Belkin card.
Nice to see Opera and xfce/thunar - outstanding combination.
Initial setup to desktop etc, is so easy and intuitive - superb.
Greatly appreciate all you do for us with NOP.
Very best regards - Ray
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kros54
Joined: 17 May 2009 Posts: 106 Location: member of Hungarian Puppy Linux Community
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 09:54 Post subject:
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The NOP is one of my favorite!
Some of the packages was the compilation error. The Lupu 5.2X version of localization is very simple: package manager - system - Langpack - mouse clicks and you're done. (Of course, refinements remain, but it did so almost automatically the Rexbang the Macpup etc. puplet case. Too bad it was just a Geany out of it, but I did return. I like that the latest kernel in it.
The RAM is very low.
Congratulations, this will be the Hungarian edition.
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oligin10
Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 194 Location: Buckeye State, USA
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Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 10:19 Post subject:
Thanks Gray |
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As others have said, thank you for all you have done. Can't wait to try this out. Rob
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Sage
Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5370 Location: GB
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Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 08:08 Post subject:
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Sheer genius! Boy! are you competent, gray. All the old familiar polish. No Flash or Opera to load - you've already done it for us. Xfce already implemented - my favourite. Absolutely no excuse for neophytes, now.
Welcome back and long may you reign.
Are we lucky to benefit from all this talent?!
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stifiling
Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 388
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Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 10:02 Post subject:
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this is nice. using it on my thinkpad. finally retired nop 431 for now.
would be nice to have a 64 bit nop...how bout slapping one of those together for us??...
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Billtoo

Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3421 Location: Ontario Canada
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Posted: Tue 29 Nov 2011, 10:24 Post subject:
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I did a manual frugal install to a gateway desktop pc.
I added xineplus-racy-i686.sfs,vlc-1.1.12-racy-i686.sfs,
and seamonkey-2.5-racy-i686.pet.
Everything is working well.
Thanks.
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Tuxified
Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 9
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Posted: Wed 30 Nov 2011, 03:19 Post subject:
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Downloading now, Thanks Gray!
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arj_pup
Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 16 Location: india
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Posted: Wed 30 Nov 2011, 13:13 Post subject:
Re: Racy NOP 5.2.2 Subject description: Nearly Office Pup based on Racy 5.2.2 |
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gray: can u help be on replacing rox with thunar in lucid puppy with xfce compiled form source
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Max Headroom

Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 357 Location: GodZone Kiwi
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Posted: Sat 03 Dec 2011, 16:17 Post subject:
Please can AnyBody Help w/ Getting Compiz Working w this Tha Subject description: I've got the NVidia Driver installed & libwnck & compiz-0.8.4 Packages installed... |
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& I've Done a Dependency Check on these Packages. No Problems there. Also the NVidia Splash Screen Displays
Here is the Output from Terminal
# compiz
compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0
Or Might Newer Updated Packages be Required 4 the New 3.07 Ke*nel?
Thanx in Advance!
K
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Max Headroom

Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 357 Location: GodZone Kiwi
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Posted: Sat 03 Dec 2011, 17:22 Post subject:
G'day Gray, Welcome back from Another Galaxy :) Subject description: Any Chance of a New V'Box SFS Package & / or Pet 4 the New 3.0.7 Ke*nel, Thanx...? |
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Stop Press, I Found an All Ke*nel Versions Pet Package, But it Won't Run...
Here is the Terminal Output
# VirtualBox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.0.7) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ^C
# sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS ...failed!
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)
And the Log Message Contents in Question
/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: line 55: make: command not found
Any Help Will be Greatly Appreciated...
K
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Geoffrey

Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2345 Location: Queensland
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2011, 00:48 Post subject:
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I noticed that restartx doesn't work, /usr/bin/restartwm kills the panel where in Quirky it kills the session, the scripts are identical accept for one difference Code: | if [ "`pidof xfce4-panel`" != "" ];then
#killall xfce4-panel
kill `pidof xfce4-panel` |
and this is the quirky one Code: | if [ "`pidof xfce4-session`" != "" ];then
#killall xfce4-panel
kill `pidof xfce4-session` |
Just edit restartwm with the Quirky code and it will work, with this now working it is possible to add a entry to the menu to restart the window manager, /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu needs to be edited add this line Code: |
<Filename>restartwm.desktop</Filename>
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so that the menu script looks like this, you will find it listed at line 29 Code: | <Separator/>
<Filename>xfce4-help.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>logout.desktop</Filename>
<Filename>restartwm.desktop</Filename>
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Next a desktop menu file needs to be created in /usr/share/applications, open that directory and create a new file and name it restartwm.desktop and paste this code and save it.
Code: | [Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=restartwm
Icon=restartwm.png
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Categories=X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel;
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
Name=RestartWM
Comment=Restart Xfce Desktop
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Now a icon is needed for the menu, I couldn't find one in the icon theme, so I made one, it needs to be placed in /usr/share/icons, just right-click and save the image below.
let me know if it don't work, though it should
Geoffrey
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TheBlackSheep

Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 20 Location: Lancashire, UK
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2011, 08:22 Post subject:
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Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.
Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?
TheBlackSheep
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sc0ttman

Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2571 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2011, 13:00 Post subject:
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TheBlackSheep wrote: | Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.
Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?
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How to 'switch' kernels:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60180
Follow the guide in the link above and you can replace the kernle you're using with one from another Puppy ISO...
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rjbrewer

Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4421 Location: merriam, kansas
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Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2011, 13:37 Post subject:
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TheBlackSheep wrote: | Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.
Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?
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Like your D600, my 700M also uses a Pentium M cpu.
These have a 400MHz FSB which doesn't work with PAE.
Think I'll try that kernel switch on Racy and Saluki when I
get some time.
Good luck.
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Inspiron 700m, Pent.M 1.6Ghz, 1Gb ram.
Msi Wind U100, N270 1.6>2.0Ghz, 1.5Gb ram.
Eeepc 8g 701, 900Mhz, 1Gb ram.
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