Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

gray · Last edited by gray on Mon 16 Jan 2012, 03:53; edited 1 time in total

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.

Also

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.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 681 Location: UK

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

kros54 · Posted: Mon 28 Nov 2011, 09:54 Post subject: Congratulations

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.

oligin10 · Joined: 17 Jul 2010 Posts: 154 Location: Buckeye State, USA

As others have said, thank you for all you have done. Can't wait to try this out. Rob

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4638 Location: GB

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?!

stifiling · Joined: 29 Dec 2007 Posts: 387

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??...

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1507 Location: Ontario Canada

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.

Tuxified · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 9

Downloading now, Thanks Gray!

arj_pup · Joined: 04 Nov 2011 Posts: 16 Location: india

gray: can u help be on replacing rox with thunar in lucid puppy with xfce compiled form source

Max Headroom · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 181 Location: GodZone Kiwi

& 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!

Smile

K

Max Headroom · Joined: 28 Jun 2006 Posts: 181 Location: GodZone Kiwi

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...

Smile

K

Geoffrey · Posted: Wed 07 Dec 2011, 00:48 Post subject:

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

TheBlackSheep · Joined: 23 Nov 2008 Posts: 19 Location: Lancashire, UK

Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed Crying or Very sad

- 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

sc0ttman · Joined: 16 Sep 2009 Posts: 2199 Location: UK

rjbrewer · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 4377 Location: merriam, kansas