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Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5422 Location: GB

OK, Geoff, had a few moments this morning and discovered that the old favourite 10.3.183.18 still works, at least with your FF version. I think this is the preferred version recommended in Terryphi's list a year or two back?
I tried to attach a copy but it failed, perhaps on account of 5.3Mb so I will PM a copy to you. [But that didn't work either! Send me your regular email handle and I'll forward it?]

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2362 Location: Queensland

@sage,

It's ok I found a copy and repackaged it, get it here http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packages-carolina/flash_player_BBC-10.3.183.18.pet
or look for it in the package manager, can you please test this for me, though I'm sure it should work for you.

Cheers.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5422 Location: GB

Something went wrong - your file d/l name was a .gz, not a .pet. I was unable to extract it?
However, I found it in the repo and overwrote my copy - it still works. My guess is you have the correct one which is the same as my earlier one.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 2038

Geoffrey (and Marv too); thanks for the advice re Chromium and Slim Browser, I'll look into it.

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 2038

A quick update; I decided to install SlimBoat instead (of Chromium) and don't regret it; it's working well (and with Flash) and is IMO easier to navigate than Chromium is.

I can recommend it to others trying to find a browser to install in Carolina. The one snag is that glibc needs to be upgraded to 2.11, for which I believe you need the two files mentioned in this thread;

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=58130

which are hard to get hold of now. (I'd saved mine to my storage pendrive a year or so ago so already have them).

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 5422 Location: GB

Geoff & CP: You can make your URL links active by highlighting them and clicking 'URL' above the text box. You can do this retrospectively by using the 'edit' function, provided you are signed in on your current Forum session.
CP: suggest you send your files to Geoff. It should be possible to load them up to the Forum but it didn't work for me.
The Forum clock has gone crazy - I uploaded at 7:18 GMT which doesn't correspond to any international clock time.
Nice one CP!

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2362 Location: Queensland

Volhout · Joined: 28 Dec 2008 Posts: 524

Hi Geoffry,

Maybe you can take a look at Carolina's web page. The "NEWS" is that there is a 0.07RC available.....

Volhout.

Marv · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 1089 Location: SW Wisconsin

starhawk · Posted: Thu 21 Nov 2013, 11:16 Post subject:

Hey -- my best spare system (for testing Pups and such) right now is a slightly elderly VAIO. Two questions, but specs first.

VAIO VGN-S360
Pentium M 1.7ghz CPU
1gb RAM
dying HDD but boots from CD just fine

I've run some kind of Puppy on it before (Upup Precise IIRC) and it was fine, but I'm not sure about Carolina because that's a heavyweight... so...

(1) Does Carolina 1.1 have PAE enabled (I hope not...)?
(2) Would it be advisable to run Carolina on a machine with the specs given above? or would it be frustratingly slow?

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 2038

peebee · Posted: Thu 21 Nov 2013, 12:16 Post subject:

Reminder to me - don't post until you've tested.....

Ignore what I said.....

Playdayz's Slimboat for Lupu doesn't work - glibc v2.11 needed error messages in Lina1.0...

Post deleted!!!

Colonel Panic · Joined: 16 Sep 2006 Posts: 2038

Thanks, might be worth a try. I've had no luck so far in uploading the libc file; I keep getting a "Tried to upload empty file" message when I try it.

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2362 Location: Queensland

Geoffrey · Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2362 Location: Queensland