Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[Marv]

Nice summary, Mikeslr.

In addition to my more stable system folders, I keep a folder named experimental in the Boot partition and an entry for it in menu.lst. Then if I want to quickly try something out, I just mount the relevant iso image and copy the relevant files into experimental and reboot to it. If it's worth pursuing, I copy it to its own folder, if not, it gets permanently removed. Praise to thunar and its custom actions on rightclick.

edited: Not for the faint of heart, but I have changed the command in thunars permanently remove custom action to just rm -rf %F (with an appropriate LARGE red icon). I do enough shuffling and jiving so I like not being nagged. Running frugal, I always have a savefile backup and yes, even the poweroff button before the next save.

[mikeslr]

Nice addition Marv. Good tip.

I've edited the instructions above for modifying menu.lst as I had left out the step to prevent inadvertently using the SaveFile from an already installed Pup.

mikesLr

[gcmartin]

GRUB4DOS has a wonderful feature when it is used from the Menu.

The feature will find (or attempt to find) bootable entries on behalf of the user as it builds its menu.lst during installation.

I think (but understand I say "I think") that the reason for continued re-use of GRUB4DOS by those who are not as familiar with its configuration file would be to get GRUB4DOS to do all the work of properly tailoring the menu.lst.

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[pchan]

Elroy and geofrey,

Please don't stop this wonderful project of developing carolina.

I am also a big fan of saluki 023.

It cannot be denied that Jejy69 is doing a very wonderful project with lxde multipup. And there is great potentials in precise_lxde multi.

But carolina, like saluki is based on Racy.
Racy has many pets and sfs that works well.

Precise puppy lx and carolina/saluki are my favourite puppy linux.

Precise has a lot of hopes because of ubuntu. Carolina useful because of racy power and well integrated xfce4.

(i also used to like macpup and its e17 implementation. But i need to know that i can have the ability to use compiz if needed. Compiz has 1 feature that i need from time to time. And that is its 'enhanced desktop zooming.' Racy and precise based puppies appears to have the abilities to run compiz well. Yes, macpup is also based on precise but at the moment my favourite precised based puppy is the one that allows mate, lxde, cinnamon, kde.)


Keep it up! I am happy when i see what BK is doing as well as people like you, Jejy69, micko and others. This is a nice community and it helps to know that without having to use bloated microsoft windows or bloated linux, one have to chance to do useful things on a not expensive laptop/desktop. Hopefully, in future, on arms tablets. Thanks!

[yumatu]

Wery nice puppy with XFCE!Thanks!

[elroy]

[Sage]

[jpup]

Thanks for this wonderful release...
This version is special to me since it shares the same name with my girlfriend. I hope you guys will continue to develop it.

Works pretty good although I have encountered some minor problems.

I did a frugal install to a 1 Gb mini SD card on my Asus 1215B (AMD E 450)

really amazing how it could run on such a small storage device.

CPU scaling works, selected the K8, and on demand, I can switch via the notification panel, just like the asus super hybrid engine on windows, I wish I could set middle clock speeds for the performance mode (I want it to max to just 1.3GHz on performance not all the way to 1.6, and 1.6 when on turbo)

It feels a bit slower than precise, but I haven't really tinkered with the graphics drivers, and maybe the transparency effect I've added eats up more resources (just xfce settings, no compiz added yet, I really love xfce)

Wireless works, but there are a few issues. I'm also using an external USB card (RTL8187), it works well but, cant seem to use it with frisbee, since I cant select it as the active interface, it seems like frisbee sees both cards active and the tab for changing interfaces is greyed out.
You can still scan and try to connect but you get the cant set ssid error.
I'm currently just using the SNS, and it woks fine, but sometimes I get weird network behavior, I can stream radio, even video via umplayer, but surfing on the web browsers is really slow, and usually end up in time out errors. This happens occasionally. Also, it is best to boot up with the usb wifi card already connected, seems that wireless works better when it's set as wlan0 by the system, and the panel icon works better, you get the cross on the icon when you right click to select the disconnect from network, which should be how it works, this doesn't happen if you connect the usb card only after boot. Reconnect also works. I also experience some trouble with that icon after applying transparency effects. Now I need to right click and hold to select the options, otherwise, it will select whatever if you release it.


I love umplayer by the way, although its kind of slow, probably because of the graphics drivers, and umplayer still needs some functions sorted out.

There is this annoying issue with the mouse pointer, if you click on a window's title bar (or edges, any place related to moving or resizing a window) while it is behind another window, you lose control of the mouse, it becomes a cross, you can move the pointer but you can't click anything, and the only remedy is to do an ALT+TAB to regain the control.

Also I think some things should not be able to have multiple instances, because it will cause trouble.

PPM works good, but I think the single click to select should be changed to double click for easier navigation and to avoid accidents.

Pupsave issues... system keeps saving even if the auto save function is disabled.

Can't seem to load a savefile from the HDD when booting from the sd card install, works with the live CD.

wine works, got some of my windows apps running, but mostly portable versions.

weather plugin works

vlc seems to have issues with gst-ffmpeg, keeps saying its missing eventhough its been installed.

sensors seem to work, but I cant get conky to show cpu temps, or I just don't know how,

I've been using mostly buntu based distros in the past. I think the concept of the puppy running on RAM is great idea, really responsive system and such a small fingerprint. And I hope you guys keep up the good work.

thank you very much. looking forward to new updates and releases.





sorry for typos/errors/whatever, if there are any, the touchpad is annoying when typing, cant seem to disable it.

[mcewanw]

Interesting distribution. Tried it on my Pentium D 3.4GHz desktop.

I like some of the provided apps as slick alternatives to many of the usual Puppy gtkdialog-based creations. I've always felt that gtkdialog has its limitations though it is good for quickly putting a frontend together for some underlying utility or utilities. That said, I was wanting to try pavrecord in this to see if it functioned, but there being no ffmpeg supplied it obviously doesn't. No bit deal; you provide UCview anyway though I do miss ffmpeg (and ffplay) for other reasons and couldn't find a version in your repo. Having said that, ffmpeg is not something users coming directly over from Windoze or Mac are likely to be looking for... but nice to have the option, I think, rather than having to boot up different Puppy versions for different features.

A very nice desktop experience though, definitely fills a niche.

[Geoffrey]

[mcewanw]

[jpup]

tried the custom builder tool just now... says some packages could not be found in the repos

[elroy]

[Montchalin]

[linux]