hm
how to say it without to hurt you terribly, I don't know...
I did start the new version
I did adapt it as I work without any save file (I need a few quantity of links in /root for that)
I did show what is in it
I did prepare my /mnt/home/archpup/install directory
and rebuild the archpup-12.12.sfs (important: not archpup.sfs, not archpup-1212.sfs, not archpup-12.12-1 but archpup-12.12.sfs, why, I don't know...), my *.SFS is a little smaller,
and use it...
and return immediately after the first hour to the precedent version...
why?
I miss the "freshness" being in the 3thd precedent versions...
to much script working at your side
to much preparation's work at my side:
the distro become more complex, works probably better with special hardware but include the about same AND NEW formalism (that I did eliminate for me
)...
I disconnect me from the new version and continue to use the version from before (as I did made a certain long way already with it). I don't will change.
my prognostic is: ArchPup will become bigger and bigger to simulate a complex complete Linux, a complete menu index.
as I did say, the freshness and transparency become away. the user has more to do as with a complete Puppy...
I am sorry, it is my opinion!
I daily use
- browser
- picture manipulation
- picture viewing from photo camera
- HTML editor
- Java / flash to contribute in OpenStreetMaps
- vi or cat > to my.txt << "EOF"
txt txt txt
EOF
- i find complete Nano and complete Geany (binded in the system functions, so I have to replace it with Beaver or Leafpad to don't to loose that functions. But I am not a system programmer any more... I understand that he can wish it to make it's job, although Christophe, the creator of Slitaz, did explain to have done all in nano, you can read that yourself in the doc of Slitaz 1, it is yet online... For a system programmer it is a easy thing to add Geany. For the average user, it is a crux to erase geany to save memory / file size without to loose functions...)
- PDF viewer
- scanner
- word processing and printer
- qemu
- sometimes wine as it is often more easy to bind a in /usr/bin not present application in wine than to install it in Linux because of dependences ... k-meleon starts immediately, no graphic library missing! starts...
an important part of that is slow to change after start in ArchPup and the help founded in the new iso are of cosmetic kind
the question is what we want!
- a conventional Puppy
- a smart and small Puppy
- a Puppy using obligatory a save file to work fast and comfortable
- a new Puppy needing no save file at all and starting fast and starting without tragic the SFS-file(s) on them it is based to have all needed figures really necessary for daily use!
- a new Puppy using already existing extensions as SFS
- or a new Puppy having a new among of adequate SFS's for it himself to view all things, to scan all things, to print out or show all things (it can be the future, but we don't have already that)
add Arch applications is a solution but archpup grows and grows more than other puppy because nobody did optimize in the background the packages before you add it and Arch do the same as Slitaz (initially only about 30 Mb since more than 5 years!): it installs all needed stuffs, or, certainly, more than usually included in Puppy packages, so that you can easily install more thant 2 Gb in Slitaz and probably more in Arch...
the pet2sfs from ArchPup is a good solutions, as the Puppy packages are often pre stripped, only that dependencies are often missed.
short conclusion:
it needs to much engagement from me by using it and to much time to operate with it.
rgds