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greengeek

this is what i intend to do if i can take a simple debian 12 build and strip everything except the essentials out of it so i have just a core sfs everything else will be added later as sfs files Oh how I miss RSH / Taersh etc. This is exactly the sort of thing Puppy should be doing (already did). S...

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many Puppy releases built by it ship with dead stuff like X.Org, GTK+ 2 and ROX-Filer, almost-dead stuff like aufs, misconfigured kernels with bad hardware support, and other problems. The low rate of change means stagnation that some describe as maturity ('it ain't broken', etc'), and one day it w...

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Is this a real problem? Is this the primary reason for Puppy's stagnation, and not the lack of skilled contributors? Has puppy stagnated? Or has it matured to the point where users can fairly easily hit the sweet spot for their particular hardware and get on with their computing without drama. Yes,...

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From what I can gather, it "seems" that .pet packages would work best for small individual programs and .sfs files for larger programs or sets of programs. In my usage the size does not matter. There is one significant difference between pets and sfs - that relates to how you have decided...

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So I offer this topic to have others post why they hope Amethyst will stay active on this forum. I am only guessing - but I suspect that Amethyst was mortified by the thought that his suite was potentially being blamed for such a very serious flaw. To be on the receiving end of that kind of complai...

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One thing that I see is now always needed in a Puppy version is the Apt Package Manager. I have never understood this concept. I never saw anything wrong with the PPM idea of accessing packages that have been tested (or developed) by fellow Puppians. Does "Apt" have any understanding of t...

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Doggy wrote: ↑Fri May 10, 2024 5:14 pm
When I see how well-organized some people's desktops are, and then I look at the chaos on mine, it sends shivers down my spine.

Haha ! Go on - post a pic!

greengeek

Also very slow here down in KiwiLand today.
Damn Ruskies.
Must be planning to sway the next American election again...

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Using the 64bit Seamonkey I am unable to get onto Facebook. Is this a common issue or just me?

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But what if the person does not know exactly which iso was used to create their installation? Then an extra bit of detective work may be necessary. I just tried this one liner: ls -lt /initrd/mnt/tmpfs > /root/pupfiles.txt It lists details of my puppy files - including modification date - to a text ...

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Second to that. I'm in the midst of a 'divorce' from fossapup64-9.5. I've been 'flirting' with BookwormPup64 in the past few days. I guess tech ain't like wine, which ages gracefully over time. Interested to know why you are divorcing from Fossa9.5 ? Is it because you have recent hardware or for so...

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I wonder if it would be possible to write a bash script that collected a bunch of info (including distro_specs) and other stuff that would remove doubt about the puppy under test. Maybe including info such as creation date/time and size of main puppy sfs? Would be handy to ask newbies to click on th...

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"It requires modification of some files - then a remaster (or similar) to lock it in permanently." 1. I certainly would have been unable to have done that. 2. By "lock it in permanently" do you mean into the iso file used to install the Puppy? So it would be a permanent feature ...

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So what do I do now to get the shutdown/reboot->SAVE/NOSAVE feature? That was a specific modification to the shutdown procedure. Somewhere in the old forum. Don't think I have seen it in this new forum. It requires modification of some files - then a remaster (or similar) to lock it in permanently....

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There is various software available for many puppies to allow display of a UVC compliant webcam - but here is another possible way using your browser. Navigate to this webpage: https://apps.ipevo.com/pwa/visualizer.app/ It may allow you to display a realtime feed of your webcam image. (Click on the ...

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I am trialling a piece of software that drives a UVC compliant webcam (called a "visualizer" for documents) and it is based on Java. So i think I need a "JRE" to suit F95.

Anyone have any idea what I should load in order to enable running a .jar utility?

Cheers!

greengeek

vtpup wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 3:23 pm
it pfix=ram precedes the pfix=fsck,fsckp command switch then it is ineffective
if pfix=ram follows the pfix=fsck,fsckp command switch then it is effective

Would it be valid to write it this way :
pfix=fsck,fsckp,ram

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mikewalsh wrote: ↑Sun Mar 31, 2024 9:19 am
Sylvander has already got nearly 3 pages of posts about this in the main F96-CE topic. Not much point posting here now..!

Ooops. Sorry - was just responding to his previous comment. Will check the other thread.

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a) The advantage of the existing desktop is that it has the "FossaPup64 CE" title displayed, and none of the others have that. Is it possible to add that? b) How do I get the image files downloaded, and where to? Hi Sylvander - from your answer I think you want a desktop that resembles th...

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1. I'm now posting this from within "FossaPup64 CE->Firefox ESR" [up-to-date 115.9.1 1esr (64-bit)]. 2. The booting of this 64-bit FossaPup64 from the CD-RW is TOO SLOW for my liking. Is that because it's booting from CD? Boot speed is a function of: a) Speed of the source media. (CD is s...

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Grub2config-2.0.2 Download: http://smokey01.com/radky/Apps/grub2config-2.0.2.pet This release by the Puppy community is a minor update of Shinobar's original v2.0.1. Sorry for the dumb question - but is this utility suitable for 32bit pups? (currently trialling a version of Dpup Stretch 7.5)

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But it has been so long since I installed a Puppy, I've forgotten how to do it. I found lots of CD-R's and CD-RW's, which is best to use? My Slacko is on a CD-RW. Given that you actually have good hardware - i feel you have a huge variety of choices. - If you really wish to stick with Slacko 5.7 as...

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So is my motherboard 64-bit? Yes, 64 bit with approx 8GB of RAM. Perfect for trialling pretty much any pup you wish to try. (You appear to have no swap set up though - so I would suggest setting up a swap partition at some point once you have decided which pup or pups you will use into the future...)

greengeek

Oooh, you have lots of Puppy options with that mobo...
Fossa 9.6 (F96-CE4) would be a great option to try from CD just as a 64bit taster...

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I'm 77 years old, haven't been here at the Puppy forums for many years. Welcome back! Your long absence proves just how good those old Slacko's were! I've uploaded an up-to-date FF32-portable to MediaFire.....this is v124.0. You're welcome to download it and try it - You can find FF32-portable here...

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I started this project because my son lives on a rural farm block that has no mains power and needed an alternative way to reliably power his Compaq Presario CQ60 laptop. He loves Puppy Linux and his main focus is using Librecad so I have tailored several Puppies to have Librecad built in - as well ...

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Hope questions are still ok despite the closed status - I have a question about the Abiword within Fossa Mid (probably applies to Abiword elsewhere too but F95 Mid is still working great for me...) Abiword shows the option of Times New Roman font but I have been unable to work out where it gets this...

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If dpup-Stretch does not already have frugalpup you can download it from here, https://www.forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?p=50416#p50416 . In fact, I'd recommend that you install the latest (improved) pet if dpup-stretch has a builtin; or download and sfs-load the latest sfs if you didn't insta...

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..The settings for the placement of the icons on the desktop. These settings are stored in the eventmanager file in /etc Thanks bigpup . I have now tried experimenting with this eventmanager file and it is definitely the key to getting the drive icons where I want them - however I can't find a way ...

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Not a solution - but an interesting xrandr function is able to scale the desktop. (Unfortunately still leaves the video origin (0,0) at top left of the screen but may have some uses...) Increase the screen size by 20% (zoom-out): xrandr --output <screen-name> --scale 1.2x1.2 eg xrandr --output LVDS-...

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