Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

I concur with Jasper , above. Kernels aren't usually the issue; what invariably throws a great big spanner in the works is the version of the glibc in use (the General 'C' library, against which everything in the distro is compiled).....over time, as new distro builds appear, the glibc tends to incr...

Evening, gang. Now then; most of you have probably heard of exFAT, but may not necessarily be quite certain what it is. It's basically an 'upgraded' FAT32.....and one of the most important aspects is that it's NOT limited to a max of 4GB file-sizes (unlike its older relative). I looked into using th...

I wiped ChromeOS off the SanDisk thumbdrive a few months back. For quite a while, the salvaged 64GB Kingspec PATA/IDE SSD from ye anciente Inspiron - the one I repurposed into an external SSD via a USB 3.0-to-SATA adapter and a PATA-to-SATA convertor widget from Amazon (for all of £3!), then mounted...

FloraMae :- As far as the 'portable' browsers are concerned, these IS no official 'documentation' as such, because it wasn't an 'official' development. We hashed the whole concept of these together between us, here on the Puppy Forum. It was - if you like - a joint community development; input came...

FloraMae :- In general, your final assumption is correct. Small apps/utilities are usually easier as a .pet; they won't occupy much space in the 'save'. Larger apps are often better as an SFS; however, things like browsers - which update frequently - are NOT. Because an SFS is a 'read-only' file, y...

FloraMae :- Like m'colleague, I too can see nothing wrong in the screenshot. Doesn't mean it can't happen; I've had this occur myself. Sometimes I'll get a notification come through in the T-Bird "BirdTray" launcher icon in the tray.....and for several minutes afterwards, the adjacent ico...

Thanks Mike, but I found the link a bit hard to find in the first post. For any other strugglers, its here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/ccpujfjpvboa3/WINE-AppImage_portable_builds Aye. I agree. It's not that clear, is it? So; I've made the MediaFire link - in the first post - much larger &...

FloraMae :- Heh. Dare I say it.....you're a bit behind the times there. The last Puppies I remember that were supposed to be fully "comfortable" with 512MB RAM would have been around the time of Lucid Puppy/Upup Raring/Precise 5.7.1. Well over a decade ago, some time before even I joined ...

Right, guys. Here's the current 'staging' AppImage build of WINE from mmtrt - WINE 9.8, built into my usual 'portable' format. Download from the above link in post #1.

Enjoy.

Mike.

The mediafire link for this 9.3 version is not working. Any chance of a new link? Perhaps a git hub page would work better? Thanks, Bogie Ah, hell; my bad. Good catch. I had a huge clearout over at MediaFire the other week.....had a ton of files nobody had downloaded for literally years, so I decid...

I can't speak for the very newest versions of Puppy, because I haven't progressed that far yet! Unlike many who get really excited about new releases of their favourite OS, and go out of their way to help test/fix/polish & refine these newest members of the kennels ASAP, I still apply the same v...

Can anyone point me in the right direction for this question? “What then is the “correct” way to get bug fixed for an existing puppy? Again, sorry for my rudimentary questions. (So much to learn, so little time.)” Again, the "bug-fix" was an exclusive idea that was only ever used by PhilB...

fredx181 :- I do recall we had an issue with this a few years back.....it was discovered it was related to the glib-schemas stuff in /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas (specifically, the org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser.gschema.xml file). As I recall, however, it mostly seemed to affect the 'zilla-based brows...

HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")" AUDIO=$(cat $HERE/SOURCES/CONFIG/audio.txt) ... If there are one or more space(s) in the $HERE path, cat cannot find audio.txt, so should be with quotes around $HERE e.g. AUDIO=$(cat "$HERE"/SOURCES/CONFIG/audio.txt) Oh...

darksun :- TBH, DeaDBeeF's improvements over the years have been pretty minimal. For what most will want it for, OscarTalks' elderly 'static' 0.7.2 will do everything that the current 1.9.6 is capable of. I often strip out the newer builds and replace 'em with an older one.....but that's just me. &...

Marv :- Just a note: Slimjet version 43.0 (I run as portable) has outrun the glibc in all the fossapup64 derivs I run and in F96-CE_4. They all have glibc v2.31 and it wants 2.33. Slimjet version 42.0.3.0 is still OK in all of them. Which is stupid considering that Google always take the opposite t...

dimkr :- Thanks for the 'explainer'. Much appreciated. My two devices fall at pretty much opposite ends of the scale. The main desktop rig has a relatively powerful CPU, buckets of RAM (32 GB DDR4) and so much storage it may seem ridiculous to some (5 TB+). In that respect, for a Puppy user, I'm pr...

dimkr :- SFSs consume RAM not because they're added to the aufs/overlay stack, but because initrd copies the SFS from disk to a tmpfs in RAM (and then mounts the copy). It's not squashfs, aufs or overlay that do this copying, but initird (unless you specify pfix=nocopy ). If mounted directly from d...

p310don :- The very first laser printer I owned was a Star WinType 4000. It stopped working when WinXP came out, so I threw it out. I bought it when I was in high school, printed uni assignments on it in the 90s. Cost me $999. That was 25 years ago. I annoys me that that printer *MIGHT* have been a...

darksun :- Glad to hear you're sorted for now! The thing to understand with the PuppyPin file is that it's what's known as a "dynamic" file. In other words, it's written to - immediately - as and when you move things on the 'desktop'.....in REAL time. Yet another of "our Pup"s w...

geo_c :- I think you can also use 'round' brackets - not 'square' or 'curly' - like the following example. It's part of a script from my CamRecord 'portable'.....where it sets up variables for the final 'exec' line, calling these from wee text files saved within the app itself:- HERE="$(dirnam...

darksun :- Oh, this brings back memories, this does! Some 2-3 years after I started running Puppy full-time - 7-8 yrs back - I had a spell of this happening with every single Pup in the kennels. I got SO p***ed-off with re-setting up a highly-customized desktop every time that I made some modificat...

@mikewalsh This HP Pavilion desktop has a single M2 slot (@ 2280) for an nVME drive. I see precious little point in bothering with it, however. On a hardware like yours meant to use a NVME, you would see a noticeable speed up. Even on my old Intel dg31pr motherboard with PCIe v1.1 the NVME Puppy bo...

...My conclusion, after doing the testing, is most users will do better just using a SATA SSD to gain a speed increase, since they require no special tweaking. As of this writing there is no real cost difference and the NVME speed advantage, particularly for Puppy, is measured in seconds. Have to a...

davids45 :- G'day, David. Long time no see.... 'Portables'. Okay. Well, I can't speak for the 'zilla-based browsers - I don't use them very often - but there's an easy way to copy bookmarks with the Chromium-based 'clones'. IF you already have one set-up with all your bookmarks the way you want it,...

Uh.....thanks for the direct copy/paste from the LanXchange website (I guess!) What's this supposed to prove..?

Mike.

jp734 :- Have a look in /usr/share/applications, and locate the nvidia-settings.desktop file. Open this up with Geany; what does the 'Categories' line read as? Mine reads as:- Categories=Application;Settings;X-SetupWizard; ....and after running fixmenus .....followed by jwm -reload .....it then sho...

^^^ +1. jp734 :- I concur with my colleague. I've compiled several of these Nvidia .run files with Shinobar's getNvidia utility for my GT 710; without exception, the Nvidia Settings panel has always been present after compiling / installation, since it's an integral component of the .run file itself...

rolandradio :- With regard to the task-bar icon reading zero, but audio volume being present, take a look at the settings in Retrovol (rt-clk on the volume icon -> Config window -> Tab 'Tray'). I'll bet you pounds to peanuts that the setting for 'Tray Slider' is wrong, and that 'Master Playback Vol...

@Jasper :-

D'you know, I'm hanged if I can see any difference.....but then, my eyesight is not what it used to be these days. What's the difference supposed to be, or do?

Mike.