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Thanks all for the prompt replies and thoughts: [....] whole gammit of locations offered within home and am offered 'desktop' and 'recent' in addition to 'other locations' which leads me to 'computer' and onwards, none of those Is "FileSytem" among the locations you got offered? If so, go...

[....] I compiled viewnior-1.7 in ScPup32 as a possible fix. [....] Attaching here for people to test it. When run from the command line, viewnior comes up without a menu bar. Unless you know the trick, there is no obvious way to open a file with a picture in it. The "tool" thing at the t...

[....] When you boot that and go direct to your banking web site, nowhere else before or after, then more likely that session will be secure. You are presuming that the bank has not been hacked. This is mostly a reasonable assumption but I fear it is becoming less so. I have noticed that more and m...

Comments interspersed @Moose On The Loose It looks like there are a lot of browser customizations on The Interwebs these days. Like Puppy, there needs to be a streamlining and simplification for them to take off, to the extent creators care about adoption. I almost seems like there needs to be a &qu...

I am interspersing my comments. I just wish it didn't take so many resources to run a browser these days. An interesting wish, that gets me pondering whether modern GUI browsers really need to take so many resources. Clearly they don't need to. Netsurf (for example) has a smaller per page footprint ...

LibrePCB is a free EDA software to develop printed circuit boards. https://librepcb.org/ I am putting a "thumbtack" in this for later. How does it compare to Kicad and ExpressPCB? Kicad is a free full up electronics design package. It can be used to create netlists for gnuspice so even th...

The "ifup" appears to be sad


AKA "Not happy with the environment it found its self in"
ifup is a comment that has to do with network things.

As with ScPup64, viewnior crashes if you do right-click > Properties while viewing an image file. I compiled viewnior-1.7 in ScPup32 as a possible fix. Python3, meson and ninja are needed for compiling it, but not required for running it once built. Attaching here for people to test it. Update: :th...

It appears that there is some sort of version mismatch with perl. It was my goal to make NetSurf for ScPup because it is an extra small web browser. This is part of my personal project to make an ScPup based system that is split into 2 SFSs. At this point, I have the first SFS only reduced by a few ...

I'm going to say it in my thing that I developed from 528. I have started working on migrating to a ScPup based system but very little has happened on that project. I won't bore you with the full list but here are the high points. Please remember these are my opinions. Everything "just works&qu...

Somehow full install says if CPU is slow then i should go for FULL install, and my CPU is extremaly slow :D so what do you think I have used frugal installs of 528 on a machine with a single core at 900MHz. It was usable. If you do a frugal install it is not that hard to change to a full install la...

[.....] So, I'm really eager to understand: why do each of you choose to use Puppy Linux? This is going to be long so get some coffee: :) I went with SuSE Linux waaaaaaaay back in time. It was great and I figured that would be what I stayed with from then on. This came the "improved" desk...

Every time I set up a share using Samba Simple Management at the next boot of the system I have lost internet connectivity. No amount of playing with SNS, Frisbee, nor Network Wizard rectifies the problem. In order to restore connectivity I have to boot into a fresh Fossapup, connect to my network,...

Before trying to evolve from ScPup, I am testing out other bits. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: I worked out the "what" but not the "why" of ScPup32 not networking correctly under virtual box. It appears that somehow, the DHCP thing is not going to my router to get an IP addr...

I have puppy precise lite running in VirtualBox on 128Meg right now. It is slow but so far has worked. I installed the Opera browser. Opera is extra slow to run. When you start typing the URL it starts doing about a zillion network transactions to try to guess what you are going to type. It doesn't ...

Sounds like a great idea. Like I said in other thread would like to try your kernel to see how it works on my machine, :D If I did it right this will get you my nonpaebzImage I have only tested it a little under VirtualBox. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ug_i9aCXl_CU_szU79KmBWHrerIreLfc/view?usp=...

Upupff+D kernel 3.18.22non-pae I have just made a stripped down version of upupff+D by Peebee with an older non-pae kernel 3.18.22 for those wanting a modern pup with a non-pae kernel here: https://archive.org/details/upuffdstrippedk31822no-paev1 Took out mediaplayers, calculators, stripped rightdo...

I have VirtualBox and a fair collection of puppy ISOs. I just tried ScPup-32 at 128 Meg and it boots and sort of runs but is much too slow to use. The need to keep the SFS files on disk appears to be its undoing I may be coming back to this post later I intend to try a few before I give up. Puppy 42...

:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: After solving a "short circuit between the headphones", I used ScPup to build a new non PAE kernel and then made it boot from that on the VirtualBox with PAE shut off. :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: This means that it cou...

2A: smbtree produces the error free(): double free detected in detected 2 aborted I have found: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14333 which suggests this may be a bug with more recent versions of samba? Your older Puppy is probably using an older version of samba maybe without the bug? T...

Hi @Moose On The Loose 1. I think rerwin may have recently fixed this in Woof-CE.... 2. Samba works fine for me - see screenshot 3. Whines - can all be fixed by selecting different options in the Theme Manager ... Screenshot.png 1. We can come back to this 2. 2A: smbtree produces the error free(): ...

32-bit Slackware Current based pup with JWM desktop details and downloads from here previous discussion thread on murga-linux It appears there are at least 2 problems and a few things to whine about. Problems first: Booting the ISO under VirtualBox: 1) If you run the network configuration, and sele...

Moose on the Loose I use Mike Walsh's seamonkey 2.48 portable with glibc 2.19 this may work on your system, I am using version 2.48 hacked like the portable but built into the system. I built it into the "stripped down" SFS It makes for a 230M "stripped down" SFS file. I have be...

hi moose on the loose sounds interesting the most important thing is that it works on your system Perhaps "works and is useful" is a better standard. I have found that some programs "work" but turn out to make life harder rather than easier. I class MS-Word among those. I really...

Hi MOTL - i just booted CD1.iso (CD2.iso does not boot for me) and this is quite a nimble and flexible system. What happened when you tried? You said you didn't make a save file. CD2 presumes that you booted CD1 and followed the instructions about making a save file etc etc. CD1 puts the ElectroPup...

well it looks like 32 bit debian stuff is alive and well are you guys still thinking of a barebones 32 bit debian based iso maybe with appimages wanderer My thinking goes a lot like this: On the CD (In the ISO) there is enough to boot the extremely simplified system plus a second SFS. When booted w...

A few thoughts: I may be dreaming this but it seems to me that I heard that a new kernel version used PAE if available but didn't choke if it wasn't. If so that seems a good thing to include in a 32bit version. Ideally the distro should come with a web browser on the CD (In the ISO image) somehow. N...

electropupCD1.iso downloaded complete for me. @wanderer Could it be that you downloaded to /root and that there's not enough space there? Fred Thanks for checking. I thought that if you stuffed your save file full it made a rude message happen so I had sort of ruled out a full save file. Still sett...

darry19662018 wrote: ↑Sat Aug 22, 2020 6:44 am Hi Wanderer and Mike and Mike and others,
Here is a Dpup Stretch stripped down like you guys want to start with - did this about a year ago ......
https://archive.org/details/stretch7.5onebonek4.1.48

Sadly that is a PAE kernel so on a very minimal system it won't boot.

hi moose on the loose downloads started but never completed in the end no iso wanderer They are on a "google drive" and my try at the download just worked but took several minutes to compete. Have you downloaded 650Meg things before with no issue? Ideally someone who is not me should chec...