Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

captainkennway :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". If you work with DAWs, you might be interested in taking a look at Studio 13.37 . This is a dedicated Puppy DAW, crafted by one of our old-timers ( 10wt3ch - no longer with us, sadly). It was originally based around Slackware 13....

@vtpup :-

Y'know, there's always the good old, time-honoured "sneakernet" if all else fails...!

(Just my weird sense of humour coming thru....)

Mike.

Afternoon, gang. Just came across this link over at Linux.org , and thought it might be of interest to any of you who are running fairly new Nvidia GPUs:- https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/nova-a-rust-based-linux-driver-for-nvidia-gpus-announced/ It's still in the very early stages.....but the o...

mmmrr :- With respect to your comment... ...slow opening from click on launch--4 seconds--seems sluggish. Ya gotta realise, there is NO comparison between early Opera - up to and including Opera 12 - and the current incarnations. The old browser was renowned for being fast and lightweight. The curr...

obi3112 :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". To recap; Etcher is no good for Puppy. Simple reason is that Pup's unique method of operation (running from highly-compressed files) means that 'standard' locations, directories & files which Etcher expects to "see" simply...

vtpup :- I don't quite know how to put this, Steve. You are going to HATE me.... :lol: Just literally this last half-hour or so, I've set-up a brand-new install of radky's Bookwormpup64. I thought it was perhaps time I had a look, and discovered for myself what all the fuss was about! I must say, R...

mmmrr :- Um.....yes; that should work. Under normal circumstances, with this setup you would need to start Opera direct from its launch script ON the ext3 partition. IF you're going to keep your Puppy on the FAT32 partition, you still won't be able to link any shortcut into Pup for starting Opera (...

'Kay, gang. Upgrade time.... This is the March 14th build this year, so literally just days off the hot-plate! No glaring changes; just general tidying-up, and making the user experience slicker than ever. It IS a good-looking app, no question of that; I've seen some screenshots of the Windows build...

muggins / stemsee :- Nice find! Runs A-OK for me in an upgraded Xenialpup64, that's using FP64-9.5's k5.4.53 kernel & glibc 2.31 (up from k4.9.58 and glibc 2.23). No need to install anything to support it. Just make it executable.....and it fires straight up after a short delay. Now for some te...

EDIT: just my opinion, it's not a good setup on BookwormPup, I think just "firefox" should be executable from commandline. Heh, I agree; I'd no idea a 'portable' version was in use (albeit in an 'odd' location, and with the older launcher). Easy 'fix' though; sym-link 'LAUNCH' into /usr/b...

@JusGellin :-

Read this for starters, and then we can expand further if required:-

https://bkhome.org/archive/puppylinux/t ... l/root.htm

This explains the principle behind user "spot".

Mike.

vtpup :- <snip>...I really like the layout so much better than Gimp, with all it's floating tool windows...</snip> Steve, were you aware that you can change GIMP from individual floating windows to a single, combined all-in-one window? It's a lot easier to use this way, although it's only been an o...

mmmrr :- Odd. Very odd. However... You've not given any details on this, so I have to ask. Are you, by any chance, running your Puppy from a flash drive.......and is that flash drive formatted FAT32 (as it comes from the factory)? FAT32 doesn't support sym-links, y'see. So; here's something you can...

rockedge / mmmrr :- Sorry, guys! I guess I owe y'all an apology..... I've fallen a wee bit behind with keeping Opera up-to-date. Blame Fred! :lol: His scripted updaters for most of the other portable browsers are that good - and SO reliable! - that I've become lazy. I haven't needed to update most ...

Okay, guys; update time. Here's the current build, based around Chromium 122 - v108.0.5067.40 . I apologise for the delay; if ya want to blame anybody, blame fredx181 ! The updaters he scripted for most of the portables are so good, and so reliable, they've made me lazy.....because of these, I've go...

Grey :- Please DON'T keep changing post titles to suit your own content. You're one of the biggest offenders in this respect, and there have been a LOT of complaints about this recently! It means the thread title becomes permanently changed for those who want to reply in future, and makes it much h...

mikeslr :- I recently re-installed my Xenialpup64 for the first time in 5 years (it was getting 'iffy'; a few things were no longer working properly, and one or two things were making it a PITA to use). So I re-built it while I was at it; swapped the native k4.9.58 kernel for Fossa's k5.4.53 (along...

vtpup :- I'm guessing the WINE AppImages I use must be set-up somewhat differently to yours. What are you using.....version2013's builds? No registry hacks needed here. I just clicked on the .exe file and she fired-up straight away.....and no crashes either! I've no idea what I might use Sketchup f...

bigphil :- Er....o-kay. You say iPlayer is not giving you video either? Hm. As Jasper says, iPlayer doesn't use DRM (at least, not yet...) This, to me, indicates an issue with Brave itself. Have you updated it recently? If you look in the Brave-portable directory, you should find a script called 'U...

The file 'WidevineCdm' is present and correct. The 'Sites can play protected content' is checked Well, I'm stumped. I don't know why you're not getting video; by rights, that should be working. The 'Protected Content IDs' appears to be part of Brave's 'Shields' stuff (the main reason for Brave's ex...

Thanks for the replies chaps however I can't find out how to install WideVine. I'm using Mikes Portable but it isn't included in the extensions hence I can't enable it as per jaspers link Huh??? Go into the portable's directory, then look inside the 'brave' directory. Do you see a directory named '...

Hi all, as the subject says, it play audio OK but no video, just a blank screen. Works OK on BBC Iplayer. Firefox - no problem. Any thoughts? bigphil :- Are you using my 'portable' build, or did you get this from elsewhere? I'm only asking because I include WideVine with the 'portable' (I need it f...

oliverjames :- I just had a look at TeamViewer again, after nearly 2 years since last visiting the site. It appears to be all change there now; the app is re-designed yet again, and they appear to have moved to a paid-only model. This needs clarification; any one who actually initiates a connection...

mikeslr :- I'm not sure any recent Puppy can be run from a CD/DVD. I think Bionicpup can. I don't think newer Puppys can. I know for a fact that PhilB's original Fossapup64 9.5 can run from a CD.....because I'm sitting here, holding one in my hand, looking at it right this moment! I think it would ...

rockedge :- Yup; Photofiltre's a good 'un. I've used it on & off for years. It's pretty useful... :thumbup: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ vtpup :- This is an HP Pavilion mid-tower desktop rig; one of these:- https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/bhkAAOSw1OpgyepE/s-l600.jpg https://support.hp.com/gb-en...

AntonioPt :- I'm no expert on some of what you've said above, but I've got the impression, over the years, that many devs - when writing/coding libraries - often make certain functions temporarily "over-ride" others in the same library WHEN USED IN A CERTAIN WAY. You'd have to ask the ind...

MochiMoppel / AntonioPt :- Okay, guys. This is what's tidied up the display for me. Screen resolution - 1920x1080 (22" screen) DPI - set to 102 Pinboard & 'global' Font - Exo 2 medium 14 https://i.postimg.cc/PJvtbCZ9/Screenshot-392.png I made a few mods to the script for my personal use, w...

So is my motherboard 64-bit? Mm-hm. Yes, most definitely. The G620T dates from mid-2011, and the first commercially successful 64-bit CPUs/mobos came onto the market at least 8 years earlier. The last 32-bit only hardware was some weird stuff, mostly created for those tiny netbooks that were all th...

vtpup :- For me, there's no contest. The one Windows app I cannot do without - I got so handy with it under Windows XP! - has GOT to be MooiTech's PhotoScape . I've yet to find another photo-editing/graphics app that will perform the combination of incredibly useful functions that this does.....all...

darksun :- Part of the reason for the recommendation of the 6.x.x kernel will be because most mainstream distros go out of their way to constantly update to the very newest version of the kernel. These have all been using the 6-series for a while now. This being the case - and most not knowing abou...