Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

fredx181 :- Thanks for this, Fred. Now working again......and for a bonus, it also seems to download one hell of a lot faster than the old URL (which I suspected was the problem). The old URL was, um, kinda slowww..... I'd been downloading from the site and doing a manual upgrade for the last few r...

peppyy :- Bought a 2K monitor to go with the GPU. No way to know if it works since I can't see the bios screen, must be too high a resolution for it since I only get a message, (Out of range). Mm....okay. Let's see if we can figure this out. What's the current set-up, as of this moment? Have you tr...

Update time again...

Here's v109.0.5097.45 of Opera-portable, guys. You can find it at the usual link in post #1.

Enjoy.

Mike.

ozsouth :- Excellent work, Dave. This one looks to be a 'good'un'. I'm presently trialling this in my customised Xenialpup64.....and so far, everything's 100% 'on the green". :thumbup: Having an nVidia card, many of my Pups have had the "official" driver installed. That said, this ca...

Governor :- Um.....Christ. Do I really need to explain this? You DO understand, don't you, that these portable apps are not, repeat NOT "generic" apps that will run on any Linux distro? The AppImages contained within the 'portables' WILL run anywhere if used & called just by themselve...

Well, I have to say.......I have never seen this in all the years I've used Brave! Can't figure out why you're getting it and nobody else is..?!?

Mike.

There was one version of Puppy released with no browser in it. It had several browsers as pet packages, you could download and install from a repository. Used a menu entry to click on, that provided a list you could select from. What you selected would be downloaded and installed. About 98% of peop...

mikeslr :- I know we've all grown used to the business where, if you ARE dual-booting with Windows, there's an on-going battle between Windoze & Linux as to who has the right to control the boot partition. However, it still remains the case that, no matter HOW many partitions you have, or whate...

JusGellin :- The main difference with the portable build of T-Bird is that once you've set-up your profile(s) correctly, it will continue to use that same working profile wherever you choose to run it. No need to copy over profiles, etc. I don't use F96_CE_4, just the original Fossapup64 9.5 from P...

Hi, guys. BarryK :- Yes, I was looking at their site last night. Kinda makes me wonder whether the newer builds of libxine would still work with GXine? I don't mind the look of Xine's own interface, but I've never been able to get it to actually function! GXine, though plain and nicely minimalist, d...

Hm. Reading about it here:- https://thorium.rocks/optimizations .....it looks like the devs have decided to take the same route as that being discussed by Moonchild & company over at the Pale Moon forums; the requirement for AES/AVX CPU instructions. Which most certainly will speed up the browse...

Evening, gang. As the primary Puppy on the old Dell Latitude I bought year before last, I run Xenialpup64. It's the best blend between being able to run modern browsers, etc, and being sufficiently lightweight to not bog the Core2Duo down too much. It really does run nicely on here. I have a huge li...

bigpup :- Unfortunately, with SeaMonkey, you're facing an uphill battle to try and start components individually. Research shows that while it's possible to fire it up showing E-mail, or Kompozer, because the whole suite is so tightly integrated together the browser will STILL be running in the bac...

Me, I have half-a-dozen "work areas" set-up on the big secondary data drive.....and then I have these sym-linked into /root (just for ease of access). This way, I can have several 'projects' on the go simultaneously.... I don't think it makes a scrap of difference where you do the actual c...

@ozsouth :-

Cheers for checking-in, Dave. I'd forgotten you run one as well..!

The "more the merrier", I say.....and of course, "Many hands make light work" (and all that jazz).

Mike.

SJRouge91 :- Hallo, and :welcome: to the "kennels"! I'm afraid I don't know the first thing about Chromebooks, but one of my colleagues does, since he has a couple himself. By mentioning his name - bigpup - thus, he'll get a notification of a mention in this thread and - if he can - I'm s...

spiritwild :- I'd say Fred's closer to the mark, if I'm honest......plus, the Kennel Linux distros have a firm following. Despite Puppy & derivatives being primarily geared toward older hardware, I would say a major proportion of the membership still believe that newest is always best, safest &...

Jasper :- The way I learnt to do this LONG ago - especially where firing-up an app involves more than simply calling an executable! - is to create an appropriately-named script in /root/my-applications/bin which does whatever is required to get your app up-and-running. Your .desktop entry will then...

Governor / geo_c :- If you follow geo_c's instructions, Governor - putting the AppImage in a uniquely-named directory - here's a 'generic' launch script to put alongside it:- #!/bin/sh # Laucher for 'your AppImage' # HERE="$(dirname "$(readlink -f "$0")")" # XDG_CONFIG...

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 t...

Governor :- What do the people who use other distros do for portable apps? Mm. Well, technically speaking, AppImages, Flatpaks and Snaps all qualify as "portable" apps. I don't know how it is with Snaps and Flatpaks; both require a 'framework' to be in place in whatever distro you use the...

geo_c :- Well, thanks for the "vote of confidence", old son. It IS appreciated. Me, I still run Tahrpup64 and Xenialpup64.....along with a highly-customized build of an old, personal favourite, Slacko 5.6.0. Yes, I'm perfectly well aware that Tahr64 is 10 years old, Xenial64 is 8 yrs old,...

Governor :- Um.....you COULD try AntiX Linux . When I first embarked on this whole business with the portable apps, some 5 years ago - and let us not forget to give credit here to fredx181 , since it was he that got me thinking originally with his own 'portable' Firefox - I was at that time running...

Here is something in Woof-CE many people could get involved in. Updating the software that is in the Woof-CE/noarch repository. https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE-noarch/tree/master/pet_packages-noarch If any of these have newer versions they need to be in this repository. Look at the la...

About the only way I can think of to "convert" to DivX format is with ffmpeg. On the command-line, you need to be a top-flight guru to even understand it, but Jasper's suggestion above of using QWinFF might be the way to go..... I've reached the limit of MY abilities with this stuff, I'm a...

bigphil :- Well, this is a sod, and no mistake! When I first built the XVidCap-portables, I had them working correctly with audio in all my Puppies. It's not one I use a lot; personally, I prefer recordMyDesktop myself, so I don't tend to look at XVidCap very much. I've just tried the 32-bit portab...

bigphil :- Hm.... I've found myself that it may be a deeper, underlying issue with the way XVidCap is implemented under the 64-bit architecture. If I try to record audio, it comes out sounding a bit like I've been using laughing gas at the dentist.....all kinda "squeaky" & "warbl...

Small update - now @ v1.6.

Added options to "Saved files..." button; you can either view your saved images directly in Viewnior, OR open the CamShots directory with ROX so you can move, copy, delete, etc.....

Link as above in post #1.

Mike.

@Geek3579 :-

You could try my latest creation if you ARE after capturing a 'still' JPG image.....FSWebcamGUI.

Entirely up to you.....unless of course, '.jpg' was a 'typo'..?

Mike.

Evening, gang. Now; this was prompted by a query from Geek3579 , in this thread from boof about a non-functional webcam:- https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=10995 nilsonmorales povided a wee script which will let the user check to see if a webcam is functional.....then Geek3579 wanted to k...