Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

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...

Geek3579 :- HI @nilsonmorales :- This script works well. Now, how would I store the image from the webcam into a .jpg ??? I don't think that would be possible with the script as-is. Currently, it's written to give a 'Live' videostream.....and from the sound of things, you're asking for a 'still' sn...

bigphil :- Oh, I can understand it OK. So; if you want to record this streaming video, what will you be capturing the sound to.....the 'Loopback' device, or the internal card? (I'm assuming, from the look of it, that you have the kernel 'alsa_loop' module loaded; was there a reason for that?) What ...

Hi, Jasper . Here's the best definition of "do-ocracy" I've been able to find. It probably encompasses both me AND thee.....and perhaps 20 or so others within our community. Basically, if someone feels strongly enough about doing something, they will take the initiative and DO it! https://...

bigpup wrote: ↑Sat Apr 06, 2024 7:02 pm

The 32bit version pet is located here for download:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... -common32/

Good to know. Thanks!

Mike.

bigphil :- If you're using my portable version, it's all been explained and simplified as much as possible for the average user. If you're using the .pet package that's knocking around the forum somewhere, you'll need to modify this bit yourself, manually. First things first. D'you know what your d...

bigphil :- DivX, huh? Yeah; TVs are downright weird when it comes to AV stuff, and what they'll condescend to "play nice" with... Well, now. If this is your issue, you could do worse than to take a look at what has to be the great-grand-daddy of Linux screen-capture apps..... XVidCap . Th...

Further exploration has revealed that peebee's Bionicpup32 is using a 32-bit build of this same release.....and 'swapsies' has now granted me my favourite, essential rt-clk ROX functions in Xenialpup32, Tahrpup32 AND - best of all! - in my highly-customized, evergreen Slacko 5.6.0 as well. I'm "...

I think we just need to be patient with Sylvander, guys. He'll get there eventually, I know he will. I'm only in my early 60s, yet I know it takes me longer to get stuff organised, get my head round it and "deal with it" than it used to, say, 20 years ago. I can only imagine how things wil...

Keef / bigpup :- Cheers, guys. You were both "on the money". Seems I had it all this time, and never realised..! :roll: :D One swap of /usr/local/apps/ROX-filer and a re-boot later, and.....there's all my favourite right-click & short-cut items. 'Duplicate' is there, along with anothe...

atmega :- Hallo.....and :welcome: to the "kennels". No, you're not the only one. I haven't yet bothered to run 'er from the terminal, but this is the first release of Pale Moon I've seen for a long time where YT isn't behaving itself for me. The page begins to load; it gets to the thumbna...