I'm back, too

[April]

Hello all -Nice to have you back
I know Barry had something to do with it and I suspect a few others too.

Thanks to all involved !

[dimkr]

Somehow the stars aligned, and I appeared here shortly after dejan555, one of the Puppy old timers.

My username in the old forums is iguleder, and I've contributed many things to Puppy through the years, and disappeared for some time. I've been monitoring woof-CE and the forums silently. It's amazing and great that Puppy is still going strong, as a community project.

The pandemic is an historical opportunity to leverage Puppy's secret sauce to recycle laptops for all the disadvantaged people that need access to digital literacy and education materials. My partner's 5 year old ARM Chromebook just lost its eligibility for security updates from Google, and I decided to "recycle" it using Puppy. I wonder how many poor, school-age kids across the globe have these cheap laptops, and lost opportunities for growth because of Google's tragic decision: the particular model my partner has uses the same chip as other Chrome OS devices, but they're supported by Google until 2022, and two extra years of support for all laptops with that chip could help us fight the personal and economic consequences of having a "lost generation" in the education system.

I'm managing my tasks in a public TODO list and hope to publish a production quality image for ARM Chromebooks soon. There's a lot of work to do, and a lot has been accomplished already:

• Various woof-CE fixes for ARM PCs

• Kernel building in woof-CE is now faster

• Fonts now look better in Debian-based puppies

• The "Teh Gray" theme I wrote in 2011 is back and it's in woof-CE

• Puppy's ad blocker is now better, blocks malware and enabled by default in woof-CE

• woof-CE now supports nscd, as a DNS cache layer that speeds up browsing

• And more

I'm putting all these improvements in neat, tidy and well-separated woof-CE branches, so they can receive feedback and land in woof-CE's testing branch (benefiting all Puppy users) while I'm still working on the ARM Chromebook port.

Let's do great things together!

Dima

[backi]

Where have you been ....my Son.....all those Years ?

[mikewalsh]

Nice to see you back, Iggy. Welcome.

The new Forum has no end of those features we all wished we had in the old one.....largely thanks to rockedge being such an amazing admin, listening to folks, and keeping a tireless watch on things. You see the PayPal button? We reward him for it, too..!!

The community needs folks like you, mate. You've been missed!

There'll be a few newer members who'll be glad to see work being done on Chromebooks....and some of the 'old guard'. Bigpup'll be happy!

Mike.

[BarryK]

Hi iguleder, I sure do remember you!

I just checked, you joined the Murga Forum in Aug 2009, so definitely qualify as an "old timer"!

Great that you want to keep those old Chromebooks going.

[Jafadmin]

I see you.

[ozsouth]

You did some excellent stuff in the past. Best wishes for your new project.

[bigpup]

Somehow the stars aligned, and I appeared here shortly after dejan555, one of the Puppy old timers.

My username in the old forums is iguleder, and I've contributed many things to Puppy through the years, and disappeared for some time. I've been monitoring woof-CE and the forums silently. It's amazing and great that Puppy is still going strong, as a community project.

You should register on this forum using the name you used on the old Murga forum.
iguleder

That is what I and several others did.
I am almost as old an old timer 11 Oct 2009.

[r96chase]

Hello. I'm one of the newer users here. Nice to meet some of the old guard. <3

[tosim]

Being there are several "old-timers" here, please allow me to offer my THANKS for all you have(and very likely will do), done for we "dog and pup" users.

[dejan555]

Hey my squared circle triangle friend (if I remember correctly something like that was what your old nickname meant? )
Good to have you back too!

[April]

Just putting the heading back to what it was
Second poster changed it to "I'm back, too"

Strange that ! should only change the reply subject but actually changes the original post title. Not Good!

[TerryH]

Just putting the heading back to what it was
Second poster changed it to "I'm back, too"

Strange that ! should only change the reply subject but actually changes the original post title. Not Good!

From my observation, I believe what happened was that the second post was an individual post, which somebody with administrative privileges decided to merge into one thread, messing up your original title.