xenialpup 32-bit with Wine Builtin

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xenialpup 32-bit with Wine Builtin

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Not infrequently, someone asks if there is a Puppy which has Wine built in. An intermediate step in building a Chrooted-Wine SFS was the creation of a puppy_xenialpup_7.5.sfs in which Wine was built-in and functional. As the end-product was to be an OS run as a Chroot --isolated from the MainOS-- and installing additional applications into an already finished Chroot (other than portables) is time-consuming-- I took the opportunity to include into the build both those applications I might want in the Chroot or if the SFS was to replace Xenialpup’s Main SFS. Portable Seamonkey and a ‘Hardened’ firefox-esr replace palemoon. Wine, itself, almost doubles the size of a Main.SFS. Two Windows programs recommended by amethyst (Atlantis Wordprocessor and Sumatra pdf viewer) were added. As a consequence, even using xz compression, the resulting puppy_xenialpup_7.5.sfs is a 988 Mb file.
It’s available for download from https://www.mediafire.com/folder/g6g66r ... lpup-32bit.

As the primary operating system, it will at first look something like this.

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Note, however, when you've created a SaveFile/Folder it is likely that the ‘Xenialpup’ Savefile Icon which appears at the foot of the tree will likely make its initial appearance somewhere near the birds. :lol:

While I had to swap kernels to do the remaster, it can be used as a substitute for the puppy_xenialpup_7.5.sfs with the kernel (vmlinuz) and zdrv.sfs peebee included in the ISO, http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-xenial/32/, or any of the many kernels you’ll find on this thread, viewforum.php?f=65&start=25 or at archive.org. Remember, however, that if you’re assembling your own xenialpup operating system, you’ll also need a zdrv.sfs (drivers) which, being kernel-specific, are packaged as a module with 'huge' kernel, and perhaps an fdrv.sfs if firmware was not packaged with the drivers. For firmware (fdrv) see viewtopic.php?f=97&t=3856

And, of course, you’ll need an initrd.gz –initial ram disk-- which will know what to do with the system files that make up a xenialpup. I’ve uploaded a copy of peebee’s original to the above-linked mediafire folder.

The final remaster used was not the first. So I don’t know all the revisions which occurred between it and peebee’s original. About the only other applications that I know were recently added are:

gyrog’s frugalpup-Installer; shinobar’s grub2config; sc0ttman’s pkg-cli, OscarTalk’s VPN On-Off; Argolance’s CleanRam; zigbert’s pwidgets; and AppFinder. Thanks, guys, for your great pets. And

A BIG THANK YOU :thumbup: :D to 666philb* for xenialpup.

Possible Problem & Solution: As is, xenialpup properly displays thumbnails, for example those you'll see file-browsing into /usr/share/pixmaps. You may have a problem when you create a SaveFile/Folder with rox no longer displaying them. I did. Someone (bigpup? williams2?) provided the solution. What happened was that a 'white-out =.wh' has been written to /root/.thumbnails. Note the ."dots" indicating hidden files. File-browse into your SaveFile/Folder on storage, into the /root/.thumbnails folder, show hidden files, and delete the .wh file. Remember to unmount a SaveFile. A reboot is necessary. Can't be done by an ordinary file-browse into /root/.thumbnails as that .wh is a system file in RAM then being in use.

If you are running xenialpup as the main operating system, you won’t need the Create_Chroot_links2MainOS-1.pet which is also to be found in the mediafire-folder. More about using xenialpup in a chroot is discussed here, viewtopic.php?p=35555#p35555

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* Edited after reading MikeWalsh's post. But, thanks peebee, anyway for the great work you also do.
I'll get around to thanking MikeWalsh properly for his inspiring work on Chroots.

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Re: xenialpup 32-bit with Wine Builtin

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@mikeslr :-

Erm; far be it from moi to pick holes in your enthusiastic post, but er.....don't you mean 666philb?

Xenialpup is NOT a product of peebee's labours......and peebee is far from single-handedly responsible for the whole of mainstream Puppy output over the last several years..! :D

I swear I can hear Phil B. crying into his cocoa..! :lol: :shock:

Mike. ;)

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