Re: Mainline Puppy Linux Distros
Posted: Fri Sep 11, 2020 12:55 pm
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a very interesting blog! thank you jamesbond to show us those texts!
yes and no.The article is written by someone who has been building distro from LFS, from the ground up, from sources, for the last 6 years (and counting). Perhaps not quite in the same league as Nutyx who has been doing it for 10 years, but he's getting closer. Oh, he did it for multi-architectures too - he's built ARM version of the same distro, also from sources too, from LFS too, from the ground up too. At least for while, as he had to drop it: everyone is born with a quota of 3 billion heartbeats on average; and he has learnt better use for those heartbeats. Now all he cares is x86_64, because that's what he uses in his everyday life, for work and for fun. His 64-bit distro still runs on a Intel ATOM N450 netbook with 1GB RAM from 8 years ago.
I do. I have had up to 8 machines on a home LAN that all are running Puppy Linux and are solid web servers exposed to the Internet. I have done this for years.oui wrote:I can not think seriously that a network master will integrate it at some place in his network!
if it is so, it would merit to be described step by step (as security don't tolerate any error!) in the Puppy wiki! But perhaps it is already in it?rockedge wrote: ↑Fri Sep 11, 2020 3:25 pmI do. I have had up to 8 machines on a home LAN that all are running Puppy Linux and are solid web servers exposed to the Internet. I have done this for years.oui wrote:I can not think seriously that a network master will integrate it at some place in his network!
Once one sees how correctly configure the web server and router it can be done. It is in fact a Puppy Linux that is running as root but the entire network component is running as another special user altogether. Following the lead of how the built in user "webuser:webgroup" and the Hiawatha server work, it is possible to build a fantastic LHMP or LAMP. One can use Hiawatha (I use version 10.10) or Apache2 and even NGINX or Lightspeed. I've even gotten Cherokee to work (It is the embedded web server in Go-Pro cameras). A headless machine running Tahr64 and Apache2 gets all web page requests port forwarded from the router. This machine then determines what domain name the request comes in with and using reverse proxy distributes the page request to one of the other machines on the LAN which is running perhaps Bionic64-CE and a Hiawatha web server with PHP and MySQL and this machine hosts a WordPress and Gallery 3 sites. Or many other sites if one wanted to have multiple sites on the same web server.
I had this system running for 560+ days consecutively once, without a single shutdown of the gateway computer.
I think you’re looking for a more rigid development system. Which, as a whole, I don’t think Puppy has.
Trobin wrote: ↑Sat Sep 12, 2020 6:40 pmI think you’re looking for a more rigid development system. Which, as a whole, I don’t think Puppy has.
“more! A puppyist is alluring to be some kind of freak not able to be inserted in some team or team work ”
According to Puppy.com every user is a member of the puppy team. But it’s a do-ocracy. Rather than someone passing out assignments, things get done if a user decides that he wants to do it. There is no requirement to do anything.
http://puppylinux.com/team.html
“no one would try to use Puppy or a self made kind of OS distribution because it is absolutely not her speciality to develop software engineering for her professional environment and no OS is enough to work:”
No it may not her specialty, however she would know best what she wanted her computer to do.
Example last night, just for the fun of it, I wondered what I would want a computer to do if I were to go to a music school. I’d want it to play music, edit music, and mix channels, print or display sheet music.. Xenialpup has DeadBeef in it, as well as other players. Using the Package Manager, I downloaded and installed “Rosegarden” to handle composing, mixing, and playing tasks. There’s a program called “Musescore” which creates, plays, and prints sheet music. It’s also available on the package manager, but a whole list of dependencies did not come with it. I found a program called “Lillypond” to handle that task. I then remastered the thing, and came up with an iso that I could install on a USB drive, and take with me should I ever attend a music school. Which, at my age, is highly unlikely.
Just my two cents, but that’s one reason I like Puppy. I can make it to be what I want it to be. Or as close to it as I can get.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=105329BarryK wrote: ↑Mon Sep 14, 2020 10:16 am Hi James, yes, that's a nice read!
Incredible dedication to do it from scratch, almost, the way you have. I was also with T2 for many years, then my port of OpenEmbedded, oe-qky-src: https://github.com/bkauler/oe-qky-src.
That oe-qky-src was for the "Pyro" series of EasyOS, but when the time came to do a complete update, I ran into problems and chickened out -- Easy is now built from Debian DEBs!
I do hanker for the complete DIY approach though, but perhaps based off OpenEmbedded/Yocto is not the way to go.
Never were truer words spoken. I, personally, spend as much time putting browser packages together for the community as I do for 3 simple reasons."According to Puppy.com every user is a member of the puppy team. But it’s a do-ocracy. Rather than someone passing out assignments, things get done if a user decides that he wants to do it. There is no requirement to do anything."
maintain
My oldest PCs, some more than 20 years old, still run the Lucid_5.2.8.7, 32-bit, with an Abiord that actually works, in stark contrast to the Abi in tahr64 in this 11 year old PC. But I have had to clear out some of my oldest Linuxboxes from the '90s, parts kept breaking down. They were replaced by 3 old Dell laptops, all running what might have been the most popular and downloaded Puppy for years, but unlike other Puppy derivatives, it doesn't even have it's own section in this forum. I am talking about BK's EasyPup_2.3.3. It has all the goodies you would expect from a fully loaded traditional Puppy, and it has that unique Puppy feel about it, but based on Debian Buster, it is also a top modern distro. Still being hooked on multisession CD/DVD, I run the EasyPup from, and save to, a live multisession DVD. I will probably use this distro for years to come, it is absolutely fabulous! Try it!giving an EXTREMELY OLD IMPRESSION on Puppy
That view on the mirror says:
Puppy is terrible old and does not evolute any more
Is the difference so important between woofCE and woofQ?