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@rockedge

In some previous post on some topic (cannot remember which) I believe you said that you might consider "adopting" NoblePup64 and perhaps making a "polished" version like you did with FossaPup64 CE. Any more thoughts on this?

I have been using NoblePup64 for a month solid on a DELL Poweredge R210 II. Using it for a broad range of tasks including hosting an Apache2 web server with PHP 8.3 and MariaDB. Testing continues, to determine what polish to apply. For sure JWMDesk from @radky will be integrated into the developing version.

Pretty much the same experience as @rockedge here. Rock solid on all my (now varied) laptops for several months at least. Mostly running overlayfs and sourced straight off GitHub at this point. What polishing I do is LXDE and PCManFM courtesy of peebee and the following adds for me:

desktop_drive_icons_x86_64-0.0.5|desktop_drive_icons_x86_64|0.0.5||BuildingBlock|100K||desktop_drive_icons_x86_64-0.0.5.pet||no description provided|slackware|current||
libdvdcss_1.4.3_amd64|libdvdcss|1.4.3|1.4.3||||libdvdcss_1.4.3_amd64.deb|||
geany-common_1.36-1build1_all|geany-common_1.36|1build1_all||BuildingBlock|8920K||geany-common_1.36-1build1_all.pet||no description provided||||
geany_1.36-1build1_amd64|geany_1.36|1build1_amd64||Utility|3500K||geany_1.36-1build1_amd64.pet||A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK+|ubuntu|focal||
peasywifi_4.9_amd64|peasywifi|4.9|4.9|Network|||peasywifi_4.9_amd64.deb||Reliable WiFi connection manager|
pupmd5sum-1.6|pupmd5sum|1.6||BuildingBlock|176K||pupmd5sum-1.6.pet||Calculate MD5sum||||
gtk3_themeswitcher2|gtk3_themeswitcher|2||Desktop|40K||gtk3_themeswitcher2.pet|lxterminal|Change desktop, windows, theme etc.||||
mtPaint-3.50.10-x86_64|mtPaint|3.50.10-x86_64||Graphic|2944K||mtPaint-3.50.10-x86_64.pet||painting program to create pixel art and manipulate digital photos|ubuntu|focal||
clipit-1.4.2-x86_64|clipit|1.4.2-x86_64||Setup|2864K||clipit-1.4.2-x86_64.pet||Clipboard Manager|ubuntu|trusty||

I recently have added a couple of modified files to my ydrives (rc.local and a 'model customization' script in /root/Startup) so that whatever laptop I throw any of my pups on now, the screen resolution, dpi, and touchpad/clickpads are set up correctly -even the stinky X1 carbon- for me and my old eyes.

Cheers,

Forgot. Some of the laptops are now nvme, not SATA, so the customization files also take care of the symlinks to portables etc. in that case.

Continuing to polish a March 2025 generated NoblePup64 that has Pnethood, Simple Samba Management, PureFTPD and YASSM up and running.

All four of the utilities are working well after some tweaking to get things working. In effect I had to grab the components and install them, some manually.

With these networking tools working it's a huge advantage, along with NP64's strong package compiling, building and assembling abilities with the current Devx loaded.

rockedge wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:52 pm

Continuing to polish a March 2025 generated NoblePup64

Can we add the "polish" to the Woof-CE build recipe?
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... tu/noble64

You can add anything from:
http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu

and from:
Packages-puppy-noarch-official
Packages-puppy-common64-official
Packages-puppy-fossa64-official
Packages-puppy-bionic64-official
Packages-puppy-xenial64-official
Packages-puppy-tahr64-official

rockedge wrote: Thu Mar 20, 2025 10:52 pm

Continuing to polish ... NoblePup64 that has ... Simple Samba Management...
....With these networking tools working ...

YES! These PUP exclusives are a HUGE advantage for home networking uses.

@rockedge dont forget the SSM companion developed by @01micko; namely "findsmb" utility terminal command.

I have a utility that takes the findsmb utility's output to update the system's hosts file making remote machines to be seen by their network names versus having to search for IP addresses.

Looking forward to this as well as your zoneminder for a home camera server.

@peebee I am really interested in furthering the polishing of Noblepup64. It really is turning into a work horse for me. Loaded up Zoneminder and set up VirtualBox.....so I am running Noblepup64 with a fully operational web server and Zoneminder and acting as the host machine for VirtualBox running a 32 Bit Tahr-6.0.5 also with a really old version of Zoneminder that is streaming the web camera feeds from the Zoneminder on the Noblepup64 instance.

This is even blowing the minds of the Zoneminder dev's on my solution of having multiple local webcams stream in real time in a virtual machine hosted on a frugal installed Puppy Linux. Though I have proven for 12 years that Puppy Linux can and will be a solid reliable platform for a security camera system.

No one else has a full featured network camera security system and DVR that is fully portable and can live on a 4 G USB flash drive that can handle 1 to thousands of cameras.....RAM willing.........

My problem is that I will need a bit of guidance on getting the polish included in the woof-CE recipe for Noblepup64. I am looking over how to best do it by using existing packages that will work. These tweaks and additions I am making I am mostly doing by hand and recreating those utilities into newer packages that will need to be included in the PET repos or how ever the best approach dictates.

I have loosely assembled the 3 utilities I added, pNetHood, YASSM and pure-FTPD into what could become PET or XBPS packages. These will need some more testing but so far look good. I have been looking at the PET repos among the others to see if I can find these 3 utilities already ready to added to Noblepup64 from the existing collection of repos, though I think the polish should be from the utilities prepared for Noblepup64 or maybe Jammy.

Basic summary: I'll need to ask once in awhile (or more) how to actually do some adding to woof-CE efficiently.

rockedge wrote: Sat Apr 05, 2025 6:27 pm

I am really interested in furthering the polishing of Noblepup64. ......
My problem is that I will need a bit of guidance on getting the polish included in the woof-CE recipe for Noblepup64. ......
Basic summary: I'll need to ask once in awhile (or more) how to actually do some adding to woof-CE efficiently.

Hi Erik
I think you can access the ibiblio repos? If not we can arrange....

1. We should establish a NoblePup64 repo on ibiblio
2. for you to upload your components to.
3. that repo is then added to:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... _PET_REPOS
4. and your components are added to:
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... untu-noble
5. and to a new https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... 4-official

I'm happy to do 1. and 3. and create an empty 5.

You then need to do 2. 4. and add your petspecs to 5.

LATER - 1. 3. & 5. are done (there is an example noble64test.pet added as an example).

Test build :
https://github.com/peabee/woof-CE/relea ... .04-250406
('checkdeps -system' shows that libmtp is wrongly located - this needs to be fixed
it's a common64 pet so a patch in _00build.conf is the way to go - done)