Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

I've just read some posts by a couple of newbies who've registered as newbie-something. Their having been exposed to Puppy, addiction is likely. As bigpup says, "We are Puppy. Resistance is futile." There's a good chance that 10 years from now one or more of them will be 'an expert' giving advice to the new newbies. I wondered how those future newbies will feel about the old newbies' choice of handles. Will a new newbie take the advice of newbie65 seriously? And will the rest of us be able to remember that newbie32 gives good advice while newbie47 is a schmuck?
Handles are like tattoos. Over the course of time that national flag you proudly had inked on your youthful six-pack may evolve into a bloated, faded-glory.

some ideas for forum members to use for handles:
Andy War-howl
Bitsy
Bob Scratch-It
Boba Fetch
Buzz Pawldrin
Captain Fluffy
Captain Sniffer
Count Droolsbury
Dumbledog
Hairy Pawter
Jimmy Chew
Kareem Abdul Ja-Bark
Lucky Goodsniffer
Miss Furbulous
Mister Fluffers
Muffin Chops
Muttley Crue
Nacho
Ozzy Pawsborne
Prince of Barkness
Princess Pork Chop
Professor Wagglesworth
Pup Tart
Santa Paws
Sherlock Bones
Sir Barks-a-Lot
Sir Waggington
Sneakers
Sniffy Longdroppings
Spark Pug
Woofer
Woofgang Amadeus
Yeti
Zippy
Bone, James Bone
Chewbarka
Indiana Bones
Jabba the Mutt
Luke Skybarker
Salvador Dogi
Paw-casso

@bigpup That post is useless to us if you don't tell us which puppy you are using. What we need is puppy version, how you are booting it (CD, flash, hdd, etc ..), which motherboard, and how much ram. Please post the make and year of manufacture of your GPU, and it certainly wouldn't hurt if you posted your timezone (TZ), shirt size, and bank balance.

p.s.: 'bigpup' is an oxymoron

Good one!

Puppy 1.0 as a live install on a 1.2 MB high-density floppy disk. No save file.
IBM Personal Computer XT (model 5162)
Intel 80286 processor 6MHz
Memory 640 KB RAM
Professional Graphics Adapter
20MB hard drive
Timezone the twilight zone
Shirt size pup size 1.
Bank balance 4 million Bitcoin.

I am an older in the days of 8k 6502 processors. But I agree. I hope once I relearn/gather info on linux I can be a usefull connection.

Amazed at my handle being available.

Yeah. Could've been "Shmoopy" or even "Schnoopy." Only Heaven could know...

Hey, I got Peppyy back in the 486 / P1 days. I did however have to add the extra Y at the end to make it work on other forums, not on this one.

In the present time it is not as appropriate as it once was. Perhaps at my age I should consider losing the second Y since I am not as Peppy as I used to be.

I already couldn't use my old CB handle by that time because even back then I wasn't as "Twiggy" as I had been during the early CB craze, so I adapted.

A Drongo is a type of bird. It was also, famously, the name of a racehorse that was not very successful. In Australian slang a drongo is a useless or stupid person. You could almost say drongo is Aussie for newbie (at a stretch).
Puppy was one of the first Linux OSs I used on a regular basis.
So, since Puppy is an Ozzie Linux, and since drongo is an anagram of my first name, that's my handle.
I will be a newbie forever!

drongo wrote: Wed Apr 21, 2021 6:31 am

and since drongo is an anagram of my first name, that's my handle.

Gordon? Just wondering. I don't know many Australian names. But I remember Gordon Freeman from the game Half-Life very well

Not an Aussie, I'm from the UK. Gordon was originally a Scottish surname, so you find Gordons in the UK, US, Canada and (probably) Australia.
A Gordon for me, a Gordon for me, if you're no a Gordon then you're no for me!

drongo wrote: Thu Apr 22, 2021 6:37 am

Not an Aussie, I'm from the UK. Gordon was originally a Scottish surname, so you find Gordons in the UK, US, Canada and (probably) Australia.
A Gordon for me, a Gordon for me, if you're no a Gordon then you're no for me!

Thank you for the clarification. I even found and listened to this song performed by Kenneth McKellar. It reminded me of songs from old russian movies of the 60s.

Wish I had given bigpup's post a look before I picked! Been a while since I played in the sandbox, looking forward to it

I guess using the word "wan" could work too, which is mostly used in Japanese to say something like "bark" or "woof woof". Just an idea

I say have some fun with the handle you use

If anyone thinks my real name is bigpup.
I have some beach front property, at low tide, to sale you!

Hey-The beach front property "is for sale" closer to my neck of the woods, than yours, I believe.

Ignorant newbie here...

Is there a way to change your handle once you have created an account?

Can't seem to find any options in the user control panel...

@Neo_78 I can change it for you! PM what you want it to be. That is the easiest way.

Looks like there are at least thirteen people named 'Ben Shmuck' - see the screenshot below; Sometimes people don't have much of a choice in these matters:

bigpup wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:34 am

some ideas for forum members to use for handles:
Andy War-howl
Bitsy
Bob Scratch-It
Boba Fetch
Buzz Pawldrin
Captain Fluffy
Captain Sniffer
Count Droolsbury
Dumbledog
Hairy Pawter
Jimmy Chew
Kareem Abdul Ja-Bark
Lucky Goodsniffer
Miss Furbulous
Mister Fluffers
Muffin Chops
Muttley Crue
Nacho
Ozzy Pawsborne
Prince of Barkness
Princess Pork Chop
Professor Wagglesworth
Pup Tart
Santa Paws
Sherlock Bones
Sir Barks-a-Lot
Sir Waggington
Sneakers
Sniffy Longdroppings
Spark Pug
Woofer
Woofgang Amadeus
Yeti
Zippy
Bone, James Bone
Chewbarka
Indiana Bones
Jabba the Mutt
Luke Skybarker
Salvador Dogi
Paw-casso

much appreciated response

There's a good chance that 10 years from now one or more of them will be 'an expert' giving advice to the new newbies.

Does it really take 10 years to become an expert? At the rate I am going, it may take 20. I can't seem to get off the ground. I burned my bridges though, and there is no going back to Windows controlware and spyware.

@Governor You're doing fine. Already realizing where you stand puts you in the driver's seat. I say it's a matter of surmounting the first challenges then refining until the next step requires a bit more expertise.

You will surprise yourself on how much you've learned and fiqured out by New Year's Day.

Many greetings to all!

I would like to give feedback and ask a question at the same time, so excuse me if I wrote to the wrong topic!

After approximately 10 years ago when I started to use Puppy Linux, then now I reached some milestones I would achieve - although I'm not too good in those:
such as using Woof-CE codes to build own variants of puppies or compile kernel variations docendo discimus across creating pet, sfs packages to compiling custom packages from sources. The only thing I recognised during this time, I gave very little amount of feedbacks to you. That's what I wanted to say at the very first of this comment, I am not proud of myself because of this. Many unwritten and undocumented experiences lost by this period by me. Some of them kept by my memory, some of them forgotten forever. The only thing I can do, is to share my experiences, ideas, feedbacks to you, and help with them to keep puppy linux going.

This has a dual purpose: sharing ideas and documenting them.

The question is, will the PPM be able to - in the future - has an option to self-correcting it's databases about what kind of packages the puppy has by its' files system-wide?
The complexity of this question cover a wide area of problems I mean:

builtin_files: which are in the sfs files stored are read only. They are in relations with woof-installed-packages.
*.files which are in relations with user-installed-packages.
And any others in the system not included in databases.
And remastering has problems too with handling the databases vice-versa, because in the sfs they become read only again after the remaster. Even it is manual or done by scripts.

And my feedback is based on this exploration: I tried a method with which I could rebuild the whole system extracted to *.files and into user-installed-packages but this way is take very big file spaces and time what a user maybe not wait. PPM 2.1.2 in example BionicPup64 8.0 is only examine package relationships such as shared objects or other additionally required dependencies when user-installed-packages and their *.files are exists when I install or uninstall packages. It would be great to solve these problems if it is possible! The way I did may not the best and I shared these informations in hope once can be solved these problems, or at least will has an answer to me with details why not possible if it isn't. I think the heart of the system is the package manager which handle the files in it. I know about apt, but I don't know it will ever handle puppy package databases vice or versa in the future.

Finally excuse me for my grammatical and any other mistakes int the comment! I hope I could express myself in an undersatandable way!
Thanks in advance and, wishing all the best to you!

-------Edit-------

OK
I’m a bit outdated, sorry for my silly question as I see there are current developments which are dealing with these problems. In the future, I will follow them with interest. Sorry again!

bigpup wrote: Wed Jan 27, 2021 9:34 am

some ideas for forum members to use for handles:
Andy War-howl
Bitsy
Bob Scratch-It
Boba Fetch
Buzz Pawldrin
Captain Fluffy
Captain Sniffer
Count Droolsbury
Dumbledog
Hairy Pawter
Jimmy Chew
Kareem Abdul Ja-Bark
Lucky Goodsniffer
Miss Furbulous
Mister Fluffers
Muffin Chops
Muttley Crue
Nacho
Ozzy Pawsborne
Prince of Barkness
Princess Pork Chop
Professor Wagglesworth
Pup Tart
Santa Paws
Sherlock Bones
Sir Barks-a-Lot
Sir Waggington
Sneakers
Sniffy Longdroppings
Spark Pug
Woofer
Woofgang Amadeus
Yeti
Zippy
Bone, James Bone
Chewbarka
Indiana Bones
Jabba the Mutt
Luke Skybarker
Salvador Dogi
Paw-casso

How horrible! The added names down the list aren’t added properly! Don’t forget alphabetical accuracy!

It's a joke list!

I got down to the Z names, had to start over

Those last few names are the real troublemakers!

They refuse to post correctly in the forum.

Which means that someone must fix the forum. Having lists incorrectly ordered is unacceptable!

Pawsitively Perfect
Sir Licks-a-Lot
Pawsitron the Magnificent