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Devuan64: https://sourceforge.net/projects/devuan ... /Packages/

I am actually in the now very old puppy_april64_7.0.1 with the size from only

and I am using in it a very new package from josejp2424 for brave browser for his devuanpup chimaera 64 as above old april 64 includes all tools from Puppy but

• no browser

• no skype or else

• no office

and I am using the new dotpet brave_browser-amd64.pet from josejp2424 to write those text lines on that forum. an other dotpet from josejp2424 did also start willing in april64 libreoffice-7.1.3.2_amd64.pet. also skypeforlinux-8.71.0.36-amd64.pet did start willing. wine-6.9_6.9_amd64.pet is also installed but I did break the installation because I have a very bad experience with is as wine is now insatiable (did immediately require to download and install the 32 bit compatibility dotpet from josejp2424 and as it is a new package, it is, alone, a giant package compared with the April64 distro ! It can't be right to do so... And I know that after installing the compatibility package it will require the installation from mono and more and more and more depending the job you will start in wine . if you can use all that, you can also use the most recent Puppy, for ex. that devuanpup chimaera 64 from josejp2424 or make directly a full installation for ex. from devuan!)...

april64-7.0.1 is under the family of old "april" (ab. equivalent with tahrpup) a very special one with an normal iso with normal puppy_april64_7.0.1.sfs and normal zdrv_april64_7.0.1.sfs (no *.q main file!). you need both in your "psubdir" as well as, is clear of course, vmlinuz and initrd.gz

you can save above dotpets also in that psubdir and hit on demand of those your will use, the installation is really very fast!

sorry, but the iso does not include some remaster help (but taersh did offer us in the past a great dotpet to install easily to remaster puppy in his old packages and modules depository! only, I am sorry, I don't find the link any more to that depository in his signature for ex. in that thread )

the /etc/X11/xorg.conf works after menu > exit >> restart X

(on my PC the screen become darker but after a certain waiting without some action, the light did become normal again)

and, that is important for me, the settings

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbRules" "xorg"
Option "XkbModel" "pc102" #xkbmodel0
Option "XkbLayout" "us" #xkeymap0
Option "XkbVariant" "intl" #xkbvariant0
Option "XkbOptions" "terminate:ctrl_alt_bksp"
EndSection

(don't forget to uncoment the fat line properly: erase the sign "#" initially in front of that line )

I did not try, but you certainly add fonts in /usr/share/fonts and some alternative keyboard like:

Option "XkbLayout" "us","in" #xkeymap0
Option "XkbVariant" "intl","tam" #xkbvariant0

for some Tamil writing for ex. (or use http://inputking.com, but also inputking needs the suppl. fonts ! don't forget it!

if you find a way to remaster, you can use /etc/fstab with a line like

#
UUID=5685fe3d-d0c1-4edc-8c1e-2c1ebxxxx062 /root/ftp ext4 defaults 0 2

to mount your documents partition directly in ftp at starting time so that you will need no save file (growing with the installation from modern dotpet stuff, especially if you try to use wine, see above!)

@oui :-

I've been running jrb's 'lite' spin of Quirky64 'April' 7.0.1 for around 18 months now. It's my regular 'daily driver'.

You don't need all that usual stuff for running WINE in Quirky, y'know. There's a WINE AppImage that many of us are now using, discovered over at Github by trister, here:-

viewtopic.php?f=142&t=1754

I run this from an external partition, sym-linked into every one of my 64-bit Pups. I've also got a 'Live CD' of Fossapup, with a small amount of customization before 'fixing' it to be closed to further writing. With this, I use a flash drive, containing a number of 'portable' browsers, AppImages, and a self-contained WINE directory with the WINE AppImage. After booting, I have a script I run which 'symlinks' the WINE AppImage into all the appropriate locations and makes the /root/.wine directory available for use. A second script un-links everything before shutting-down.

The portable browsers and AppImages all run direct from the flash drive.

I no longer bother with running the Skype desktop client. As of quite recently, the Skype web-app now functions flawlessly in all the Chromium-based browsers, of which Brave is one. It's the only one I haven't tested it in, 'cos I don't like Brave, but you should find that

https://web.skype.com

.....is fully functional for you. Even webcam & audio!

(You'll notice it looks very familiar. For all practical purposes, the client & webapp use the same, identical code-base. The client is an Electron app. meaning it uses a stripped-back, minimal Chromium browser anyway.....)

Mike.

After booting, I have a script I run which 'symlinks' the WINE AppImage into all the appropriate locations and makes the /root/.wine directory available for use. A second script un-links everything before shutting-down.

I have a directory (N.E.M.E.S.I.S.) with sub-directories inside the installation directory of my Puppy Systems. When booting, everything found inside these sub-directories is sym-linked automatically. That's how I store settings persistent and I can choose this for each application separately via right-click action.

Everything from HOME goes to /root.
Everything from config goes to /root/.config.
Everything from applications goes to /usr/share/applications.
Everything from apps goes to /usr/local/apps.

I wanted to show a screenshot from content of applications also, but the forum refuses to add more than three screenshots to this posting.

Care to share the scripts? These are very interesting.

Which scripts?