CLOSED - see Fossa64-bas
20/6/23 - V6 released - 232mb.
When Fossapup64-9.5 was released, creator 666philb made the adrv removeable, leaving a skeleton system.
From that, I decided to try to make a small usable system for older pcs to have basic functionality.
Leafpad text editor was already there, so I added other apps to the skeleton system.
Thanks to 666philb, peebee, mikewalsh, 01micko & plinej for software provided on the Forum.
I've called it Fossa64-low.
Security files, as in original, are from 2020. Use at own risk.
Fossa64-low adrv is replaceble - Google-Chrome works, but needs gtk3 & other libs. I failed with Firefox.
With Palemoon (gtk2) I accessed Google-Docs & played Youtube videos, but little other site media I tried.
EDIT: Adding ffmpeg (31mb .pet on page 4 of this thread), significantly increased number of playable sites.
I chose mtpaint, as it can view/edit graphics & by pressing 'prt sc' on keyboard, take a screenshot.
I chose gnome-mplayer at it plays media files, plays cd/dvd & runs my old tv stick.
I replaced gpdf with evince as it can print pdf files as well as view them.
I replaced light with palemoon as it is much newer & hence likely more secure. Original devx should work OK.
V1 was 200mb with light browser, gpdf, gnome-mplayer, mtpaint, calcoo, xpat2 cards, poorercputemp,
poorerbatlev, print to file, my kernel 5.4.159.
V2 was 220mb & was as V1, with palemoon gtk2 replacing light, mhwaveedit, more firmware, small fixes
V3 was 241mb & was as V2, with evince replacing gpdf, cups printing, gutenprint, gparted, gftp, pburn,
abiword/gnumeric, apulse, more firmware, small fixes, my newer kernel 5.10.153.
V4 is 244mb & is as V3, with pupmtp, pupsysinfo, more firmware, small fixes - including missing executables
for pmirror & xdelta, & my newest kernel 5.10.182.
NOTE: As I haven't updated security files, I changed Palemoon to run-as-spot, to increase security. Download
default folder is /home/spot/Downloads.
Sometimes, run-as-spot can lead to a permissions problem when uploading - simple fix (if it happens) is to
place files for upload into /home/spot & in a terminal, run setspot.
To run as root, edit /usr/local/bin/defaultbrowser & remove (just) run-as-spot, then save.
V5 was a bugfix.
V6 had with significant fix & improved compression, more firmware & isomaster added.
FFmpeg, mpv & ted not included.
24/6/23 - Project closed - now issuing Basic 1, using progress & testing made here.
Apologies if 'redo' made any following comments seem puzzling.