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#41 Post by pakt »

Lobster wrote:eh?

Why not use pupget? Are you using a very early version of Puppy without pupget? Just curious :)
I've never really been a fan of 'live-update', which pupget actually is. When you have more than one PC to update, I've usually found it easier to just download the update and apply it locally. A side benefit is that you have an archive copy handy should you need to use it again later.

As I have a slow dialup, I can think of better ways of spending connection time (and money ;) ) than having to run 'live-update' over and over again, especially when many megabytes are involved, although that doesn't usually apply to Puppy :)

Thanks for the dotpup G2 and BarryK for restoring wmpower 8). I'm looking forward to testing it.

Update:
After booting Puppy 1.0.5RC on my Dell Inspiron 510m (pressed return, ie option 1), I installed G2's new wmpower.pup, ran it in rxvt and got:

# wmpower

Welcome to wmpower version 0.3.1...
No power management subsystem detected

wmpower: No power management support...

Hmmm...what's this? Kanotix has no problem activating APCI on this laptop.
Am I forgetting something or doing something wrong?

BTW, checked the wmpower homepage - latest version is 0.4.2
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#42 Post by keenerd »

Silly me, I forgot about checking PupGet. But thank you for re-including it.

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#43 Post by BarryK »

BTW, checked the wmpower homepage - latest version is 0.4.2
What's the link?

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#44 Post by pakt »

BarryK wrote:
BTW, checked the wmpower homepage - latest version is 0.4.2
What's the link?
Whoops, sorry. I was going to include the link but forgot ('fraid my old memory cells just ain't what they used to be...or maybe I've always been that way...can't quite remember... ;) ) http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wmpo ... 2?download

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#45 Post by Lobster »

pakt wrote: As I have a slow dialup, I can think of better ways of spending connection time (and money ;) ) than having to run 'live-update' over and over again, especially when many megabytes are involved, although that doesn't usually apply to Puppy :)
I gets it! That makes perfect sense :) One of the hot new features in 1.0.5 will be a connect to internet button for dialup users. This is rumoured to be positioned bottom left.
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#46 Post by Flash »

I posted this in the Misc section, as "How does the average Joe patch Linux," before I saw this thread. It seems appropriate to this topic.

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#47 Post by Pizzasgood »

As I have a slow dialup, I can think of better ways of spending connection time (and money Wink ) than having to run 'live-update' over and over again, especially when many megabytes are involved, although that doesn't usually apply to Puppy Smile
Maybe Pupget could have a "delete install file" button like dotpups? Then you could archive them, and use the local package option on them later.

FYI, if I remember right, the pupget packages are stored at the ibiblio server, so you can also download them from there.

EDIT: Even better: A save install file button. Then you could choose where to save it so you don't have to search, and you can put it right where you want it.
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#48 Post by pakt »

Pizzasgood wrote:
As I have a slow dialup, I can think of better ways of spending connection time (and money Wink ) than having to run 'live-update' over and over again, especially when many megabytes are involved, although that doesn't usually apply to Puppy Smile
Maybe Pupget could have a "delete install file" button like dotpups? Then you could archive them, and use the local package option on them later.

FYI, if I remember right, the pupget packages are stored at the ibiblio server, so you can also download them from there.

EDIT: Even better: A save install file button. Then you could choose where to save it so you don't have to search, and you can put it right where you want it.
You might just be onto something there. Debian's apt-get stores copies of downloaded files in a special cache directory which is not automatically emptied, so these files can be retrieved and re-used. This is a feature I've exploited when installing updates in Kanotix on more than one PC.

Likewise, Pupget could have a 'save install file' button (as you suggested) that would add the file to a special pupget-archive directory the contents of which could be used by the 'install local package' option (or re-used manually to update other PCs, via a USB-pen for example).

Perhaps an 'empty pupget-archive' button should also be included to clear the archive directory should storage space be low or the files not be needed again.

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#49 Post by J_Rey »

I suggest that we add the following to Mozilla's bookmarks:

Puppy Linux Website:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/

Puppy Help main index:
file:///root/puppy-reference/doc/index.html

Puppy Discussion Forum:
http://www.murga.org/~puppy/

Puppy Linux Wiki:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/

Puppy Linux IRC:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/PuppyLinuxIRC

Also, the refresh rate seems to default to 60, but I couldn't find something in Puppy explaining how to change it.

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#50 Post by GuestToo »

the refresh rate seems to default to 60, but I couldn't find something in Puppy explaining how to change it
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/faq.htm
search for refresh

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#51 Post by J_Rey »

GuestToo wrote:
the refresh rate seems to default to 60, but I couldn't find something in Puppy explaining how to change it
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/faq.htm
search for refresh
I remember now, but there still isn't anything included with the distro about it that I could find. Maybe need to copy the answer and have a Help button with the Video Wizard. Also, a link to the rest of the video modes would be nice (maybe I'll find them myself, dunno).

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