Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

PeterSieg · Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany, 37603

New web site devoted to Puppy linux online...

Hi, I have just opened my new web site for puppy linux:

http://www.petersieg.org
http://www.petersieg.info
and in some days:
http://www.puppylinux.de

It will contain my special interest with puppy linux.
That is of course any german related stuff Smile

But also currently:
xorg682
wine
etc.

Have a look...
Total space available: 150MB; used so far: 40MB
Traffic allowed: 10GB/month

PS

MU · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 10:03 Post subject:

Fine, added it to the german Wiki-Page Smile

Mark

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4636 Location: Manila

I like the site and the pictures, especially Smile

Is the mini-PC still in the market in Europe? How much is it selling?

I guess the downloads can be used by English users, too...

MU · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 11:35 Post subject:

Rafy, Peter writes you can get them for 60-90 Euro at Ebay.
Compaq Ipaq Mini-PC (Cel. 500MHz, 128MB, 4GB, I810 Graficscard).

Mark

Lobster · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 11:40 Post subject: Best news of the day

Best news of the day - that and the new multisession iso (which seems to be progressing very well - excellent help with the whole process)

Klaus Knoppix was my first Linux hero (well him and Tux) and there seems a VERY healthy developer community in Germany. I also hear there are some smart programmers in India (most able to use English) and China will be ideal for Puppy.
Maybe Puppian will create a page in Mandarin . . . he is one busy Puppy . . . We even have a Vietnamese Puppy being created . . .

This is a great boost.

Smile

MU · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 11:52 Post subject:

Yes, if you read older Mailinglist-archives, you will see many german programmers. Linux/UNIX has a long tradition in german Universities.

2-3 years ago I saw a worldmap with dots for every KDE-developper, about the half was located in Germany.
KDE was forced by german Suse-Linux (now Novell-Linux), while the english countries seem to prefer Gnome.

Concerning China I just found a report at pro-linux.de:
http://www.golden-penguin.org/en/01.html
http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/45435/index.html

I think we can expect lots of new stuff from China, just imagine it has approx a quarter of the whole population of this planet...

Mark

BarryK · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 19:56 Post subject:

That's great!
I can't read or speak much German.
You might wonder, with the name "Kauler", about my origin...
My dad's parents came from Estonia, some Kaulers there. I think there are a
heap of Kaulers in Germany too.

I have visited Germany, 30 years ago.
I do know how to ask a German person if they speak English!

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I know no german, except for bits and pieces of Silent Night in German.

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 980 Location: Heart of Texas

I lived in Germany as a kid until I was seven. My Dad was the famous Uncle Harvey of Armed Forces TV in the mid 60's. I have to say that Christmas in Berlin was the best! I attend a German Church now, and one year the whole service was in German. An elderly man sung Silent Night and it was the best, much better than the English version. We still play our LP records of Christmas albums from there as kids. My parents taped us singing german songs with thick British accents what we once had. Cool

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

I've been told my last name is german. Are there any germans here who can confirm or deny that?

Lobster · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 21:52 Post subject:

http://silentnight.web.za/multimedia/index.htm
Smile

MU · Posted: Wed 19 Oct 2005, 23:33 Post subject:

jcagle, whats your lastname?

Barry, Kauler sounds german, but is is not very common. I think I never heard that name before (but that has nothing to say).
Well, if you come to germany again within the next 30 years, I might help translating Wink

Ted:
"Uncle Harvey of Armed Forces TV in the mid 60's."

I don't know that, I was born in the late 60's
Funny to hear about german christmas-songs in America... (i don't sing at christmas ; )
Sometimes the "folcloristic" things of a country are most popular in foreign countries.
I just think of "bavarian" in short Leather-Trowsers... you often can see them in movies or Disney-World, but not in normal live in germany Wink

Mark

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

My last name is Cagle

MU · Posted: Thu 20 Oct 2005, 10:35 Post subject:

No, Cagle is not german.

Germans don't use le , but el.
They also use K more often than C.

Maybe your name was "americanized" when your forefathers left germany (if they came from there).
That happened quite often, i.e. "Georg" becomes "George", because it is easier to pronounce in english.

So it would be "Kagel". This sounds german, and I think I already heard that name. Wait, using google.de ... first entry is dorf-kagel.de (dorf is village):
http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=kagel&btnG=Suche&meta=

So yes, there might be a german background Smile

Mark

jcagle · Joined: 29 Sep 2005 Posts: 634

yeah it probably was americanized...I've seen some last names as Kagel as well.