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The Hamsters · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Greece

The new iso of "Happy Linux" is out. You can find it here:
http://hamster.tuxhost.gr/Distros

Xfce 4.4.1 (default)

Jwm

Programs:

Pburn 1.4.1
Fotox 34
Pet Be Gone
Xine
Firefox 2.012 (+xine plugin +flash player)
Abi (+english dict +greek dict)
MU gtk theme chooser
etc........

Window Manager:

xfce 4.4.1 + Jwm

Supports utf8 on ext3, vfat partitions

We change the whole interface (new icons, cursors, sounds, themes......)

The iso is 141MB.
Happy Linux is completely in english.

Hope you like it..........
We want to say that the forum is really great.
We found a lot of answears and great programs.
Thank you all (especially the devellopers of the programs that we borrow).

Finally, sorry for my really bad english (hope you understand....)

If you speak greek or you want to improve them come and say "hi" on our site: http://hamster.tuxhost.gr/

Please reffer any bugs.

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

What on earth has happened to this wonderful distro?! The link has gone 404.

reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

That is true. Maybe you can try this one.

http://hamster.tuxhost.gr/Distros/

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

Terrific - thanks! I see it's advanced 0.01, too!
One of the least discussed distros, but everyone I've shown it likes it. Vastly underrated.

Not so much a bug: it's always considerate of a developer to guess some starting values for the static network setup (DSL guesses them all, mostly correctly), however, in Happy, my gw values appear in the DNS boxes! Many distros can correctly determine the gw by probing and often find viable DNS. Of course, the 255.... string is almost universal for the netmask, so it only remains to place the gw in the IP box leaving the user a small change to the final value to establish instant connection. Shame that some developers overlook this small courtesy.

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

I just downloaded your distro and I gotta say it's really nice. It's very smooth and gorgeous to the eyes. Surprised it's not more popular. Keep up the good work. I'll be watching this one. By the way, where did "the hamsters" come from?

The Hamsters · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Greece

hi again,

to be honest i was surprised that finally someone answeared after 3 months.
finally you discovered happ-iness Smile

we are translating puppy 4.0 in greek. we are only 4 members in the team so we are going very slow.

for the new happy we wanted to use xfce 4.4.2 but it is full of bugs and very unstable so we have to continue with xfce 4.4.1 (is there a pet package for dingo?)

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4623 Location: GB

This one is just too good to rely on only four developers. Suggest you recruit more globally. If you're doing the Greek version, ask one of your near neighbours who use Cyrillic to translate into Russian and you'll increase market penetration many fold up through the Balkans and across the Urals. The Ruskies are terrific at coding, too. Maybe we can get a Puppy in assembler, then that opens up the entire burgeoning embedded market?

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

Hey just wanted to say that I am using your derivative for the live cd for everyone that comes over to our house to use. We keep a bunch or our nieces and nephews sometimes and they like to go online. But we don't want them going online using the windows software as it is so unstable so I've been going thru derivatives trying to find the perfect one and right now Happy is the one. So keep up the good work. Thanks

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 20 Jul 2008, 10:47 Post subject:

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

By the way Mr. Hamster, I've checked but I can't seem to find it. Is

there an english version of your website?

The Hamsters · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Greece

sorry no english version.

you can't find the iso? follow the link above.
or you can't find our website? [url]hamster.tuxhost.gr[/url][/url]

muggins · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 6660 Location: lisbon

Hello Hamsters,

Have you seen this game, tavli3d? Might be a possibility for your next release.

The Hamsters · Joined: 17 Feb 2008 Posts: 40 Location: Greece

that's good. but tavli on pc it hasn't the passion of the real tavli.
anyway, i think xfce 4.4.2 is very unstable. what do you think?
there isn't any pet package for dingo (xfce 4.4.10) ?

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

brymway · Joined: 08 Dec 2007 Posts: 410

To the Hamsters:

Hello again. We've been using Happy Linux for about a week and I thought everything was going great but my daughter told me the other day that Happy is always locking up. Granted they use flash and play online games quite a bit and chat a lot but it does seem to lock up a bunch. I've had to restart x a few times but I think I've only had to manually shut the computer off once.

It's 1 1/2 years old, it's called an e-machine t3516, 512 megs of ram. Don't know if you wanted any feedback but I thought I'd check. Otherwise it was great.