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ssme · Joined: 15 Jan 2009 Posts: 79

thanks for the reply.

what would you describe as "older hardware" or "newer hardware"? where is the threshold? i keep reading about people running puppy on 386s and things, and i suppose some people might well use it as a super-fast linux on a brand new quad-core monster with 4gb of ram or whatever. so the potential hardware range is huge.

what are the 'major differences' between different versions? i've never noticed any change in the system requirements between versions. maybe i didn't look hard enough Smile

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3276 Location: Oregon

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 13:33 Post subject:

J-Bob · Joined: 09 Feb 2008 Posts: 283 Location: Canada

jrb · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 14:58 Post subject: abiword version

Hi WhoDo and other Devs,
Just downloaded pup42 and am typing this on it now. Love the look! Everything works so far.

Just thought I'd comment on Abiword. Gray has used Abiword 2.6.4 in his latest BoxPup. It has the slight advantage of being able to open msword 2007 .docx files, after a fashion. The text shows up anyway.

I was able to extract this version from his BoxPup and am using it in my own remastered pup412. Don't know why he hasn't released it as a pet, other than that it is incompatible with 2.6.3 plugins. I have put it together as a .pet which I would be happy to upload (somewhere?)

Thanks for your ongoing efforts and congratulations on a beautiful package so far.

Jim1911 · Joined: 19 May 2008 Posts: 2445 Location: Texas, USA

01micko

Thanks for your weather howto.
A couple of questions.
What change is needed in the configuration file for degrees F to show instead of C?
Instead of a weather font, I have a very large lower case a, how is this changed? The weather fonts file was downloaded and extracted to the /root/.font folder.

Thanks,
Jim

WhoDo

technosaurus · Joined: 18 May 2008 Posts: 4133

Please don't just replace the thread title, its already 4 pages... if you get the thread too long it gets to be a bear and there is no divider to let people know which posts/bugs are still applicable

I am downloading the alpha right now and will make some mods to the web desktop to cater to 4.2 (and also update the first run tutorial)

veronicathecow · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 530

Anyone know why the 4.10 should boot fine and I get file not found for 4.2
directories are correct and case is also correct.
Many thanks
Tony

title Puppy Linux 410 frugal
kernel (hd0,0)/puppy410/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Puppy_Linux_410_frugal pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy410 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/puppy410/initrd.gz

title Puppy Linux 4p2 frugal
kernel (hd0,0)/puppy4p2/vmlinuz BOOT_IMAGE=Puppy_Linux_410_frugal nosmp pmedia=atahd psubdir=puppy4p2 splash=silent
initrd (hd0,0)/puppy4p2/initrd.gz

WhoDo · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 15:49 Post subject:

WhoDo · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 15:51 Post subject:

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7547 Location: qld

Warren, here's how to edit the weather font.
open Abiword and choose 'weather' (the old Pwidgets weather font, you must rename it and install it from previous Pwidgets) and open abiword again and choose 'NowTheWeather' and type the alphabet in each. Compare and edit Sintot's code. I gotta go to work now but I'll try it this afternoon.

Mick

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 16:35 Post subject:

ttuuxxx · Posted: Sun 18 Jan 2009, 16:44 Post subject:

Hey WhoDo hows this look ?
With the show desktop icon I made 2 of them 1 with brown edges, and one with the MS style blue edges which one do you like better?
ttuuxxx