Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

pemasu · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 5458 Location: Finland

You have build solid Pups. And the look has been really good in them. Yes, I have used your great themes when I have updated themes. Thank you of them, they have looked really great.

And never say never again. Take a break and when things give you more time, contribute or give feedback more actively again.

Thank you of what you have done so far.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

Pemasu,

I can't say that the icewm themes are truly mine; they were a mix-mash of other themes which I hacked together. I do intend to improve my theme-making skills in icewm so that I can have some which I can truly call my own.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

I have made a 16MB SFS of Firefox-6.0. I have tested it in both Slickpup and Solidpup, so it should also be compatable with Lucid and Wary.
The download link is on the first post of this thread.

hoven · Joined: 21 Jun 2010 Posts: 145

How do you mount iso and sfs files with Solidpup? (I know how to do it with commandline). In the normal Puppy double clicking on the file in Rox will mount it. Also, I'm not sure but I thought Thunar normally allowed the same thing.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

Hoven,

To mount a SFS file, right-click on it, and choose SFS-Exec or SFS-Load.
SFS-Load is more reliable, while SFS-Exec is faster when it works.

To be honest, I do not know to mount an ISO file. I still consider myself to be a linux newbie.
May I ask for what reason one would wish to mount an ISO? If you wish to see the contents of the ISO or extract it, what I do is right-click on the ISO, choose "Open With" and choose ISOMaster.

Update: Oh yes, I realize now that mounting an iso allows you to see it's contents. I previously, used ISOMaster for this purpose, but left-clicking on the ISO is much easier.
The Final versions of SolidPup have this left-click option for both ISO and SFS files.
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Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

I have packaged Firefox 7.0 and Seamonkey 2.3.3 generic builds into SFS format. They both work in Solidpup and Slickpup, so they should be fine in Wary and Lucid Puppy as well. They can be downloaded here: http://www.smokey01.com/Tman/apps/

singlshot · Joined: 13 Aug 2011 Posts: 21

tman

Just down loaded and live cd on this old compaq 7470 500mhz. 360m memory works fine . I like it , good job it runs a little slower than some others but it good . I will play wiht it some more and probely do a hd full install as that works better on this old box.

thanks for the good work
Singlshot

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

Thanks singlshot,

I did the best I could with my current level of experience. I am still a rookie developer and there's a lot of things I still need to improve upon but I am glad that you like it. If any current user has fixed any bugs experienced in this puplet; providing the solution or pointing the way would be greatly appreciated. I actually use SlickPup as my main puplet, but I won't forget this one completely. I do plan to make newer versions; but for now I am slowing down the release time between versions. I am thinking every 4-6 months per release as a time frame.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

I've decided to get back on the saddle and work on another puplet..well not a brand new one.
I felt that I had left SolidPup sort-of unfinished, so I decided to work on it some more.
This will probably be the final release for version 5.1.1. It should be ready in a couple weeks. There will be a lot of changes.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 753 Location: UK

Hi Tman

Very interested - looks like it's going to be really nice.

Looking forward to seeing it.

Thanks for sharing - very best regards - Ray

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

The final version is not yet complete, but I decided to upload a beta version for users to try.
There have been many changes to the previous release, including updated apps, themes and under-the-hood stuff.

The default window-manager is Icewm with Openbox + Fbpanel as an alternative.
I still want to add some more things..a few wifi drivers, some more updates, and I want to replace fbpanel with tint2.
Abiword and Gnumeric are out, but I've added Get-GnomeOffice, which installs them easily.
Also, Get-Internet Apps allows you to install the latest, Flashplayer, Firefox, Opera, and/or Seamonkey.

enjoy! Wink

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

If anyone by chance downloaded the nvidia driver from the link on the first page, which I changed yesterday...my apologies, it linked to the wrong driver. I have posted a new link now, and confirm that it works for my Nvidia GT 240.

Tman · Joined: 22 Jan 2011 Posts: 811 Location: Toronto

I just updated Flashplayer to version 11.1.102.55.
If you're in the new SolidPup, just go to Get Internet Apps in the menu and select flashplayer.

It will download and install over the old flashplayer automatically.

To see your current installed version, go here.

Ray MK · Joined: 05 Feb 2008 Posts: 753 Location: UK

Hi Tman

Using SolidPup now - luv it - really smooth and very nicely put together.

Still getting familiar with everything - but so far, all looks good.

In fact - 1st impressions - absolutely fantastic.

Running manual frugal to sda5 ext2 and a 500mb swap partition.
Booting via grub4dos.

10yr old Acer laptop - TravelMate 243LC
256mb ram, 2.5Ghz celeron proc.

Many thanks for this and very best regards - Ray