Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[jemimah]

Saluki is a woof-build based on Racy 5.2 with Xfce. The suggested target hardware is computers less than 5 years old. It should run reasonably fast on older machines and netbooks, but Xfce does need a bit more ram and cpu than the standard ROX/Jwm puppy - probably at least 512MB of ram and 1GHz CPU for decent performance.

Please visit the new Saluki website at http://saluki-linux.com










The focus is user-friendliness, innovation, improved look and feel, and solid, functional applications. We attempt to address the most common complaints of new Puppy users and raise the bar for Puppy usability, customizability, and polish.

This is a Release Candidate. Please report any bugs you find.

The enhanced Saluki Package Manager is well stocked with packages, tested and working, and integrated with sfs loader. New packages added frequently. Want a package added, just ask. Package maintainers and contributors welcome!

A brand new version of the Frisbee network manager makes networking easier and more reliable than ever.

SFS-on-the-fly replaces the boot manager for ultimate sfs loading convenience.

Saluki is designed from the ground up for use as a base system for puplet developers. The Saluki Custom Puplet builder is a build system with unmatched precision and ease of use. You can change the apps, change the kernel, rename the sfs files, choose xorgwizard or automatic desktop, trim the zdrive, and customize the look and feel.
Remix your own perfect, production quality puplet in 15 minutes or less.

Simple, uncluttered menus, with one application per task and searchable control panel makes navigating easy, and intuitive.

Icons can be dragged from the menus or the control panel onto the desktop.

Highly customizable panels with a multitude of available panel applets, plus a wide array of included themes and fonts, make personalizing your desktop fun.

Out of the box OpenGL makes Saluki ready for eye candy like Compiz and Cairo-Dock, as well as 3D games.

This is the post that explains how to compile the ati driver. If you make a pet for it - let me know and I'll add it to the repo.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=621970#621970

The kernel is 3.2.8 i686 SMP PREEMPT built by Pemasu.

If you have more than 3GB of ram you might be interested in the PAE kernel. You can use the custom builder to rebuild the ISO with the PAE kernel.
http://www.smokey01.com/pemasu/Saluki/kernel-3.2.13-pae/


Download saluki-023 (130MB):
http://smokey01.com/saluki/isos/

New in 023:
Bugfixes for Xfce issues
Updated pup-volume-manager and mounting backend stuff. This is now pretty stable.
Updated Midori
Removed Streamtuner

New in 022:
Xfce updated to 4.10
New volume management and drive mounting backend - This is still UNSTABLE. Use saluki-21 if you need something stable.
Pupsaveconfig updated

New in 021:
Updated Midori, pupsaveconfig
fixed ogle

New in 020:
Bugfixes and minor enhancements

New in 019:
Updated pupsaveconfig, firstrun, and sfs_load
updated theme and wallpapers
renamed gnome icon theme to hicolor for better support of adding additional full icon themes
suppression of drive notifications during bootup
various bugfixes and minor enhancements
perl removed from devx so perl application dependencies work

New in 018:
Splash screens. You should get a splash screen for the
livecd, for grub4dos, and during bootup. These can be changed with the custom builder.

Various bugfixes and minor enhancements

New in 017:
Various bugfixes and minor enhancements

New in 016:
Various bugfixes, including dvd mounting, startmount ntfs drives, Thunar not refreshing file lists, and midori local html files.

New in 015:
Updated Midori
Updated Kernel
Updated Custom Builder
Updated ntfs-3g
Various Bugfixes

New in 014:
The custom builder now shows which packages are missing dependencies and includes the zdrv cutter.

Frisbee updated
Pupdial - UI updated

Various bug fixes and minor enhancements

New in 013:
new kernel
Thunar archiver plugin
many new plugins for gstreamer
saluki custom puplet builder
pdf-cube
lsalarm
various fixes and enhancements

New in 012:
LHP sysinfo
unrar
xfce desktop drive icons
volume notifications

Various fixes and enhancements

New in 011:

More PPM enhancements
Remove Builtins now works with adrive
Defaults-Chooser - Scottman's version with updates
PupRemaster - This is Dougal's version with some updates
The firewall installer has had a bit of a face lift

Various bugfixes and enhancements

New in 010:

This is mostly a bugfix release

I've also done some work on streamlining the PPM. Sfs_load is now integrated into the ppm and rxvt downloads are a thing of the past.

Full installs are hopefully fixed.


New in 009:

The desktop is now icon-free. You can drag and drop items from the menu or control panel right to the desktop. Just click on a menu entry, hold, and drop it on the desktop.

PPM and SFSget now working
startmount
xfburn
Various refinements and bugfixes

New in 008:
I've replaced retrovol with the xfce mixer. To get it to work you need to right click and open the Properties then left click and set your controls.

Various refinements and bugfixes

The following apps have been added:

abiword
aiksaurus
asunder
claws-mail
dia
evince
fbreader
gadmin-sshd
galculator
gcolor2
gftp
gnac
gnumeric
gstpw
gtktetris
gweled
gworldclock
mhwaveedit
midori
mtpaint
ogle
osmo
pcd
pidgin
pupcamera
putty
remmina
ristretto
streamtuner
thoggen
transmission
ucview
xdelta
xmenumaker - Thanks Geoffrey!
xnoise

New in 007:
updated xfdesktop and thunar
a bunch of new fonts
gtk theme engines and themes
xfce notification daemon
updated: pbootsound, PUI, syslinux
added: pupsaveconfig, pfind, xarchiver, woofy
installing pets no longer goes directly to the save layer - I'm not sure why this works for some kernels and not others
Enhanced Thunar Custom Actions - Thanks Geoffrey!
various bugfixes

The xorg headers accidentally got omitted from the devx again. Use the 006 devx or download the headers from the wary repo.http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/pet_packages-wary5/x_xorg76_mega_pkg_DEV-7.6-3-w5c.pet

New in 006:

Xfce session layer
Additional Xfce configuration tools
Bugfixes for various bugs reported in 005
Xfce terminal
Xfce screenshot grabber

New in 005:

Rox and Jwm replaced by Xfce
Frisbee
A large amount of work has gone into making the xfce environment as familiar to puppy users as possible. There are many woof patches and several for xfce.

New in 004:
updated glib now shows mounted drives in file open/save dialogs
gtk returned to 2.24.8 - possible fix for gseal errors included in devx
vattery
acpid - supend,hibernate,powersaving modes,etc
sven - most hotkeys should work
annoying welcomefirstboot message moved to the tray
gxmessage replaces xmessage
sfs-on-the-fly
RoxRightClicks
grandr

New in 003:

I've done a bit of cleanup and added a control panel. The freememapplet is patched with a menu entry for increasing save file size.

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[Lobster]

Hope you have room for a crustacean with some wiki skills?

New Saluki page
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Saluki

[ttuuxxx]

That sounds great but just 2 issues, Icewm was always the best WM for lightweight excellent graphics, I made ton's of really small themes for 4 series community edition plus a real small pet for icewm, It always ran perfect on my pc's but other people's pc's always had issues, and they would revert back to JW, So when I was building 2.14X I went with xfce panel and metacity, The combination was incredibly light, fast and better looking than icewm, I've never had a complaint against it. Really I would give this combo 2 thumbs up, Maybe you might want to consider this combo, I even have a bash theme switcher that clarf made for 2.14X that you could use, If you like the idea, Just tell me which Wary version your going with and I could work on it.

PCManFM2 VS Rox, I've always been 100% rox user, 2.14X has Rox and Thunar, but I never use thunar,

ttuuxxx

[Flash]

Welcome back to the forum, Jemimah!

[jim3630]

enjoyed fluppy. thanks for a unique well thought out pup that just works.
user friendly and not just another geeks toy.
while I'm not a programmer developer or code slinger
do have time for through testing of common programs. just mention it.
Welcome back!

[jemimah]

[Tman]

[ttuuxxx]

[ttuuxxx]

[jemimah]

[01micko]

Hi jemimah

Good to see you back.

just as a suggestion you can download the icewm package I built for lupu awhile back from here. It has a simple gtkdialog config tool that may or may not give you some ideas.

Cheers

[scsijon]

welcome back to puppybuildland

Can I sugest you work with racy as there a few of us already working on wary variations and reading over the old saluki thread it seems more appropriate. You might also consider it in the planning stages, and this is the time to do so, for Saluki to be a multi-platform build in the future.

Consider baseing with xorg 7.6 in any case, i've found it's not only visably responsive faster, it's a smaller footprint, has lost some of the video problems that have crept into puppy over the years, they just don't seem to be there or have reduced effects (virtual desktop screen overlap and the like).

If you can talk someone into just building window managers, you could use some / one of the small ones from http://www.gilesorr.com/wm/table.html and develop up one of the fast ones(, i've got another two or so url's if you need more ). It's time we had a 'simple to work with' and 'totally self contained' one. I'd actually like to see someone take on a project of building them all against a single puppy release for a propper comparison, but that's maybe another project for a massachistic stu...

If you can talk one of the serious programmers into helping, ask them to go through the bugs in the earlier puppy threads and work them out of puppy, it's time they dissapeared rather than just worked around!

And as a last, my pet hate is multiple applications that do the same thing in the basic build. I believe we should keep it to a 'mean and lean' minimum of applications, but with the rest still available via the PPM for those with other preferances. And with the Builtin package remover seeming to be working properly it's not that hard to trim later for an individual users taste.

anyway, that's my fifty-cents worth , and you can put me on your testers list when their needed

Have fun in any case

scsijon

[ttuuxxx]

[jemimah]

[Volhout]

Jemimah,

It's great that you are back ! I will follow this thread since you stand for quality, and I am still using your earlier puppeee. I hope you can delegate more (hard for an INTJ) and enjoy every single day of this project.

Maybe it is good to define from the start who the intended customer for the project is. Earlier posts refer to 2 window managers, 2 file managers, and those may be valid requests, but computer users will generally settle for one, never swap, so why burden yourself with transitioning between two (unless you like the challenge to figure it out). Like puppeee: I tested all this switching between WM's, and it works amazingly good (compliments) but don't use anything else then openbox.

As a user I am most impressed that I can get soo much performance in such a small package (iso) and use things like Abiword. But as soon as my wife starts using puppy she needs Openoffice/Libreoffice for compatibility with the Win*ows PC's at her work. So I would plead for a seemless upgrade to this bulky package. And she needs printing and support of a photo camera. (my wife is a teacher).

I am not sure whether these things are out of the scope of this project, but I am trying to explain what a typical (my wife) Puppy user would need that is typically not in the puppy iso.

If there is anything I can do to help test your project, please tell me.

Volhout