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kros54 · Last edited by kros54 on Sat 02 Feb 2013, 13:49; edited 1 time in total

New puplet based on Retro Precise Puppy 5.4.2.2
installed Openbox, wbar, tint2panel.
(Hungarian edition has been, OnlinePuppy, OfficePuppy and adjusting MetroPuppy, based on Lucid525-clon, Justin Bieber Linux by sheepy)

OnlinePuppy menu structure is slightly modified.
Is primarily intended for online use, the some office programs: Abiword, Gnumeric is deleted.
SeaMonkey replaced Firefox.
SeaMonkey and Firefox 3 open browsertab if 270 MB RAM-use, Opera browser 370 MB of RAM-use. Firefox into a better, more extras on it.

Simple, but quickly get used to.
Download: ftp://puppylinux.hu/puppylinux/ISO/OnlineRetroPrecise542En.iso

Original forum threed:
http://puppylinux.hu/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?t=644&p=8790#p8790

musher0 · Posted: Mon 14 Jan 2013, 14:26 Post subject:

Hello, kros54.

Your work looks very interesting, but the download from Canada is painfully slow : 43 to 45 Kb/s, 1 hr 15 min. predicted for the download... I'll wait it out, but all Puppyists may not have such patience...

May I suggest that

http://linuxpoison.blogspot.ca/2008/09/split-and-merge-large-files.html

http://limelinx.com/

Just a thought. Sincerely,

musher0

musher0 · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2013, 15:15 Post subject:

Hi.

I didn't get very far... OnlinePuppy gave me a kind of kernel panic with lots of binary digits at boot (when he's searching for the precise---.sfs file).

Obviously, it's working on your machine. Could the iso have been corrupted during the download? Can't tell, really.

Problem too difficult to pin down. Sorry.

musher0

Tote · Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Posts: 148

Download ok here, 15- 20 mins, 250kbs.

Manual frugal instal, celeron M 245RAM

Installed latest Opera sfs, works fine, no problem. Had to switch keyboard layout for UK. Can't get any sound, little red X over the speaker tray icon. Haven't tried ALSA wizard yet. Had the option to install Precise Service Pack, so I did. I don't know if's that's recommended, didn't make anything bad happen. There's nothing in the Personal link from main menu, window doesn't appear. Other than that seems to be working well.

Still playing with it...desktop quick and snappy, very low CPU.

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Hi.

Download speed seems to be alright here. Downloading currently 3 files (2 iso, 1 sfs, 135 to 195 mb sized). Speed on OnlinePuppy is: about 200kb/sec, both other files are about 70 kb/sec.

musher0 · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2013, 18:07 Post subject:

I don't know what happened yesterday. Today I'm getting a speed of 280 K/s to 600 K/s. I'll make a fresh disk from the newly downloaded iso and try again.

Sincerely,

m0

musher0 · Posted: Tue 15 Jan 2013, 22:36 Post subject:

Hi,, kros54.

Sorry in advance but here we go. Please note that the following criticism is done in a spirit of collaboration and improvement, and not to put anybody down. Your work appears good, but it still has irritants. Your distro has a couple of things that in my opinion need improvement at the desktop level.
I did not check other aspects.

First, please see attached illustration of the problems.

When I changed a couple of things and went back to the initial console to do
xwin openbox
it launched without openbox !!!
Same with openbox-session, same with ob.
The solution is to manually go to /usrbin/ and click on the openbox executable, or open a console and issue the command. Very weird problem.

The wbar command in .xinitrc : this should be changed to respect the user's customization. Otherwise, the user will have his wbar and your wbar, always. It would be better if there was a way to remove the bottom wnbar and not the left wbar, that the user could access, but I don't think there is such a command available.

In .xinitrc again, change the line
if [ "$CURRENTWM" != "jwm" -a "$CURRENTWM" != "icewm" ];then
etc. etc.,
to include lxp-icewm, in case somebody likes this variant of icewm. It's easy to do if you modulate the $CURRENTWM string.

You have no backgrounds for 1280x1024 resolution. I had to modify this one manually. A large number of people still have traditional screens hooked to tower computers.

You can see also that for some reason the sound scale shows up, and it cannot be closed before openbox is launched manually.

I did not test the sound, incidentally, nor any other function of this Puppy. The wm problem is very limiting for moving around and testing things, as you no doubt understand.

Finally, I noticed that your OnlineRetro Puppy did not create a pupsave file, even if it did ask for the usual parameters at shutdown.

In the hoipe that the above comments will be helpful.

Best regards,

musher0

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

kros54 · Posted: Wed 16 Jan 2013, 14:56 Post subject:

Thanks for the helpful comments and advice.
I will create a bug fix.
The newer version of wbar was deleted, replaced tint2menu.
Thus, the RAM used even less.
The new iso-file makes available dropbox.com

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

Is it already uploaded?

kros54 · Posted: Thu 17 Jan 2013, 00:46 Post subject:

Wbar deleted. Instead tint2menu.
What's new: pidgin installed. wallpaper in several sizes.
RAM usage is even lower, at about the same as during the JWM.
Openbox is intended for use in online activities.
ftp://puppylinux.hu/puppylinux/ISO/onlineRPtint2EN.iso
Dropbox will also.

musher0 · Posted: Thu 17 Jan 2013, 16:20 Post subject:

RSH · Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 1564 Location: Germany

OK.

Downloaded agin, and:

- again the .retrovolrc in /root
- again no sound after booting into the desktop

- could NOT execute bash scripts from geany
- - wrong preferences set (geany here uses xterm instead of rxvt)

That's a bit too much of NO FUN.

Sorry

RSH

kros54 · Posted: Fri 18 Jan 2013, 00:50 Post subject:

I'm trying to repair the errors.
Please be patient until. iso until canceled.

The previous version of wbar correct the problem
1. delete the. xinitrc 185 line:

musher0 · Posted: Sat 19 Jan 2013, 00:25 Post subject:

Hello, kros54.

Just a word, not to sound impolite.

I am presently quite busy doing research with a buddy on a simple Business package for Puppy distros. So I have little time left to test your distro -- or any other Puppy for that matter. I will try to get to it in the future, but I am not promosing anything for the short term.

But please continue your good work.

Sincerely,

musher0