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Geoffrey · #1561 Post by **Geoffrey** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 11:41

I'll add the sfs update and a few other changes, give me a couple of day's and it should be ready, I've been suffering a few health issues of late and need to slow down.

edoc · #1562 Post by **edoc** » Sun 07 Dec 2014, 15:10

battleshooter wrote:
edoc wrote:Never hear of "Burg".
Oh, that hurts Edoc, how could you never have heard of it? And I posted such a nice howto. With pictures!

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91300

Still, that sounds like an interesting buy. I see it's sold, did you actually buy it?

Sorry, it's a real challenge to keep up with all of the innovations within Puppy and still manage my already fragmented daily activities; Amateur Radio, gardening, work, family, etc ... and lately the holidays.

That specific tablet was sold before I found the listing - but I viewed the "original listing" to gather some detail - then I sent him a message requesting greater detail of the three OS code for Burg.

Meanwhile, persuaded by his example, your info re.. Burg, and the seller's follow-through on posting some additional images on Amazon, I went ahead and bought their used Acer Iconia W500P tablet for $200. + $10. shipping.

Play time in a week or 10 days ...

Moat · #1563 Post by **Moat** » Mon 08 Dec 2014, 01:53

Curious, if it'll be safe to use my old 1.2 savefile with the new version 1.3...?

Hope you get to feeling better, Geoffrey - take care of yourself, above all!

Bob

edoc · #1564 Post by **edoc** » Mon 08 Dec 2014, 02:35

Moat wrote: Hope you get to feeling better, Geoffrey - take care of yourself, above all!
Bob

Yeah, hey, Geoffrey!

You didn't get our permission to even have a cold ... get better quickly or I'm ratting you out to God.

battleshooter · #1565 Post by **battleshooter** » Mon 08 Dec 2014, 11:13

edoc wrote:Sorry, it's a real challenge to keep up with all of the innovations within Puppy and still manage my already fragmented daily activities; Amateur Radio, gardening, work, family, etc ... and lately the holidays.

I'm kidding mate. There's no way anyone could keep up with the amount of information that flows through this place, unless they were full time, and even then?

edoc wrote:I sent him a message requesting greater detail of the three OS code for Burg.

There's no mystery about BURG, in fact, you'll notice it's GRUB spelt backwards

And it's just that. It's an alternative to Grub, but I don't believe it does anything that GRUB can't. I just went with it for something different after using CatDude's Graphical Grub for years. If you're more comfortable with Grub, feel free to go with that instead.

edoc wrote:Play time in a week or 10 days ...

I love getting new hardware to mess with. Excited for you

Geoffrey wrote:I've been suffering a few health issues of late and need to slow down.

Nothing serious I hope? Just too much time basking in the Queensland sun?

(Yeah, I know, it's been raining all week where I'm at...but rain's a really good thing, there's no way I'm complaining.)

Geoffrey · #1566 Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 10:07

Carolina 1.3 is released, for details see Carolina Change Log in the first post.

battleshooter · #1567 Post by **battleshooter** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 10:43

Woohoo! Houston we have lift off!

Billtoo · #1568 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 13:20

Installed to a 32gb flash drive, pc is an AAO netbook.

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Tue 9 Dec 2014 on Carolina 1.3 Linux 3.2.13-ski i686
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: fglrx
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11672 Compatibility Profile Context

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: @1695 MHz

It's working great, thanks.

Ray MK · #1569 Post by **Ray MK** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 16:33

Very nice - just booted on the IBM X60 Thinkpad - running extremely well.

Much appreciated - very best regards - Ray

edoc · #1570 Post by **edoc** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 16:47

OK, downloaded 1.3 ...

How are y'all booting, please?

SD Card?

USB Stick?

Frugal?

Full Install?

Any special boot parameters recommended?

Billtoo · #1571 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 17:00

edoc wrote:OK, downloaded 1.3 ...

How are y'all booting, please?

SD Card?

USB Stick?

Frugal?

Full Install?

Any special boot parameters recommended?

I downloaded the iso and burned it to a dvd, then booted the dvd on my
desktop pc and installed to a 32gb flash drive with the puppy universal
installer (frugal).
Plugged the flash drive into my netbook and booted from it.

edoc · #1572 Post by **edoc** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 18:51

Just did a Frugal install to my Netbook & it looks great!

Question: Is it correct that there is no default browser?

stuvxz · #1573 Post by **stuvxz** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 19:09

I have looked for solutions in the forum but apparently none is working.

I can't connect to the web with Carolina Linux 1.2;

I have a D-Link wlan usb drive;

The driver is installed but somehow neither frisbee nor Dougal's Network manager nor SNS can connect, the wlan is down;

The same happens with Racy5.5 and Carolina;

Or any other version of Puppy except LxPup 13.01 Slacko which is too slow with the PC I have; With later versions like LxPup 14 it is impossible to connect as well.

I would appreciate any help since it is hard to do anything without a connection to the internet - I have to come to the public library to send messages or participate in this forum.

Thanks for your help.

Geoffrey · #1574 Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 19:46

edoc wrote:Just did a Frugal install to my Netbook & it looks great!

Question: Is it correct that there is no default browser?

Firefox is the default and only browser, when Firefox first runs it starts clean that's why the message to set as default, as it needs to populate the /root/.mozilla directory which contains the profile with add-on extensions.

Explanation:

.mozilla is stripped back to it's bare minimum before Firefox starts.

1.8M extensions
6.7K searchplugins
512K addons.sqlite
707 extensions.ini
448K extensions.sqlite
6.9K mimeTypes.rdf
15K prefs.js
310 search-metadata.json
2.8M total

After the first run of Firefox, .mozilla is populated

5.4K bookmarkbackups
8.3K crashes
4.1K datareporting
1.8M extensions
4.2K healthreport
4.0K minidumps
2.7K searchplugins
178K sessionstore-backups
532K storage
4.1K webapps
0 .parentlock
22K addons.json
512K addons.sqlite
143K blocklist.xml
144K cert8.db
159 compatibility.ini
224K content-prefs.sqlite
512K cookies.sqlite
32K cookies.sqlite-shm
577K cookies.sqlite-wal
707 extensions.ini
7.9K extensions.json
448K extensions.sqlite
35 fireFTPprograms.dat
366 fireFTPsites.dat
192K formhistory.sqlite
1.1M healthreport.sqlite
32K healthreport.sqlite-shm
641K healthreport.sqlite-wal
16K key3.db
15 lock
2.2K logins.json
9.4K mimeTypes.rdf
64K permissions.sqlite
10M places.sqlite
32K places.sqlite-shm
33K places.sqlite-wal
349 pluginreg.dat
14K prefs.js
390 search-metadata.json
167K search.json
16K secmod.db
90 sessionCheckpoints.json
880 SiteSecurityServiceState.txt
25 times.json
160K webappsstore.sqlite
32K webappsstore.sqlite-shm
577K webappsstore.sqlite-wal
2.8K xulstore.json
19M total

edoc · #1575 Post by **edoc** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 19:51

Cool, so the first time I just need to type "firefox" in Console?

What if I prefer Seamonkey for the close integration w/email without the huge overhead of Thunderbird?

Or do you recommend a small email app that integrates well with Firefox?

Billtoo · #1576 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 20:22

I find that Dillo-3.04 and Links 2.8 work better on the 11.6" screen
of this netbook.
I don't know if they are in the repo.
I haven't fiddled with Firefox preferences yet for font sizes.

Geoffrey · #1577 Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 20:25

edoc wrote:Cool, so the first time I just need to type "Firefox" in Console?

If you like, I use the menu. are you not seeing Firefox?, I remember you posted once before that the version you had didn't have Firefox, that's not correct as Firefox is in every version, it only isn't if the adrive isn't loaded.

What if I prefer Seamonkey for the close integration w/email without the huge overhead of Thunderbird?

I know very little about Seamonkey as I don't use it, nor do I use e-mail clients, I keep everything online for convenience.

Or do you recommend a small email app that integrates well with Firefox?

No need to integrate, that's all taken care of by Preferred Applications

Geoffrey · #1578 Post by **Geoffrey** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 20:38

Billtoo wrote:.
I haven't fiddled with Firefox preferences yet for font sizes.

There is a add-on to adjust the font for Firefox, useful for notebooks

edoc · #1579 Post by **edoc** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 20:44

Geoffrey wrote: If you like, I use the menu. are you not seeing Firefox?

Firefox does not show up in the menu.

There is no "Internet" menu tab - if that is where it's supposed to be - it's not in the "Network" menu tab, which is there.

Billtoo · #1580 Post by **Billtoo** » Tue 09 Dec 2014, 20:55

Geoffrey wrote:
There is a add-on to adjust the font for Firefox, useful for notebooks

Got it, thanks.

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