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I saw somewhere that you've added a repository for ArchPup, What was the reason for this?

Do the new version of Archpup work with Mavrothals inpet and outpet for .pet files?

Im sorry to hear Mavrothal decided to leave this project. He was good for balance.

Why exactly do you hate the puppy stuff like yaf-splash and so on? Takes to much space?

I do not hate yaf-splash - it is already included as pwireless needs it. Only I don't like when there
are 10 scripts with different names that do the same thing, and it is 'show system notifications using gtkdialog'.

Is it so hard to every script use one notifications system - yaf-splash, gtkdialog-splash or whatever, just choose one and stick to it.

Mavrothal's decision to quit is his right and I respect it, although not quite understand.
I'm not sure that yaf-splash was only reason for him to quit, it's not logical - so there must have been something else.
Who knows maybe he will return once, but if he doesn't, it's not big problem... world is still spinning around as you see.

oop ssorry then it is my fault. I prefer mplayer so I did not knew
about the other one. I truly am a noob. So no problemo
none other most likely do such stuff me did. So nothing to worry about

Will Archpup run from a multisession DVD, like Puppy does?

simargl wrote:Mavrothal's decision to quit

Just want to make sure you know that i'm still here. I've been trying to get a 64 bit version working using the Fatdog64-521 kernel and initrd.gz. I have pacman working just fine. the init script is so different in Fatdog64 though. i'm having a hard time getting an adrv or ydrv working. I edited the init file and got the adrv to load...but when i had that success, the archpup-132.sfs was not found. it's got something to do with psubdir in the init script that's throwing it off. so i can get archpup-132.sfs to load without the adrv.sfs...or the adrv.sfs to load without archpup-132.sfs. I'm still trying hard to get them 'both' to work.

Archpup have original init from standard Puppy so LOADING savefile from DVD will probably
work, but rc.shutdown is edited and simplified, to save session on reboot only if PUPMODE is equal 12 or 13 (hard disk and USB flash).
I thought no one will need anything more than that.

@stifiling: I can't work on 64-bit version, because no way to test the iso and obviously I have zero experience with 64-bit systems.
It is probably very similar to working with i686 only that lib folder is renamed to /usr/lib64.

simargl wrote:It is probably very similar to working with i686 only that lib folder is renamed to /usr/lib64.

i would have thought so too. i tried using a regular init script and get nothing but 'kernel panic'. then i compared the differences between fatdog64's init, and a regular puppy's init....and they're 'completely' different.

/usr/lib64 is a symlink to /usr/lib....so looking at it from an overall....bird's eye view, it should work, but it doesn't.

they're similar in a lot of ways, but still different enough to not be able to easily (or even hardly) follow along and make the necessary adjustments to get adrv working.

i'm getting closer though, so we'll see.

simargl wrote:Mavrothal's decision to quit is his right and I respect it, although not quite understand.
I'm not sure that yaf-splash was only reason for him to quit, it's not logical - so there must have been something else.
Who knows maybe he will return once, but if he doesn't, it's not big problem... world is still spinning around as you see.

Tell him, that his name will be mentioned in Distrowatch - and he'll be right back. Just kidding. Trying to lighten up the drama surrounding this venture. Hurt feelings, ruffled feathers, toys being thrown out of the cot. Sudden escapes and miraculous reunions. Very unusual for a Puppy project.

New forum at http://archpup.freeforums.org/ is functional, but currently with only two users - darkcity and me,
so if you like Archpup please register, now I feel like talking to myself

Second thing I want to mention: thunor the developer of Gtkdialog is working on support for GTK3, when it is finished I will
compile it and include in next version.

New audio player will be audacious, version 3.4 alpha which allows to dock plugins (lyrics for example) into Gtk interface.

This might be entertaining http://allanmcrae.com/2013/01/manjaro-linux-a-follow-up
Allan McRae vs. Manjaro

simargl wrote:This might be entertaining http://allanmcrae.com/2013/01/manjaro-linux-a-follow-up
Allan McRae vs. Manjaro

entertaining indeed

My archpup repository at bitbucket is now private to prevent constant steals from 01micko.
And I'm currently working on new alphaOS, if you are interested to join look there http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84870