Yes the CDROM version of Pussy has alot of wireless network drivers, however the soon to be released DVD version has alot more and these drivers will be included in the CDROM version when i released the newer revision of that.starhawk wrote:sickgut, I have (I think) a very basic request... could you post some screenshots of, er, Pussy, on the first post? I would be more inclined to download it if I knew what it looked like. I'm a visual kinda guy.
Two other (slightly less important) questions:
- is there a CD version? I have slow Internet (not dialup, it's 3g off a cell tower and it's pathetic bordering on appalling) and DVD-Rs are generally rather expensive in this town. EDIT: I should not have assumed it to come on a DVD nevermind on this one.
- I assume you have included wireless drivers a la Puppy?
This last one is important to me -- it's rather contradictory to tell people "Lin is better than Win" and then turn around and say "...but you have to use Windows drivers for your wireless adapters", particularly when there are native Linux drivers for most of those adapters already! Adding ndiswrapper and calling it a day is common with Debian and Debian-derivatives, and that is simply not acceptable practice to me.
Have attached a screenshot to this post, hope it works as i dont attach many things to posts. If it isnt displaying then you can see this screen shot at:
http://www.thepussycatforest.info/linux ... n-shot.jpg
and just for giggles, check this out... its Pussy showing off how its only using 28MB ram to run a full xorg session with a webserver/ ftp/ ssh server etc running with no swap.
http://www.thepussycatforest.info/linux ... mb-ram.png
If you goto http://www.thepussycatforest.info then cick the first link on the top of the page you will see the various pussies to download. The current flagship is the Pussy Xtra beta 2, this fits on a CDROM and is 600mb or so. I recommend using this version for the time being as the base version that is 200mb or so has a couple of bugs. Or you can download the USB image version and use the linux dd command to image the a USB stick. You can do that with windows now too with a program called Win32DiskImager, you can download this from my website:
http://www.thepussycatforest.info/windows-tools/
Note Pussy is still beta quality but when i finish this DVD version ill fix up the other versions and we will be at release quality and i will pay for a spot of distro watch and get the Pussy Linux name out there and know.
I intend to include all the windows programs you might need to make a USB stick/ SD card or external HDD installation of the Pussy from the Pussy CDROM/ DVD from windows. The programs will be included in the ISO.
Pussy is more technically oriented and i have given no thought to asthetics at all except for a desktop background and a ASCII Pussy welcome logo at the login screen (user: root / pass: pussy).
Note that when you startx to get the desktop working, its the JWM environment only and it is visually unimpressive and has a low quality background and no background icons. To enable the high quality Rox filer desktop, click the Meow? button and then Rox-filer background.
Pussy is separated in 3 stages, the console, the low quality JWM destop and the more sophisticated high quality dekstop provided by Rox-filer.
This is setup like this to be more friendly to low RAM computers as the JWM desktop runs very nice on 128mb RAM or even 96 or 64mb RAM, it will run on 42MB RAM but slowly. With the Rox-filer desktop enabled, RAM usage jumos up a step and 64/ 96mb RAM will not be enough for a fast computing experience.
There are documents/ instructions about save files/ save partitions and swap files/ swap partitions in the catroll-panel
have fun....