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#196 Post by smokey01 »

I'm sure I could manage three of the four items you suggested.

The best part about writing an article is it's not interactive

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#197 Post by smokey01 »

It's a bit quiet in here. March deadline is fast approaching, 7 days.

I got two from you bigpup but they look the same.

If articles are dropped onto the newsletter webpage with the same filename, the older one will be overwritten. Not sure if this is a good or bad thing, yet.

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#198 Post by bigpup »

I am still getting it clear on how to submit a item.
Still learning the process and tree structure thing.
I have a bad habit of submitting something and than realizing I forgot something.
The second version was a correction to the first.
Sorry! :oops:
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#199 Post by bigpup »

I just do not think enough people know about the news letter.
Things may be slow for a few months.

I still think, putting a link at the top of the forum start page, would be the thing to do.
As a topic in Puppy Power, it is a little hard to find.

I asked Flash about doing this, but he never replied back an answer.
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#200 Post by 6502coder »

Uploaded a submission earlier this evening. Slightly exceeded the word-count limit, which I didn't know about.

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#201 Post by 6502coder »

Uploaded a second (different) article this morning.

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#202 Post by musher0 »

bigpup wrote:I just do not think enough people know about the news letter.
Things may be slow for a few months.

I still think, putting a link at the top of the forum start page, would be the thing to do.
As a topic in Puppy Power, it is a little hard to find.

I asked Flash about doing this, but he never replied back an answer.
Hi bigpup.

Maybe we could consider alternatives? How about asking
-- Mick Amadio to link it on the http://puppylinux.com site
and
-- whoever is in charge of the http://puppylinux.org site?

Also there is another Puppy forum, isn't there? How about we ask its
admin if he'd find it useful to post a link to the Newsletter there?

Finally -- that I know of, there may be more -- PuppyLinux has a section
at LinuxQuestions:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/puppy-71

Just a couple of ideas.

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#203 Post by bigpup »

Good ideas!
-- whoever is in charge of the http://puppylinux.org site?
Somebody has already put a link to the newsletter on this site.
It is at top right of first page.
-- Mick Amadio to link it on the http://puppylinux.com site
I looked for a way to contact him on the web site. Did not find it.
I will send him a PM from this forum web site.
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#204 Post by greengeek »

Hey Kerl - could you add a link into the first post explaining how to upload (maybe another link to smokeys page with an "upload" tag?).
cheers!

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#205 Post by 6502coder »

greengeek wrote:Hey Kerl - could you add a link into the first post explaining how to upload (maybe another link to smokeys page with an "upload" tag?).
cheers!
The link in the first post already goes straight to the page where you can upload. Did you have something else in mind?

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#206 Post by greengeek »

6502coder wrote:The link in the first post already goes straight to the page where you can upload. Did you have something else in mind?
Yes, its just that the link in the first post looks like it is for people who want to subscribe to the newsletter feed - I just thought it would be handy to have a separate link (even if it goes to the same place...) labelled something like Upload article here

(I know how to access the upload link now, but it wasn't obvious to me a couple of days ago). It's just my combo of Aspergers, dementia, and domestic blindness. :oops:

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#207 Post by oldyeller »

I will have a review on a,program that RSH did a few years back called LaZyFRed for April

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#208 Post by smokey01 »

@oldyeller: Thanks

Something I've heard quite a bit over the years is: "One of the short comings of Linux is the lack of game support".

I'm not the right person to agree or refute this as I don't play games. What I have heard is Linux can run steam and steam can run many modern games. Again I don't know if this is true or not.

It would be nice if someone with the knowledge could write an article about steam. Some information that would be useful is:

Is it available for Linux?
Is it available for 32 and 64bit?
Are the packages available for Puppy like Distros?
How to install it?
How do you use it?
What games will run with it?

Obviously there are many more questions but hopefully this is enough to entice someone to write an article.

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#209 Post by LazY Puppy »

At least steam 1.0.0.45 is in Ubuntu repository for Trusty Tahr 32bit.

I don't play computer games as well, so I won't test.
RSH

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No, but I gave my old drum kit away for free to a music store collecting instruments for refugees! :wink:

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#210 Post by bark_bark_bark »

smokey01 wrote:It would be nice if someone with the knowledge could write an article about steam. Some information that would be useful is:

Is it available for Linux?
Is it available for 32 and 64bit?
Are the packages available for Puppy like Distros?
How to install it?
How do you use it?
What games will run with it?

Obviously there are many more questions but hopefully this is enough to entice someone to write an article.
Since I seem to be the only gamer around here, I'll have to maybe try writing an article on linux gaming sooner or later.
....

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#211 Post by drunkjedi »

I play 'World of tanks - Blitz' game on my phone extensively.
I am even moderator on it's Asia server forum.

The Blitz is also available for win10/8, but not linux.

Blitz's big brother for PC 'World of tanks' is only available for Win and Mac, on it's forum though has section to run it on linux through wine I think.
But it's not natively available for linux.

So I tried it's rival 'War Thunder'.
It's got a run script that downloads around 4-5 gb of game data.

And it did run in Fatdog64. (only tried in fatdog, but I think it should also run in others).

Only problem?
I do not have a dedicated graphics card.
Still using onboard graphics, so everything was in blocks, but it did ran.

Will have to buy a graphics card later.
Any suggestion/recommendation?

My PC is self built one from 3 years ago.
I just assembled pieces without any deep thought. So ram is not dual channeled.

intel i3, 6gb ram, intel dh61bf motherboard, no ssd (yet).


Anyway bottom line is, 'War Thunder' will run without any fuss... (in fatdog atleast).

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#212 Post by drunkjedi »

If in coming days I buy a good graphics card, will look at high end games natively available for linux and will make list of what works without much fuss in Pup.

Can't promise anything yet though.

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#213 Post by smokey01 »

Thanks bark_bark_bark and drunkjedi.

The March newsletter is quite chunky. Thanks to all the contributors.

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#214 Post by oldyeller »

When do you need stuff turned in for March?

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#215 Post by smokey01 »

oldyeller wrote:When do you need stuff turned in for March?
The deadline is the 20th of each month for the next month. March is closed. Sorry.

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