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nosystemdthanks · Joined: 03 May 2018 Posts: 724

this would have really been useful to refractahrpup, since it seems to outline what people do to puppify a debian distro.

i would much rather use this than woof-ce, though i suppose the result is more of a debian-deriv which is less puppy-like, at least compared to what woof produces.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 08 May 2018, 08:26 Post subject:

???????????

Is this a test report or just an off-hand comment?

nosystemdthanks · Joined: 03 May 2018 Posts: 724

its actually a compliment that i would personally prefer this development path to woof-ce... (having tried similar on my own)

with acknowledgment to the suitability of woof for what it does.

i said that already, but since the wording was probably easy to take the wrong way, ive re-worded it. THAT SAID-- i may have misinterpreted what this is (it certainly looks like a starting point for a fairly puppy-like debian-based distro, please let me know if its not.)

pr in short:

"good idea?"

dancytron · Joined: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 1555

rcrsn51 · Posted: Thu 10 May 2018, 14:30 Post subject:

BT4Stretch updated here.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Fri 11 May 2018, 12:07 Post subject:

Moved to page 5.

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3725

Is this really a Puppy Project?

rcrsn51 · Posted: Sat 12 May 2018, 18:10 Post subject:

dancytron · Joined: 18 Jul 2012 Posts: 1555

rufwoof · Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 3725

Flash · Posted: Mon 14 May 2018, 16:28 Post subject:

Rufwoof, please send me a PM with the URLs of posts with spam in them. You'll find the URL of a post in the small white rectangle to the left to the word "Posted" at the top of a post.

If you have a suggestion for a better place for this thread, feel free to include that as well. Thank you.

Flash · Posted: Mon 14 May 2018, 23:40 Post subject:

Never mind. Rufwoof's mini-vandalism didn't show in my computer so I thought it was fixed. Not until I clicked on "Quote" in his post did I see what he'd done. I've removed the offending link from his post and banned rufwoof.

fredx181 · Joined: 11 Dec 2013 Posts: 4481 Location: holland

@Flash, still the widetrans.png image is in rcrsn51's reply with quote after rufwoof's post
(removed the brackets here)

rcrsn51 · Posted: Tue 15 May 2018, 05:11 Post subject:

Fixed. Thanks.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 16 May 2018, 21:49 Post subject:

Changing your computer's hostname

At one time, this was a BFD in Puppy. It was deemed essential that the name change happened on-the-fly, which required multiple steps.

But it's actually quite simple:

1. Update the file /etc/hostname
2. Update /etc/hosts
3. Reboot.

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