BionicDog (updated: 2018-06-04)

[fredx181]

Is there a jre package for BD? I was unsuccessful installing.

There's "default-jre" and "default-jre-headless" packages I found from synaptic.
Don't know what's the difference.

EDIT:

Also I cannot get facebook videos to play. Tried every flash going as extension or using supplied app.

Yes, same for me, newest flashplayer installed but indeed videos won't play on facebook, don't know how to to solve this.

Fred

[stemsee]

I could upload my .squashfs file if you think it will help.

please do

[dancytron]

I could upload my .squashfs file if you think it will help.

please do

squashfs file

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/tli ... ashfs?dl=0

md5 file
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/cgh ... 5.txt?dl=0

[stemsee]

Is this correct?

[uberzilla]

I am new to Bionic Dog. I have very briefly tested puppies before, as I have older hardware. My issue was always that I am an illustrator, graphics designer, and more - and so need some of the graphics software - even on older hardware like Mypaint - (use older hardware for sketching and lighter graphics and some web). I have just started testing Bionic Dog and was able to load all the linux based graphics programs like Inkscape, Mypaint, Gimp, and will seek to try more. Also Skype installed. This is EXCELLENT - a possible option for older - functional hardware!!! So far - my time has been limited - but I like it! Fast - fairly easy to find and figure stuff out. It makes Puppy very very useful! My next step is to learn how to add it to grub2 in tri boot systems (Windows, Linux, Bionic Dog) and just dual boot with Windows. Just wanted to check in and throw some love around! I hope this distro flourishes and I hope I get a chance to really learn and implement it!

Best regards

[stemsee]

I hope you don't mind Fred but

On Dog-Radio clicking on the Drag N' Drop button more than once causes several such dnd panes to open overlapped. Clicking 'Stop' kills all of them, but I changed it to only allow one pane to open. I changed some titles and labels too for geometry recorder which doesn't handle spaces in titles. I also added geometry recording, and reformatted long lines ... if anyone wants to try ... 'dogradio script and ~/.geometry' .sfs

[fredx181]

I hope you don't mind Fred but

On Dog-Radio clicking on the Drag N' Drop button more than once causes several such dnd panes to open overlapped. Clicking 'Stop' kills all of them, but I changed it to only allow one pane to open. I changed some titles and labels too for geometry recorder which doesn't handle spaces in titles. I also added geometry recording, and reformatted long lines ... if anyone wants to try ... 'dogradio script and ~/.geometry' .sfs

Thanks Stemsee, the fix for drag n' drop is nice, good that you found your way in that "not compact" dogradio script !
Need to say (for less advanced users) that the the dogradio script inside the sfs isn't made executable, so after loading sfs do:

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chmod +x /usr/local/bin/dogradio

Fred

[vancheese]

Hi People

Loving the latest Bionic Dog - I was wondering how the dog would/could play with snaps

[ITSMERSH]

Hi.

I'm using the combination of Openbox/Tint2.

Is there a way to add programs (.desktop files etc.) to the desktop? If so, how?

Thanks

[wiak]

Not in BionicDog, but I think it has the same(?) - you can use Rox pinboard with openbox and tint2 via Startmenu -> Settings -> Desktop Manager (might be different menu location in BionicDog (I don't know). Alternatively, Desktop Manager gives me option to use Pcmanfm for desktop along with Lxpanel. I use the first of these options (rox pinboard for desktop icons).

wiak

[fredx181]

Hi.

I'm using the combination of Openbox/Tint2.

Is there a way to add programs (.desktop files etc.) to the desktop? If so, how?

Thanks

Not with the (default) Openbox with tint2 bottom and top panels, but indeed as wiak says, you can use "Desktop Manager" for choosing another Desktop mode (but probably you know already, as we discussed earlier about it).

Fred

[ITSMERSH]

Thanks @all.

Yes, I'd noticed those options of desktop manager, though I thought it could be possible in my setup, since I have it customized pretty well for my needs.

Never mind. I can live without desktop icons/buttons/programs...

[dancytron]

Thanks @all.

Yes, I'd noticed those options of desktop manager, though I thought it could be possible in my setup, since I have it customized pretty well for my needs.

Never mind. I can live without desktop icons/buttons/programs...

You can't put symlinks in /root/desktop?

[fredx181]

Thanks @all.

Yes, I'd noticed those options of desktop manager, though I thought it could be possible in my setup, since I have it customized pretty well for my needs.

Never mind. I can live without desktop icons/buttons/programs...

You can't put symlinks in /root/desktop?

That would work only if e.g. pcmanfm controls the desktop, not for the Openbox with tint2 panels combination.

Fred

[stemsee]

How to install the kernel sources for 4.15.0-22 .. in fact I want only the .config

[fredx181]

Hi stemsee, It's in the DEVX (to be precise, the .config is in usr/src/linux-headers-4.15.0-22-generic/)
32-bit:
https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... 6.squashfs
64-bit:
https://github.com/fredx181/bionicdog/r ... 4.squashfs

EDIT: kernel config is also in /boot, so no need for DEVX then, I guess.

Fred

[ETP]

Testing:

Hi Fred,

Thanks for the above which I have been testing over the past month.
It is great to have a rolling release, running entirely in RAM with the option to save or not at the end of the session.
That is a wicked combination not found in traditional Pups. It opens up the easy possibility of installing an image file to
a stick and that is job finished.
Initial install from the ISO files was to a ext4 partition (sdb3) on a Samsung SSD-850.
Boot was via an additional vesamenu entry on my normal 4GB SD boot card:

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MENU SEPARATOR

LABEL bionicdog
MENU LABEL BionicDog64    sdb3  24/06/18
KERNEL /bionicdog/vmlinuz
# APPEND initrd=/bionicdog/initrd1.xz noauto from=/dev/sdb3/bionicdog/ copy2ram changes=EXIT:/dev/sdb3/bionicdog/casper/
APPEND initrd=/bionicdog/initrd1.xz noauto from=UUID:1a56b14c-c465-4487-b899-f92f572dea8e/bionicdog/ copy2ram changes=EXIT:UUID:1a56b14c-c465-4487-b899-f92f572dea8e/bionicdog/casper/

That continues to update using Synaptic.

Over the last week I have also installed to an 8GB Nano USB2 stick with two partitions - fat32 & ext4
The syslinux.cfg for that contained a single active line.

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default /bionicdog/vmlinuz initrd=/bionicdog/initrd1.xz noauto from=UUID:abcfb1d3-af3a-47a7-b353-379ceccb5ad9/bionicdog/ copy2ram changes=EXIT:UUID:abcfb1d3-af3a-47a7-b353-379ceccb5ad9/bionicdog/casper/

That also worked fine on an old 2012 Samsung Atom net-book with 2 GB of DDR2 RAM and I had been hoping to install it next
to a USB3 stick with a 2 partition (fat32/f2fs) layout but found that the current initramfs lacks support for system boot from f2fs.
It appears that "f2fs" needs to be added to the end of /etc/initramfs-tools/modules before updating the initramfs.
I held off so doing for fear of unintended consequences. In addition to the earlier load of the f2fs kernel module,
f2fs-tools loaded via Synaptic, would also be needed.
Perhaps it is something to consider for the next version.

Full sized screen-shot here: (Press F11 to toggle into full screen then click on link)
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=view ... DAyw6uTWTP

Thanks once again.

[ITSMERSH]

Hi.

Is there a real time kernel available for BionicDog?

If so, what would I need to do to have BionicDog running with such real time kernel?

Thanks

[fredx181]

Testing:

Thanks for testing !!
About f2fs support, I could make it work for 32-bit but not for 64-bit, don't know why, very frustrating !!
Nice (looking at your screenshot), what you've done with it.

@ITSMERSH, I think I can make a "package" for a realtime kernel from a Debian Sid version (seems like Ubunu doesn't provide it, only option "low latency" kernel). Is it for 32-bit what you need ?

Fred

[ITSMERSH]

Hi Fred.

Yes, 32bit.

Thanks.