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What is the best Puppy Version ever, LOL |
2.14x |
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Other: 2.14x only |
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bentonbee
Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 10
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Posted: Sat 18 May 2013, 15:15 Post subject:
help on another puppy series 2 Barry did? Subject description: Barry's newer series 2 puppy?? |
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Where is the download to the puppy version Barry was talking about
in his blog?-
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=00779
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Dewbie
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779
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Posted: Mon 20 May 2013, 04:06 Post subject:
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bentonbee wrote:
Retro-Puppy 218 alpha is no longer available.
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bentonbee
Joined: 12 Dec 2008 Posts: 10
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Posted: Mon 27 May 2013, 10:03 Post subject:
Retro-Puppy 218 alpha is no longer available. |
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Retro-Puppy 218 alpha is no longer available.
Thank you for letting me know.
Mike
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zekebaby

Joined: 17 Nov 2010 Posts: 50
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Posted: Mon 27 May 2013, 22:37 Post subject:
Savefile bug report and fix |
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I decided to install 2.14X Top10 on my vintage 1999 Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2 - Welcome to Jurassic Computing, I had played around with 2.14X as a live distro before, but never tried a frugal install. Works great except . . .
I found a bug! My savefile seems to keep most of my settings, but not all of them (transmission speed settings for example). Hmmmm. I also noticed the following error flash on my screen at shutdown: Code: | tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory | Here's the fix. Even though 'tail --help' says that 'tail +N' is supported, it's not (try it on the command line if you don't believe me). This is what's causing the savefile to not capture everything. SImply change all instances of: in /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy to: and the problem is gone.
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starhawk
Joined: 22 Nov 2010 Posts: 5056 Location: Everybody knows this is nowhere...
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Posted: Tue 28 May 2013, 00:30 Post subject:
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That toughbook -- if the specs I found are correct -- should run a lot of newer Puppies / Puplets just fine. You don't need ClassicPup for a Pentium M! (It's really more for P2/P3 hardware -- and then only if you're quite patient.)
I'll not make a mess by recommending other Puplets in this thread (unless ttuuuxxx says it's OK), but if you want to PM me I'll gladly give you a list of ones to try. I will say that most of the Puppies / Puplets with an active download link will work absolutely fine as long as they don't mention a little thing called "PAE" that doesn't work with (most) Pentium M CPUs.
By the way -- I was playing around with some hardware a couple months ago that had a Celeron M 600MHz (yeah, they made one that slow -- it's the ULV version) and wound up using one of the REALLY recent Puplets on it because the only things that would boot were either (a) even older than ClassicPup or (b) brand spankin' new. Ah, fun with weird hardware (lol)...
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greengeek

Joined: 20 Jul 2010 Posts: 4942 Location: Republic of Novo Zelande
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Posted: Tue 28 May 2013, 01:03 Post subject:
Re: Savefile bug report and fix |
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zekebaby wrote: | Here's the fix. Even though 'tail --help' says that 'tail +N' is supported, it's not (try it on the command line if you don't believe me). This is what's causing the savefile to not capture everything | I wonder if some other puppies might be affected by this too. I must have a closer look at this on my Slacko53 machine which refuses to keep it's network settings consistently. Thanks zeke
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yellodog
Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Posts: 12
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Posted: Fri 31 May 2013, 19:21 Post subject:
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starhawk wrote: | That toughbook -- if the specs I found are correct -- should run a lot of newer Puppies / Puplets just fine. You don't need ClassicPup for a Pentium M! (It's really more for P2/P3 hardware -- and then only if you're quite patient.) |
Nah, 2.14X takes my Athlon 1.8 Ghz built in 2003 to its limits, every time I watch Youtube-clips.
I'm very happy, I can though.
So, 2.14X is definitely for at least a bit more recent machines, which had about 256 MB RAM at the time (like mine).
I also tried 2.14X on a PII - it does boot, but it is not usable at all.
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Dewbie
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779
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Posted: Sat 01 Jun 2013, 05:21 Post subject:
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yellodog wrote:
Quote: | I also tried 2.14X on a PII - it does boot, but it is not usable at all. |
Have a look at my last post over here.
Are you experiencing something similar?
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yellodog
Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Posts: 12
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Posted: Mon 10 Jun 2013, 18:10 Post subject:
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Dewbie wrote: | yellodog wrote:
Quote: | I also tried 2.14X on a PII - it does boot, but it is not usable at all. |
Have a look at my last post over here.
Are you experiencing something similar? |
Can't tell, because the PII (bought in 1998) had to go I think two years ago.
The oldest PC I use is 10 years old now ... which is also really ancient. I suggest getting at least such a machine. Matter of just a few bucks today.
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tubeguy

Joined: 28 Aug 2009 Posts: 1329 Location: Park Ridge IL USA
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Posted: Wed 12 Jun 2013, 09:54 Post subject:
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ttuuxxx wrote: | also guys if you see the lung thing after my post, its basically I stopped smoking after 25+ years and started vaping |
Fellow vaper here.
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clarf

Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 614 Location: The old Lone Wolf
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Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:43 Post subject:
Re: Savefile bug report and fix |
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zekebaby wrote: | I decided to install 2.14X Top10 on my vintage 1999 Panasonic Toughbook CF-T2 - Welcome to Jurassic Computing, I had played around with 2.14X as a live distro before, but never tried a frugal install. Works great except . . .
I found a bug! My savefile seems to keep most of my settings, but not all of them (transmission speed settings for example). Hmmmm. I also noticed the following error flash on my screen at shutdown: Code: | tail: cannot open `+2' for reading: No such file or directory | Here's the fix. Even though 'tail --help' says that 'tail +N' is supported, it's not (try it on the command line if you don't believe me). This is what's causing the savefile to not capture everything. SImply change all instances of: in /usr/sbin/snapmergepuppy to: and the problem is gone. |
Nice found zeke
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clarf

Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 614 Location: The old Lone Wolf
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Posted: Thu 18 Jul 2013, 15:54 Post subject:
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yellodog wrote: | starhawk wrote: | That toughbook -- if the specs I found are correct -- should run a lot of newer Puppies / Puplets just fine. You don't need ClassicPup for a Pentium M! (It's really more for P2/P3 hardware -- and then only if you're quite patient.) |
Nah, 2.14X takes my Athlon 1.8 Ghz built in 2003 to its limits, every time I watch Youtube-clips.
I'm very happy, I can though.
So, 2.14X is definitely for at least a bit more recent machines, which had about 256 MB RAM at the time (like mine).
I also tried 2.14X on a PII - it does boot, but it is not usable at all. |
Hi yellodog,
The slow problem playing youtube videos on Puppy 2.14X could be related to the old Xorg version used. You could try to tune the xorg configuration file, please read my post about the test I made on 2.14X http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50428.
About the hardware aim of Classic Puppy and the reason that later releases need more resources, please check this brief discussion: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=42553&start=3793
Regards,
clarf
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yellodog
Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Posts: 12
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Posted: Sat 20 Jul 2013, 17:20 Post subject:
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Thank you, clarf. I'm gonna check this out.
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clarf

Joined: 13 Jun 2007 Posts: 614 Location: The old Lone Wolf
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Posted: Wed 24 Jul 2013, 12:20 Post subject:
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Hi,
I have searched for the individual kernel patchs used on 2.6.18.X, just found some notes on http://puppylinux.com/development/compilekernel.htm:
"Puppy 2.12 has kernel 2.6.18.1 and has three patches; squashfs, default console loglevel and via shutdown fix."
BarryK additional notes:
"loglevel -- for Puppy quiet bootup
dpath -- maybe, for dazuko
ksize -- maybe, for aufs" (Classic puppy 2.14X use unionfs, not needed)
1. dpath:
http://fossies.org/linux/privat/dazuko-2.3.9.tar.gz:a/dazuko-2.3.9/README.linux26
Note: This document indicates that the patch is only needed when running an SMP kernel and __d_path() is not exported, although 2.6.18.X kernels on Puppy 2 versions are not compiled with SMP these patches where included, maybe for other applications requirements or older dazuko versions...
Note2: I found the reason BarryK compiled the driver to not use its inbuilt function (http://puppylinux.com/news/news213-214.htm), the pre-patched kernel can be configured for SMP:
"I also compiled the Dazuko device driver. This is used by some virus scanner and intrusion detection software, and the source package has examples that show how someone can write their own software to use it.
I configured with '--mapfile=/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.1/System.map --enable-syscalls --disable-local-dpath' -- the latter option means that the device driver will use the '__d_path' function exported from the kernel rather than its own inbuilt function, which apparently is required for an SMP kernel (the inbuilt __d_path function is unsafe with a SMP kernel)."
Patch attached (from dazuko-2.3.9.tar.gz).
"Usage:
patch /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build/fs/dcache.c patch_dpath.diff"
2. Loglevel:
Information from: http://bkhome.org/sources/kernel-2.6.21.7-pup4.1retro/patches-required.txt
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"I edited kernel/printk.c:
/* We show everything that is MORE important than this.. */
#define MINIMUM_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 1 /* Minimum loglevel we let people use */
/* BK change from 7 to 3...
#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 7 */ /* anything MORE serious than KERN_DEBUG */
#define DEFAULT_CONSOLE_LOGLEVEL 3"
3. ksize, required by aufs
Patch attached.
"Usage:
patch -p0 < ../ksize.patch"
4. via shutdown fix:
Quote: | Ted Dog
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 08:38 AM
One of my three VIA C3 800Mz machine errors with this same bug listed here.
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/25/251
found in v2.12beta1, so FYI it is NOT a puppy compile bug.
But it kills the use of one of my computers
Ted Dog
Saturday, November 4, 2006, 08:43 AM
fixed here
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/10/17/62 |
Basically this kernel patch is used to remove a previous patch that was added on 2.6.18 kernel, and later definitively removed for 2.6.18.2 and 2.6.19 kernels (https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3691). For this reason this patch is not used on later Puppys kernels and not included in BarryK "linux-2.6.18.8-src-patched_loglevel_squashfs_unionfs.tar.gz" file.
Patch attached.
"Usage:
patch quirks.c < via.patch"
Regards,
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via patch for 2.6.18.1 kernel only
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yellodog
Joined: 22 Nov 2012 Posts: 12
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Posted: Wed 31 Jul 2013, 05:24 Post subject:
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clarf wrote: | The slow problem playing youtube videos on Puppy 2.14X could be related to the old Xorg version used. You could try to tune the xorg configuration file, please read my post about the test I made on 2.14X http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=50428. |
Finally found time to test it. Adding these lines to xorg.conf seems to have a positive effect indeed (graphics chip: S3 ProSavage, interesting, Puppy 2.14X supports this at all!). At least it feels so. I also use to look at the CPU-monitor in the sys-tray, CPU-usage seems to be generally lower watching clips. Hard to tell though, because sometimes it goes up again too ... After all, I think, it did something. So, thank you very much!
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