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2.14x
11
29%
2.14x
4
11%
2.14x
11
29%
Other: 2.14x only
12
32%
 
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#5161 Post by aloo-shu »

thanx, I've done that.

Still you might be one who's able to tell me why that kernel for this distro, or more generally, what is it that makes this distro run a graphical desktop&apps just fine with 64MiB RAM when others don't? Are there particular techniques I might use to adapt other distros (or kernels), or is it simply that the main factor is using old enough software?

Oh yes, and a different question, would it help newer kernels to have, say, 1GiB swap space for 64MiB RAM? I doubt it, but most things published on swap are 'rules of thump' with little explanation..

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#5162 Post by ttuuxxx »

You can't really go by iso size, Newer puppy versions Have much higher compression ratios, So they are packing a lot in smaller spaces and take more memory, Plus they have very larger kernels, 4-5 times the size, Plus they lack older hardware support. You can't really compare older puppy version to newer ones, Plus you can't just swap a kernel on older versions. You could try a large swap file. In about a week I'll be updating 2.14X again. Did you get your wireless connection working?
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#5163 Post by tempestuous »

Backporting a modern kernel module (driver) requires specialised coding - way beyond my skill level.

Yes, it's feasible to "transplant" a more modern kernel into Puppy 2.14, but you probably want the kernel to be not TOO new, since I understand that Puppy 2 uses an older method of hard drive access (pre-SATA) and its startup scripts might not match modern kernels. But again, this is really too hard.

The best solution IMO is to use an older USB wifi dongle - old computer, old wifi.
Of course you won't be able to buy such a thing brand new, you will need to browse second hand computer stores, or eBay.

I can point you in the right direction -
the most "modern" USB wifi driver in Puppy 2.14X is probably the Ralink rt2870sta
which I compiled from proprietary source code in Jan 2009, and posted on the forum at that time.

To get a wifi dongle which uses this driver, refer here -
http://linux-wless.passys.nl/query_chip ... set=Ralink
and look for "rt2870" and "rt2870sta"

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#5164 Post by aloo-shu »

Well, in my lifestyle, I'm ready to invest time&effort rather than any penny, so buying a dongle is out of the question.
I'm in the process of discovering the immense biodiversity of the puppyverse, so given the fact that my target machine is in a place without network, combined with the compactness of puppy, it looks more promising to me to download a number of potentially suitable puplets to try out, than hunting for driver backports or kernels in a painful trial&error process with a lot of plumbing.
That way, I'll have some kernels to play with as a byproduct - the 6GB HD allows parallel installs.
The experience with just dropping in 3 series kernels and their initrds&modules, could confirm your suspicion, they'd boot to a commandline in their native debian, not so in puppy 2.14, kernel panics to do with the block to mount root fs on not existing, so I'm not sure if any script could be running at that point and had thought that old grub (1) might not boot newer kernels - unfortunatlely no offline man or info to seek more enlightenment.
The other viable approach would be getting android thethering going, and other users would benefit if that worked. It cannot be overly complicated, since android uses the linux kernel, too, and I understand that this thethering is a forwarding of sockets over usb, all neccesary dealings with the wireless card have been done on the android device, and the ready ip/tcp packets are being forwarded. I know this worked out of the box on Lucid Lynx, so it can't be too far out. And then, adb, the android debugging brigde, could have existed in versions for the 2.6.18 kernel, and would allow to arrange this tunneling by hand (or ultimately script), to a phone with usb debugging/development enabled, usually a user accessible option. Would be an opportunity for me to learn what sockets are and how to use commandline tools to manipulate them.
I'm seriously missing offline man pages in puppy, but happen to have an excellently documented recent & very complete slackware around, that'll help. Both distros lend themselves to hand-plumbing (and the learning therof), I'm not surprised an affinity has developed :). I even managed a basic install of that slackware on the old machine, but still have to learn to set up networking and all the paraphenalia from the commandline. I bet I could then fire up a puppy session, desktop, graphics, the works, in a chroot from there :).

enough idle musings

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#5165 Post by sullysat »

FYI, I recently moved my website and it looks like the Puppy mirror didn't really make the trip.

I'll have this back up asap.
Puppy Files Mirror - [b][url]http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy.html[/url][/b]
Classic Puppy Page - [b][url]http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy214x.html[/url][/b]

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#5166 Post by ttuuxxx »

sullysat wrote:FYI, I recently moved my website and it looks like the Puppy mirror didn't really make the trip.

I'll have this back up asap.
Thanks for keeping this, its been a great asset for people :)
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#5167 Post by Puppyt »

Thumbs up, sullysat :)
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#5168 Post by greengeek »

ttuuxxx wrote:Here's the latest netsurf browser, took a bit of compiling time and altering the usr/include/gtk2 files about 20 of them.
enjoy
ttuuxxx
Hi ttuuxxx - any chance of posting a link to any netsurf versions you have available?

cheers!

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#5169 Post by ttuuxxx »

greengeek wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote:Here's the latest netsurf browser, took a bit of compiling time and altering the usr/include/gtk2 files about 20 of them.
enjoy
ttuuxxx
Hi ttuuxxx - any chance of posting a link to any netsurf versions you have available?

cheers!
try this one http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy/214 ... 8-i386.pet
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#5170 Post by greengeek »

Hi Ttuxxx, thanks for the link. Unfortunately I cannot access it - I continually get "server timeout" errors. Anyone else able to access the link??

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#5171 Post by ttuuxxx »

sullysat wrote:FYI, I recently moved my website and it looks like the Puppy mirror didn't really make the trip.

I'll have this back up asap.
Hi your server is timing out? http://www.wisdom-seekers.com/puppy/214 ... 8-i386.pet
ttuuxxx
http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#5172 Post by cthisbear »

ttuuxxx.

Yes! 4 browsers..it just won't won't connect.

And while I'm here...are you doing any more Stretch mate?

Chris.

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#5173 Post by ttuuxxx »

cthisbear wrote:ttuuxxx.

Yes! 4 browsers..it just won't won't connect.

And while I'm here...are you doing any more Stretch mate?

Chris.
Well as Stretch goes, My last release people were saying I was releasing newer versions too quick, that I wasn't giving a detailed description of what changes being made and that it wasn't working on one pc, One complaint blamed a hard drive malfunction on it, Lol it was a lot of headaches and complaints, taking the fun out of it, I'm still using it everyday without issues. I figured I would sit back and see if anyone would do better, since there was a lot of opinions that way. Haven't seen much since I took the wait and see approach. Do you think I should give it another look?
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http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
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#5174 Post by cthisbear »

" Do you think I should give it another look? "

Yes mate, I like it.

Booted it up on quite a few different laptops/desktops.

Even put it on my daughters' Dell pc.....inherited.
For Internet banking etc.
Even picked up that wireless card.

So it seems to work more like some old style pups.
Keep Rox please if you will.

Bugger the whingers.
Take your time and enjoy your creations.

Reminds me of BK....gonna retire.
Oh! here's a Quirky, hey I just made Easy Linux etc.
Because he doesn't have to do it it has become more fun again.

His Rasberry release got great reviews for example.

Even lobster has been kicking the tyres around Murga lately.

Cheers....Chris.

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#5175 Post by ttuuxxx »

cthisbear wrote:" Do you think I should give it another look? "

Yes mate, I like it.

Booted it up on quite a few different laptops/desktops.

Even put it on my daughters' Dell pc.....inherited.
For Internet banking etc.
Even picked up that wireless card.

So it seems to work more like some old style pups.
Keep Rox please if you will.

Bugger the whingers.
Take your time and enjoy your creations.

Reminds me of BK....gonna retire.
Oh! here's a Quirky, hey I just made Easy Linux etc.
Because he doesn't have to do it it has become more fun again.

His Rasberry release got great reviews for example.

Even lobster has been kicking the tyres around Murga lately.

Cheers....Chris.
Ok then, I'll revisit it this weekend, Working a lot this this week 13hrs today alone, Now I'm watching hockey play offs :)

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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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#5176 Post by Robert123 »

I'll add my support to further Stretch development. Using Billtoo's build - they have been a pleasure to use.

Only had problems on an emachines machine. Not Stretches fault
Devuan Linux, Stardust 013 (4.31) updated [url]https://archive.org/details/Stardustpup013glibc2.10[/url]
s57(2018)barebone[url]https://sourceforge.net/projects/puppy-linux-minimal-builds/files/s57%282018%29barebones.iso/download[/url]

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#5177 Post by ansivar »

greengeek wrote:
ttuuxxx wrote:Here's the latest netsurf browser, took a bit of compiling time and altering the usr/include/gtk2 files about 20 of them.
enjoy
ttuuxxx
Hi ttuuxxx - any chance of posting a link to any netsurf versions you have available?

cheers!
try:
http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux ... 8-i386.pet

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http://archive.org/download/Puppy_Linux_214X/
.....
netsurf-2.8-i386.pet                               13-Aug-2016 11:32     861.3K
.....

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#5178 Post by greengeek »

Thanks ansivar. Got the download ok now - sadly it won't run for me on Slacko:

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# netsurf
netsurf: symbol lookup error: netsurf: undefined symbol: z_errmsg
I'm not surprised it didnt work as it was never intended for Slacko but thought I'd give it a try anyway. :twisted:
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#5179 Post by ethplorer »

are we able to have updated browsers and gimp for this derivative of puppy?

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#5180 Post by ttuuxxx »

ethplorer wrote:are we able to have updated browsers and gimp for this derivative of puppy?
The browser does update a bit, Gimp doesn't update, I don't know why you would want to update gimp, the latest doesn't offer much more for about 10 times the space, plus this one has some plugins already installed.
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http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site
http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files
http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games :)

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