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loubapache
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#451 Post by loubapache »

smokey01 wrote:You can find it here:

http://www.smokey01.com/menu

Then choose the DVD icon for Distributions.
Thanks. This is more convenient. I took a brief look last night and it seems it can have Chrome, OpenOffice, and Gimp. These are what I need. Although they are slightly older versions of the software, they might be good enough.

Thanks again.

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#452 Post by don570 »

Here's three apps for you to put in the next version of Akita.

1) The newest Quick Launch 2.0 for Akita.
Remember Ctrl-shift-L is the launching keystrokes.

2) A pet package by Stu90 ---> makepet
that I have found useful. You should take a look at it.
It takes a folder and makes a pet in a flash with a right click. Amazing.

3) The latest Bacon Recorder 235. I am still working on
improving how it detects hard drive partitions.
I'll have a new version in a few days.

http://www.datafilehost.com/download-a48c540f.html

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I discovered that when I selected a more rectangular screen
resolution the right hand side icons were in their proper place.

Perhaps it's only wide screen resolutions (like 1400x900)
that are causing the causing the icon placement to be confused.

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charbaby66
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alt. downoad link?

#453 Post by charbaby66 »

not sure if this ia a pup to try on an old toshiba sattelite 490cdt w/ 64mb ram, 3.4g hd , and a 1/2 calfed win98se system w/500 mb linux swap

>>off topic but related .....

-- puplite esp. the wary version actually looks promising and (yeah) didnt have the video crash on x-logoff to a distorted text screen (colored lines no letters) in Xvesa,-- it was beautifully legible - only puppy so far that i tried that behaved :) it does still go to a white screen on x-logout with the other vid driver but this is that stupid s3virge 2mb card so that happens w/all puppies ...( i can tap thru blindly to make a save file or reboot out of if needed now that i have had the practice! LOL)

.. nice - netsurf is speedy, linksys wusb54g wireless running no prob -- wow! ( tried firepup ghastly slow, FF/Opera -egad!!and no patience to see if flash and/or youtube will ever load on this sad beast!) but it's built like a BSH and solid so i want to try to see what i can get it to do....... will let ya know...


>>enough digressing.. back to the topic

but what i want to know, is are there other download links -- all i have tried give me some windoze download manager to install... and well..
that is not making my puppy happy.( love the irony tho!) i dont think i have the resources for wine, so i decided to whine instead! if u think i could do better w/akita, plse provide an alt. linux friendly link

great job on all you have done (or put together) i have seen so far
will keep you posted on how it goes with both builds and i am wading thru the forum for other lite pups so can compare

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#454 Post by Aitch »

charbaby66 wrote:but this is that stupid s3virge 2mb card so that happens w/all puppies
That works, but is limited to 1024x768x16, IIRC, setting frame rate to 60hz on xorg tune setting, or also fine in xvesa

I think you'll struggle with only 64mb ram, though, regardless, so swap partition will be essential, I'd have thought

Aitch :)

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#455 Post by technosaurus »

I've recently gotten rox + jwm + xvesa running with mtpaint, minimum profit text editor and dillo1 in under 8mb. I'll need to do some further tweaking to get drivers and internet working, but it looks promising for older boxes with as low as 16mb of RAM and a 586 compatible.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 822#590822
Check out my [url=https://github.com/technosaurus]github repositories[/url]. I may eventually get around to updating my [url=http://bashismal.blogspot.com]blogspot[/url].

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Akita Linux Beta 5

#456 Post by sc0ttman »

Akita Linux Beta 5

Download Mirrors: http://www.multiupload.com/HQ5GT8QQ0J

md5: 979819d4b148a884f99bf3c3fd9d4844, 89.55 MB

Devx, for compiling: akita_devx.sfs (sfs3, 90MB)

This is probably release candidate, minus a few things that still need to be done..
(Remember, Akita linux is, for now, still using sfs3, k2.6.25.16, just like puppy 4.1, 4.2 and 4.2.1)

I have made many changes since Beta 4, here is a summary:

- added ssh-gui, grandr, more right click options, more translations
- many additions to Akita Repository (akita.scottjarvis.com)
- fixes to GParted, PuppyPin, JWM stuff, many other system scripts
- much more compatible with Openbox, Xfce, Fbpanel, Lxpanel (all in PPM)
- lots of other updates and fixes
- upgraded: PupApps, PupControl, PupSnap, PupSaveConfig, Defaults-Chooser, VLC-GTK, Grub4DOS, Browser-Installer, others

And here are all the changes I have not previously posted about:
(for the other changes in BETA5, read my previous posts in this thread..)

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Dec 03:
	- small fix for /usr/sbin/create_jwm_drives.sh, better checking of unmountable partitions
	- added to Akita repo:
    		- firefox-7.0.1-1-akita: like above but also includes ghostery, better layout, ubuntu fonts
			- fbpanel-6.0-patched-1-akita: includes pinstall script, an updated pfbpanel and an icon fix
			-  obconf: the openbox settings GUI

Dec 07, 2011:
	- updated openbox package in Akita repo:	
			- added /usr/bin/obconf to package
			- fixed /usr/bin/ob-xdgmenu, changed default openbox menu to use 'obconf', added 'fixmenus' and 'restart X'

Dec 20-31, 2011:
	- fixed /bin/mount for NTFS drives (silent option added, hides NTFS errors)
	- fixed gparted - reverted to libparted and parted from pup4 repo
	- fixed /usr/sbin/fixmenus to run varicons if fbpanel is running
	- fixed "save2flash" to always run "snapmergepuppy"
	- fixed /tmp permissions:  chmod 1777 /tmp
	- fixed /usr/sbin/toggle-rox-desktop (pidof jwm is used more, before jwm related cmds)
	- fixes for xfce: wmreboot, wmexit, restartwm, wmpoweroff
	- fixes for xfce: /usr/sbin/fixmenus
	- fixes for xfce: added xfce4-mixer to audio mixers in /usr/bin/defaults-chooser: 
	- fixes in /usr/sbin/script_grepper
	- fixes in ~/Startups/gtk-mnt-links
	- fixes in /usr/sbin/drive_mounter.sh
	- fix in /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d: all JWM drive icons stuff only runs if JWM is running
	- updated ~/Startups/freememapplet: added right-click menu entry for increasing save file size
	- updated latest pupzip to support xarchiver
	- updated psync to 2.7
	- updated pfilesearch to 1.28, more M3U or ID3 support
	- updated swapfile manager to 4.2
	- updated /usr/sbin/startups and all locales, to support psync: ~/Startups/timesync.sh
	- updated savefile MIME type icons (2fs, 3fs)
	- added /usr/sbin/ssh-gui (version 0.7)
	- added gtk icon refresh to system boot (rc.sysinit.. `gtk-update-icon-cache -f -i /usr/share/icons/hicolor`)
	- added /usr/local/bin/rpl (a replace tool)
	- added /usr/sbin/sfsoptimise - can strip and optimise (compress) whole filesystems
	- added common repo to elinks bookmarks
	- added menu entry for initrd-editor.sh, in Filesystem Utilities
	- added to Akita repo:
			- irda-utils-0.9.18+smcinit-0.4.pet (IR remote control stuff)
			- lirc-0.8.3-k2.6.25.16.pet (IR remote control stuff)
			- avidemux-gtk-2.5.3-i486-akita.pet (5mb)
			- avidemux_NLS-gtk-2.5.3-i486-akita.pet
			- xfce_minimal-4.2.3.2.pet (1MB, dougals package, petted)
			- xfce_minimal-4.2.3.2-akita.pet (1MB, custom setup, most minimal)
			- zepsdreamland-1.02.pet  (good platform game)
			- JNKPlat-20100420-akita.pet  (a nice game)
			- exiv2-0.18.2-akita.pet
	- updated VLC-GTK to 2.3.5:
			- fix: detect dual screen displays, then resize/locate window accordingly (very basic/hacky but works)
			- fix: better DVD, VCD and Audio CD playback
			- fix: vlc-gtk-btns now faster, more reliable
			- fix: added VLC icon to GUI <window>
			- fix: code cleanups, added kill_vlc function, etc
			- added: option to disable on screen controls to main GUI, under 'Controls' tab
	- fixed PDF conversions: recompiled poppler (0.14.5) utils (then added its pdftohtml, pdftotext)
	- added Akita repo additions from Nov 27 onwards to Akita PPM (~/.packages/livepackages5a.txt)
	- fix pmount mounting of UDF CDs/DVDs, using guess_fstype
	- fixed JWM shutdown menu (undid changes in restartwm)
	- fixes in ~/.packages/livepackages5a.txt
	- fixes in /usr/sbin/puppyinstaller
	- updated xdotool to version 2.20110530.1
	- added /usr/sbin/text2xpm
	- fixed: /bin/umount using grep -w to catch mount points
	- fixed: /usr/sbin/bootmanager: fixes v424, 10060, 100831 (kernel 3.0 fixes, OLPC fixes, sfs version checks)
	- fixed: /usr/sbin/wcpufreq: checkfor other module dir if none found; kernels have moved the relevant modules
	- fixed: /usr/bin/woofy should support 3.0 kernels ok now
	- fixed: /usr/sbin/filemnt:
	 		- fixed OLPC kernel checks, and 3.0 kernel support
			- now supports mounting of encrypted save files (password required)
			- added /bin/vercomp to main fs and initrd.gz
	- fixed JWM Drives, PuppyPin, /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d: no crash with dodgy drive labels
			- updated blkid-name-generator function: removed 'eval'..
			- replace spaces with underscores in drive labels
			- strip all non-alphanumeric chars from drive labels, except underscores
			- fixed /usr/sbin/blkid-name-generator, same sanitization, also now uses ash
	- fixed: /usr/sbin/remasterpup2.. added small fix to name zdrv correctly for akita (and other pups)
	- fixed: /usr/bin/edit-sfs, choose right SFS version for 3.x kernel

January 1st, 2012
	- added: grandr-0.1-i486, xarchive-0.2.8-8-akita
	- updated firefox package in "browser-installer" to firefox-7.0.1-1-akita.pet
	- updated: grub4dos-0.4.4.v1.7.1, htop-1.0-i686, pciutils-3.1.7-i486, PupApps-1.6.1, PupControl-1.8.5, 
					  pupsaveconfig-2.0, PupSnap-1.6.3_Scrot-0.8_32Bit, Pup-SysInfo-2.0
	- fixes in /etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown:
		- 110405: fix 'free' applet output format different in later versions of busybox.
		- 110808: L18L: if geany still running at shutdown, delete socket.
		- 110928: fixed, reboots when choose shutdown. very old bug, dates back to 2009.
		- 111106: do not execute fuser if network share mount.
		- 111107: ldolse: unmount network shares before taking down the network
	- added to Akita Repo (yet to update livepackages5a.txt):
		- gadmin-sshd-0.0.1-i486.pet, 452K
		- geeqie-1.0-i486.pet, 1.1M
		- libdrm-2.4.25-w-20110427.pet, 20K
		- libgpg-error-1.10-w-20110914.pet, 25K
		- pciutils_DOC-3.1.7-i486.pet, 7.2K
		- tar-1.26-w-20110313.pet, 164K
		- pmusic-2.3.0.pet, 89K
		- pburn-3.4.2.pet, 65K
		- poppler_DEV-0.14.5-i486.pet, 2.7M
		- xdotool_DEV-2.20110530.1-i486.pet, 7.2K
		- xdotool_DOC-2.20110530.1-i486.pet, 13K
Things to do:

- default menu not up to date (just do Menu->Refresh at 1st boot for now)
- fixes for `jwm -reload`: xinitrc, /usr/local/petget/*,/usr/sbin/petget,toggle-rox-desktop,fixmenus,JWMConfig
- fix deps for msgfmt msgunfmt (libgettext*).. write a "MO_Editor", update run action
- delete unused sound devices as shutdown (see shinobar, rerwin, barryk, woof2)
- fixes for snapmergepuppy & PPM (see shinobar, rerwin, barryk)
- update dillo package to 3.0 in browser installer, or add both...
- prepare for kernel upgrades, check Barry Ks blog, /etc/rc.d/*, sysinit, shutdown, etc
- update VLC-GTK: add playlist button to on screen controls, if no video window, load playlist window as default window, change control commands accordingly
- update Frisbee to latest
- add Asian fonts and various language packs (inc 'all') to Akita PPM and repo
- update mksquashfs to latest, so it support the new SFS types (xz?) floating around
- get EduRoam into Network Gui thing (more info)
- update to firstrun > 1.9.6
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#457 Post by Roy »

Downloaded Beta5 and played with it for a bit. You know that Deadbeef won't play a large MP3 audio file, right? It maxxes out my CPU with silence until it reverts to the 'Stop' mode. No matter, Pmusic does play my mp3 audio book, so you've got the bases covered. Is Deadbeef there pretty much for wav files?

I need to learn how to use your CLI audio player.

I like Akita -- it's nice and clean, with obvious thought put into the apps chosen.

-Roy

BTW: I really like the boot up menu of Beta5!

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#458 Post by Aitch »

Don
I meant to ask...Is there a difference between makepet and dir2pet, as they seem to have the same function?

Aitch :)

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#459 Post by sc0ttman »

Aitch, I've no idea either... We'll wait for Don..
Roy wrote:You know that Deadbeef won't play a large MP3 audio file, right? It maxxes out my CPU with silence until it reverts to the 'Stop' mode. No matter, Pmusic does play my mp3 audio book, so you've got the bases covered.
No I did not know that - I never had any problems with Deadbeef at all,
although I prefer to use mocp generally...

VLC-GTK will be usable as a music player, too - prob in the next release..

How large are the mp3 files we're talking about?
The largest I think I have is "Shine on you crazy diamond", only 41mb...
I may have larger, but as I say, all my music plays fine for me..

EDIT: Just played a 250mb mp3, with no problems...
Is Deadbeef there pretty much for wav files?
It's a very minimal version (~200kb), only for most popular formats..
I need to learn how to use your CLI audio player.
Mocp? Load it up and press 'h' to see the help...
I love Mocp, it continues playback even after you exit X..
I like Akita -- it's nice and clean, with obvious thought put into the apps chosen.
Thanks, I tried to include everything that is small, potentially useful and works well...
I also tried to include many useful CLI programs as standard..

I know many believe "1 application per task".. I may release an Akita with this approach,
which would be ~65-75mb inc browser and office, I reckon..
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#460 Post by don570 »

Aitch wrote:Don
I meant to ask...Is there a difference between makepet and dir2pet, as they seem to have the same function?
There is two versions of dir2pet floating about.

One is by stu90 (which I use in Right click options and pemasu uses
it in his distributions).

The other is by the guy that made Solid pup.

pemasu put together 'makepet' from stu90's dir2pet rather fast.
He wanted a right click option.

I would have done it differently, with an easier to understand
English phrase like 'Create a pet package' and a pretty icon.

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There's a new version of mtpaint 3.40.

I'll compile a Jasper free version and see if it works
on this new beta that I've just downloaded.

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#461 Post by Aitch »

OK thanks

I'll have to try them, I think

Aitch :)

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new mtpaint and gtkhash

#462 Post by don570 »

I compiled mtpaint without jasper and it works nicely.

I also noticed that there is no way of calculating MD5sums
so I included a version 3 of gtkhash that I put together.
The most recent version of gtkhash (Version 5) didn't
work.

I put it all in an archive to download.


http://www.datafilehost.com/download-35b69f94.html

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mp3splt

#463 Post by don570 »

I was able to split mp3 files with this application by ttuuxx

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 3ba3d0747b

You should put it in your repository.

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#464 Post by don570 »

There seems to be a problem with opening rar archives.

There are two right click options
'Open Archive with PupZip' and 'View Contents'.

Image


Neither would work for me.


Here's a pet package by pemasu that will open rar archives
using unrar. You could put it in your repository and
avoid installing rar.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... be47359262

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Files that have the extension .tar.bz2 have missing md5sum link

Image

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Files that have .tar.gz extension ------>

right click option 'View contents' gives a warning message
that something doesn't exist.

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Audio files with the extension .flac ------->

right click option 'Edit with mhwaveedit' doesn't work for
obvious reasons. mhwaveedit does open .mp3 and .aif files.

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You have set up pfind to search inside a folder properly.
You could have gone one step farther and set it up to do a search
in a partition. This is easily done by putting a right click option
in the folder

~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net/OpenWith/.inode_mount-point

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You should use the script I use in Right-click for making an
archive out of a Folder of files. It's very simple and quick.
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Both VLC player and FBReader worked nicely :lol:

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#465 Post by don570 »

There is a third version of dir2pet I've seen.
Lazy Puppy by RSH has a version that he wrote.

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When I click on a .htm file in Rox, I get this message

Image

however if I type in the console

elinks filename.htm

The file opens properly. Also the right click option will
open the file properly as well.

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#466 Post by don570 »

Here's the script that I use in Right-click to make an
archive from a folder.
It could be simplified further.

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#!/bin/sh
# A simple script to tar.gz all folders in a directory
# AUTHOR:         vovchik

myspec="$@"
mydir=`dirname "$myspec"`
cd "$mydir"

# ---------------------
function mk_archive()
# ---------------------
{
   if [ -n "$myspec" ]; then
      echo "Archive object: ""$myspec"
      mynewspec=`basename "$myspec"`
      echo "Processing under way..."
      tar -pczf "$mynewspec".tar.gz "$mynewspec"
      echo "All done."
   else
      echo "Usage: mktgz"" [dir] or [file]"
      echo "in dir which contains target dir or file"
   fi
}

# ---------------------
# MAIN
# ---------------------

mk_archive

# ---------------------
# END MAIN
# ---------------------

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#467 Post by don570 »

The screenshot Browser program needs an icon
/usr/share/pixmaps/gtkam.png

Most of the other puppies have it, which is why I used it. :lol:

A link to a camera icon should fix it. :lol:

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I tested mhwaveedit and I found that it can open
both .ogg and .aif (popular with MAC users)

So it would make sense to have right click options
for these formats.

'Edit with mhwaveedit'

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#468 Post by Roy »

sc0ttman wrote:
How large are the mp3 files we're talking about?
Actually, the audio book in question was/is a single 210MB mp3 file. I have now used the mp3 splitter pet that don570 linked to on the previous page, and the smaller mp3 files play.

However, somewhere in Akita I saw that my original file was a 64kbs mp3 format -- and the split files all show up as 32kbs. Pmusic (in Three-headed Dog) shows the original 210MB file as a 32kbs mp3...

I would like to thank all concerned for their assistance!

Has anyone successfully connected to a wireless ad-hoc connection via Frisbee in Akita5beta? It has always worked for me in Akita4beta, but 5beta has yet to work. Since this is my only connectivity method, I need to get it sorted on my end (posting from Lucid ATM).

-Roy

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#469 Post by sc0ttman »

Don, thanks for mtpaint and mp3-splitter, and other scripts, that's great stuff..

The right click options do need updating, I was leaving this for another time, as its a bit laborious.. BETA 5 mainly has 'fixes' to make sure Akita can later be released with a newer kernel, better PPM+packages, wider choice of WMs, etc..

I'll take another look at PupZip, unrar, undeb, etc.. they've all been working in the past :roll: I could not reproduce the problem with .htm files though, tested from a fresh boot.

There is actually a way to get MD5 sums - Puphash.. In the SendTo meu - I forgot to make a ROX-App, which I planned to add, as it is somewhat hidden away - which is why I forgot about it!! :lol:

I will take a look at the issues you found soon enough..

For now though, I should note the 'View contents of archive' thing needs the 'AVFS' daemon started from the 'Startups' programs, or 'Boot Manager>Startups'.. It was working fine last time I used it, a while back, but not now.. Even after the daemon is running... Couldn't fix it.. Might remove it..
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Roy, no idea what;s gone on there, the mp3s I tested were all quite low bitrate, but I don't remember what!! I wonder if you have a Wary 5.1.x install, if it says 32kbs or 64kbs - Akita and Wary 5.1.x *should* behave the same!

I don't think I did anything to Frisbee, I'll have a re-look and check..
I plan to update Frisbee anyway, so that'll either fix it or break it more!

Maybe try the Frisbee .pet - install it to just overwrite what's there, it should work out of the box.. Maybe boot with pfix=ram to test..

I know very little about Wireless and limited things to check, but I had most success with SNS I reckon.. Although I understand this may not fit your needs - sorry I can't be of more help...
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#470 Post by starhawk »

sc0ttman, I sent you a PM about Akita... I'm wondering how it will perform on lower-spec systems in general and a system I'm working on in particular... if you can let me know, and depending on other factors (when some needed hardware arrives) I may or may not be able to help beta-test Akita.

EDIT: if I could do it without hijacking the thread somehow, I'd be glad to post my system's specs here...

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