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Posted: **Mon 28 Nov 2011, 10:59**

Nearly Office Pup is an XFCE based puplet, so called because it is a no frills pup without office apps. The idea being that you install to USB pendrive and add an SFS file of the office package.

Racy NOP 5.2.2 is based on the recently released Puppy Racy 5.2.2 with JWM and Rox removed and replaced with XFCE4.6.2 and Thunar.

Note I tried XFCE4.8.3 but had lots of issues - especially with the new Thunar and gvfs dependency hell. Still not mature enough for any real use.

Also

Seamonkey suite replaced with Opera 11.52
Added modified Pwidgets
Removed Geany, Notecase, Homebank, Planner, Ayttm, Osmo, Inkscapelite, Games and of course Abiword & Gnumeric.

get racyNOP-5.2.2.iso (122Mb) from http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop

Also at same site is LibreOffice3.4.4.sfs and NVIDIA-290.10-k3.0.7.pet

update to revision 1 Jan 16 2012:

racyNOP-5.2.2r1 is a small update, upgrading Opera to V11.60 and adding lmsensors, and xarchive unrar and 7z capability.

Posted: **Mon 28 Nov 2011, 12:00**

Hi gray

Many thanks for this - absolutely fantastic.

Flies on my old Acer TravelMate 243LC laptop. Manual frugal to ext4 and a 800mb swap partition.
256mb ram, 2.5Ghz Celeron Proc. Wifi via pcmcia Belkin card.

Nice to see Opera and xfce/thunar - outstanding combination.

Initial setup to desktop etc, is so easy and intuitive - superb.

Greatly appreciate all you do for us with NOP.

Very best regards - Ray

Posted: **Mon 28 Nov 2011, 13:54**

The NOP is one of my favorite!
Some of the packages was the compilation error. The Lupu 5.2X version of localization is very simple: package manager - system - Langpack - mouse clicks and you're done. (Of course, refinements remain, but it did so almost automatically the Rexbang the Macpup etc. puplet case. Too bad it was just a Geany out of it, but I did return. I like that the latest kernel in it.
The RAM is very low.
Congratulations, this will be the Hungarian edition.

Posted: **Mon 28 Nov 2011, 14:19**

As others have said, thank you for all you have done. Can't wait to try this out. Rob

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2011, 12:08**

Sheer genius! Boy! are you competent, gray. All the old familiar polish. No Flash or Opera to load - you've already done it for us. Xfce already implemented - my favourite. Absolutely no excuse for neophytes, now.
Welcome back and long may you reign.
Are we lucky to benefit from all this talent?!

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2011, 14:02**

this is nice. using it on my thinkpad. finally retired nop 431 for now.

would be nice to have a 64 bit nop...how bout slapping one of those together for us??...

Posted: **Tue 29 Nov 2011, 14:24**

I did a manual frugal install to a gateway desktop pc.
I added xineplus-racy-i686.sfs,vlc-1.1.12-racy-i686.sfs,
and seamonkey-2.5-racy-i686.pet.
Everything is working well.
Thanks.

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2011, 07:19**

Downloading now, Thanks Gray!

Posted: **Wed 30 Nov 2011, 17:13**

gray: can u help be on replacing rox with thunar in lucid puppy with xfce compiled form source

Posted: **Sat 03 Dec 2011, 20:17**

& I've Done a Dependency Check on these Packages. No Problems there. Also the NVidia Splash Screen Displays

Here is the Output from Terminal
# compiz
compiz (core) - Error: Screen 0 on display ":0.0" already has a window manager; try using the --replace option to replace the current window manager.
compiz (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0.0

Or Might Newer Updated Packages be Required 4 the New 3.07 Ke*nel?

Thanx in Advance!

:)K

Posted: **Sat 03 Dec 2011, 21:22**

Stop Press, I Found an All Ke*nel Versions Pet Package, But it Won't Run...

Here is the Terminal Output
# VirtualBox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
available for the current kernel (3.0.7) or it failed to
load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/opt/VirtualBox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
# ^C
# sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS ...failed!
(Failed, trying without DKMS)
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong)

And the Log Message Contents in Question
/opt/VirtualBox/src/vboxhost/vboxdrv/build_in_tmp: line 55: make: command not found

Any Help Will be Greatly Appreciated...

:)K

Posted: **Wed 07 Dec 2011, 04:48**

I noticed that restartx doesn't work, /usr/bin/restartwm kills the panel where in Quirky it kills the session, the scripts are identical accept for one difference

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if [ "`pidof xfce4-panel`" != "" ];then
 #killall xfce4-panel
 kill `pidof xfce4-panel`

and this is the quirky one

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if [ "`pidof xfce4-session`" != "" ];then
 #killall xfce4-panel
 kill `pidof xfce4-session`

Just edit restartwm with the Quirky code and it will work, with this now working it is possible to add a entry to the menu to restart the window manager, /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu needs to be edited add this line

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      <Filename>restartwm.desktop</Filename>

so that the menu script looks like this, you will find it listed at line 29

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 <Separator/>
      <Filename>xfce4-help.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>logout.desktop</Filename>
      <Filename>restartwm.desktop</Filename>
    </Layout>

Next a desktop menu file needs to be created in /usr/share/applications, open that directory and create a new file and name it restartwm.desktop and paste this code and save it.

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[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Exec=restartwm
Icon=restartwm.png
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
Categories=X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel;
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
Name=RestartWM
Comment=Restart Xfce Desktop

Now a icon is needed for the menu, I couldn't find one in the icon theme, so I made one, it needs to be placed in /usr/share/icons, just right-click and save the image below.
let me know if it don't work, though it should

Geoffrey

Posted: **Wed 07 Dec 2011, 12:22**

Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed

- not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.

Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?

TheBlackSheep

Posted: **Wed 07 Dec 2011, 17:00**

TheBlackSheep wrote:Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.

Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?

TheBlackSheep

How to 'switch' kernels:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60180

Follow the guide in the link above and you can replace the kernle you're using with one from another Puppy ISO...

Posted: **Wed 07 Dec 2011, 17:37**

TheBlackSheep wrote:Having always been a fan of gray and the NOP releases I now find myself disappointed - not a criticism of the release but the fact that I can't run this version on my laptop - as it is based on Racy it requires a processor with pae support but that means the centrino family (or at least the one this Dell Latitude 600 uses) is a no-go.

Is there a way of recompiling the kernel to not require pae and still using the rest of the system? Is this easy to do? ... and then I just replace the initrd.gz/vmlinuz with the non-pae version and keep the puppy_racy.5.2.2.sfs as it is?

TheBlackSheep

Like your D600, my 700M also uses a Pentium M cpu.
These have a 400MHz FSB which doesn't work with PAE.
Think I'll try that kernel switch on Racy and Saluki when I
get some time.
Good luck.

Posted: **Fri 09 Dec 2011, 02:58**

Posted: **Fri 16 Dec 2011, 22:32**

Hi! Nice Puplet

How do I change desktop icons?

Posted: **Sat 17 Dec 2011, 13:52**

Hi

Max Headroom wrote:Where Can I get the Ke*nel Source 4 this Please

I realise it is over a week since you asked,
but you can get them here: kernel_src-3.0.7-patched.sfs

Username = puppy
Password = linux

CatDude
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Posted: **Mon 19 Dec 2011, 19:58**

Thanks, Grey, looks great!

Posted: **Mon 19 Dec 2011, 22:45**

Me Present Mission is Trying 2 Fix an eMerald Segmentation Fawlt ( Needs libglib-2.0.so.0 ), Otherwise Compiz iz Working Fine!

Also I'm Struggling 2 get Flash working, I've installed 2 Pets & the Latest Flash 11 from the Adobe Website, Followed the instructions on the Opera Linux Plugin info page re Adobe Flash Player, All in Vain ( Truth is I Suspect the instructions pertained 2 more Generic Linuxes than Our Puppy, Specifically! ).

Any Clues, Please!?!

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Racy NOP 5.2.2

Racy NOP 5.2.2

Congratulations

Thanks Gray

Racy NOP 5.2.2

Racy NOP 5.2.2

Re: Racy NOP 5.2.2

Please can AnyBody Help w/ Getting Compiz Working w this Tha

G'day Gray, Welcome back from Another Galaxy :)

G'day Gray, Where Can I get the Ke*nel Source 4 this Please

Re: G'day Gray, Where Can I get the Ke*nel Source 4 this Please

Thanx CatDude