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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 15:54
by rg66
starhawk wrote:@rg66 -- I read the recommended minimum requirements (1ghz CPU, 512mb RAM) on the "About Carolina" page at the other end of your sig link. (BTW, mouse-responsive rotating word clouds should not be used for navigation -- that's some clumsy stuff!)
I have a system with a Celeron M ULV 600MHz CPU and 1gb RAM. I know it'll run (or at least walk), but *in your opinion* would it be worth trying Carolina on a system with those specs, or am I likely to be disappointed with the performance? (I've run an early beta from you folks so it's not quite my first time.)
The oldest comp I've tried lina on was a P4-2.66Mhz with 1GB RAM for my kids. It seemed fast enough but even then, a few things took some time to load at startup. A Celeron 600 is pretty slow with only 128k cache, might be painful.
Ya, the website can be "interesting" to navigate. Not sure who made it, maybe elroy.
Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 20:53
by Laie
Carolina 1.0 runs fine on my wife's netbook (Lenovo S12). Now I wanted to change the built in firefox to the newest german version. I didn't manage to do this.
Is there anybody to help me?
Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 21:14
by rg66
Laie wrote:Carolina 1.0 runs fine on my wife's netbook (Lenovo S12). Now I wanted to change the built in firefox to the newest german version. I didn't manage to do this.
Is there anybody to help me?
Unfortunately, Carolina cannot run Firefox above 17.x.x ESR. The latest version can be found at
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/ ... inux-i686/.
Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 21:28
by Laie
So it's not the latest but at least german. Thx so much!
Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 21:32
by simargl
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Posted: Mon 29 Jul 2013, 22:14
by Laie
rg66 wrote:Unfortunately, Carolina cannot run Firefox above 17.x.x ESR. ...
Is there a similar issue with thunderbird?
geany-1.23.1
Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 00:04
by Geoffrey
Added the latest Geany text editor and plugins package to the repo.
geany-1.23.1.pet
geany-plugins-1.23.pet
geany_DEV-1.23.1.pet
geany_DEV-plugins-1.23.pet
geany_DOC-1.23.1.pet
geany_DOC-plugins-1.23.pet
geany_NLS-1.23.1.pet
geany_NLS-plugins-1.23.pet
simargl wrote:
Is inability to run latest Firefox signal to change Carolina's base distro, now that Wary is legacy system officially replaced by Pangolin as next main Puppy.
There are no plans to change the base system.
Laie wrote:rg66 wrote:Unfortunately, Carolina cannot run Firefox above 17.x.x ESR. ...
Is there a similar issue with thunderbird?
Yes, Thunderbird is the ESR version, the newer beta versions don't run
http://www.mozilla.org/en/thunderbird/o ... l-esr.html
Posted: Tue 30 Jul 2013, 04:26
by elroy
mini-jaguar wrote:IWhere in the file system are the panel graphics? I want to swap the graphics for the Saluki panel, or maybe the older Carolina icon with the dog.
Are you asking how to change the Saluki icon for the Carolina icon? If so, save the Carolina icon locally on your system (to /usr/local/icons/icon-name), and then right-click on the 'start-menu' icon, change icon, and navigate to /usr/local/icons/icon-name. This should replace the icon in either Saluki or Carolina (or lina-lite) so long as you're using a savefile.
Posted: Wed 31 Jul 2013, 00:06
by don570
The new Carolina 1.0 works well!! There is no problem
with gtkdialog-splash or making pet packages.
When I tested the pre-release package it still had those problems.
lina-007rc.iso should be deleted from site.
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Posted: Wed 31 Jul 2013, 04:26
by Geoffrey
don570 wrote:The new Carolina 1.0 works well!! There is no problem
with gtkdialog-splash or making pet packages.
When I tested the pre-release package it still had those problems.
lina-007rc.iso should be deleted from site.
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You couldn't of timed it better Don, rg66 and I have been discussing the removal of old files and to see what if any should be kept,
as 1.0 is now so it seems bug free, there is no need to keep any of the old ISO's and delta files,
we will be deleting all of the 007rc versions, at a time yet to be decided, as they will cause problems if used.
We would like to say a big thank you to Smokey01 for giving us the space to host Carolina, without this Carolina would not have been possible.
Forum member "ally" has a mirror of all the ISO's here
http://archive.org/details/PuppyLinuxCarolina if anyone should want them,
though I really don't think at this point they will serve any purpose as most have bugs and out dated files.
Carolina 1.0 will be the base to add to, as most are aware the old glibc had been the main reason to stop the development,
so pretty well it is what it is, limited in what it will run in the way of new software, but just the same it has a large selection of software in the repo that some other pups lack,
the main aim was to give windows users something that would be easy to adjust to with a familiar feel, we think we have achieved that.
Geoffrey
Sound+video problem
Posted: Sat 03 Aug 2013, 22:23
by rasul
Hi,
Only to report Carolina has the sound problem (not recognizing any sound device) on this machine just like had Saluki, bad for me
Also like many other (relatively old kernel) distros it also has video problem, jumping between frams, somewhat slowmotion and discontinuous which is due to the specific linux-not-friendly graphic card GMA3600.
Currently Upup Raring 3.8.7 is working great here, hope the next Carolina versions will support this machine as well, although I understand it will not happen in any near future.
Posted: Sun 04 Aug 2013, 00:05
by Ray MK
Hi guy's
Just booted Carolina-1.0 - very impressive - don't know why I hadn't noticed Carolina before.
Manual frugal to an ntfs partition, booting with grub4dos, using the E732 laptop.
Generally, all seems extremely good and everything seems to work OOTB.
Will play some more and then post a report. Luvly puppy - many thanks.
Posted: Sun 04 Aug 2013, 08:48
by johnrpm
I have a stupid question, but an idiot is asking it, so that's OK,
I downloaded the Linux version from here,
http://slic3r.org/
but could not get it to run in carolina 1.0 (full install), but it runs in upup precise (frugal install), what am I doing wrong ?.
Posted: Sun 04 Aug 2013, 09:08
by Ray MK
Report as promised - Very comprehensive puppy - everything seems to just work - nice.
Posted: Sun 04 Aug 2013, 23:35
by Geoffrey
johnrpm wrote:I have a stupid question, but an idiot is asking it, so that's OK,
I downloaded the Linux version from here,
http://slic3r.org/
but could not get it to run in carolina 1.0 (full install), but it runs in upup precise (frugal install), what am I doing wrong ?.
It is not compatible with Carolina's library files, I tried compiling it, but it looks to be a dependency nightmare.
Maybe someone with a bit more knowledge can build a package, requires perl DEV installed as well as
Code: Select all
curl -L http://cpanmin.us | perl - --sudo App::cpanminus
to get it to build, but it fails at
Code: Select all
Configuring ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.18_04 ... OK
Building and testing ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.18_04 ... OK
Successfully installed ExtUtils-ParseXS-3.18_04
1 distribution installed
! Finding ./xs on cpanmetadb failed.
! Finding ./xs () on mirror http://www.cpan.org failed.
! Couldn't find module or a distribution ./xs
Posted: Mon 05 Aug 2013, 08:00
by johnrpm
Thanks for trying, I did not want to put you to any trouble, I have been looking for a main operating system for some time, and thought that caroliner was it, tried many, but I can use upup to run that specific software, thanks again for you effort.
Posted: Mon 05 Aug 2013, 17:07
by lvds
Hi,
Many thanks for Carolina, it works great
Does anyone have a ready to use SFS for Java JRE 1.7 ?
Thanks
Posted: Tue 06 Aug 2013, 03:51
by Geoffrey
lvds wrote:Hi,
Many thanks for Carolina, it works great
Does anyone have a ready to use SFS for Java JRE 1.7 ?
Thanks
You can download the
http://smokey01.com/carolina/pet_packag ... 1-i586.pet and use the thunar right click menu and select "Repack-Extract Packages" this has an option to convert to sfs.
I will be updating the repo with jre-1.7u25 pet in the next few days.
Posted: Tue 06 Aug 2013, 19:50
by Colonel Panic
Another thank you from me. I'm posting from Carolina 1.0 now and listening to an album on Youtube (Uriah Heep's "Sea of Light") at the same time. I've also got LibreOffice Writer open as well, in which I'm editing this.
I could easily use this one as my main desktop. The only small niggle I have is that I liked some of the Wall# wallpapers which came with the earlier Carolinas better than the current ones, but they're easily added; I keep a directory on my pendrive for all my favourite Puppy backgrounds, and add to it when I want.
So thanks!
Cheers,
CP .
Asus s200 wireless problems
Posted: Thu 08 Aug 2013, 09:06
by jtouso
Caroline 1
Excellent but...problems with wireless connection.
Asus s200e. Atheros modem
It detects different wireless and I choose the one I have.
Password for wep
Trying to connect but always failed
No problems with Mint linux and Puppy 5.7.1 Precise
Impossible to use Frisbee (no answer on the toolbar icon) and I try the other different methods to connect wireless
Help?