Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[nooby]

Thanks I downloaded the iso and made a dir alpha
and then clicked on the iso and placed the files in the dir
and then wrote a typical puppy boot and rebooted and it worked
but it did not sense my screen and defaulted to 640x480 something
don't remember and I failed to know how to tell it to go to 1366x786
or whatever I have.

Apart from that it seems to work.

Don't get me wrong now. I can see the fun in having one's own distro
but how is it better or different from all the others. I mean why or what
is it that makes it better or more convenient or more practical or ...

I can feel the fun of having accomplish it. I would want to do it too
but in what way is it useful so I would abandon slacko and go over ?

[raffy]

Am interested to boot asus x101ch (Intel N2600 with NM10 chipset) with this, and it booted and had drivers for eth0 and wlan0. However, the display is too dim and I can't use the function keys to adjust the brightness. Display must be only 640x480. Am used to trying xorgwizard, but it does not respond to CTRL-ALT-BKSPC.

In the AMD E350 laptop, there is no wlan0 driver (for Broadcom) and the display is only 1024x768 (that is fine with me).

Am glad the sfs loader is there so that I can use small freeoffice sfs.

Missing some features of Puppy, like the GUI hardinfo, but hey, if this little build can handle my little X101CH, including hibernation, then it's heaven.

[simargl]

With this example I will try to explain how to compile program from source code, install it, remove, get information about
installed package, convert it to sfs module with help of spkg package manager.

I'm using program called Uget (http://uget.visuex.com/) as example, so you will not only learn to use this package manager but
will also have nice download manager afterwards.

First you need to make def script - a file that is needed for building any package. You can write that file yourself, or much easier
automatically convert PKGBUILD script from Arch. I will leave this 2nd option for some later time, now you can just use bellow code, select all text save it as file named def and put that file in folder /mnt/home/data/spkg/def-scripts/uget

[simargl]

nooby & raffy: What are yours graphic cards, with that small resolution it's probably using just that basic vesa driver. Installing xorg graphic driver is one of the simplest things, you only need to know card's name (use lspci) and I will help.

[simargl]

New functions were added to spkg package manager... (click to enlarge)


Packages mirror is here http://code.google.com/p/alphaos/downloads/list
spkg -di is function for download and install package (it must be full package name and it doesn't handle dependencies )

[raffy]

[simargl]

[stifiling]

There are aspects of this distro 'alpahos' that make it better than ArchPup. It's free'er (or however it's spelled). i installed pacman in it...and am using it very much so as if it's ArchPup.

Trying to decide if i want to continue piecing together, and updating the adrives for ArchPup...or shift the attention to this new 'and improved to be honest with you' AlphaOS.

Great Job so far sim, i'm diggin it.

[simargl]

Hi stifiling, alphaOS is on distrowatch waiting list
http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=submit

Only two days after first ever release!

[simargl]

New functions in package manager: repo-add, repo-remove, repo-list for working with pkgs.list database.

spkg -cc
Clean the entire package cache

spkg -dp name
Only download package but do not install it

Here is another def script example. As you see it can use multiple sources for making single package

[simargl]

To do list:
- add support for installing more than one package at once
- work with just spkg -di uget not full package name
- handle dependencies
- recompile whole toolchain with new distro name (after that lock it forever)
- recompile Xorg packages group, with before missed glu package

[john3voltas]

Great work with alpha.
It is looking good.
Will give it a try during the weekend.
Only package installer is spkg? No pacman or apt or yum, etc?

EDIT: BTW, you chose udev for both your puplets. Is there a problem with your puplets and systemd?

[simargl]

[simargl]

This is upgraded spkg package manager version 0.9.8.1 (attachment removed)
It has all features I planned to add, so here it is you can test it.

Extract this archive, and run installation script with
sh install

Then type
spkg update

See all available package on mirror with
spkg list

Install what you want
spkg -gi pkgname1 pkgname2....

Deadbeef audio player that couldn't compile in Archpup, here is compiled and working fine. It uses gtk3 btw.

[stifiling]

Frisbee for me is working perfectly from a quick couple reboot tests. It's blinky icon in the notification area is blinking, and everything else. It's the same files I used in the light-xfce adrv for ArchPup. for some reason though, it had minor issues in ArchPup.