alphaOS [closed]

[smil99]

Most of the Pwireless problems can be resolved when one uses Frisbee instead. I pulled out all of Frisbee's files from Barry's raring-3.8.4.2 and made a pet which I installed in alphaOS V7 with ppet. Of course, the files can be copied over manually to their respective folders in alphaOS if one doesn't have ppet. Now, I am able to connect wirelessly or wired using Frisbee without the need to restart it after every reboot.

Below are Frisbee files locations found in /root/.packages/builtin_files/frisbee of raring-3.8.4.2:

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/etc
/etc/frisbee
 dhcpcd.conf
/etc/frisbee/iface
/etc/init.d
 frisbee
/lib
/lib/dhcpcd
/lib/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-hooks
 99-down
 99-ifup
 99-release
 99-timeout
 99-up
/root
/root/Startup
 network_tray_modeset
/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
 frisbee
 frisbee_mode_disable
 frisbee_mode_enable
/usr/local/frisbee
 connect
 disconnect
 func
 hook_notify

However, I haven't tried that in alphaOS V8 as I am not sure as to how simargl's decision of removing /usr/local among others in V8 would affect frisbee's installation.

Hope this helps.
Cheers.

[yr1945]

simargl... yes, i can connect with pwireless... to get all available networks in your area, you have to click "roam"... then click "refresh"... then, log onto your respective wireless network... to get your IP to show, you have to click "roam & refresh" again... (Note: these buttoms are at the bottom of the pwireless screen)

sometimes, you have to repeat the above steps a couple of times... but, it always works.

PS:
you must not like the "suspend/sleep" option? lol

my wife just purchased a wireless printer... now, she jokes about having to print documents for me... she uses ubuntu 12.04...

[simargl]

Here is attempt of a Simple Radio remake in Vala programming language. I don't know is this useful for anyone, but I will upload source so you can take a look and improve code if you want to.

To compile:
install vala
pacman -S vala

extract archive and type:
valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 simple-radio.vala
./simple-radio

[tony]

My wish list for Arch OS9 :-

1 A pop up window with configuration options on first boot.

2 Numbers lock off on first boot.

3 SFS files pre-loaded if present.

4 Clearly defined SFS files for compillation.

5 More Wi-fi drivers.

6 Ability to blacklist drivers in /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.com

7 No more resetting of system clock.

Regards Tony.

[simargl]

Here is new Simple Radio player and it is now made in vala as one interesting experiment, some kind of expanded 'Hello World' Sample. I think it's easier to change stations this way, so this will be our new default.


What is good about it? It works and looks same as Radio Tray http://radiotray.sourceforge.net/, but without python, pygtk,... gstreamer etc. dependencies (their compressed size is more than 25MB). One problem - you cannot add new stations without editing simple-radio.vala and recompiling..

I will attach compiled program (source code is on my bitbucket account).

[Scooby]

Here is new Simple Radio player and it is now made in vala as one interesting experiment, some kind of expanded 'Hello World' Sample.

So vala is a programming-language that compiles to c-code and then uses gcc?

What are the advantages over c++ from your point of view?

[simargl]

So vala is a programming-language that compiles to c-code and then uses gcc?

What are the advantages over c++ from your point of view?

Scooby, that may be too hard question for me - I can only try to explain from a not programmer point of view. I think C is lowest level programming language and because of that programs written in C are faster, but since C is very hard to learn, there are written some higher level languages like vala that are easier to learn but during compilation they convert code to C, so you don't lose on program's speed.

C++ programs that use Gtk are very rare, there is gparted and few more. I know for gparted because it needs gtkmm, glibmm... dependencies, and to save space I removed it from the iso. It's easy installable with pacman.

[simargl]

Wiki page - Guide for making alphaos system from scratch
http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org/wiki/doku. ... rial:build

[Scooby]

Thanks for your reply concerning vala


I liked your guide for building AlphaOS although I hope it doesnt mean your leavin?

[simargl]

Thanks for your reply concerning vala


I liked your guide for building AlphaOS although I hope it doesnt mean your leavin?

No, I will not leave it, but this OS is already functioning very well for me, so work has slowed down lately. There won't be many changes for next versions, only newer Arch packages and kernel 3.10 i guess.

[simargl]

Simple launcher application if you want to play with vala and test code compiling (also posting on the forum is good way to backup script...). You see that vala script has 80 lines of code, while converted to C it grows to 360.

Compile vala source directly

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valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 launcher.vala

OR
1. Convert vala to C

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valac --pkg gtk+-3.0 launcher.vala -C

2. Compile C code

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gcc $(pkg-config --libs --cflags gtk+-3.0) launcher.c -o clauncher

[simargl]

Older releases of alphaOS and ArchPup available on http://archive.org. Thanks to ally for uploading...

http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_alphaOS
http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Archpup

Edit:
There is a mistake in this page http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_EliteOS
Keywords: Puppy Linux; EliteOS; Arch; simargl

I don't know is this based on Arch, but this line is deffinetely not correct

An early incarnation from simargl, based on arch packages and latterly followed by alphaOS

ArchPup was before alphaOS, and nothing else..

[ally]

thanks

amended, if anybody spots errors please let me know!

[simargl]

Thanks ally

I have added links for older versions of alphaos and archpup to first post here, and to homepage http://alphaos.tuxfamily.org/

[futwerk]

new backgrounds.

[Scooby]

Tried to test icecat on alphaos but the package was very large and I ran out of space.

How can I either

Specify a different tmp dir for packer to use

or

Install a package from a local dir

BTW Which browser in your opinion is the best concerning privacy?

[simargl]

packer is using /tmp folder for making packages, which is not part of save file so there is no
need for different temporary folder.

But, if installed package is taking too much space you can use arch2sfs script to convert arch
package to sfs module.

Just open terminal in the same folder where Arch package is located and type:
arch2sfs icecat

[smil99]

Hi simargl,
I am still unable to connect wirelessly in V8

I moved Pwireless2 installation folder to /usr/share/pwireless2 and in that process in all files
from that package replaced /usr/local/Pwireless2 mentionings with /usr/share/pwireless2.

Perhaps, the above changes might have effected pwireless. You might want to look at this again.
Cheers.

[simargl]

After this comment about successful wireless connection in version 8 http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... 907#710907,
I think pwireless2 is not the problem.
Really what is I have no idea, but with high probability it is somehow related to eudev.

[Scooby]

packer is using /tmp folder for making packages, which is not part of save file so there is no
need for different temporary folder.

But, if installed package is taking too much space you can use arch2sfs script to convert arch

Now that you mention it that I remember but why does bsdtar report no space
left? I got 6 gig ram and mmaybe 200GB free on HD?

Furthermore when I try Arch2sfs icecat I get

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Extracting:

cp: cannot stat '/root/tmp/*': No such file or directory
Creating icecat.sfs

Why is it trying /root/tmp and not /tmp


I want to add that since I cannot get wireless to work in 8 I'm still on Alphaos 7