Why does it have to be simargl?Ghost Dog wrote:Simargl as Package Management Lead Dev
Why not Justin Bieber, or Paris Hilton?
That clown, listed together with real devs, means any community effort will be nipped in the bud.
.
Why does it have to be simargl?Ghost Dog wrote:Simargl as Package Management Lead Dev
More like rule it out completely. The job of the developer is far easier when a project is well defined and limited. Applications can be smaller and targeted. That's also in keeping with current trends.tlchost wrote:Hmm, but that means it would be very difficult to produce a "One Size Fits All" OS.jpeps wrote:Here's a radical idea...choose the project that most closely matches your hardware in addition to how you use the computer. A project that attempts to run everything always loses efficiency.sszindian wrote:
Of course there are other things I test in a distro but these are the first and most important - at least for me.
All my testing is done on 3 computers -
First Wanderer I want to say thank you for trying to start the initiative of a CE Distro but to be honest what you were proposing is a Pupplet not really suitable for a mainline Community Distro and to be honest a System like the Community model is only as good as those involved with it is on the whole a successful system on what many great distros have been built on.wanderer wrote:Greetings puppy community edition fans
If a few of the members of the puppy community want to make a community edition enough to actually do something instead of just talking endlessly. It will eventually get done
The people that criticize others but do nothing themselves should be ignored. They are just the meaningless background noise of life.
I have removed the link to the CE repository because i can think of no way to distribute it appropriately and i do not want to post it generally and open it to abuse. if someone has an iso that they wish to share they will have to use their own link.
I now look forward to the new year filled with many enjoyable hours working on linux and puppy
Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night
Wanderer
That command crap is awesome and important. You can't get any info off of a bloated splash screen program that appeare(s/d) to (be/) freez(en/on).cthisbear wrote:And quite honestly I hate that command crap on booting up.
I think it would be very handy for a CE puppy to have some sort of "sandbox" (is that the same thing as spot and fido??) where a user could run a browser.dejan555 wrote: On the multiuser thing: pizzasgood proved that it can be done ..... I think it's a feature that could be added to puppy (again, it's mostly puppy scripts that need to be changed, not totally rewritten to use different directories instead hardcoded /root/,
Code: Select all
#!/bin/bash
# SafeBrowse
#
# Copyright 2010 G Pearson
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston,
# MA 02110-1301, USA.
#pre-run setup
cp -f /root/.gtkrc-2.0 /tmp/.gtkrc-2.0
su nobody -c /lib/seamonkey/seamonkey
#exit cleanup
rm -f -r /tmp/.mozilla &&
rm -f -r /tmp/.macromedia &&
rm -f -r /tmp/.adobe &&
rm -f /tmp/.gtkrc-2.0
exit
I _could_ add those, but probably won't unless sponsored (I don't think this is something most users really want). X needs root priveledges anyhow and I have made the Xserver and window manager configurable so that gdm, slim or some other display manager could be used for login and wm selection. The way I set up my initramfs, everything is outside of /usr (however it requires a special build of X, wm and terminal emulator since they expect for certain things to be in /usr/share/...) This allows the rest of the system to be bootstrapped however you wish inside the terminal emulator.... and since the whole X environment is <500kb compressed it can be fit inside the kernel in order to enable a tftp boot on systems without a hard drive with /usr being mounted via nfs/cifs/9p and $HOME as well or built from /etc/skel. I want to look into Rob Landley's inittmpfs patches though (similar to tinycore's patch) to reduce the RAM usage and allow swap backing but mostly to not waste 8MB if / is remounted for a full Xorg+glibc system from your favorite distro.amigo wrote:But wait, I want to use /usr mounted on NFS and run without X as I am building a server. Can your init system do that? And, if I run as you suggest, what happens if the X server won't start on my video hardware? And what about if I want a sane multi-user system where every users needs to login?
Wanderer started this thread when Barry went into retirement (and disappeared for about 2 months) and there was a genuine concern for Puppy's survivability.dejan555 wrote:So wanderer why such haste for "CE" ?
Are you afraid puppy is going to disappear? Because it's not.