Slacko 5.7 final - 8 March 2014

[Jades]

Latest stable Gparted is v0.17.0 - website is http://www.gparted.org

Used the version of Gparted in current testbuild of Slacko (0.16.0 IIRC) to repartition the new 1TB internal SATA HDD in the Pentium D. Main OS is Win 7 Pro 64-Bit, I've successfully resized the main Windows partition and created an 8GB Linux Swap partition, a 10GB ext4 for a main full install of Puppy, a 100GB ext4 for Linux data and a 12GB ext4 for test full installs.

Currently have a Full of 5655 (PAE version) under test. Seems to be working well at the moment. Wireless setup on that is via Frisbee, proper icon appears when connected. Clock was still truncated with 12hr am/pm setup.

Set up Grub4Dos via Grub4DosConfig and customised menu.1st (or menu.lst, can never remember). Win 7 Pro install, set as default, still working fine as does the XP install on another drive.

Are we sure this is an Alpha?

[rodin.s]

Maybe there should be some additional button in PPM like "install" or "remove" to handle selected item in the list. Double click on the item or pressing the button should do the same thing. You don't like double click - press the button.

[Jades]

My personal opinion is that there are already enough opportunities for you to change your mind in the currently established PPM workflow.

[01micko]

The Update Manager is not keeping up with the latest releases.

bigpup, I do understand your concern, but ff-esr-17.0.11 is the latest with security fixes (it is LTS, aka ESR) and we will be following that line with official slacko.

@ reasons.

• 1. bloat -- ff > 20 is several megabytes larger.
  2. speed -- my benchmark machine is an old IBM Thinkpad r51. ff > 20 runs like treacle on that thing so evidently they have increased the need for resources.

My other not so well publicised OS will be shipping with FF-esr-24.X when it's ready.. more soon on that (still slacko/puppy/woof based).

[don570]

I posted my compile of cinelerra video editor 2.2.
It works well if you have a fast processor and lots of ram and hard
disk space.

Warning!! Don't install on a machine that will do compiling since
several libraries are changed with links.

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=91418

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[Billtoo]

I added xbmc 12.3 running under wine to my slacko 5.6.5 install, it's
working pretty well.

[peebee]

Frugal pristine manual installs of Slacko 5.6.5.2

Hardinfo - Summary kills my desktop pc with nvidia graphics - screen dissolves into a mass of tiny pixels and the only way out is to switch off at the power button.

The nouveau driver is selected - if I drop out to the console and run xorgwizard and select the modesetting driver then the problem goes away and Hardinfo - Summary works as expected.

The problem is not present on Slacko5.6

My desktop pc specs from PupSysInfo (which works fine) are attached - remove false .gz

Does anybody else get problems with hardinfo with nvidia??

Cheers
peebee

[Sage]

Swapped in a GF2Pro. Firstly get the vertical stripes. CTRL-ALT-BCKSPCE gives black screen, monitor OFF, one bark when I hit the hard reset! pfix=ram,nox, nouveau fails to shown 'OK', nv shows horiz stripes at bottom screen. C-A-B, Nothing - black screen. Other options require reboot so unable to test.
Good news is that this is my bench XP so will dump nV cards for Slacko until fix appears.

[peebee]

icons missing in grub4dos....

[01micko]

@Sage and peebee

Woes with the newer kernel and nvidia has forced me back to a 3.4x kernel for the non-PAE version. I think this is a wise choice. Keep your eyes open for beta in the days ahead.

[oldyeller]

@Sage and peebee

Woes with the newer kernel and nvidia has forced me back to a 3.4x kernel for the non-PAE version. I think this is a wise choice. Keep your eyes open for beta in the days ahead.

I too will be looking forward for this. I built a new desktop and can not run any of the newer slackos. Right now I am on slacko 533.

Even when I disable the UEFI I still can not run any of the news


But I still have my lappy that can use them

Cheers

[Sage]

Keep your eyes open for beta ..

Okey dokey, look forward. Good to know you're in command...

[01micko]

Beta is out!

see main post

[gcmartin]

Mick, there is a tremendous amount of excellent work going on with Slackos in Puppyland. Thanks for all you are doing. Looking forward to testing this.

I saw this

My other not so well publicised OS will be shipping with FF-esr-24.X when it's ready.. more soon on that (still slacko/puppy/woof based)

Think you may mean Phat-Slacko. Looking forward to that, as well, for the 32bit PCs.

Testing to follow.

[oldyeller]

Beta is out!

see main post

Downloading it now

[mavrothal]

Trying o find issues with slacko-5.6.5.6 some time now and finally managed it

Fresh install - no issues

Updating fom 5.6.5.2 -no issues

Updating from 5.6 however, fails to load tray applets (even if I symlink /root.config/autostart to /root/Startup -which is not). Applets however run fine if started manually.
It also fails to update the Shutdown menu to the new one and some icons are missing (see pic)
Finally (and strangely) /usr/bin/firefox was not there although it is in the SFS and I had to manually copy it up.
I guess the rc.update script should be looked up (or maybe provide a specific 5.6 to 5.7 script), particularly if this is going to go out as "5.7"

LATTER: Copying up etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc solves the JWM issues (shutdown, icons, applets).

[01micko]

Updating from 5.6 however, fails to load tray applets (even if I symlink /root.config/autostart to /root/Startup -which is not). Applets however run fine if started manually.
It also fails to update the Shutdown menu to the new one and some icons are missing (see pic)
Finally (and strangely) /usr/bin/firefox was not there although it is in the SFS and I had to manually copy it up.
I guess the rc.update script should be looked up (or maybe provide a specific 5.6 to 5.7 script), particularly if this is going to go out as "5.7"

LATTER: Copying up etc/xdg/templates/_root_.jwmrc solves the JWM issues (shutdown, icons, applets).

Yeah this will be an issue. But I think a one off script is the go. However there is no way of telling what the user has installed. The whiteout system is certainly not ideal for upgrading.

[01micko]

About firefox (and seamonkey) cache.

I refuse flatly to release with a template in /root. This is a hassle for setting cache and homepage. There is supposed to be a mechanism to set cache but it doesn't work. I have a file at /usr/lib/firefox*/defaults/preferences/local-settings.js

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//
//defult home page
pref("browser.startup.homepage", "data:text/plain,browser.startup.homepage=file:///usr/share/doc/home.htm");
pref("browser. cache. disk. capacity", 40000);

It's broken because of a copy paste error for cache. Home page works. However, even without spaces its still broken.

Mozilla has deprecated setting cache in preferences!!! You can do it from about:config.. a hassle for noobs.

I discovered though that if the offending line is deleted in the profile then it gets fixed. This is a bug in mozilla, but I don't think they care because disk space is cheap these days.

I have came up with a script that fixes it.. but the worst part is that mozilla in their wisdom changed the path where said local-settings.js lines .

Anyway, once firefox (or seamonkey) is started then I have a script that can fix it.. so future versions should be able to limit cache.

Here is the script<

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#!/bin/sh
[ -f ~/.config/fixcache ] && echo "already done" && exit
# fixes browser cache for mozilla
[ "$DEFAULTBROWSER" = firefox -o "$DEFAULTBROWSER" = seamonkey -o "$DEFAULTBROWSER" = mozstart ] || exit
BROWSER=$DEFAULTBROWSER
[ "$DEFAULTBROWSER" = mozstart ] && BROWSER=seamonkey # BK uses that
# check if distro builder has set the cache
ARCH=`uname -m`
[ $ARCH = x86_64 ] && lsuffix=64 || lsuffix=
PREFDIR=`find /usr/lib${lsuffix}/$DEFAULTBROWSER* -type d -name preferences`
[ -z "$PREFDIR" ] && exit
grep -q 'pref(\"browser.cache.disk.capacity' $PREFDIR/* || exit
BPID=`pidof $DEFAULTBROWSER`
[ "$BPID" ] && exit # wont work if running
CACHEFILE=`find ~/.mozilla -type f -name prefs.js -maxdepth 3`
[ "$CACHEFILE" ] || exit
sed -i '/user_pref(\"browser.cache.disk.capacity\".*/d' $CACHEFILE #delete the offending line
[ $? = 0 ] && echo success || echo failure
echo -e "check with 'about:config' to see if\n \
'pref(\"browser.cache.disk.capacity\", 60000);'\n \
which means cache is set at 60 MB" >/.config/fixcache

[Sage]

This is a bug in mozilla

Opera!

[01micko]

This is a bug in mozilla

Opera!

Unsupported on linux for over a year.. so many sites just don't work with it