Slacko 5.7 final - 8 March 2014

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jangelelcangry
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#601 Post by jangelelcangry »

now tested with 5.7.
the catalyst 13-9 driver must be avoid. if you want to run steam on puppy linux or other games.
hope this helps

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#602 Post by SPPo71 »

I finally installed slacko-based distribution. Simplify the frugal install setup, so it all works. Still wonder why the full installation to freeze my computer completely?
Well, the main thing that is currently operating. :)

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Slacko 5.7 Openbox TINT2

#603 Post by badrra »

Here you go.

Pelo

Non linuxians install Puppy for its light and complete apps.

#604 Post by Pelo »

"Abiword is included for posterity and will be unceremoniously dumped by me as quick as 5.7 is out. I hate it. In saying all that, Abiword is just fine for typing letters to Nan, opening (read only) most MS documents and very basic stuff" Abiword is so light, and typing letters fullfill the needs of 90% of users. Please don't remove it.
Non Linuxian people would'nt know how to load it. LIbre office and OOo, no need to change from Windows as these suites are available too in Windows version.
You hate it, we like it.
4MB vs 150MB !
I would like download Slacko 5.7 with virtual machine, avidemux openshot but without suite office (i am retired now and office is not my pleasure, only some notes and letters from time to time) 500 MB is too big.

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#605 Post by PaulR »

With regard to Abiword (I imagine this has been discussed before!) what about Ted as a built-in alternative?

http://www.nllgg.nl/Ted/

It's pretty light, reads .rtf, has optional plug-ins (eg spell-checking) and I've always found it reliable and responsive - for example it handles a 20mb document including lots of images far better than LibreOffice or Abiword. Shame it doesn't handle .svg :(

Paul

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#606 Post by James C »

For the Shellshock bug....

Slacko 5.7 from the Updates Manager.

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# curl --insecure https://shellshocker.net/shellshock_test.sh | bash 
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  2627  100  2627    0     0   6177      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  7297
CVE-2014-6271 (original shellshock): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-6277 (segfault): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-6278 (Florian's patch): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7169 (taviso bug): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7186 (redir_stack bug): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-7187 (nested loops off by one): not vulnerable
CVE-2014-//// (exploit 3 on http://shellshocker.net/): not vulnerable

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# bash --version
GNU bash, version 4.2.50(2)-release (i486-slackware-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>

This is free software; you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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#607 Post by B.K. Johnson »

@James C
Re Shellshock:
There are 2 ssl* available for download via Updates Manager. Which? Both?

B.K. Johnson

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#608 Post by bigpup »

B.K. Johnson wrote:@James C
Re Shellshock:
There are 2 ssl* available for download via Updates Manager. Which? Both?

B.K. Johnson
Download the newest one.

openssl-1.0.1i
The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem.
When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected :shock:
YaPI(any iso installer)

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#609 Post by James C »


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Swiss language support

#610 Post by raffy »

From my mail:
Oct. 12, 2014

I should like to invite you, to make installation of SLACKO for
Switzerland more comfortable.

You recommend to use DE_CH for Swiss German keyboard layout. That does not work at all. It jumps to "de".

In " /etc/X11/xorg.conf" under "Xkb Layout" I find "de"
"de" must be changed to "ch,ch" and puppy works after restart
correctly with Swiss-German keyboard.

It would be helpful if you would introduce that in language setup menu.

cheers

Martin
Puppy user since Oct 2004. Want FreeOffice? [url=http://puppylinux.info/topic/freeoffice-2012-sfs]Get the sfs (English only)[/url].

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#611 Post by B.K. Johnson »

@bigpup
Thanks for the advice.

@James C
Thank you for the distinction. Egg on my face. :oops:


B.K. Johnson

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#612 Post by l0wt3ch »

Critical vulnerability discovered in wget.

New, fixed, verson, tested on Slacko 5.7:

wget-1.16

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#613 Post by rufwoof »

http://slacko.01micko.com/notes.html :

There will be issues with upgrading from 5.3x (based on 13.37). Slackware, as have Debian, have moved to the module tool known as "kmod". This is because module-init-tools has not been developed in 2 years. This will cause probelems with upgrading full installs. I recommend (if you try it) removing all module init tools programs (/sbin/depmod, /sbin/modinfo, /sbin/modprobe, /sbin/lsmod there is a full list in ~/.packages/builtin-files/module-init-tools, 13.37 based only) and then try to update. With frugals it might work with no manual intervention

For info - I dropped slacko 5.7.0 (PAE) kernel into puppy slacko 5.3.3 thin and 5.3.3t is continuing to work well with the later kernel under frugal booting (and under PXE i.e. puppy sfs inserted into initrd) with no further manual intervention.

My existing 5.3.3 puppy with the later 3.10 kernel (was 3.1) is picking up/detecting later hardware well.

Thanks Micko

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#614 Post by rufwoof »

The switch from Slacko 5.3.3 (3.1) Non PAE to 5.7.0 (3.10) PAE kernels - frugal ram booted - seems to pick on the extra >4GB (non-PAE boundary) memory OK, and all of Slacko 5.3.3 functionality seems to be running perfectly well.

RAM booted, no save file, no HDD's mounted
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f2fs non-pae

#615 Post by 8Geee »

Is there a f2fs ability in the non-pae verrsion (3.4.82)?
Slackware updates manager states I have 3.4.82-4g-f2fs (ticked yes) AND 3.10.xx (ticked yes) kernals in my non-pae version.
Just wondering whats up here, and if I could go to newer non-pae kernel that "supports" f2fs.
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#616 Post by johnywhy »

hi, noob question:

python at command line returns "command not found".

however, ppm show green 'installed' checkmarks next to

"python-2.7.5" [slackware 14.1 official]
and
"python-2.7.3-i686-s" [puppy slacko 14.1 official]

confused! Is python installed? is there some way to 'register' it?

thx
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#617 Post by don570 »

It mustn't be installed if you get the command not found message.

I would use 'pfind' to check in /usr to see if any python code is there.

The devx file usually has libpython. I don't know why.

I have some python 2.7.8 packages available. The precise version
should work on slacko as well.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic. ... c67692c4c2

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#618 Post by johnywhy »

don570 wrote:It mustn't be installed if you get the command not found message.
so if ppm claims it's installed, and it's not installed, then would that be a bug?
don570 wrote:I would use 'pfind' to check in /usr to see if any python code is there.
what should i do if i find python code in /usr?
don570 wrote:The devx file usually has libpython. I don't know why.
thx, you're right!

i assumed devx contains python because python is for development. is that incorrect?
don570 wrote:I have some python 2.7.8 packages available.
thx for that!

i used slackbuilds to compile a python package for my slacko from source. wow, can't believe i just said that. then i loaded my python package on-the-fly, and that worked. wow.

many thx!
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#619 Post by don570 »

i assumed devx contains python because python is for development. is that incorrect?
Barry is trying to keep his distro as small as possible,
so he puts anything non-essential in the devx package, I guess.
There are a couple of apps that need pygtk . Mypaint is the one I use.

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#620 Post by Pelo »

" If you want to use Puppy for productivity (it is a hobby distro) use LibreOffice, Open Office, TextMaker Office or if you must, MS office in Wine. As far as I know up to 2007 works."
I cconfirm i rarely spend time in productivity at home once my office hours finished. Abiword will be enough for me. Big Office suites are stored in my tool case, if needed.
Pls let abiword as default type-writing tool, for newbies. And for my personal notes.
Topic is 42 pages in english. What is in the menu (applications) before i download the ISO ? It was an habit to list them in first topic.
I run Slacko 5.3.3 XFCE by Jejy69 untill now.

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