Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2976

After BK's retirement and the proliferation of all kind of puppies looks like there is a problem with the "puppylinux" web pages. Not this forum but what someone sees in www.puppylinux.com and www.puppylinux.org
So following a recent forum discussion, I just generated a woof-CE branch to serve as a Puppylinux web entry point.
Currently is just a stub, but assuming people will contribute and populate this branch, it can become puppylinux.io (or get redirections from other puppylinux sites). If not this branch can be just deleted ...

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2545 Location: near here

Great idea.

I've added a link on the wiki-
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/HomePage

bigpup · Posted: Wed 09 Jul 2014, 14:18 Post subject:

Do we really need another Puppy Linux web site or just need to have more people help with the ones we have?

Keeping information up to date seems to be the biggest issue.

I agree, there needs to be one main Puppy Linux web site and everyone needs to support and contribute to it.

The problem is which one?

The ones that have been around for years seem to be the ones that need the support.
They have the easy names to remember and the ones that people would guess at to look for.
www.puppylinux.com
puppylinux.org

The push should be to get people to support them.

There are a few common norms with the Internet that people expect.

Distribution web site will be - (name of distribution) .com or .org

Where to find help and ask questions - the distributions forum.

bigpup · Posted: Wed 09 Jul 2014, 14:28 Post subject:

Even Google likes those already established web sites.

The first three entries on the first page of a Google search.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2976

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 6548 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

The git-page is a great idea.
puppylinux.com and puppylinux.org can be redirected to the git-page when stuff is in place. I find it hard to believe that Barry or Raffy will be working against this solution.

starhawk · Posted: Wed 09 Jul 2014, 22:50 Post subject:

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2976

bigpup · Posted: Thu 10 Jul 2014, 02:52 Post subject:

bigpup · Posted: Thu 10 Jul 2014, 02:54 Post subject:

starhawk,

You could post reviews here:
http://puppylinuxnews.org/community/

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2976

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4839 Location: Manila

Yes, the link given by bigpup is where users can write contributed articles. Once made authors, the contributors can even update the pages.

The other community-updated site is the wiki, which Distrowatch links to.

Anyway, I will be happy to point the community or news links to where you pool contributed content.

BTW, both puppylinux.com and puppylinux.org are Barry's domains. If they expire, that will be the end of those sites, so this initiative is good.

Maybe contributors should now go to wikipedia?

8-bit · Joined: 03 Apr 2007 Posts: 3425 Location: Oregon

I have noticed that Barry's blog/news page has not changed for quite a while now and hit logged in visits to the forum seem to have disappeared also.
Does anyone think he is keeping track of the progress of Puppy Linux after supplying the tools to make new Puppy versions?
With new Puppy versions such as Blue and the versions of Puppy being continually developed ans improved for the handicapped as well as versions based on other distros, progress is being made.
But if one tried to make a Puppy version based on Red Hat, would the repository be available? Or is that an area one should stay away from?

scsijon · Posted: Mon 14 Jul 2014, 02:49 Post subject:

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3188 Location: Tamworth UK

Why not have ONE well maintained page here - and all the others are just pretty links to it??