Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

wanderer · Joined: 20 Oct 2007 Posts: 510

I have taken the liberty to send this message to Barry K. I know he has said he does not want to be contacted but I don't know any other way to address this issue. If he does not read it on his blog maybe he will read it here. If anyone knows any way to contact Barry K please post it here.

Dear Barry K, I am sorry to bother you because I know you are retired however I have noticed that the Puppy Linux home page has not been updated in a while and this is also true of the Distrowatch page. Would it be acceptable for you to assign a few Puppy Linux members to maintain both pages ? I am afraid if this is not done many people will think that development of Puppy Linux has stopped. My personal suggestion is the Woof-CE team since they are actively developing your system, others could join them as appropriate. Once again I apologize for bothering you. Thank you for your consideration of this request.

A Puppy fan
Wanderer

anikin · Joined: 10 May 2012 Posts: 982

dejan555 · Joined: 30 Nov 2008 Posts: 2805 Location: Montenegro

Fork & rename ?

Puppy has been a community project for quite some time now, but if trademark/access to site is still Barry's and he doesn't take any action on the issue I guess the real solution is to choose another name and logo for puppylinux / woof and continue development with new site / domain too which will be official. Then it could be listed as new project on Distrowatch too, same way as Simplicity linux was.
It might seem drastic but I see it as only real solution for future too.
Development would go on through woof-CE (renamed) releases would still have the same unique puppy enviroment with the change of name and logo.

bark_bark_bark · Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA

[removed, my idea was stupid]

tlchost · Posted: Tue 21 Oct 2014, 19:54 Post subject:

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

woof4linux sounds good and is available.

woof is the building block, so it should be able to cover all its kid puppies.

non-woof but cousin puppies can still be featured there.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2964

I believe that the content rather than the name is the real issue.
For example www.puppy-linux.org redirects to the forum but could be used without affecting the existing sites. www.puppy-linux.com links to nowhere but if is also registered with a "friendly" person, it could be used.

Building a new puppy home page could be done right now in the woof-CE git page that currently looks like this Embarassed

. There is a simple mechanism that you can have this page shown on the address that you have secured.

You do not like woof-CE just build a site on another repo or place and then link it. There is also a Pupppy PR group that is looking for members! Wink

darry1966 · Joined: 26 Feb 2012 Posts: 898

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

A fresh install of Wordpress is at puppylinuxnews.org. [EDIT - It did not work, so back to the wiki for contributors.]

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The origin of this development is in this thread.

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 6717 Location: Kentucky

Barry K is aware......

http://bkhome.org/news/?viewDetailed=00092

Ted Dog · Joined: 13 Sep 2005 Posts: 4013 Location: Heart of Texas

I can help if need be. I also have puppylinux.net and a server, plus I have dealt with Hostgater before when I released .org and BK and I co habitated All three at Hostgater for the transfer. Its a Texas based company. Moving DNS records are easy, And Hostgater seemed fine with the smooth and seemless transfers.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 2964

vicmz · Joined: 15 Jan 2012 Posts: 1268