mikeb, since you like to build your own pups you can easily move spot to /home and I don't think I need to explain you how
Puppy does have multiuser ability just like any other distro, but in the very begining of writing puppy scripts Barry made choice not to think about other users then root, and so many of those scripts place configuration files in the places where normal users can't access them etc... and that's why you can't launch X and many other apps when not running as root.
So now we have to rewrite scripts and fix things to get multiuser going... this wouldn't affect puppy size a lot at all so all the talk about puppy being compact for running as root only doesn't add up.
In dpup 486/487 I tried to implement multiuser - I think I didn't move spot, but any new users created have home dir in /home and I even sent modified files on woof-CE forum that would solve the root/user issue for the big part but it wasn't accepted (I didn't make changes through git though so maybe noone even bothered to test the tar I attached)
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
Yes not major changes and thats not the problem...getting it accepted is.
I made 2.12 multiuser and later on 4.12... used slim for the login manager.
Other fun bunny though is that some of those /root only script would be root only anyway...eg setting up wifi.....so there is less to change plus gradually ~/ and $HOME has been adopted by scripts.
My question was really as read WHY is spot in /root...after all running as a user still requires configs to be in that folder whereever it is.
Part of a broader question of why does /root have to be so cluttered.
But then you could ask why is the menu so cluttered someone is writing a search for it.
Why are the icons soooo ugly....
Why is background cpu usage so high...
Why......
Sorry asking annoying questions is part of my solitary existance...
Yeah , I don't know, it doesn't have any sense for one's home dir to be inside another user's home dir... let's make third user and set it's home dir inside spot's... we need to go DEEPER
All good questions, but that's just the way someone decided to be.
puppy.b0x.me stuff mirrored [url=https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_Mb589v0iCXNnhSZWRwd3R2UWs]HERE[/url] or [url=http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_puppy.b0x.me_mirror]HERE[/url]
Yeah , I don't know, it doesn't have any sense for one's home dir to be inside another user's home dir... let's make third user and set it's home dir inside spot's... we need to go DEEPER Laughing
Eh, cpu usage? You got a mass mailer bot running in puppy, mike and a torrent hound
well i was thinking of Tahr (and others) on a pentium 3 1GHz showing 10-20% cpu noise.
Those drive icons and whatever other scipts chugg along in the background.
Wish Android was like puppy, gawd knows what's going on in there, you stop things and they come right back up.
Still their slogan is " We want to know more about you than you know about yourself". Used to be "Do no evil or someit" lol.
According to the Top view running processes , says 95%-96% idle.
Not sure what the % VSZ column means but there are 9 things at 1%, 1 at 2%
and FF at 21%.
That's on Pemasu's dpup, with whatever kernel is in it.
well not really a kernel issue unless its a buggy one.
pemasu probably did some nice script tweaking himself.
Now working out what weird permission thingy is preventing this ere network monitor from working...now thats a brain melter..it was working sooo well too.
Such things will cause a depressive slump which can only be resolved with food.
It's best...Just had some stilton, that is a bit of a mad cheese, but alright.
Maybe it's time for a Puppy food thread, we've had show us yer trolltechs, plenty of root stuff, maybe time for a way to a puppy users heart/ army marches on its,,type thing. Maybe not. Why, why why why why oh why .
I've just finished a pot of blue that was given to me for Xmas a couple of years ago and we had forgotten it in the back of the fridge.
It crawled out and gave itself up..........
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett
I have to scan the fridge often for things my wife has bought for me, but not told me about.
I found some ox tongue yesterday that told me it had been there several weeks.
"Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett
Well made a Spaghetti Bolognese, and making a guest appearance on top was a little...Stilton. Can't have it hanging around too long, good job it aint Gorgonzola. I believe that is THE ponger.