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This experiment built from woof-ce tahr as configured by 666philb. Then using quickpet upgraded to 6.0.2 in stages. I left it labelled as 6.0.1 though.

k-4.0.2-pae
changeon
simple-remaster
niui/nicons
megasync
slocategui
Chrome2pet
GoogleMapsLocator
libreoffice 4.4.2
libreoffice-get
kodi
vlc
canon scangearmp
candi
deadbeef

This is just a peak.

download link

https://mega.co.nz/#!8QhCRJ7Y!0nknbhTQL ... us5V8Vohr8

Im interested about the wonderful Tahrpup with a newer kernel, ill give a try. Later my impressions.

Thank you stemsee

de nada!

stemsee wrote:download link

https://mega.co.nz/#!8QhCRJ7Y!0nknbhTQL ... us5V8Vohr8

Hi, stemsee.

Looks interesting, but I have a problem accessing this "Mega" download
address with opera 12.16.

Ok with palemoon 25.3.2. Downloading now.
Also accessed ok with vivaldi-snapshot 1.0.105.7.

BFN.

musher0

stemsee wrote:de nada!

A veces me aburro de hablar en ingles, gracias

A mi me gusto mucho hablar en espanol!

So, I'm curious, do all your pups that you prefix with "EmSee" have the feature where they can adapt to the hardware (i.e. 32 vs 64 bits)?

Any 32bit puppy has the option to boot with a 64bit kernel and 32bit kernel. I occasionally include that in the iso, but the system is 32bit, with the benefit of being able to run 64bit distros in qemu.

Hello, stemsee.

Things I liked about your TahrPup:

Very complete offering of programs

Nice backgrounds

LibreOffice already in.

Good set of abiword plugins.


Things I didn't like:

Trashcan and Connect icons don't recognize the .DirIcon file in their
respective folders

No right-click menu to speak of... We're trying to emulate xfce, are we?

No possiblity to create the pupsave file at the end of the session. There
was a message in red saying: "Not enough space on partition" (not literal),
whereas I had 16 Gb's on that ext3 partition to create the pupsave. Now
that's pretty serious.

Too many darkish gtk themes. It's a pain trying to read black characters
on a dark gray background on some of those themes. You offer a few
well-contrasted white-ish themes, but IMO, they're sort of run-of-the-mill.

The screen still blinks every minute or so, like in the original TahrPup by
666philb. Quite annoying after a while. Makes you think there's something
wrong with your graphics card, when it is not the case. Not your fault, of
course. I read a little about it, and as far as I could understand the
problem, it's a glitch in the newer X version, apparently.

After I edited the jwm tray to "hidden" (also set clock to _%R_ and a
wider xload), nothing happened when I recycled jwm.

And of course I still prefer my CLI slocate wrapper over yours.

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So... I think I'll stay put and not upgrade... Sorry...

BFN.

musher0

Nice review!

Acrid as always

Thanks. But no need to say sorry, I am not expecting anyone to abandon their personalised favourite spin in favour of my dated experimental beta-release candidate! While Unicorn, April, Vivid, slacko 14.1 and Jessie spins are filling the shelves in this free-to-purchase pet shop. I am the one who should say sorry for uninvitedly filling empty shelf space with oversized products! Yet only 1/4 of an 8GB image!

A plus tard, mon ami! C'est la vie!

stemsee

Hi, stemsee.

Acrid... Well, at least with me, you know what I think! Besides, I did
compliment your puplet on a few things, no?

Hopefully, my criticism didn't get you too depressed?!

The only real downer for me was not being able to create a pupsave.

The other things are not that important:

• gtk-themes are a dime a dozen;
  
  I've been using right-click menus ever since liteshell, so I'm addicted.
  But I realize newbies can find it confusing;
  
  the .DirIcon problem is probably just a bump in the road;
  
  as to jwm, it's easy to change to some other wm anyway, like icewm,
  pekwm or wmx.

One good thing I forgot to mention above is that your Puppy is very good
for beginners: it has everything a beginner would want in a distro.
Puppy needs more of these.

BFN.

musher0

I gave your puplet a little exposure, here.

musher0 wrote: No possiblity to create the pupsave file at the end of the session. There
was a message in red saying: "Not enough space on partition" (not literal),
whereas I had 16 Gb's on that ext3 partition to create the pupsave. Now
that's pretty serious.

I had the same problem with EmSee-Vivid.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 089#846089

I just put an empty "vividsave" folder (in this case tahrsave) in the frugal directory with the vmlinuz,initrd and sfs files.....saving now.

Don't know if the new users would figure that out though.....

Hello, all.

This ready-made 960Mb pupsave solved the session-save problem for me.

BFN.

musher0

musher0 wrote:Hello, stemsee.
[...]

And of course I still prefer my CLI slocate wrapper over yours.

[...]

musher0

musher, how can you change it so it by default spits out all its results?

thanks.

related to stemsee's offering--is there a possibility that the databases don't work if musher's is installed first--i think that' the situation i'm in...

(apologies for going off topic, since no one else ever seems to have had any difficulty with it and it appears to be a solid part of tahr...)

Hello, Puppus.

Answer 1) Nope. The slocate database is coded to be very compact. It
unfolds on-screen ok, but I'd have to reverse-engineer it to get straight
text and I don't know how.

Besides, slavvo7 probably has exactly what you need (browse that thread
and you'll find his implementation, based on find rather than slocate).

Answer 2) Yep. It's one or the other. Remove mine if you wish, I'm hard to offend!

BFN.

musher0

musher0 wrote:Hello, Puppus.

Answer 1) Nope. The slocate database is coded to be very compact. It
unfolds on-screen ok, but I'd have to reverse-engineer it to get straight
text and I don't know how.

Besides, slavvo7 probably has exactly what you need (browse that thread
and you'll find his implementation, based on find rather than slocate).

Answer 2) Yep. It's one or the other. Remove mine if you wish, I'm hard to offend!

BFN.

musher0

nope, find doesn't cut it.

your database-making and update scripts are appreciated.

thanks.

Puppus Dogfellow wrote:

musher0 wrote:Hello, Puppus.

Answer 1) Nope. The slocate database is coded to be very compact. It
unfolds on-screen ok, but I'd have to reverse-engineer it to get straight
text and I don't know how.

Besides, slavvo7 probably has exactly what you need (browse that thread
and you'll find his implementation, based on find rather than slocate).

Answer 2) Yep. It's one or the other. Remove mine if you wish, I'm hard to offend!

BFN.

musher0

nope, find doesn't cut it.

your database-making and update scripts are appreciated.

thanks.

Sorry I couldn't be of more help...

I am an extremely sensitive over-thinker, that's all! :-/