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http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/boxpup
I've been playing with this live cd for a few days. It's a great pupplet.
Puppy has always intrigued me, especially the Woof project. I might have a look at this one.
Puppy has always intrigued me, especially the Woof project. I might have a look at this one.
What is the woof project?
omns wrote:Puppy has always intrigued me, especially the Woof project. I might have a look at this one.
What is the woof project?
http://www.puppylinux.org/wiki/developm … anced/woof
this one is so mac os x style 
why do they hack mac os x and load hacked os x on eeepc if there is X-PUP (which is really fast on eeepc)
kBang wrote:omns wrote:Puppy has always intrigued me, especially the Woof project. I might have a look at this one.
What is the woof project?
Interesting, now if in the beta they include a .deb package instead of a tarball I might give it a try.
For some reason ... the only time I actually installed Puppy, it was so silver/gray the contrast burned into my mind. I think 90% of puppylinux "pups" are intentionally themed to be mac-clones.
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Interesting, now if in the beta they include a .deb package instead of a tarball I might give it a try.
By the looks of it it could include debs, rpms, pets, tarballs... whatever takes your fancy
kBang wrote:Interesting, now if in the beta they include a .deb package instead of a tarball I might give it a try.
By the looks of it it could include debs, rpms, pets, tarballs... whatever takes your fancy
I meant the woof app itself. I would prefer to either install Ubuntu net install then add woof.deb, for example, then build my Ubuntu/Puppy hybrid from woof OR add woof.deb to my current #! if that was possible (doubt it). I am not keen on compiling woof itself, another learning curve I try and avoid is compiling from source...
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omns wrote:kBang wrote:Interesting, now if in the beta they include a .deb package instead of a tarball I might give it a try.
By the looks of it it could include debs, rpms, pets, tarballs... whatever takes your fancy
I meant the woof app itself. I would prefer to either install Ubuntu net install then add woof.deb, for example, then build my Ubuntu/Puppy hybrid from woof OR add woof.deb to my current #! if that was possible (doubt it). I am not keen on compiling woof itself, another learning curve I try and avoid is compiling from source...
granted woof is a bit harder, I never managed to get a working one yet, but I didn't try very hard, but the GNU standards dictate for general apps, it SHOULD be "./configure" then "make" then "sudo make install" (or anything with root rights for the last one, obv.)
granted plenty of apps are just given to you with a "setup.sh" or .py or something and you just run that, but that's not compiling, obv.
kBang wrote:omns wrote:By the looks of it it could include debs, rpms, pets, tarballs... whatever takes your fancy
I meant the woof app itself. I would prefer to either install Ubuntu net install then add woof.deb, for example, then build my Ubuntu/Puppy hybrid from woof OR add woof.deb to my current #! if that was possible (doubt it). I am not keen on compiling woof itself, another learning curve I try and avoid is compiling from source...
granted woof is a bit harder, I never managed to get a working one yet, but I didn't try very hard, but the GNU standards dictate for general apps, it SHOULD be "./configure" then "make" then "sudo make install" (or anything with root rights for the last one, obv.)
granted plenty of apps are just given to you with a "setup.sh" or .py or something and you just run that, but that's not compiling, obv.
I will give it a try once they hit beta, Mehall. It's more of a time thing as why I don't learn the things I probably should, being "on in years" I kinda skip things, life has started passing by me faster. 
I played with this a bit in Virtual Box, didn't much care for it.
Nicely made though
I played with this a bit in Virtual Box, didn't much care for it.
Nicely made though
You were able to download it? I tried the download link several times, kept getting a pop-up to sign in. I even registered with their main site and couldn't get in to that download link...
Have a good link for it?
You were able to download it? I tried the download link several times, kept getting a pop-up to sign in. I even registered with their main site and couldn't get in to that download link...
Have a good link for it?
try login: puppy password: linux 
it should work, as it works for other puppets
kBang wrote:You were able to download it? I tried the download link several times, kept getting a pop-up to sign in. I even registered with their main site and couldn't get in to that download link...
Have a good link for it?
try login: puppy password: linux
it should work, as it works for other puppets
Haha...shows how much time I spend on puppylinux websites I guess. Thanks!
I tried boxpup for the first time today. At just over 90MB, it fit on a 256MB USB stick (using unetbootin) with plenty of room to spare. Boot-up is quick, but not painless - the user is presented with a choice of Xorg or Xvesa, and then a choice of screen resolution. I'm surprised that Puppy still doesn't do graphics card autodetection. Then I remembered that most versions and variations of Puppy don't attempt to autodetect one's network either. This led to a scramble to find the appropriate wizard, which, once run, configured the network without further fanfare.
Themes and artwork are quite impressive, and the combination of Openbox and conky make navigation quick and configurable. Not too surprisingly, Abiword and gnumeric are chosen over their more bloated OpenOffice counterparts, but I was surprised to see that Opera was the default browser. Adding applications is easily accomplished via the provided package manager, although not all repositories were available when I installed favorites like Gimp and Bluefish. At the end of the day, this is a little bit of a nuisance, but not enough to be a deal-breaker.
Boxpup is ideal for an undersized system, and the Openbox window manager should make it comfortably familiar to #! users.
I just tried it today too. Very lacking by today's standards in user friendliness. You mentioned the Xorg/Xvesa thing, I also, as usual with puppy spanning back at least 2 years now, had to setup my network card. While that isn't too difficult, for the novice or near novice it would certainly be an issue of some degree.
The Pros were it was very small and very fast. The cons were not quite user friendly for the inexperienced.
I also didn't much care for the choice of some of the apps, but I guess that was done more out of size concerns than quality concerns.
The good thing about puppy is that once you have it set up for your system you can burn your "remastered" system to a new live cd so that everything is set up for you from then on.
I believe that the creator chose Opera as it functions not just as a web browser, but also a mail client, torrent and download manager, note taker/web clipper, rss reader and IRC client all in one. Saves alot of space in such a small system when you don't need to add an app for each of these functions.
Puppy Linux seems nice. If there was only more effort to support more basic linux stuff. I have yet to find a fully working Vim for puppy as well as a Python version.
See also here: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40677
Regards,
fladd
The good thing about puppy is that once you have it set up for your system you can burn your "remastered" system to a new live cd so that everything is set up for you from then on..
Just like CrunchBang
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Last edited by jc (2009-12-03 08:33:46)
How so? Through CloneZilla?
With remastersys
What happened to Barry (the creator), why isn't he on the project anymore?
Barry is working on a new project http://www.puppylinux.com/woof/index.html
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