Hi guys and gals.

Yesterday i went to my hostel cc(computer center) for browsing.Before that i need to tell about my cc.A place where all the old computers of my college were used to be dumped.Few old mac pc’s even steve may hate them and a few compaq pc’s( 128MB ram,50 GB harddisk and bla bla bla).Only a five working pc’s  enough intro to my cc.

Yeh..I went little late and thats it the cc is full.But i was amazed that one system was left free and that was working fine yesterday.I enquired and got to know that somehow the IP address was changed and admin rights were needed to set them back.Unfortunately they couldnt find one.Oh..wow..I thanked god and sat infront of that system.

I wish to try out my luck.I put my puppy linux and the 128 MB ram is quite enough for it.Loaded quickly and i set the IP and proxy settings in a minute.And fired up the eth connection.Cool the sea monkey inside puppy loads google in awesome fast.Everyone was puzzled and i got some geeky feel.And i happily browsed for an hour then i wish the IP shouldn’t be fixed for ever in windoze;-)

cheers,

Balachandar.K.M

   De data asta orientându-se pe Firefox 3.5.5 în loc de Opera şi bazându-se pe Puppy Linux 4.3.1 (kernel 2.6.30.5) cu Enlightenment e17 (version .062) – Macpup Foxy 3 vine şi cu o temă "lemnoasă" care îl face să arate foarte bine .

Basically, I am in search of a good, reliable distro that will work.  Of course, every time I review a distro, the definition of “work” changes a bit.  For instance, working within Google Docs is a must-have, as is finding my flash drives and other partitions.  And at the moment, running Second Life is a major quest.

Second Life is a virtual reality program/game in which you interact with the environment and people using an avatar.  It is fun and somewhat addictive, but it also exacts a heavy toll on system resources.  Finding an OS that supports it reliably has been a challenge.

One thing that this hair pulling has resulted in, is me learning more about the command line interface.  CLI is sacred ground unique to Linux.  I know of no Windows users who currently profess the virtues of DOS although there are some geeks who will use the cli in Windows on a rare occasion.  And I don’t know if such a thing even exists in the Mac world.  But to die-hard Linux geeks, CLI remains the ultimate passport to Linux nirvana.

So I’ve worked through a portion of the tutorial at linuxcommand.org.  While I do have an appreciation for the power of the command line and its elegance and power it does rely on memorizing exact syntax in order to be of greatest use.  You can look and poke around with a few basic commands, and there are aspects of it that make it infinitely easier than the old DOS commands of 1989.  Once I get comfortable with it, I might even use it to install packages more often, as it is pretty slick.

But my most fundamental question remains unanswered: how do I get that SL executible shell script to actually run? I can search it, list it, copy it, move it and do all sorts of nifty things.  But somewhere the most fundamental of all commands seems to elude me.  Where is RUN? Or EXECUTE?  LAUNCH?  How do you get a program to actually DO anything other than be redone, renamed, looked at and admired?

In Mandriva 2008, it did run almost without fail, although it did crash.  A lot.  I’m just now learning that this is a constant in SL.  In Windows, it lags hopelessly much of the time.  In Linux, it runs much faster if you can get it going at all.

When I updated to Mandriva 2010, it quit running and constantly opened the file in kwrite or another text program.  Getting the SL viewer to run was impossible.  I then began experimenting with some other distros and options.  I liked Mandriva, and would stay with it if not for that one fatal flaw.  I arrived at a few other possibilities:

1.) A 4 G flash of 0.7 ArtistX I had lying about.  This is built off of Ubuntu 8.10 and holds most media programs in the Ubuntu repositories, and specializes in 2D and 3D graphics.  It actually was the most seamless solution in that it most easily detects and connects to my wireless network.  However, the sound is very flaky (will often cut out and stop) and it is slower.  I would have installed this, except none of the Ubuntu distros to date detect the partitions on my Dell Vostro 1500.  Ubuntu won on my wife’s computer, as it detected all of her partitions but it is a FAIL here for an install.  The settings on the persistent USB do not persist, so I have to re-set each time.  Painfull, but doable.  I would stick with this if the sound stayed on and if it was a smidgin quicker.  The sound it the biggest dealbreaker here.

2.) Puppy Linux 4.1.3 – gave it a shot but never did get it to run.  If thArtistX had the persistence of Puppy and its speed, it would be a natural.  I only mention it because I did try it.  I didn’t think it would work, but definitely worth  a shot.

3.) PCLinuxOS 2009.1 – I have rediscovered PCLOS and really like it.  And I was able to successfully get Second Life to run…at least until I updated from the repositories.  Then I was back in Kwrite land instead of Second Life. But the video was very shaky and erratic, while the sound and speed were superb until then.  I had random visual distortions in the game, but easily this was the best solution of the lot, so far until it crapped out totally.  The other thing was that it had a hard time getting up on my wireless network.  I put my ndiswrapper .inf files on a flash to speed up the configuration process that gave me an idea…

4.) PCLinuxOS Live CD – Obviously, the update after the install spelled doom for my Second Life experience, so I decided to see if I could get it to run in Live CD.  And in fact it did work very well, once I got on my wireless network.  Again, I flashed the Linux version of the software to speed up configuration.  I was able to play for several hours without a single crash or hang, even with conditions that would otherwise have been very laggy.  But the next time I tried, it failed to grab my wireless network.  It detected it, but getting on failed repeatedly.  This would repeat on the installed and updated version in #3 above.

5.) Windows XP – I do have to mention it because it is always a fall back of choice.  The program always executes, every time.  And there are no wireless isues….ever.  However, it is incredibly slow and laggy.  I can not interact or talk to more than one person at a time and it still bogs down to a crawl.  My experience with SL with Windows is not very positive at all.  The Linux experience is much better if not for the flakiness of those other issues.  And Windows will crash and hang…often.

Anyone else playing Second Life?  Which Linux distro works best for you?  I suspect Ubuntu might be a clear winner here, if it wasn’t for the issues I have with installation and sound.  I can more easily compromise video quality than sound.  Second Life as a deaf person is possible but not very much fun.  And I have no idea why Ubuntu’s partition manager fails to detect my windows partition.  Doing fsdisk or whatever the cli is renders up the correct partitions and I am even able to mount them all, but the installation partition manager still fails.  I am ready for Ubuntu but it doesn’t seem ready for me!

Second Life isn’t THE deal maker or breaker in what I need from a distro, which is why running it from removable or temporary media is fine with me.   But it is just one other program and experience that helps to differentiate the strengths and weaknesses of the different flavors of Linux.  And even similar distros across different machines, renders differing experiences as illustrated between installing Ubuntu on my wife’s HP Pavilion and my Dell.  We both have XP NTFS partitions, but hers was detected and mine wasn’t.

Right now, PCLinuxOS occupies the linux partitions and I love the simlicity and little features that make this a great distro.  But if it fails to hang on to my home wireless connection between boots, it will get the boot.  That IS a deal breaker for me on this laptop.

So, those of you who’ve been checking for back for either my knitted graffiti or my H.P. Lovecraft accessories might have been a bit narked when I didn’t update when I said I did. What can I say? You met me at a very strange time in my life. (Man, I love Fight Club)

Anyhoo, the bag and the graffiti have both been started. I’m not moving to Inverness anymore as my flatmate was evicted. Moving to Inverness is less fun if you are moving to the streets. But, my job is still finishing tomorrow. Which means I’ve got lots of time left for knitting, writing, choreography and design. This is why we call it FUNemployment!

In other, less crafty news, I’ve installed Puppy Linux onto a USB stick. It makes my computer work so fast. Makes Windows XP look like 3.0. I’ve also received my access to GoogleWave. It looks brilliant, but I’ve got no one to wave at! Send waves to benjamin.g.wilson@googlewave.com if you want to chat!

Recently I have started playing with the Puppy (Puppy Linux 4.3.1, that is). I liked the speed and ease of using it so much that I decided to do a full install on my hard drive. It’s very lightweight and very fast.

However, after the initial phase of likeness, I realized that it is missing a lot of things —- including the build essentials (e.g., gcc).  That means Puppy has trimmed its fat in order to become so lean (the .iso file is about 100 MB)  that it does not have some of the necessary packages — especially the ones, that someone may need to compile packages from the source code if there is a need. However, the default software suit is very nice and useful: I haven’t seen such a good collection in a such a lean size before.

But, the tools I was looking for was not in their repository either. After searching in puppy forums, I realized that I need a package called devx-431.sfs [download link].  But for a hard puppy (a full installation of puppy on the hard drive) it is a special case if you want to install a .sfs file —- which I had a hard time figuring out skimming through various posts in the forum (which are very old by the way!).

However, it is explained in the main website in a very clear fashion (I wish I looked there first!).

1. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs in a ROX-Filer window to mount it.
2. Open a terminal in the mounted directory.
3. # cp -a --remove-destination ./* /mnt/hda2/
4. # sync
5. Close the terminal.
6. Click on the devx_xxx.sfs file to unmount it

Note, the ‘–remove-destination’ option is essential. If you only use ‘-f’ to force overwrite, it will follow (dereference) a symlink, that can cause unexpected overwrites.

I had a problem performing the second step. If you save the devx_xxx.sfs file in the /root directory (which is startup directory, i.e. if you do a “cd ~” you’ll reach there), then the mounted directory will look like “+root+devx_xxx.sfs/”. Just cd to there in the console and perform the following steps above.

Credit: here.

Further reading: Lifehacker’s review.

Hi7x… iseng aja… kali nie diriku mau bagi2 pengalaman aja untuk mempercantik tampilan Puppy Linux 4.3.1 dengan 2 aplikasi bernama Pwidget dan Wbar. Sebelumnya silahkan download aja 2 aplikasi tersebut dari link berikut :

• Wbar : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=127662
• Pwidget : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601

Atau silahkan download tiap file langsung dari link berikut :

• Download Wbar.pet ( 714 kb)
• Download Pwidget.pet ( 260 kb)
• Download Pwidget extras.pet ( 556 kb)

Nanti hasil’a akan nampak seperti ini :

Nah untuk langkah2nya silahkan baca selengkapnya aja… ^_^

Warning : Bandwidth killer, postingan nie berisi 16 gambar, jd yg bandwidth’a minim harap ubah settingan browser untuk tdk menampilkan gambar… ^_^

1. Langkah pertama adalah menghilangkan seluruh icon di desktop karena akan kita gantikan dengan icon2 dari wbar yg dinamis n enak dilihat… ^_^ pilih semua icon yg ada di desktop, klik kanan lalu pilih -Remove Item(s), eh iya sisakan icon2 partisi harddisk kalau perlu…
2. Selanjutnya buka file pwidget yg sudah didownload, dalam hal ini kan sebelumnya diriku menyimpan file pwidget hasil download kedalam flashdisk, maka diriku buka aja flashdisk’a di /mnt/sdb1/Downloads dan klik 1x aja file pwidget yg udah didownload, dgn nama pwidgets-2.1.0.pet dan tunggu sampai ada konfirmasi installasi sukses…
3. Lakukan hal yang sama untuk mengi-install pwidget extras yg berisi segala pernak-pernik tambahan untuk pwidget…
4. Nah setelah berhasil meng-install pwidget beserta extras’a klik Menu >> Desktop >> Pwidgets tiny desktop apps
5. Pilih widget mana saja yang akan ditampilkan di desktop, kolom kiri adalah daftar widget yang tersedia dan kolom kanan adalah widget yang akan ditampilkan di desktop. Setelah selesai tinggal klik Apply, widget akan muncul, namun wallpaper akan hilang… tp tidak apa2…
6. Sekarang kita akan memunculkan kembali wallpaper semula, tinggal pilih Menu >> Desktop >> Wallpaper Set backdrop image
7. Tinggal pilih wallpaper yang kita inginkan, kalu mau mengembalikan wallpaper semula tinggal klik 2x aja desktop.jpg
8. Nah sekarang widget dan wallpaper sudah sesuai, sekarang tinggal meng-kustomisasi widget’a… Kembali ke interface Pwidget, untuk mengganti background widget tinggal pilih menu Plugins, pilih Sidebar, lalu pilih tampilan background widget yg diinginkan, dan tentukan akan muncul di sebelah kiri atau kanan desktop atau di kedua sisi’a… Lalu untuk mengganti tampilan jam pilih menu Plugins, lalu pilih Clock Analog dan pilih tampilan sesuai keinginan dan terakhir klik Apply aja… ^_^
9. Selanjutnya kita akan meng-install wbar, lakukan hal yang sama dengan langkah no.2
10. Setelah selesai maka otomatis akan muncul instruksi penggunaan Wbar…
11. Biarkan jendela browser instruksi tersebut terbuka, sementara buka file .xinitrc dengan text editor misalnya Geany… file .xinitrc ada di /mnt/home/root tapi gak akan langsung kelihatan karena atribut’a hidden, untuk menampilkannya cukup klik kanan icon mata pada rox file browser, setelah muncul file2 hidden, klik kanan pada file .xinitrc dan pilih open as text. Nah kini file itu akan terbuka dengan Geany text editor. Sekarang copy baris #Start wbar application launcher dan seterusnya seperti yang ada pada browser instruksi dan paste di bagian bawah file .xinitrc pada Geany, paste-kan tepat sebelum/diatas baris #exec $CURRENTWM dan seterusnya… Selanjutnya modifikasi sedikit, yaitu ubah nilai -jumpf menjadi -0.5 dan -pos top agar nanti wbar’a berada di bagian atas desktop dan bergerak kebawah ketika mouse didekatkan… Lalu simpan saja file tersebut dengan Ctrl+S…
12. Selesai sudah setting Wbar, namun Wbar tersebut belum muncul… Untuk memunculkannya tinggal pilih Menu >> Shutdown >> Restart X server
13. Sekarang desktop kita akan jadi seperti ini :

Sebagai tambahan saja cara, cara mengganti icon pada Wbar adalah sebagai berikut :

1. Buka file .wbar yang ada di home atau  /mnt/home/root, tampilkan file2 hidden, dan buka file .wbar sebagai text… Sementera itu buka 1 jendela lagi yg berisi icon2 bawaan wbar, yang ada di /.usr/share/wbar/wbar.icons dan misal kita ingin mengganti icon Home yang awalnya berwujud rumah menjadi icon home pada Mac OS X, tinggal ganti baris i:/usr/share/wbar/wbar.icons/kennel.png menjadi i:/usr/share/wbar/wbar.icons/machome.png lalu simpan file tersebut, klik saja Ctrl+S…
2. Sekarang untuk memunculkan icon baru adalah dengan merefresh wbar, caranya arahkan kursor mouse sehingga berada diatas icon2 wbar, lalu klik kanan, maka icon Home yang semula berbentuk rumah kini berwujud icon home ala Mac OS X…

Moga posting’an ini bisa bermanfaat untuk kita semua… Selamat ber-eksplorasi dgn Puppy Linux… ^_^

Riadyawan

Warning : Bandwidth Killer ^_^

PS : Postingan nie banyak gambar’a, ada sekitar 26 gambar cz tiap langkah 1 gambar, padahal ada 26 langkah, dan versi Puppy Linux yang digunakan dalam posting nie dalah Puppy Linux 4.3.1

Waduh, baru aja sempet posting cara install Puppy Linux di harddisk dual boot dengan Windows XP, padahal diriku dah lama pakai nie Puppy Linux. (payahnya diriku… xb)

Nah langsung aja nie dia langkah-langkah’a, tapi sebelum baca lebih lanjut mohon perhatiannya kalau langkah-langkah yang kuposting banyak gambar’a, tiap langkah kuberi screenshot dengan maksud biar jelas, terutama bagi newbie seperti diriku nie… ^_^

Bagi yang bandwidth‘a minim harap untuk en-setting browser agar tidak menampilkan gambar. (antisipasi daripada ntar postinganku dibilang bandwidth killer… hi7x…)

1. Jalankan Live CD Puppy Linux (dalam hal ini diriku menggunakan Puppy Linux 4.3.1, versi terbaru saat postingan ini dibuat, namun bisa diikuti dengan Puppy Linux versi mana saja) dan tunggu sampai muncul tampilan desktop Puppy Linux (4.3.1)
2. Pilih Menu >> System >> GParted partition Editor
3. Pilih sda internal drive. Descr : (tergantung jenis dan merk harddisk) lalu klik OKAY
4. Mulai dari sini ku-asumsi-kan aja kita punya sebuah harddisk yang sudah dipartisi menjadi 2 bagian, kalau di Windows terbaca C: dan D: (biasa’a C: adalah tempat kita install OS WinXP), nah kalau di Linux partisi tersebut akan terbaca /dev/sda1 untuk C: dan /dev/sda5 untuk D: dan seterusnya. Sekarang kita akan membuat 2 partisi yang akan kita gunakan untuk install Puppy Linux, jika seluruh isi harddisk kita telah dipartisi maka langkah pertama adalah pilih partisi yang masih memiliki ruang kosong, misal partisi D: (sda6) masih kosong maka klik kanan pada partisi tersebut dan pilih Resize untuk mengubah ukuran partisi, dalam hal ini diriku mengambil ruang sebanyak 2,5Gb dari partisi D: (sda6). Ketika kita punya partisi kosong sebanyak 2,5Gb langkah selanjutnya adalah membuat sebuah partisi berformat ext3 untuk tempat installasi Puppy Linux, maka tinggal klik kanan pada partisi kosong (New atau Ctrl+N), buat partisi baru dan pilih tipe ext3. Selanjutnya kita buat partisi linux-swap, caranya sama saja klik kanan partisi yang masih kosong (sisa) dan pilih buat partisi baru, lalu tentukan tipe sebagai linux-swap. Saya rekomendasikan ruang untuk linux-swap 2x kapasitas RAM yang kita pakai. Jadi bila kita pakai RAM 128MB maka lebih baik partisi linux-swap dibuat 256MB dan untuk partisi ext3 pakai sisanya aja soal’a Puppy Linux ini tar g’ bakal sampai 1Gb besar’a. Nah sekarang tinggal pilih menu Edit dan Apply All Operation atau langsung klik icon Apply.
5. Setelah beres membuat partisi langkah selanjutnya tinggal mulai proses installasi, klik Menu >> Setup >> Puppy Universal Installer
6. Pilih Internal (IDE or SATA) harddrive karena kita akan meng-install Puppy Linux ke harddisk.
7. Klik OK aja.
8. Nah sekarang pilih tujuan installasi (dalam hal ini kita pilih Install Puppy to sda6) karena sda6 adalah partisi ber-format ext3 yang telah kita buat.
9. Lalu klik OK aja.
10. Pilih source/sumber installasi Puppy Linux, dalam hal ini kita pilih CD aja soalnya emang kita jalankan Puppy Linux via Live CD, tapi bisa juga pilih Directory kalau kita masih punya file ISO dari Puppy Linux yang akan kita install.
11. Setelah yakin CD ada didalam klik OK aja.
12. Nah sekarang pilih Full karena kita akan menggunakan seluruh partisi sda6 yang telah kita buat.
13. Tunggu sebentar ketika proses peng-copy-an file2 Puppy Linux dari CD kedalam partisi sda6 berjalan.
14. Tunggu lagi aja… ^_^
15. Pilih install/update GRUB
16. Lalu pilih install aja…
17. Klik OK aja.
18. Pilih simple untuk kemudahan installasi GRUB.
19. Pilih standard aja sebagai pilihan default.
20. Tentukan partisi dimana Grub akan ditaruh, dalah hal ini biarkan saja Grub ditaruh di /dev/sda6
21. Lalu pilih MBR saja karena kita akan membuat Puppy Linux dual boot dengan Windows XP yang sudah kita install sebelumnya. Jika kita hanya akan meng-install Puppy Linux sebagai single boot pilih Root saja.
22. Selanjutnya kosongkan saja jika didalam komputer kita hanya terdapat satu harddisk, jika terdapat 2 harddisk atau lebih tinggal tulisakan saja lokasi Grub sesuai harddisk yang akan kita pakai, jika kita akan memakai harddisk kedua isikan /dev/sdb dan jika akan memakai harddisk pertama isikan /dev/sda
23. Nah ini konformasi bahwa Grub telah ter-install
24. Pilih No saja karena kita sudah selesai dengan proses installasi-nya
25. Ini langkah tambahan, jika kita ingin meng-ubah konfigurasi Grub tinggal masuk ke /mnt/sda6/boot/grub dan buka file menu.lst dan ubah sesuai kebutuhan, hilangkan tanda # pada baris timeout 30 jika kita ingin boot otomatis setelah menunggu 30 detik dan jika ingin merubah nama boot tinggal ubah baris title, misal pada title Windows menjadi Windows XP Professional atau pada baris title Linux menjadi Puppy Linux 4.3.1 dan setelah itu coba restart komputer
26. Inilah hasil-nya jika kita berhasil meng-install Puppy Linux kedalam harddisk, perubahan terjadi pada sda6, sekarang ada tanda bola kuning. Berbeda dengan bola hijau yang menandakan bahwa partisi tersebut sedang di-mount.

Nah, itulah langkah2 installasi Puppy Linux dual boot dengan Windows XP yang pernah kulakukan. Moga info ini bisa bermanfat. ^_^

Dan kalau ada kesulitan jangan sungkan untuk menanyakannya lewat form komentar dibawah atau untuk jawaban lebih akurat bisa ke forum Puppy Linux aja di : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/ soalnya kalau diriku yang jawab kan sering ngaco… he7x…

Riadyawan

  Ya esta disponible la nueva versión de la liviana distribución Puppy Linux para la descarga directa desde su portal, esta nueva versión es la 4.3.1. se trata de una actualización en la que, básicamente, se han resuelto los errores detectados en la 4.3. Sin embargo se a aprovechado esta actualización para introducir drivers para modems y se ha mejorado el dial-up.

También se ha sustituido el programa Asunder CD Ripper por Ripoff y se ha actualizado a las últimas versiones las aplicaciones Cdparanoia, el programa de chat Ayttm, DidiWiki, NicoEdit, etc. También se ha actualizado el liviano window manager JWM (Joe’s window manager).

Algunas novedades que incluye la nueva versión son:
– Kernel Linux 2.6.30.5 configurado para sistemas con multiprocesadores.
– El kernel cuenta con muchos drivers para módems para conexión dialup.
– Soporte Ext4.
– El administrador de ventanas JWM por defecto.
– Utilidad para aumentar el rendimiento del CPU (microprocesador).
– Aplicación para crear temas para el administrador de ventanas JWM.
– Varias aplicaciones para Puppy como Pburn, Pfind o Pbackup.
– Aplicación para tomar capturas de pantalla basada en mtPaint.
– Pmirrorget y Pwsget, dos GUIs para wget.
– NicoEdit, pequeño editor de texto.
– BootFlash, aplicación gráfica para instalar a Puppy Linux en memorias flash.
– Mejoras en el asistente de red.

Descarga:
http://puppylinux.com/download/index.html

Nie dia desktop Puppy Linux 4.3 ku yg kujalankan di Laptop milik keponakanku… ^_^

Masih standar aja sih, cuma kuhapus/kuhilangkan icon2 aplikasi di desktop, hanya kusisakan icon2 partisi/harddisk/flashdisk/cd-rom, dan sebagai gantinya diriku tambahkan Wbar untuk memberikan dockbar yg cukup menarik dan pada sisi kanan desktop kutampilkan Pwidget yg telah kuinstall yang terdiri dari widget PuppyLinux untuk menampilkan versi PuppyLinux serta kernel, ClockAnalog, Calendar, Drive Space, Puppy Space, dan Process.

Juga dalam Puppy Linux tersebut sudah ku-install Wine agar diriku bisa menjalankan langsung atau meng-install aplikasi2 dari sistem operasi Windows.

Seperti yang terlihat di desktop berikut diriku tengah menjalankan Opera 10, Gxine, serta Media Player Classic dan Wordpad yang kujalankan dengan Wine.

Berikut ini tampilannya ^_^

Bagi temen2 yg ingin mengubah tampilan Puppy Linux menjadi seperti tampilan diatas silahkan download komponen-nya dari forum berikut ini :

• Wbar : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=127662
• Pwidget : http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=35601

Atau silahkan download tiap file langsung dari link berikut :

• Download Wbar.pet ( 714 kb)
• Download Pwidget.pet ( 260 kb)
• Download Pwidget extras.pet ( 556 kb)

Untuk meng-install Wbar tinggal klik 1x file .pet yg udah didownload nanti akan ada petunjuk pemakaiannya dalam format html, dan setelah setting tinggal pilih restart X Server aja… ^_^

Untuk installasi Pwidget cukup klik 1x file .pet yg udah di download sekaligus extras-nya, nanti akan muncul di menu kq, tinggal atur aja… ^_^

The Italian Linux Society promoted today a nation-wide event called Linux Day 2009. I went to the event that was nearest to my home, organized by the local Linux User Group (the GalLUG). They spoke to an audience that was mainly made of 18yo boys of the local technical institute, promoting the Free Open Source philosophy and demonstrating the power of Linux.

• Presentation of the LUG and its initiatives
• Open Source, GNU and Linux
• How to install Puppy Linux on CD or USB Key
• Linux and virtualization
• inux steel (a pun on inox steel): a lesson on security
• #!/bin/bash
• Ideas and projects with Linux: tips for the 5th year project that the students must complete

They also prepared a stand where anyone could try Ubuntu, and they distributed Live CDs.

هر روز که با گنو/لینوکس کار می کنی چیزهای جالبی می بینی و اگر برنامه نویس باشی و سختی های کار رو دیده باشی می فهمی که این کارا به این راحتی انجام نشدند. به عنوان مثال در گنو/لینوکس برنامه ای به نام Wine وجود داره که تمام API های ویندوز رو از نو طراحی کرده، این برنامه میتونه برنامه های ویندوزی را در پلتفرم های مختلف اجرا کنه، وقتی به عنوان مثال یک بازی که برای ویندوز نوشته شده با Wine به راحتی روی گنو/لینوکس قابل اجراست رو میبنی، به قدرت گنو/لینوکس پی میبری اما اشتباه نکنید این قدرت گنو/لینوکس نیست این قدرت فلسفه ایست که پشت این برنامه ها وجود داره و به نظر من اگر کسی فلسفه نرم افزار آزاد رو درک نکنه بهتره به همون ویندوز برگرده.

امروز با چیزی رو به رو شدم که باعث شگفتیم شد، حتما درباره توزیع های گنو/لینوکس اطلاعاتی دارید، امروز نسخه پاپی لینوکس رو دانلود کردم با حجمی معادل 104 مگابایت که به نظر من این توزیع خیلی بیشتر از 104 مگابایت کار واسه شما انجام میده. به نظر من این توزیع سه ویژگی مهم داره:

۱- این توزیع بر پایه هیچ کدوم از توزیع های دیگه مثل دبیان یا Slackware نیست. این توزیع از اول (Scratch) نوشته شده است.

۲- در این توزیع فرقی بین کاربر ریشه و عادی وجود ندارد، در واقع شما به عنوان یک کاربر عادی میتونید کل سیستم عامل خودتونو خراب کنید.

۳- دیسک زنده برای این توزیع وجود دارد! خوب این که نشد ویژگی. البته این دیسک ویژگی جالبی داره، اول که سیستم عامل از روی دیسک بوت می شود تمام این دیسک بر روی حافظه اصلی شما کپی می شود و شما میتونید دیسک یا هر وسیله ای که با اون سیستمتون رو بوت کردید از سیستم جدا کنید بله درسته این سیستم عامل فقط روی حافظه قرار داره. و نکته جالب تر این که شما میتونید جلسه کاری (فاصله زمانی بین لحظه ورود به سیستم عامل و خروج از آن) خود رو ذخیره کنید هر جا که دوست داشتید (1 فایل). حتی شما میتونید جلسه کاریتون رو روی یک دیسک ذخیره کنید، حتی لازم نیست این دیسک قابلیت نوشتن مجدد هم داشته باشد.

هدف این سیستم عامل سادگی برای کاربر و کوچکی است واقعا ساده است تمام کدک های ویدیویی رو به صورت پیش فرض پشتیبانی می کند. برای وصل شدن به اینترنت نیازی به هیچ تنظیماتی ندارید. برای هر کاری که شما در این سیستم عامل می خواهید انجام دهید یک Wizard طراحی شده است و به ساده ترین شکل ممکن تمام کارها را برای شما انجام می دهد. در ضمن در این سیستم عامل از دابل کلیک خبری نیست برای هر کاری که می خواهید انجام دهید فقط یک کلیک کافی است. حتی اگر کاربر ویندوز هم هستید پیشنهاد می کنم یک بار این سیستم عامل رو تست کنید شما نیازی به نصب این سیستم عامل ندارید فقط لازمه روی یک CD، DVD، فلش USB یا هر چیزی که دم دستتونه بریزید و سیستمتون رو با اون بوت کنید. من تضمین میکنم هیچ صدمه ای به سیستمتون وارد نمیشه.

راستی اطلاعات کامل تری رو میتونید از صفحه ویکی پدیا فارسی با نام پاپی لینوکس، که ترجمه خودم هست بدست بیارید. خیلی خوشحال میشم که ایرادات ترجمه من رو بگیرید، که این میتونه باعث پیشرفت من بشه.

وب سایت اصلی پاپی لینوکس

پاپی لینوکس در ویکی پدیا فارسی

پاپی لینوکس در ویکی پدیا انگلیسی

دانلود پاپی لینوکس

=-=-=-=-=
Powered by Bilbo Blogger

   O versiune de Puppy Linux ce se orientează în special pe bugfix-uri şi care a fost precedată de două RC-uri; schimbările sunt următoarele:

*New modem drivers and improved modem detection and dialup, from rerwin.
*Fixes for CD Remaster script.
*Asunder CD ripper replaces Ripoff (which crashed).
*Cdparanoia upgraded to latest (previous crashed).
*You2pup, fix for spaces in paths.
*Ayttm multi-protocol chat client, upgraded to 0.6.0-9.
*DidiWiki personal wiki upgraded to 0.8.
*JWM window manager upgraded to revision 457.
*NicoEdit, our secondary text editor, upgraded to 2.4.
*Pburn upgraded to 3.1.1.
*’resolv.conf’ circular symlinks maybe fixed?
*JWM Configure tool bug fix (‘.jwmrc-tray’ got corrupted).
*’man’ and Help page fixed when search on linux.die.net.
*Frequency scaling fix for "small" iso (modules were missing).
*Shutdown problem when upgrade ‘pupsave’ (shutdown scripts in wrong place).
*Partview, a new tool to view free space in drives.
*Sylpheed PET package upgraded to 2.7.1 (previous crashes).
*Mouse Wizard fixed (showed USB when a PS/2 was connected).
*Lots of bugfixes for the Puppy Package Manager (PPM).
*Some corrections in the locale-choosing dialog.

*Some SVG images were not displaying in GTK applications. Fixed.
*Typo in You2pup script.
*CD/DVD Drive Wizard was broken. Rewritten.
*Fix for JWM Config keyboard script.
*Grammar checker default in Abiword is now off, as it is so slow.
*Fix for overlapping drive icons on desktop at certain screen resolutions.
*Partview simplified, faster.
*Burniso2cd could sometimes fail to perform the verify-step properly. Fixed.
*Pburn bugfixes.
*snd-ali5451.ko module added to Smartlink modem driver system.

I never thought I would say that in this blog. But there it is, for all the world to see.

Of course, “win” is a relative thing. “Winning” usually involves the direct comparison of more than one distro, and then one of them gets chosen over all the others. I’ve done direct comparisons in terms of functionality before.

On the list of machines that I have to interface with, this post is actually from Laptop Charlie, which is my wife’s machine. There are some people who were born to use a computer or any machine as they can intuitively get along on their own with little in the way of support and guidance. My wife is not one of those people. She requires a lot of attention and nursing to keep her supported with a computer. I have no idea what she did, but somehow the grub menu and master boot record got corrupted to where she could not access Windows or the Ubuntu 8.10 that I had installed.

While we were unable to boot any OS, my wife was anxious about her pictures that she had recently put on the XP partition. I thought we might be able to flash from a live CD and tried Ubuntu and Antix 8. However, neither of these were able to access her Windows partition. So, I tried Puppy Linux, which was able to access and copy those files to a flash drive. Honestly, Puppy continues to impress. If it had a more robust repository and package system, it would be unbeatable.

After a certain amount of fiddling, I was able to access the XP recovery partition by reinstalling Ubuntu. This recovery operation took about twice as long as a fresh install of Ubuntu, but we eventually got everything back to where we needed it. My wife was able to play with Mandriva, Puppy, Antix 8 and Ubuntu. She has never really liked Puppy because it just doesn’t look very nice compared to the others. She also hasn’t cared for Mandriva as a distro, but will use it if she has to. It came down to Antix and Ubuntu and she tried both.

After a couple of days of comparing Antix 8 and Ubuntu 9.04, Ubuntu won. And this was a big win, because she actually began installing it herself! I was busy cooking dinner while this was going on, so was only able to offer a minimum of pointers, which was enough to get her through the process almost entirely on her own. The only bit that she really needed help with was when it came to partitioning, and Ubuntu even makes that pretty easy and painless if you’re doing a basic dual boot. After only about 30 minutes, she was able to connect to the wireless router and was off setting up her bookmarks and preferences. she downloaded and installed Flash on her own as well as the security updates.

She has already commented how she enjoys the look, feel and speed of this new Ubuntu. And it does make a pretty awesome desktop system. She is making some noises about wanting to sample Windows 7, when it comes out, so it will be interesting how it might compare to a new Ubuntu. But this distro has officially matured into something that seems to be legitimately friendly for a new user who is used to XP.

Oh, but that is not the final word on my wife’s preferences. No, she has told that what she would really like for Christmas is a Macbook Pro. Um…yeah. Right. *I* would like a Macbook Pro! But buying a Mac for everyone in the family would be akin to buying a new car!

We’ll still have to see how it does as far as hooking up to her printer/scanner and I’l update that when it happens. But I really do like this latest incarnation of this distro.

Es cierto que Ubuntu es la versión (distro) de Linux que a mi personalmente mejor me funciona, pero no es la única que existe. Hay una gran cantidad de distribuciones que son igual de funcionales y aprovechables.

Si se tiene una máquina algo viejita por ejemplo Puppy Linux es una alternativa más que eficiente, yo tengo dos equipos PII con 300 megas de memoria y funcionan de lo más bien. Puede ser descargado de http://puppylinux.org/.

Otra versión que tiene muchos adeptos es mandriva sucesora del antiguo Linux Mandrake que fue una de las primeras versiones a las que le puse mano. Gentoo, Licoris, Linex, en fin tantas versiones como colores.

Algunas son modificaciones de otras, por ejemplo el mismo Ubuntu usa como base Debian, esto significa que cualquier sistema con esta base, se comparta de forma similar.

Para conocer sobre nuevas distribuciones en www.distrowatch.com se puede hallar un compedio diario y noticias de lo que sucede. Es solo de leer un poco y escoger la versión que mejor se adapte a nuestras necesidades.

Logo de puppy Linux

   Un Puppy Linux customizat cu LXDE, KDE 3.5.10 si KDE 4.3.1 în plus faţa de mediile grafice pentru birou obişnuite – IceWM şi JWM . Alte noutăţi aduse de versiunea de faţa sunt următoarele:

*  New SFS Converter 1.3.2 and CPU Frequency Scaling Tool 1.2 by trio. Updated to Pburn 3.04 and Pmusic 0.9.2 by zigbert.

* Kernel updated to 2.6.30.5 from Puppy 4.3. Includes new squashfs 4.0, so prior add-ons will not work without updating from website or converting them to 4.0 with included SFS Converter or CL tools unsquashfs3 and dir2sfs. Squashfs 4.0 is optimized for speed over compression, so main file and add-ons are 10-15% larger than prior versions.

* Up to 8 extra SFS add-ons supported. I couldn’t get more to work, so SFS-Combiner by MU is included.

* ‘Pup-dip-gui’ optimizer now executed from ~/.xinitrc; GUI splash eliminated

* Fixed missing Wbar task launch bar in LXDE, and not showing until clicking in other window managers, with ‘-above-desk’ parameter.

* International keyboard layout .xinitrc fix (thanks to Juergen and MU). Fix also applied to Mouse/Keyboard wizard to apply changes immediately.

* New Lighthouse Pup themed wallpaper by Jasmac.

   Practic KDE-ul îi aduce o mare flexibilitate şi drept să spun am avut ceva dificultăţi până am instalat SFS-ul respectiv – de fapt adevărate peripeţii şi bineînţeles şi nişte nervi pe acolo, dar intr-un final am reuşit ce mi-am propus, deşi mai sunt aspecte nesoluţionate în întregime .

   SFS-urile instalate sunt următoarele:

Mariner SFS:

   * Setup wizards now have ‘Brief’ option with fewer prompts.

   * Graphics drivers updated for new kernel, (nVidia not tested, alternative pets here), ATI Catalyst 9.9 works fine but Catalyst 9.3 is broken–hard freeze upon launching any openGL/3D apps, including catalyst control center, so it is not included although there is a pet available here.

   * Updated to Firefox 3.5.3

   * Qps process manager wouldn’t stay in tray, so it was reverted to v. 1.9.21

KDE SFS:

   * Big changes for 443: You can switch to either KDE 3.5.10 or the new KDE 4.3.1. Most KDE4 apps work in KDE3, LXDE, IceWM & JWM. The kfmclient (Konqueror file management) outside of KDE4, uses ‘kfmclient3′ from KDE 3.5.10.

   * Amarok 2 wouldn’t open, so it was reverted to 1.4.10 with lyrics panel and visualizations.

   * Wbar launcher is tweaked for and now runs in KDE.

Mientras andaba buscando una nueva distribución (o distro pa’ los cuates) de Linux para la PC ke me compraré con mi primer cheke (para ke kiero comida si no tengo una pc decente n_nU ) me tope con esta distro llamada Puppy Linux ke me llamó mucho la atención primero por su interfaz gráfica o como dirian en mi pueblo…. se ve bonito, para empezar el nombre de por si ya denota ternura y además tiene un aspecto bastante kawaii y muy similar a cualkier entorno windows con la diferencia de ke puede ejecutarse sin problemas en makinas en las cuales windows estaría arrastrandose por los suelos.

Lo se, no utilizaré esta distribución en mi pc nueva, ya ke sería demasiada makina para tan poco sistema operativo, sin embargo estoy pensando seriamente instalarlo en mi ipodsote (o mi pc actual, como kieran llamarle) ya ke consume pocos recursos y es lo ke pienso dejar de legado a mi prima (como soy bondadoso) y ke mejor ke inciar su incursion en el mundo digital ke con un linux apto para ella y realiza sin ninguna dificultad reproducción de videos y canciones (para ke más puede usarla una niña de 11 años)…

Edito: Una disculpa a Linuxman por no haberle dado credito por los screenshots… Pueden ver su articulo sobre puppy linux aquí.