http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCEWebnote RSS feedSat, 03 Mar 2007 14:57:10 GMTPyRSS2Gen-1.0.0http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssTONY Problem with 2.0.1 is that USB print support is still a bit broken. I have not been able to get either of my Canon printers to print, and I have still not found the source of the problem. I don't think it's in CUPS or PDQ. My suspicions are leaning towards timing problems in the USB kernel module. Would be nice if we can get this one sorted for 2.0.2 Puppy is still far and away the best distro I have found for low end machines (e.g 233MHz 128Mb SBC). Fedora, Gentoo, even Ubuntu - can't get any of them to come up in Xorg. Puppy wins!http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note8Artie In my opinion the only thing preventing Puppy from becoming (a) truly great distribution(s) is lack of organisation, planning and coordination. There has to be some kind of structure to the development. How about setting up one main flowchart on the wiki covering all people actively working on projects, all active distributions, a place where anyone doing anything can have their own "square" constantly updated so everyone else can see with a glance what others are doing, suggesting and contributing? There are so many forums and wiki pages and own homepages and blogs one gets totally lost. Obviously Barry would be at the top with OneBone, BareBones etc and then it would branch out into the 1.09CE, 2.02 etc and these would again branch out into major distributions like GrafPup etc. and everyone would get a perfect overview. If anyone had an announcement or a request they'd just post it in their space for anyone to see and answer immediately. If anyone is interested I could try to figure out how set up such a thing. http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note7praticles if u can make a tomcat/j2ee/apache/mysql pup with develep tools or a progress pup that ld be great & if u can install/make/compile programs easier ld be greater! http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note6Raffy These are also current concerns: http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8605 and http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=8564 (As far as I know, this is a real request from OLPC, though a discreet one.) Last May 2, a discussion among IT council members and hardware makers here focused on showing a test case of low-power, low-cost programming platform that can be deployed in IT schools. Puppy fits the bill nicely. And Nathan has done great work already on the CLI package installer. Just a bit more work and we should be therehttp://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note5Barry Kauler "This is great! But I don't think it's appropriate to consider me as a project leader. I'll focus on the core puppy, that is, a BareBones, and the CE is putting the flesh on it." http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note4FLASH highmem in the kernel (this is for Barebones (the Core of Puppy)http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note3NATHAN 1) OneBone - it's smaller, newer (not an established identity yet), and would take some workload off Barry so he can focus on the core 2) A programmer's Puppy - we have the tools, just add them together right into the iso. Could be minimal CLI or full bloat with Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP, etc. and graphical interface. Maybe throw in Sugar to show the OLPC we mean business. 3) Tackle a smaller project as a community, like package management. Actually implement dotpet instead of just talking about it. I have a good base put together, and there are a few other people who have worked on it independently as well. An education Puppy would be nice, but the problem is in the available programs. The only education focused programs that don't depend on KDE or Gnome are from Tux4kids, and their projects are mostly in the early stages. Only three are usable now (although those three are quite impressive) while the rest are not complete enough to even compile a working copy. Gcompris is dependency hell at it's worst, and kdeedu requires, well, KDE.http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note2Lobster Xfce Window manager .pet (already considerable progress from Klh, Nathan and MU on this) Change Browser or Choose Browser (from Opera, FireFox, Flock) Hackyremaster / Pupbegone - uninstall components Updated Welcome HTML Use Xaralx instead of Inkscape Wizard or automate the add puppy201.sfs file to hard drive to boot subsequent boots Education Puppy module Developers Puppy module In order to do this we would have to create a CE .sfs or module perhaps? Multimedia Puppy or Multimedia module Office Puppy Cutting Edge Puppy - Using Xaralx and other Beta software Games module Puppy Toolbox module Document project http://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note1Lobster Voice Pawedcast - 1.9MB is Puppy compatible, Subjects 2.xxCE, GuestToo, Mean Puppy, Optimised, .pets, Installing http://tmxxine.com/sound/p29.ogg∞ - Linux 1.9MB http://tmxxine.com/sound/p29.wav∞ - Windows and Linux 9MBhttp://www.aypwip.org/webnote/Puppy2.xxCE#note0