Hi all,
Been a Linux user (mainly MEPIS v3.4-3) for around 12 months or so, so am reasonably familiar with most of the CLI commands and generally KDE oriented GUI's..
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But I'm VERY new to Puppy & new to this particular forum! Have been trolling thru the forums on both LQ and on PuppyOS for the past few weeks AND have ordered Puppy from Barry Kauler via snail mail / PayPal (still waiting for it to arrive - 8 days now since placing order) and am very interested in what I've been able to find out about Puppy from the many posts in the forums...
Having dialup access only to the internet at the mo, I got a friend who has broadband to download Puppy2.12BETA2.iso, Linux-2.6.18.1 source and devx_212.sfs files from the developer's download site. Installed the .iso to a generic 1GB USB pen drive - installed very nicely and looks to be working very well so far...
What I need to do now is get the source and devx files installed - how do I do that in puppy 2.12 please?...
Also - does puppy use the linux 'make' command (via terminal or rxvt), if not how does one do a 'make' for compiling & installing a prog in Puppy..?..
Need to compile / install the drivers for my internal Conexant HSF 'winmodem' (dl'd from Linuxant web site) - modem works fine in MEPIS 3.4-3...but needed to get the latest driver files from Linuxant to suit the later version kernel (2.6.18.1 v 2.6.15-1)....
Also need to be able to install the Canon drivers for my printer - so may need the source files for that as well..
Will wait on the PuppyLinux CD to arrive for all the other progs & .pup files that I can install as needed.
In the mean time am going to give this here puppy a good run and see if I can wear it out....
ASROCK VIA all-in-one m/b @ 1.8GHz; AMD Athlon 1800 CPU; 768MB DDRAM; 80GB HDD (MEPIS); 20GB HDD (Win XP Pro); 1GB USB Pendrive (Puppy); BENQ CDRW; Samsung DVDRW; BENQ 17" LCD monitor; Conexant HSF 56K PCI 'internal' modem...
Any help would be much appreciated!!