Puppy Linux and ROX
Jim Lesurf <[email protected]>
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As I have an old laptop which only has a small amount of RAM, etc, I decided to experiment with Puppy Linux. Have done a HD 'full install' using the version of Puppy Linux that was on the cover DVD of the current 'Linux Format' magazine. i.e. Version 4/3/1 This clearly uses ROX as the general filer, but I haven't been able to get application directories to work. I can click on 'AppRun' inside a directory and that works to run something. But I assume this is because it is the default behaviour anyway even if not using ROX-Filer! If I try to drag and drop a file to a ROX app directory that - on my other machines - would the load the file and process it I'm just asked if I want to copy/move/etc the file. If I click on an Ap dir that should run an app, it just treats it as a click on a normal directory. Is the version of ROX-Filer used by Puppy 'cut down' to exclude Application directories, or do I need to change a setting somewhere? Since I'm asking about the above I'll ask about two other points. Firstly, I also find that 'rox -S' doesn't start a session or produce an 'icon bar'. Is this for similar reasons to the above, or is Puppy already using ROX but the lower panel doesn't look and behave as I'd expect? Finally, this is Puppy specific, but I may as well dare to ask since if someone replies who knows Puppy they may be happy to explain... :-) I downloaded the sfs file for the GCC compiler, etc, The instructions for a HD install told me to follow an instruction but this prompted "/mnt/hda2/ is not a..." So I am not clear it worked correctly. The main hard disc isn't a 'hda'... Apart from the above it looks quite natty. Certainly much less prone to staggering than Xubuntu on the same machine as that had to use swap space on the cranky old HD even before I did anything! :-) Thanks, Jim -- Electronics http://www.st-and.ac.uk/~www_pa/Scots_Guide/intro/electron.htm Armstrong Audio http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/Armstrong/armstrong.html Audio Misc http://www.audiomisc.co.uk/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev