I'm currently working on my own Linux distro and could need some help creating a unique desktop experience.

Are there any tools or walkthroughs concerning docks out there (especially those rather unorthodoxly shaped)?

In my young life, I've pretty much programmed everything but desktop widgets ...

Anyone have a link to the 4.4 rc2 devx? (i.e. 514 devx)

The link at the top of the page is for the 4.3 series.

Also, has anyone that has installed Windows ever took the time to read the license agreement to the end?

The license agreement mentions the "Windows Genuine Advantage"
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Windows_Genuine_Advantage

The scary part:
Data collected

Windows Genuine ...

Now the laptop runs at the speed of a ten year old machine.

For me, this has happened with every Windows install. I spent some time trying to figure out why (disabling services, uninstalling programs, etc) but came to to the conclusion that the only way to have decent performance was to ...

I see what you mean.

Using Puppy 4.3, I get both a delay and a system hang.

The delay (approx 20 seconds) occurs at the "Puppy is now shutting down" message.

The hang occurs at the "Saving to pupsave...." message, similar to my NFS problem.

I can control+c at this point, unmount the samba share ...

How are you mounting the samba share?

fusesmb, smbfs, smbclient?

Seems strange that the shutdown script has a delay but unmounting it via command line does not.

I tried your patch in Quirky with an unmounted Samba share and it didn't make any difference to the shutdown speed. There was still an additional pause of about 10 seconds as compared to when the share was properly unmounted.

If you have a samba share mounted at shutdown, does your system hang ...

There is a bug that I haven't reported yet that is most likely the problem.

The same thing happens with an NFS mount as well.

Open up etc/rc.d/rc.shutdown and look for the following block of code (approx. lines 1032 to 1058)

MNTDPARTS="`mount`"

#echo
echo "Unmounting stray filesystems ...

When trying to upgrade xorg 7.3 to 7.5 I have been running into the following problem with Wary 5.1.1.

First boot, I run through the xorg wizard and set up a fresh pup save. I then install the Xorg upgrade pet from the repo and reboot. After the reboot X will not start, giving the following error ...

[quote="Bernie_by_the_Sea"] You fell for Microsoft marketing. I didn’t. There is never any need for Microsoft to continue “supporting

Try booting with: You can run a frugal install without X, however I don't think you can do a full install.

Or if you look around the forum, I remember seeing a minimal puplet somebody made without Xorg.

Do you know what variable type stdin represents? i.e. integer, or string?

Since "sahara" is quoted, it probably represents a string in the eyes of the interpreter.

You could be comparing two different types of variables.

But I know little about perl so its just a guess.

Why don't you try booting with the parameter loglevel=7 i.e.
This will spit out a bunch of debugging info. Maybe it will show you where the problem is.

Here is a thread over at the ubuntu forums that may give some insight.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=884938

For me, cloud computing is only acceptable if you physically own the server used to store your data.

As far as I know, the file you are referring to with the .run extension is a shell script.

If you want to execute the file you must first make it executable. Do that with:
chmod +x yourfilename.run

Then to execute:
./yourfilename.run

Here is a similar thread:
http://www.raymond.cc/forum ...

Is it true that the kernel is linux but the OSX is a kind of proprietary overlay in same way as Android has a Linux kernel and the Google part was to add teh Android proprietary overlay?

OSX uses the "open source" Darwin kernel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_%28operating_system%29#Kernel ...

I figured out what the problem was.

I had to add "no_root_squash" to my export options in the /etc/exports file.

/home/frank (insecure,no_subtree_check,no_root_squash,rw,nohide)

Here is the excerpt from the man page for exports:
Very often, it is not desirable that the root user on a client ...

...Or any info on using NFS in Wary?

I'm using Wary 5.1.1 and am able to mount an nfs share. Here's what I did:

Install "nfs-utils-1.2.1-i486.pet" (3'd post)

/etc/rc.d/rc.portmap start

mount-FULL -t nfs 192.168.1.250:/home/nfs /root/nfs

This works except I am unable to access /root/nfs ...

Sometime in the future (when I actually have some free time) I'm going to do a Freecad build.

http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/free-cad/index.php?title=Main_Page

It's not on par with Solidworks yet, but shows a lot of potential.

As far as tethering your Android phone, are you referring to ...