First of all, thanks for reporting. I have only limited hardware available for testing! check "/dev/sdc0" for boot-signature PANIC: timeout exceeded - no boot device found This means that the init-script cannot find your CD! How is your CD-drive connected? IDE - or something else? I used w...

I added the md5-file to the download section. To change the keyboard settings, please edit " /etc/keymap ". You must also delete " /etc/X11/xorg.conf " and " /etc/X11/db/* " to remove all wrongly stored keyboard-settings. As an alternative you can edit " /etc/X11/x...

Sorry, about the keyboard. It should habe been autodetected, but maybe something went wrong! And I of course use a german keyboard ... ^^ There will be no need to ever download the whole iso-image again. I will supply updates instead. As soon as possible these updates will be available as regular pa...

Finally done! While I am writing these lines Simplux Alpha 1 is uploaded onto my web-server. :D I had a two days struggle with cd-rom-drives. First I found out, that I unintentionally removed IDE-drivers when I upgraded to kernel 2.6.24 some weeks ago. Then the kernel contained the wrong cd-rom-driv...

Thunderbird can also share mail-directories between Linux and Windows.

I upgraded, rebuild and checked the whole system. Everything looks absolutely stable again!

If nothing unforeseen happens, I will offer the download tomorrow evening.

And then I need a few days rest ... ^^

We made big advantages in the afternoon session, repairing a lot of packages I damaged in my size-reduction-session on Saturday. My students tested a lot of games, personal messengers and desktop tweaks - they were allowed to install and configure whatever they liked! I synced the portage tree. It n...

My students and me are currently in the "heavy testing" phase. Upload of alpha wil be delayed by some days (maybe Saturday). My radical diet for Simplux - I reduced the unpacked size from about 5.5 to about 2.2 GB - removed a few files too much. I repaired most packages by now but not all....

Is the partition on the USB-pen marked active? This is a common cause for non-booting USB-pens!

You can check this with the fdisk-command.

Release date of Simplux Alpha is coming nearer ... I worked hard all week long (holidays). Best news at the start - it will fit on a CD !!! So you can test it from a CD without the need to install it on an USB-pen-drive. There is no CD-multisession support or anything like that - just a ramdisk-over...

xorg.conf only tells the X-server which resolution it should use. The resolution actually chosen might be different! The X-server is very verbose about what he's doing. Just have a look at the log-file at /var/log/Xorg.0.log.

I wrote a Linux installer for SIBLO. The complete package (including source) is available for download at

http://simplux.org/siblo

Pleae let me know if you experience any problems.

Compiling a kernel needs a lot space. I cannot imagine that a 380MB save-file can hold all temporary files creating during kernel compilation!

My kernel directory has a size of about 480 MB. (My save file is 3 GB of course.)

I found the hint about flash in some Linux forum. Flash 9 needs at least glibc 2.4.x - Puppy 2.14/15 uses 2.3.5.

There are also other programs that reject to run with glibc versions prior to 2.4 - but at least they check the glibc-version and don't crash ...

@Sit Heel Speek: I had libfreetype installed before, but it seems to work much better now! I also had applied the patch that uses hinting (Gentoo also uses this patch), nevertheless it now looks great! :D @paulh177: Simplux (that's the name of my distribution) is meant for USB-(flash)-drives. For us...

Tonight we managed to change the whole X-windows system inlcuding iceWM, ROX, terminals, ... and the proprietary ATI-driver to Gentoo versions. The configuration now works much smoother and looks really great (anti-aliasing works definitely better). I also emerged some games (tuxraxer, trackballs) t...

Merging the base-file (squashfs) and the save-file (ext2) works really nice. I do this every few weeks and start again with the new (merged) base file and an empty save-file. To date my base-file has grown to 1.8 GB (compressed - without compression it would be 5GB) and my save-file is 2 GB. I want ...

The merger of Gentoo and Puppy is now complete. I fixed all remaining problems and half an hour ago a complete rebuild of the portage tree finished without any errors! :D The next step will be the integration of Gentoo's X-Windows-packages. Time schedule: I want to offer a public alpha of Simplux (=...

We (the Gentoo-Guru and me) hat another 15 hour session. I'm totally tired but we were quiet successful! By now we are able to compile 91 of 98 base packages automatically. (We could install all other packages manually or from binary modules.) I now have a working exception list of files that Gentoo...

The siblo boot loader is copied onto the partition the following way: The first sector of siblo.bin goes into the boot-sector (the first sector of the partition) - then one sector is skipped (here Microsoft stores some cached informations about FAT32 disk usage) - the rest of siblo.bin is simply cop...