Announcing Puppy 2.16 NOP

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gray · #1 Post by **gray** » Sun 27 May 2007, 05:36

Puppy 2.16 NOP is Nearly Office Pup - just add the squash file for Open Office. So What is different about NOP ?

Well Abiword and Gnumeric have been removed so that there is no application function duplication when the Oo sfs is added. Application duplication in the menus has also been reduced - so there are no longer several calculators, music players etc to confuse the user. Seamonkey and friends have also been purged and replaced by Opera (browser / mail / chat). The ICEWM system has been added, with a nice blue xp look as default.

However the main changes for office use are the addition of Xsane and the inclusion of CUPS as the default print system. The printer setup wizard now runs CUPS setup and the printer status menu option opens up the CUPS printer tools in a web browser.

I have also activated the ROX filer background patterns and updated the gtk themes to include some nice patterns.

Puppy is absolutely amazing in that it is so easy to customize. I run it from a USB stick on which I have also added Scilab, Blender and my own VTK apps along with Open Office and Kino. I can perform every function as a professional aerospace engineer from this setup!

#2 Post by MU » Sun 27 May 2007, 08:31

the iso will be at:
http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-01-to-06 ... 16-NOP.iso (108 MB)
http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-01-to-06 ... md5sum.txt

But the server is down (exceeded bandwidth) , please try it in 15 hours

Mark

raffy · #3 Post by **raffy** » Sun 27 May 2007, 13:54

That is worth a news article - Puppy in serious engineering work. Hope you find time to write about it one day.

Will download NOP as soon as possible. Have you tried mooload.com for uploading? Thanks!

gray · #4 Post by **gray** » Sun 27 May 2007, 22:49

Thanks for hosting the iso MU.

Raffy, thanks for the tip about mooload.com. Looks useful, will look into it.

I'm not sure I have time to write an article, though might be fun.

I dont have to carry a laptop anymore - just my pendrive. From there I can run simulations using Scilab, visualize results in 3D using VTK, create 3D models in Blender and write reports / give presentations using OO.

Puppy is definately the OS of choice for engineers - versatile and configurable.

Artie · #5 Post by **Artie** » Mon 28 May 2007, 08:01

Does it have Flash9 preinstalled working in Opera?

Artie

msumner · #6 Post by **msumner** » Mon 28 May 2007, 08:57

Hi Gray, this looks like a really useful puplet. Can't wait to try it out. Still waiting for MU's site to come back up.
Mike

metre9dmt · #7 Post by **metre9dmt** » Mon 28 May 2007, 23:42

Tried to download it several times but to no avail.

Interested in techniques in removing programs such as AbiWord and Gnumeric that comes with the distribution. Please post how you accomplish the said task.

All the best.

msumner · #8 Post by **msumner** » Tue 29 May 2007, 06:42

I have been trying every few hours for the last 2 days but always get the "exceeded bandwidth" message.

Mike

jamesbond · #9 Post by **jamesbond** » Tue 29 May 2007, 08:13

Same here

#10 Post by MU » Tue 29 May 2007, 19:11

there will be another mirror at pkagfiles.org soon.

It seems servage changed the bandwidth-limitation.

I have reached a maximum of 3620 Gigabyte some days ago, and it seems, now the account is deactivated for the rest of the month.
That is new, as until now they just deactivated for the rest of the day.
That further access was still counted, so I had days with 250 GB download, though it is deactivated after 100 GB (in theory).
Their bandwidth limitation system still seems to be horribly buggy

I'll try to clarify that this week, but I'm very busy at moment, so expect no quick solution.

Mark

msumner · #11 Post by **msumner** » Tue 29 May 2007, 20:25

Thanks Mark, will look out for it at pkagfiles.org.
Mike

metre9dmt · #12 Post by **metre9dmt** » Wed 30 May 2007, 03:04

Thanks, Mark.

jamesbond · #13 Post by **jamesbond** » Wed 30 May 2007, 05:52

Thanks Mark, appreciate it.

msumner · #14 Post by **msumner** » Wed 30 May 2007, 12:02

MU wrote:there will be another mirror at pkagfiles.org soon.

Mark

Should that be pkagfiles.net?

Any chance of a link here when it is available? Thanks.
Cheers, Mike

Previously known as Guest · Wed 30 May 2007, 17:20

The file I accessed from MU fails md5sum... when I can get a good copy I'll mirror when possible here.

http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-mirror-isos

#16 Post by MU » Wed 30 May 2007, 21:21

it seems the iso got corrupted during upload.
Gray would have to re-upload it.
I cannot run a md5sum check on the mirror while it is down, I would need a way to run PHP/Shellscripts for that.
But someone else who wanted to help with a mirror, also reported a bad md5sum. So I think the upload is broken.
Mark

gray · #17 Post by **gray** » Fri 01 Jun 2007, 07:06

Oh bugga

I used Filezilla on Windows to upload the file - wonder if that was the problem [Jeez Winblows is a pain in the a***

].

I will try to upload again this weekend - using puppy this time. Dont have much time for this sort of thing during the week.

My apologies to all who tried to download it.

gray

Previously known as Guest · Fri 01 Jun 2007, 23:39

It's now on the link I posted earlier.

msumner · #19 Post by **msumner** » Sat 02 Jun 2007, 10:45

Thanks gray, you must have been reading my mind

Definately worth waiting for, and very nicely done!
Cheers, Mike

Sage · #20 Post by **Sage** » Sat 02 Jun 2007, 12:38

Sounds great, esp with Opera. When can the proletariat expect to get access?

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