Chinese Language Pets

[icake]

simplicity is a puppy linux derivative developed by the Simplicity linux Team lead by David Purse.

A new version 1310 was released on Oct 17, 2013. It was based on Raring Puppy 3.9.9.1 developed by Pemasu and uses the LXDE desktop. It has 4 versions: Obsidian, Netbook, Desktop and Media (Media 1310 is coming)

1. Obsidian is a bare bone version. You have network manager and a few tools to help you set up the system.
2. Netbook comes with more software but most things are cloud based to ensure a quick system on a netbook.
3. Desktop is a full blown distribution and has VLC, Skype, LibreOffice.
4. Media aims at a PC in a lounge or bedroom. It replaced the normal desktop with XBMC (a media player shell) to handle media files

I have made and uploaded 8 new Chinese Language pets for simplicity 1310 (desktop and obsidian) to the public sharing folder. Please see the first posting of this subject for download addresses.
The names of these pets are:

more information about simplicity: http://simplicitylinux.org/
download Obsidian1310Final.iso (186 mb); http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplic ... o/download
download Desktop1310Final.iso (348 mb): http://sourceforge.net/projects/simplic ... o/download

The 2 pdf documentation files （available in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese) in the public folder had also been updated to include simplicity 1310.
The latest shared universal half-Chinese Language pets: fcitx-420-en-zh-7.2.2.pet and SCIM-147-en-zh-7.2.2.pet can handle simplicity 1310 already.

Known issue:
a. simplicicty 1310 (Obsidian and Desktop) has a shutdown bug. The system cannot shutdown nor restart X directly. To restart X for the Chinese Language pets to work, you need to:
i. enter the GUI command for "restart X" as usual: Settings/Shutdown/restart X
ii. open a terminal, type "reboot" and hit "return" button.

[icake]

lxpup is a puppy linux derivative developed by Jejy69 using the LXDE desktop. Already released versions included: 14, 13.01 and 13.04. Chinese Language pets were done for them and released on 10th and 12th Oct 2013.

Recently, PeeBee recreated an updated descendent of Jejy69’s LxPup13.01 -- lxpup 13.10 which was released on 12 Oct 2013.

Main features of lxpup 13.10 include:

Slacko5.6 base
components from LxPup-by-SFS using Woofy0.91 and Edit-Initrdgz-1.4 tools
Openbox window manager
LxPanelX panel manager
PCManFM file manager

I have made and uploaded 4 new Chinese Language pets for lxpup 13.10 to the public sharing folder. Please see first posting of this subject for download addresses.
The names of these pets are:

more information about lxpup 13.10: http://ns1.murga-projects.com/puppy/vie ... 57a2f5ca94
download lxpup-13.10-1.iso (177 mb): http://lxpup.5gbfree.com/share/

The 2 pdf documentation files （available in English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese) in the public folder had also been updated to include lxpup 13.10.
The latest shared universal half-Chinese Language pets: fcitx-420-en-zh-7.2.2.pet and SCIM-147-en-zh-7.2.2.pet can handle lxpup 13.10 already.

[icake]

I have uploaded 2 updated Puppy Linux universal half-Chinese Language pets to the public sharing folder. Key change is to add the Chewing Chinese Input Method to fcitx and SCIM input platforms.
Also uploaded are 2 equivalent .deb files to handle Puppy lxpup 14 (because lxpup 14 can only run .deb files)

These universal half-Chinese Language pets can handle 52 32-bit English Puppy systems in 20 different Puppy classes listed below:

The names of these pets/debs are:

1. fcitx input platform：fcitx-4.2.0-en-zh-7.3.0.pet (12 mb); fcitx-4.2.0-en-zh-7.3.0.deb (12 mb)
2. SCIM input platform：SCIM-1.4.7-en-zh-7.3.0.pet (20 mb); SCIM-1.4.7-en-zh-7.3.0.deb (20 mb)

After you applied one of these language pets/debs to an English version of Puppy, you will get:

1. Chinese word file wqy-microhei.ttf

2. the fcitx Chinese Input Method platform comes with these 5 Chinese Input Methods:
新酷音, 谷歌拼音, 拼音, 雙拼, 五筆字型
Chewing, Google pinyin, pinyin, shuangpin, wubi

3. the SCIM Chinese Input Method platform has these 17 Traditional Chinese Input Methods:
新酷音,

[ThoriumBlvd]

many thanks icake for your efforts on the Chinese/half-Chinese language packs. The slacko-5.5-zh-ensm-6.1.1.6 package was successful and allowed me to view Chinese in my LibreOffice 4.0 writer as well. There have been no problems with it. My puppy is the Slacko-5.5XL.

[yosi666]

Just great! Thanks icake

[yosi666]

Hi back.
I am using SCIM with no problem in my Slacko 5.5 but I wanted to install fcitx so I could use Google Pinyin but I get this message when I try to run it:

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# fcitx
# [INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-googlepinyin.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-pinyin.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-classic-ui.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-chttrans.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-xim.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-x11.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-autoeng.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-vk.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-table.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-punc.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-fullwidth-char.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-quickphrase.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-remote-module.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/addon.c:99-Load Addon Config File:fcitx-chewing.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/im/table/table.c:152-Load Table Config File:wbx.conf
[INFO] /build/buildd/fcitx-chewing-0.2.0/src/eim.c:99-Chewing storage path /root/.config/fcitx/chewing/
[ERROR] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/frontend/xim/xim.c:245-Start XIM error. Another XIM daemon named fcitx is running?
[ERROR] /build/buildd/fcitx-4.2.0/src/lib/fcitx/frontend.c:381-No available frontend

I also tried to install scim-googlepinyin in SCIM but I had some problems compiling so I can't use it in SCIM either.

Any ideas how to make any of these options work? I like the way Google pinyin writes chinese characteres as I don't have to use vowels. For example just write nh for nihao (你好). Or maybe there is other way to do it with SCIM?

Thanks

[icake]

When you were having problems running fcitx, did you run the slacko 5.5 fcitx pets or did you install fcitx onto the SCIM pet?
If you were running slacko 5.5 fcitx pets, which one were your using:
the latest Chinese Language pets for slacko 5.5 are,
slacko-5.5-zhhk-fx-7.0.1.pet for Traditional Chinese
slacko-5.5-zhcn-fx-7.0.1.pet for Simplified Chinese

If you want to add SCIM google-pinyin, my suggestion is to find an SCIM google-pinyin pet or debian deb from the web and apply them directly.

Up to now, I have not been successful in compiling fcitx nor SCIM from source myself so I am unable to provide any positive comments about this approach.

[icake]

X-precise and X-slacko are 2 Puppy derivatives developed by rg66 based on precise 5.7.1 and slacko 5.6 using the xfce4 desktop

A. X-precise
latest version 2.2 was released on 16 Oct 2013

Features:

PackIt-1.1 archiver by SFR with thunar right click entry added
ez-mnt to mount save-tool backups and *fs.bak files
sylpheed 3.3.0
firewall_tray
Thunar 1.6.3
simple file sharing
firefox 24.0
acpi
peasy PDF
Mtpaint
Veiwnior
Pidgin
Transmission
Uget
FFconvert
Mplayer
Pburn
Abiword
ePDFview
geany
Gnumeric
Frisbee
Xfce-4.10
Carolina app menu and control panel
Carolina thunar right click uca.xml
gvfs
gvfs-smb
pac-tools
pup-volume-monitor
samba-tng-sfs
save-tools
sfs2dir
startmount2
xarchiver
xfce-mixer
X adrive builder
pup-volume-monitor 1.14
yad 0.22.1

removed from precise 5.7.1
JWM
Rox
Most of the apps except xfce, system and utility apps, the deps have been left in.
Retrovol

X-precise version 2.2 delta and 2.2-non-pae delta ISO download addresses:
http://www.carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-precise/iso

v2.2 pae ISO can also be downloaded:
http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_X-precise
http://yadi.sk/d/NF82WOWkAzxUv

B. X-slacko
latest version 1.1 was released on 4 Oct 2013

Main Applications

Mtpaint-3.44.13
Veiwnior
Firefox-24.0 with mouse gestures and FireFTP added
FireFTP-2.0.16
Pidgin-2.10.7
Sylpheed
Transmission
Uget-1.8.0
FFconvert
Mplayer
Pburn
Abiword
ePDFview
geany
Gnumeric

Version 1.1 delta and 1.1-non-pae delta available download addresss
http://carolina-linux.com/rg66/X-slacko/iso

I have made 8 (4 for each) Chinese Language pets for X-precise-2.2 and X-slacko-1.1. They are now available for download from the public sharing folders. Please see the first posting of this subject for download addresses.
The names of these pets are:

The 2 pdf documentation files for the Chinese Language pets in the public sharing folder have also been updated to include X-precise-2.2 and X-slacko-1.1

I have also tested the latest universal half-Chinese Language pets and they can handle both X-precise-2.2 and X-slacko-1.1

[yosi666]

Hi,
Thanks for your answers, icake. First I used the universal installer 'fcitx-4.2.0-en-zh-7.3.0.pet'. I have tried with the 5.5 slacko file you told me but I get the same error.

Installed a .rpm package of scim-googlepinyin but didn't work either (scim-googlepinyin-0.1-0.20101114.1mdv2011.0.x86_64.rpm).

Anyways is not big deal and SCIM works great, I just have to type every hanzi individually and with all its letters in pinyin.

Thank you very much for your work!

[icake]

yosi666, if I understand you correctly, you want to add googlepinyin to SCIM. This is what I did:

a. downloaded a scim-googlepinyin debian deb file
b. undebed the deb to get all the files inside
c. merged these deb files into the SCIM-147-zh-en-7.3.0.pet files
d. created a new pet SCIM-147-zh-en-7.3.0.g.pet

I have tested this .g.pet on slacko-5.5 and when SCIM is on, googlepinyin is one of the choices available under Simplified Chinese. Because I am not an experienced user of googlepinyin, I just know that it is available and working, but cannot tell if everything is fine.

Please test the .g.pet and see if it is ok. You can download it from the public share folder:

[yosi666]

What can I say... simply great!!!

EDIT: Sorry to say that didn't work so well for me as I thought in the first time. After trying it for a while I realized that I couldn't enter the Scim Setup and also changed the configuration of the fonts in my Menus. So I tried to delete it and go back to my previous version... and couldn't do it. Then I saw that still had some scim folders on my system files and deleted them manually. Now I am back to my previous scim files which are:
scim 1.4.14
scim-bridge-0.4.16
scim-m17n-0.2.3
scim-pinyin-0.5.91
scim-tables-0.5.9
(all of them from slacko repositories)

Such a shame , I've been using the google-scimpinyin for a few minutes and worked very well...
I don't know, maybe I had some kind of incompatibility with any of my other gtk programs...
Could you upload the debian package that you used so maybe I can try it directly with my SCIM version?

[icake]

The debian deb that I used was: scim-googlepinyin_0.0+git20091231-0ppa2~hardy1_i386.deb (1.6 M) downloaded from: http://ppa.launchpad.net/happyaron/ppa/ ... glepinyin/

Now that I have more time to think about it, there is a better way to do it:

1. the way that I did:
download the scim-googlepinyin deb;
undeb the deb;
unpet the universal half-Chinese Language pet;
merge the files
create a new pet
install the new pet to a new system without SCIM

this method cost me about 20-30 minutes

2. if you have already set up SCIM on your system, you can:
download the scim-googlepinyin deb
install the deb directly to your system

I have not tried this method but the estimated time should be less than 5 minutes

Best wishes.

[yosi666]

Excelent!!!
Now everything is working smoothly!!!
Thanks!

[icake]

A user of the Puppy Chinese Forum posted a message describing some problems in applying the Chinese Language pets and Universal Half-Chinese Language pets for Akita beta 15.
As a result, I found 2 bugs in the Chinese Language pets and Universal Half-Language pets for akita beta 15.
The first bug was created during uploading pets to the sharing folders and will make the pets unable to install. This has been fixed.
The second bug sometimes will create 2 copies of the desktop partition labels, the copy in front is normal while the copy in the background is not usable. I spent a few hours trying to fix this bug without success.
Because this bug only affects the appearance of the desktop and everything else are working normally, I decided to release a workable copy of the pets and will fix the bug later. There are 6 revised pets:
akita-be15-zhcn-fx-7.3.0.pet
akita-be15-zhhk-fx-7.3.0.pet
akita-be15-zhcn-sm-7.3.0.pet
akita-be15-zhhk-sm-7.3.0.pet
fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.0.pet
SCIM-147-en-zh-7.3.0.pet
These 6 pets have been uploaded to the public sharing folders. All the old files were renamed by adding 2013Nov to their names. For example, the old file fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.0.pet was renamed to fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.0.2013Nov.pet。
I want to thank the user again for reporting the problem which leads to the creation of revised and improved pets.

[icake]

Further to the message dated Dec 14 about the bugs for Akita beta 15, the 2nd bug has now been fixed.
4 revised Chinese Language pets were created：
akita-be15-zhcn-fx-7.3.0.final.pet
akita-be15-zhhk-fx-7.3.0.final.pet
akita-be15-zhcn-sm-7.3.0.final.pet
akita-be15-zhhk-sm-7.3.0.final.pet
They have been posted to the public sharing folders。
May I thank the unnamed user for pointing out the problem so that I have a chance to fix it。

[icake]

On Dec 17, 2013, the founder of Puppy Linux Barry Kauler released a new version of Puppy, Quirky 6.0.

The objectives of Quirky is to be as small as possible, very fast, very simple, and optimized to run on Flash memory media.
The goals of Quirky 6.0 are:

No layered filesystem
Deployed as a USB-stick/SD-card image only
Optimized for Flash, using f2fs file system
Very simple replacement for udev
No mesa, no llvm
Xorg has modesetting, vesa drivers only
No initrd.gz
No dbus
GTK 2.20.1
Run cupsd only when printing
Install and uninstall SFS files
Simplified version upgrade and downgrade
Allowing system recovery
Child-proofing. Optional, make PC hard drives invisible

The official released notes with detailed installation instructions can be found here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... ky-6.0.htm

Download addresses:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/di ... uirky-6.0/
or http://ftp.cc.uoc.gr/mirrors/linux/quir ... uirky-6.0/
or http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... uirky-6.0/

To provide Chinese Language support for Quirky 6.0, I have created:

a. 4 new Chinese Language pets:

b. 2 updated universal half-Chinese Language pets:
fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.1.pet
SCIM-147-en-zh-7.3.1.pet

c. 2 updated pdf documentation files:
32bit.ChineseLanguagePetsBriefing_简介中文包簡介.2013Dec21.pdf
32bit_中文包更改纪录_change_log_更改紀錄

These pets and files have been uploaded to the public sharing folders. Please see first post under this subject for the download addresses

[icake]

Further to my posting yesterday about Quirky 6.0, Quirky 6.01 was released on Dec 19, 2013.

Compared to 6.0, Quirky 6.01:

is mainly a bug fix released
has added "audit trail" function that will allow easy upgrade, downgrade, recovery.

The announcement and released notes for Quirky 6.01: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... -6.0.1.htm

download address: http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/quirky ... rky-6.0.1/

I have tested the 6 Chinese Language pets for Quirky 6.0 and they can handle Quirky 6.01 already

[icake]

01micko has released Slacko testing version 5.6.5 on Nov 27, 2013.

Compare to slacko 5.6, there are many bugfixes, upgrades, additions and removals

For more details, please see: http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90489

Download address for slacko-5.6.5 iso (160 mb): http://01micko.com/testing/5.6.5/

I have created 4 new Chinese Language pets for slacko-5.6.5:

slacko-5.6.5-zhhk-fx-7.3.0.pet
slacko-5.6.5-zhhk-sm-7.3.0.pet
slacko-5.6.5-zhcn-fx-7.3.0.pet
slacko-5.6.5-zhcn-sm-7.3.0.pet

These were uploaded to the public sharing folders. Please see first post for the download addresses.

I have tested the latest released universal half-Chinese Language pets:

fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.1.pet
SCIM-147-en-zh-7.3.1.pet

and they can handle slacko 5.6.5 already.

[icake]

Lucid 5.2.8 is the previous generation "Official Mainstream Puppy" and is compatible with ubuntu. It is a mature, well-tested product with a nice set of usability features, lots of available software with a supportive user base.

On Nov 25, 2013 rerwin has released an updated version - Lucid 5.2.8.6

Lucid 5.2.8.6 contains:
numerous updates including Pmusic, Pburn, and PupControl
advances in hardware detection and drivers
many updates in the basic infrastructure

For discussions and more information: http://ns1.murga-projects.com/puppy/vie ... 3268006a02

To download Lucid 5.2.8.6: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/dc28t2r ... es-5.2.8.6
or: http://archive.org/details/Puppy_Linux_Lupu_5.2.8.6

I have created 4 new Chinese Language pets for Lucid 5.2.8.6:

lupu-5286-zhhk-fx-7.3.0.pet
lupu-5286-zhhk-sm-7.3.0.pet
lupu-5286-zhcn-fx-7.3.0.pet
lupu-5286-zhcn-sm-7.3.0.pet

These were uploaded to the public sharing folders. Please see first post for the download addresses.

I have tested the latest released universal half-Chinese Language pets:

fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.1.pet
SCIM-147-en-zh-7.3.1.pet

and they can handle Lucid 5.2.8.6 already.

[icake]

01micko has created a number of Puppy derivatives and Thinslacko is one of them.

ThinSlacko is Slacko designed for slightly older kit. It should run fine on a PIII 600MHz with 256MB RAM, or even lower specs.

ThinSlacko 5.5.04 was released on Mar 31, 2013. More information : http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=85348

Download from : http://puppylinuxstuff.meownplanet.net/ ... ko-5.5.01/
files include:
THINSlacko-5.5.01-SCSI-XZ.iso (122 mb); GZ (145 mb)
adrv_slacko_5.5.01.sfs 21 mb
5.5.01_5.5.03-XZ.iso.delta 24 mb
5.5.03_5.5.04-XZ.iso.delta 21 mb

Features
Adrive has drivers not included in iso
optimised for pentium III cpu, should be ok on k6 (AMD), NO PAE
minimal programs, only links browser and most of the basic puppy gtkdialog gui
based on slacko 5.5 with kernel 3.8.4 - latest delta is kernel 3.9.1
f2fs capability, with installer for USB drives

I have created 4 new Chinese Language pets for ThinSlacko 5.5.04:

thinslacko-5504-zhhk-fx-7.3.0.pet
thinslacko-5504-zhhk-sm-7.3.0.pet
thinslacko-5504-zhcn-fx-7.3.0.pet
thinslacko-5504-zhcn-sm-7.3.0.pet

These were uploaded to the public sharing folders. Please see first post for the download addresses.

I have tested the latest released universal half-Chinese Language pets:

fcitx-420-en-zh-7.3.1.pet
SCIM-147-en-zh-7.3.1.pet

and they can handle Thin Slacko 5.5.04 already.