Just a quick note. if you look at the posts on my blog, you will see that some major bugs in Puppy for RP alpha1 have been fixed. Things are looking very good, and I hope to upload alpha2 in a couple of days. I will announce that here.

Here is the first alpha release of Puppy Linux for the RP. Built from Debian Squeeze .deb binary packages plus many that I compiled. A really small download, just 85.4MB, yet with a very complete suite of utilities, applications and drivers. Announcement on my blog, with download links: http://bkhom...

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<r>cnxsoft said: <br/> <br/> <br/> BarryK said: <br/> <br/> <br/> I have ordered one of these:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://www.dealextreme.com/p/m.....-sd-119913">http://www.dealextreme.com/p/m.....-sd-119913</URL><br/> <br/> US $100.70 including shipping. But, be warned, I have been waiting 10 days...

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<r>Regarding Python and Java ...no. Read my intro to Genie for reasons:<br/> <br/> <URL url="http://bkhome.org/genie/">http://bkhome.org/genie/</URL><br/> <br/> In my search for a very fast and small (compiled and no run-time interpreter) and direct access to all the shared libraries (without transl...

<r>Bye the way, creating a Hello World GUI with Bash/Ash is a piece of cake:<br/> <br/> <br/> #!/bin/sh<br/> export WINDLG='<br/> <vbox><br/> <text><label>Hello World</label></text><br/> <button ok></button><br/> </vbox>'<br/> gtkdialog --program=WINDLG<br/> <br/> <br/> gtkdialog is a standard featu...

<t>A Hello World GUI standalone executable created with Lazarus is about 9MB with debugging symbols, quoting from http://forum.xda-developers.co.....45396.html:<br/> <br/> When i first found Lazarus i got impressed. I cuold recompile the same app i did on windows and make it run on my HTC, just chan...

<r>That is what the Pi needs.. something that runs full screen that is easy to learn within a few minutes.<br/> <br/> ...yep, that describes BaCon. You should have followed the links that I posted earlier in this thread.<br/> <br/> No one is really "listening", just posting their pre-conceived opini...

<r>In Puppy Linux, we have many applications written in Bash/Ash, including GUI apps -- in particular we use 'gtkdialog' to create quite sophisticated GUIs.<br/> <br/> Regarding compiled applications, our officially supported compiler is 'BaCon'. This a BASIC compiler, well, a translator to C then r...

<t>I know that there has been much discussion about the header pins and why the beta boards will not have them pre-soldered on. Like, some people want 90 degree angle, others want them underneath the board.<br/> <br/> But, I just can't help feeling this was a bad decision. I think that the final rel...