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Re: Arch
Posted: Tue Apr 24, 2012 4:25 pm
by antiloquax
After seeing Liam's video on the Arch release, I thought I'd install NetSurf.
Worked fine (after I'd also installed lcms).
I'm using JWM and ROX as window- file-managers.
If anyone has any tips or things to try in the Arch release, please share!
Re: Arch
Posted: Wed Apr 25, 2012 7:42 pm
by antiloquax
I'm having fun with the Arch release. Here's where I am up to with the task if making it into Puppy Linux.
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Re: Arch
Posted: Thu Apr 26, 2012 7:47 am
by antiloquax
Oops, the picture didn't work before. To see how Lobster is progressing with his Puppy based on Debian, go here.
Re: Arch
Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2012 8:13 am
by antiloquax
Python 3 on Arch Linux
As the comments from "Commander Coder" make it clear that Python 3 will be the default language in the educational release (woop!), I have installed Python 3 and pygame into my Arch-Arm system. I decided against the version of Python 3 in the Arch repo. There is a way to get Pygame working with it, but without sound.
I tend to use Python 3.1.4 which works very well with the official Pygame release.
Anyway, I have set that up. At some point I will make my arch image available to download, just in case anyone wants to have a play with it.
Anyone else using the Arch release - please share any tips. I am an Arch newbie!
Re: Arch
Posted: Wed May 02, 2012 11:50 am
by antiloquax
I have been playing around with the Arch release and making it a bit more like Puppy.
If anyone wants to try running my image on qemu, it's here. It has Python and pygame, and some other programming goodies.
I don't know what would happen if you DD'd this into an Arch SD card in replacement of the 2nd partition, but that's what I am hoping to do when my Pi arrives.
The md5sum of the extracted puppi.img is:
66a141b3cb1f1c5b51007b6ae677c789 puppi.img
I love Arch – so much so I have installed it on my PC and laptop alongside Puppy Linux!
Re: Arch
Posted: Sat May 05, 2012 9:01 pm
by antiloquax
I ran pacman -Syyu yesterday and got a lot of new things downloaded from the repos. Did I
mention how much faster arch is than Debian? At the moment I am using xorg-twm to handle the desktop. It"s basic, but perfectly usable. And with rox providing a pinboard, I am wondering why I would need anything else. Currently I have been compiling some packages that will hopefully form part of the Puppy on Arm release. It just wouldn"t be Puppy without "rubix" ( a neat 3-d rubick's cube simulation)!