Boot Splash Message Editor (BSME)
Recently CatDude and myself created a GUI to edit gfxboot splash message files. These are the files that provide those nice graphic boot menus like this:
Information about the project can be found on the Puppy Linux murga forums here:
Version 2 has additional support for creating and using suitable fonts.
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UEFI
If you have a computer with UEFI rather than the legacy BIOS and Windows 8, and you wish to install Puppy alongside W8, then be prepared for some heartache, especially if your computer is a HP.This is a brilliant site regarding UEFI providing tons of information.
http://www.rodsbooks.com/efi-bootloaders/installation.html
If anyone knows how to boot straight to the rEFInd boot manager, bypassing the W8 boot manager and preserving W8 along side Puppy, I would be interested in the solution.
Cheers
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Vandals
Isn't it amazing how vandals turn up everywhere.There are a few of us who spend our own money to help others but there are always people who simply don't appreciate the help and have to break things.
Russoodle is one such person who has recently had her site hacked.
I am considering locking my site down to people I trust, not because I want to, but because I'm being forced into it.
Let's all play nice.
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Transformer
There are a lot of good converter applications available for Linux but some are quite complicated and others just don't work as well as expected.The one common aspect, most of them use ffmpeg to do the smart work.
I created a very simple GUI using YAD (Yet Another Dialog) which only has about 10 lines of code. I have only included the formats that actually work with ffmpeg-0.11.1 which is included in Fatdog-600. Many other puppies have a similar ffmpeg so they should also work.
You will need to install YAD for this little application to work.
The source can be downloaded here:
Download Transformer here.
Merry Christmas
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Carolina
While Jemimah is away geoffrey and elroy have been maintaining Saluki.Rather than make too many changes to Jemimah's creation they have forked Saluki in the form of Carolina. It's early days but Carolina looks promising. They have decided to not to go the minimal approach and make it more functional, not a bad thing in my view.
The Carolina files can be found here.
Wow, I have just had a look at they have been working at breakneck pace.
Well done guys.
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