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GREELEY (AP) Preserving the memory of his only daughter in song brought Paul Sacco to an emotional crossroads that he wasnt prepared to face.
Every time the Greeley attorney thought he was done recording his tribute album to daughter Aubrey Sacco, the University of Colorado graduate who vanished in Nepal more than two years ago, he found a sudden need to tinker with it some more.
I guess I felt if it ended, I wasnt going to see her again, he said, choking up last week as he remembered the young woman who sang a few tracks into his computer before heading out the door in the fall of 2009 for a trip to Asia.
But Sacco soon realized that the music he had been creating for more than a year was helping him, in a strangely powerful way, to cope with his daughters disappearance and all the emotions it had triggered.
It was a really good outlet for me to express my pain, he said. It was a controlled way to grieve. I began to find a lot of refuge in the songs they made me happy. This was a way to celebrate her, too.
The result of all that tinkering, recording and mixing is Finding Aubrey, a 16-song collection largely written, played and sung by Paul Sacco. Three rough tracks preserve his daughters 23-year-old voice and guitar work.
They were recorded by her just before she left, he said.
The album is for sale on iTunes for $11.99, or tracks can be purchased individually for $1.29 each. It can also be bought as a physical CD at createspace.com. The money raised from sales of Finding Aubrey go toward the search fund her family established after she went missing in April 2010 while trekking through Nepals Langtang National Park.
Paul Saccos attitude toward his daughters status is complicated these days, swinging between a fathers everlasting hope of a future reunion with the girl he watched grow up and the belief that Aubrey wouldnt suddenly cut herself off from everyone she knew and go into hiding.
He doubts she is being held somewhere against her will. She could have fallen into the powerful Langtang River, but he said in the shape she was in, he has his doubts about that. A wild animal attack? Murder? Sacco simply doesnt know.
Clues containing shreds of hope have come in over the last 2½ years, but nothing that leads to Aubrey.
Wed get a call from the embassy at 3 a.m. saying theyd found a body or some clothing, Sacco said. But none of these things belonged to Aubrey. Were still hopeful, but were tired.
As recently as last month, 85 Nepalese army soldiers spent two weeks searching for Aubrey in an area between the Lama Hotel and Ghora Tabela, known for its popular trekking route along the Langtang River. It was also the site where the CU art and psychology major was last seen in the spring of 2010.
The search yielded no signs of her.
When they left to do their search, we were on pins and needles, Paul Sacco said. We really want them to find evidence of her, but you dont want them to find a body.
The Sacco family including Pauls wife Connie, and sons Crofton and Morgan have made multiple trips to Langtang National Park to look for Aubrey. They hired a private investigator and have forged important relationships with military and police personnel in Nepal to keep the case open and active.
The family combed through photographs they found on Aubreys laptop, trying to see if anyone in the pictures had information about her or played a role in her disappearance.
We basically ran down all of the people and they ended up being innocent, Sacco said. They were not persons of interest.
Police in Nepal have told him they are finally ready to share information from their investigation perhaps even a theory of what they believe happened to his daughter soon. Maybe this month.
Until then, Paul Sacco said, the family has reached a bit of a dead end.
We dont have any new ideas on where to search, he said.
Many of the songs on Finding Aubrey reflect the bleakness of the last couple of years and the sadness of the situation. On Wounded, Sacco sings: I live in the moment/this life does not seem real/the emptiness is all I feel. I am the wounded one.
They are lyrics Amanda Sacco, Aubreys sister-in-law, can relate to. She considers herself Aubreys best friend, having met her in the fourth grade.
Sometimes I find myself at a standstill because there is no news, said Amanda Sacco, who is married to Aubreys oldest brother. Then Ill have a dream about her and it kind of renews me and refreshes me in a way.
She gets special comfort from the three songs Aubrey herself wrote and sang. They remind her of the deep thinker and complex artist her best friend was and remains.
Her words are so emotional, Amanda Sacco said.
Its those happy memories and positive impressions that Paul Sacco made sure were a part of the album, as much as the sad ones. On Crayons in the Sun, Sacco starts the song with a reference to a painting Aubrey made as a young child a tree adorned with luscious apples, bursting red.
He hangs the painting in his upstairs bathroom, where he can see it every day.
And your pictures were all there, one by one on all the walls/they were glowing/your smile was showing/youre loved by everyone, Sacco sings.
Aubreys work is all over the Sacco home in Greeley abstract paintings, mixed media creations, impressionistic pieces. They are what Paul Sacco and his wife hang on to, while their daughter remains missing.
Sacco said his daughters art reminds him of just what a free spirit Aubrey was and how she was able to capture the beauty of life in intricate brush strokes and with her active imagination. Hes convinced his daughter was bent on changing the world, not just living in it.
She was waiting to happen, he said.


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Pelleas and Melisande op. 5
Tristan und Isolde
Vorspiel zu Akt 1
Prelude to Act 1
Pelleas and Melisande op. 5
Tristan und Isolde
Vorspiel zu Akt 1
Prelude to Act 1
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester
Int. Release 03 Feb. 2012
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Wagner and Schoenberg Double Bill: Timeless Passion, Timeless Music, Ageless Pierre Boulez
Track List
Richard Wagner (1813 - 1883)
Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90
Act 1
Arnold Schoenberg (1874 - 1951)
Pelleas und Melisande, Op.5
Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester, Pierre Boulez
Total Playing Time 51:02
. . . [Schoenberg: "Pelleas und Melisande"]: Boulez brings out the best aspects of its formal flexibility and textural richness . . . the Prelude to Act 1 of "Tristan" grows to an ecstatically impassioned climax . . . beautifully shaped . . . The rapport between seasoned maestro and youthful players has never been more satisfying.
Direkt bei Wagner verlangt Boulez dem Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester alles ab, was die Versinnbildlichung des steten Flusses bei gleichzeitiger Aufmerksamkeit für die Abtönungen und Schattierungen anbelangt. Und selbstverständlich wird jede Notenpore vom Geist der Moderne [aufgeladen] . . . [Schoenberg: Pelleas und Melisande]: Aus der 1902 komponierten Partitur macht Boulez nun lebendige Musikgeschichte . . . hier erweist sich das Jugendorchester dank seiner differenzierten Durchformung und seines sensiblen Klanggespürs auf dem Niveau eines professionellen Spitzenorchesters.
Wieder einmal hat Pierre Boulez zugeschlagen. Und wie . . . Volle Wucht legen die"Mahlers" in Schönbergs symphonische Dichtung "Pelleas und Melisande" op. 5 . . . Maestro Boulez führt die Jungen zu wahren Höchstleistungen.
Superbe leçon de direction, vive, articulée, nerveuse, intensément dramatique . . . A Boulez revient le mérite de ciseler et sculpter une partition qui se pręte parfaitement ŕ cet exercice d'un wagnérisme souverain . . . Hymne au désir insatiable jusqu'ŕ l'épuisement des forces vitales, jusqu'ŕ l'anéantissement et la mort de délivrance, le prélude de "Tristan und Isolde" de l'acte I fait une place ciselée aux bois, cor anglais, hautbois et clarinette en particulier, fine constellation instrumentale qui énonce le poison mortel qui s'insinue peu ŕ peu dans le tissu orchestral. Transparence et clarté, langueur mesurée et parfaitement articulée, la direction du chef se distingue évidemment par sa classe lumineuse, un apollonisme d'une parfaite balance entre hédonisme et pudeur . . . L'équilibre des pupitres, la beauté sonore, la clarté polyphonique restituent ŕ l'żuvre sa force et sa sauvagerie primitive, ses éclairs sensuels; la direction de Boulez est une suite d'éblouissements surtout instrumentaux: chaque partie est idéalement mise en avant, travail sur l'articulation et le dialogue concertant des musiciens, une attention aux couleurs qui transparaissait déjŕ dans le Prélude de Tristan.
Wagner and Schoenberg Double Bill: Timeless Passion, Timeless Music, Ageless Pierre Boulez
Maestro Pierre Boulez's renowned lucidity makes him an extraordinary conductor of this emotionally luxuriant music
Celebrated for championing the most daring music of the 20th century, Boulez leads this 2003 Tokyo concert, played in the presence of Japan's Emperor and Empress. Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande and Wagner's Prelude to "Tristan und Isolde" could have received no treatment more royal than he gives it at Suntory Hall with the Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester
The Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester was founded by Claudio Abbado to provide young musicians the chance to work with established conductors and soloists. Based in Vienna, they tour during the Easter and summer seasons
The Gustav Mahler Jugend Orchester, with which Pierre Boulez has toured four times, celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2011. The present recording is testimony to Boulez's esteem for this band
The Guardian observed, "For a quarter of a century now Boulez's performances of all the modernists have set benchmarks ... he remains unrivalled in the works of the Second Viennese School, and in Schoenberg in particular"
Visit the Website of Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester - Musicians for Europe to learn more about the activities of this critically acclaimed Youth Orchestra.
"Yearning, yearning, insatiable longing ever reborn, thirsting and repining! The only release is to die, to perish, to fade away, nevermore to awaken!" This is how Wagner himself summed up the plot of his opera Tristan und Isolde in the most succinct imaginable manner. But, strictly speak-ing, it is impossible to call it an "opera", for in writing the work Wagner had explored what he called "the profound art of resonant silence", investigating the darker side of the human psyche and setting foot in an alternative world inaccessible to language, a theatre of the mind lacking in any sense of theatrical spectacle. Here music reasserts its primal rights, as Wagner went on to explain in his note on the Prelude to Act I: "The musician who chose this theme to introduce his love drama was bound to feel entirely at one with that most absolute and unrestricted element that is music, so that his sole concern was how he might best restrict himself, inasmuch as the theme he had chosen could never be wholly exhausted."
In the event, Wagner failed miserably to reveal himself as a master of self-restraint when he composed this prelude, an introduction which commentators, endowed with the keenness of hindsight, have claimed marks the birth of musical modernism. Pierre Boulez prefers a less vague definition and speaks of the "beginning of the chromatic era of our age". Wagner's suc-cessors – and here Boulez thinks in particular of Mahler and Schoenberg – took this develop-ment a stage further, resulting in "total chromaticization as a result of the need for Expressionist expression – tonal relationships were abandoned in favour of the explosive force of a chromati-cism that allowed composers to move quickly towards a style described as 'atonal'."
Not only musicians in Vienna but literary figures in Paris fell under the spell of Wagner, whose music dramas proved a source of tremendous and inescapable provocation for the whole of western civilization. His medieval subject matter, the pseudo-archaic tone of his librettos and the synaesthetic undertow of works notable for their use of tone colour were all a challenge to writ-ers in a field they had regarded as their own exclusive preserve. It was at the end of the 19th cen-tury, when wagnérisme enticed French thinking out of the midday light of reason and into the semi-darkness of myth and music, that the Flemish playwright Maurice Maeterlinck, who was born in Ghent in 1862, wrote his dreamlike plays, plays best described not so much as works of literature than as expressions of "resonant silence". His play Pelléas et Mélisande was first per-formed in Paris in 1893 and is set in legendary times in the distant kingdom of Allemonde. On an overgrown path in a gloomy forest one of the king's grandsons, Golaud, discovers Mélisande weeping alone at the edge of a well as if she had just emerged from its depths like the Ondine of the fairy tale. Golaud takes the unknown woman back with him to his castle as his wife, and it is here that she meets his half-brother, Pelléas. The castle is built on gloomy grottoes over under-ground lakes and is surrounded by impenetrable forests, without light and life, joyless and deso-late. For all its furtive intensity, the tragedy that unfolds as a result of Golaud's jealousy of the burgeoning love between Pelléas and Mélisande is treated by Maeterlinck in a supremely under-stated manner lacking in action and theatricality and remote from any conventional dramaturgy and from the usual logic of the theatre. As such, the play seems made for the taciturn art of music.
Debussy's somnambulistic and almost reverential setting of Maeterlinck's play was staged at the Opéra-Comique in Paris in 1902, the same year as that in which Schoenberg decided to set this anti-drama to music, not, however, as an opera but as a symphonic poem. "It is hard to resist the idea of comparing the two scores," writes Pierre Boulez. "We may content ourselves with ob-serving that Debussy's aesthetic approach was far more novel than the Romantic emotionalism in which Schoenberg was still immersed at this time; it would take a number of years for him to break free from this post-Wagnerian world of ideas."
There is no doubt that Debussy's opera comes far closer to Maeterlinck's mysterious and elusive poem than Schoenberg's orchestral work, which he completed in February 1903, the exuberant polyphonic writing of which struck contemporaries as opaque and above all unplayable. Even Mahler found the score "enormously complex". Schoenberg's Pelleas und Melisande is a music drama without words, a detailed tone poem with themes "in the nature of Wagnerian leitmotifs", a work, finally, whose formal design may be interpreted either as an example of first-movement sonata form on an altogether gigantic scale or as a four-movement symphony. At the time he wrote it, Schoenberg was still struggling to find recognition as a composer and lavished a profli-gate degree of mastery on the score. The ideal of restraint and self-restraint occurred to him only later when he began to arrange his twelve notes in serial rows and opened up a new chapter in the "chromatic era", an era of which Wagner's Tristan und Isolde was itself no more than a prelude.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is committed to fighting Medicaid fraud, which diverts funds from needed medical care for the most vulnerable Americans. That's why we're announcing a challenge – the Provider Screening Innovator Challenge – to develop software tools that will help stop fraudsters from entering the Medicaid program under the pretense of serving patients.
The Provider Screening Innovator Challenge encourages private sector competition to develop new software that can screen potential Medicaid providers and keep bad actors from ever getting into the program. Through a series of contests over the next 8 to 9 months, expert software developers will work to create software products, and the best ideas will be awarded prize money. A total of $600,000 is available for prizes, funded by the Partnership Fund for Program Integrity Innovation, a program within the Office of Management and Budget.
The new software products will include enhanced screening data, such as the results of site visits, criminal background checks, and identity verification. Fraudsters who try repeatedly to enter Medicaid by altering their applications with a slight change will also be blocked. The software will also capture licensing information and financial data to spot and stop risky providers.
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Lyrics Born's Anti debut Everywhere at Once is both a groovy instant dance party and a testament to the industrious multi-tasker's vida loca. Never resting on his laurels and always changing shit up, the MC, producer, label exec and non-stop live performer switched directions again, forgoing the usual samples/drum machine route and instead recording with his live band. Vibe writes, "he sounds transformed- festive and celebratory, his smarts undiminished."
Britian's best loved socialist Billy Bragg today released Mr. Love and Justice, his first record in six years. A deluxe version is also available that contains the whole record performed by Billy with just his electric guitar. Mojo called it "warmer, less blustery, more soulful," and Spin writes "Bragg gets the balance of message and music just about right." See for yourself.


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CARDIAC to FPGA
Over the last few weeks, I've been playing with the old Bell paper teaching computer called CARDIAC. I've gone from a real version, to a spreadsheet simulation, to a Verilog simulation. The Verilog simulation worked pretty well (except for a few bugs I've recently fixed or that I'm in the process of fixing). However, the whole point to putting it in Verilog was to move it to an FPGA.
Why put a 35-year-old paper computer into an FPGA? I am hopeful that a simple CPU like this can help students (and non-students) get their feet wet in building FPGA-based designs. Sure, there are plenty of more modern CPUs around, but they are also possibly more complicated.
My Verilog implementation (called VTACH) runs fine under the Icarus Verilog simulator. To move it to real hardware, I needed a few things. First, I needed an FPGA board. My favorite for this kind of project is the Digilent Spartan-3 Board. I happened to have the 1000K gate version, but the CPU is simple enough to fit on the less expensive 200K part. I like this board because it is self-contained, not too expensive, and has enough I/O devices like LEDs and switches to make for an interesting project.
I also needed some implementation software. I used Xilinx ISE WebPack, which is available for free on its website. The software allows you to simulate (like Icarus but with many more features) and then build a configuration file that will set up your circuit inside the FPGA. Speaking of that, you need a JTAG cable to go with the Digilent board. I happen to have a Xilinx cable (fairly pricey), but Digilent sells less expensive options that would work just as well.
The JTAG interface lets you either directly send the configuration to the FPGA or to the onboard serial EEPROM. If you configure the FPGA, a power cycle will reset the FPGA (which is no big deal during development; you simply reload it). The FPGA normally reads the configuration from the EEPROM so if you put it there, the board will load it on every power up or reset.
It is common to hear people talk about "programming" an FPGA. However, you don't really program an FPGA. The configuration file tells the FPGA how to connect its various parts, but it isn't like an executable program. Of course, this is a CPU so part of the configuration will be a bit image of software for the processor to execute. You could consider that programming.
In a perfect world, you could just pour the existing Verilog code into the Xilinx ISE software, press a button, and get an FPGA out of it. That's close, but not quite practical. The simulation has a few things that are specific to the simulation. For one thing, the clock isn't a real piece of hardware. The io_input.v and io_output.v modules are also highly specific to simulation. There's also a few other tweaks that can make things work better on the real hardware. Specifically, I wanted to use one of the FPGA's specific memory blocks for the main memory.
The final piece of the puzzle is that you need to build a constraint file. The simulated code isn't real. But on the FPGA there are specific pins that connect to clocks, input devices, and output devices. If you don't tell the translation software what to do, it simply picks any pins it wants for different functions. That might be acceptable if you were building a new board and didn't have it built yet. In this case we are using a commercial board that has very specific ideas about what the pins do, and the constraints file tells the translator what pins to use for different signals. You can find the UCF file in the online listings that the Xilinx tool uses to set constraints. There are several ways to set constraints, and if you use a UCF file you can edit it with a text editor or with special Xilinx GUI tools.
One other piece was useful, although not strictly necessary. It is tiresome to hand assemble code every time you want to try a piece of software out on your new CPU. It is also tiresome to write a new assembler to go with each new CPU. I got tired of doing that after developing a few CPUs, so I built axasm that is a very simple (and very hackish) assembler that is easy to configure. I won't go into the details here (you can read the previous article), but the configuration file for CARDIAC and VTACH is in the online listings.
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;; Test program to debug the BCD math ORG 0 SFT 8,0 ; read switches to AC STO 70 top: OUT 70 SFT 9,0 ; read pushbutton (-1 or 1) TAC exe ; button down? SFT 0,9 ; read other pushbutton TAC exe2 JMP top exe: ; add one to the count LOD 70 ADD one STO 70 wait: SFT 9,0 ; wait for button up TAC wait JMP top exe2: LOD 70 ; subtract one from the count SUB one STO 70 wait2: SFT 0,9 ; wait for button up TAC wait2 JMP top one: DATA 1 END


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Stage director: Hana Burešová
Sets: Martin Černý
Costumes: Kateřina Štefková
Dramaturgy: Štěpán Otčenášek, Iva Klestilová
Music: Jean Baptiste Lully, Vít Zouhar
Musical preparation: Václav Luks, Vojtěch Spurný
Motion cooperation: Jana Hanušová
Avarice, scheming, stupidity, pride and desire for social advancement are all themes that were topical at the time Moliere was writing his play, and they are still topical today. Monsieur de Pourceaugnac was created in 1669 as a comédie-ballet in prose and was first performed by Moliere's troupe of actors before the court of Louis XIV at the Château de Chambord. The music was composed by Jean-Baptiste Lully. In this comedy, Moliere portrays a gawky, ennobled burgess longing to advance his social rank. The vehicle for reaching his goal should be his marrying Julie, the daughter of the noted aristocrat Oronte. Yet Julie loves the young and handsome Éraste. In order to prevent the impending marriage, the young couple devise a plan aimed at discrediting Monsieur de Pourceaugnac in the eyes of Julie's parents. The composer of the music for our production, Vít Zouhar, will draw upon Lully's motifs. The performance will also feature a small orchestra. The production will be directed by Hana Burešová, a specialist in discovering neglected plays.
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"If you build it, they will come." Paraphrasing, Ray Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson, Field of Dreams.
A little more than two years ago, Barry K announced an ingenious vision: Woof -- a "magic script" whereby Puppy Linux could, by using the applications developed in ANY other Linux distributions and maintained on their repositories, avoid both the energy-wasteful processes of personally having to reinvent wheels each time there was an improved kernel, and the resource wasteful process of maintaining the webspace needed to publicly provide the source files of "our" special variants of wheels. Since then, he --with the help of others-- has taken great strides toward bringing his vision to fruition.
Ubuntu advertises that "The Ubuntu repositories contain thousands of packages, and with 3rd party repositories you can get even more." debian binaries were, primarily, the source of those packages. Arch Linux "provides many thousands of binary packages within its official repositories whereas Slackware official repositories are more modest." So when I first learned of woof, I had two immediate thoughts: "beyond my skill set", and "Wow! Access to the tens of thousand of packages advertised by other distros."
I have since learned that the relationship between a "package" and an "application" is about the same as that of a muffler to an automobile: not particularly useful on its own. And some packages are less: just a specialized screw holding the muffler in place. The reality is that there are comparatively few applications, and little reason that there be very many more. A Puppy comes stocked with a
of application for each
of applications you actually will use on a daily basis, and these are the same applications you'll find in every other distro. Applications beyond those found in the 'stock Puppy' fall into three categories: variations, specialized programs, and variations of specialized programs. For example, Puppy's stock wordprocessor is Abiword. An available variant wordprocessor is LibreOffice. There are many occasions when all you need is a simple text editor like geany. There are other times when Abiword's formating capabilities come in handy for drafting short documents. And there are others, still, where the more robust capability of LibreOffice to handle large documents, emulate MSWord's format, or utilize templates, may be required. But just how many species of the genus wordprocessor does one need? Falling under the
"specialized applications" are video editors. The 'stock Puppy' does not necessarily include one. Among such specialized applications is the supposedly 'simple' OpenShot Video Editor. And a more complete --but intellectually challenging-- variant would be Cinelera. How many video editors does one need?
Puppy, by now, has it own version of almost any application you can name. But more importantly, you will be hard pressed to find in any distro a
of applications not also found in every other distro.
Since in theory any distro can be woofed, three inter-related questions arise: (1) Is there a detriment to woofing too many distros; (2) Does it make any practical difference which distro we woof; and (3) Is there any distro whose woofing might be the most beneficial?
Your answers to these question are invited, especially if you have experience with woof, and the distro you recommend or disapprove. But as I see it, resolution of these questions is intimately bound up with two issues: (1) What role does Puppy play in the Linux community? and (2) what are Puppy's strengths and weaknesses?
I discovered Linux about five years ago. I was looking for an alternative to running XP on an IBM Thinkpad 600e: Pentium II, 190 Megs of Ram. I wanted an operating system which wouldn't so hog its limited resources that the running of actual applications became painful. As I was unwilling to euthanize its current OS before I was certain of being able to replace it with something better, in my search I included the condition that the OS had to be able to run from a LiveCD. And I wanted something which I could just boot-up and put to use: no opening the black box and jiggling the wires required. Early on in my search I discovered such useful google terms as "lightweight" "recommended for old computers." Soon, that search revealed Puppy, whose mission statement was:
1. Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media
2. Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes
3. Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies
4. Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast
5. Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use
6. Puppy will just work, no hassles
7. Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs
But before I found Puppy, I also found --and rejected-- Archlinux. 'Though it met the requirements of "lightweight" and "recommended for old computers," -see, however, footnote-- it could not, at that time, be run from a LiveCD. And it was definitely not Newby Friendly. Even learning the jargon necessary to get it to run at all involves --for a Linux newby-- a considerable learning curve.
As originally envisioned, woofing Archlinux was specifically mentioned. Today, among the Puppy variants is our official release, Lucid Puppy 5.2, approximately 65% of whose build is from Ubuntu binaries. We have Wary, built from T2 binaries. We have people working on perfecting sPup, built primarily from Slackware binaries. And we've had several version of dPup, built from debian, at least one of which, gposil's, almost progressed beyond beta. What ain't we got? Besides dames, a woofed Archlinux.
Maybe Arch presents technical difficulties rendering it incompatible with Puppy? A "well-minded" search of the Forum reveals that we have several devs familiar with Arch, that scripts from Arch have been used on occasion, and one or two Forum members who mentioned they were attempting to woof Arch. But there is no active 'Woof Arch' thread , and the one previous thread suggesting it died from lack of enthusiasm.
Let me be clear. I am not a dev. "A man must know his limitations." Dirty Harry Callahan. But I am no longer so much of a newby as to be intimidated by Linux's jargon. Having acquired a 64-bit computer and wanting to get the most of it, I rediscovered Archlinux. Yes, there's a fully functional 64-bit version. I've downloaded Archlinux's latest snapshot ISO, read its guides and researched other information providing an overview, have a grasp of its strengths and weaknesses, and I've resized a hard-drive partition in preparation for its installation. But that's as far as I've gotten. I am not the person to build a woofed Archlinux. Perhaps, however, I am the right person to drum up support that it be built. My research regarding Archlinux's strengths and weaknesses suggested that it may be the best distribution for woofing: its strengths are our weaknesses, and vice-versa.
Commensalism is a relationship between two organisms where one organism benefits but the other is neither harmed, nor benefits. Mutualism is a relationship between organisms in which both organisms benefit. Puppy's relationship to Slackware, debian and Ubuntu is commensal. But a woofed Archlinux would be mutually beneficial.
Our strengths: Puppys pretty much accomplish the goals laid out in the Mission Statement. Archlinux's weaknesses are (1) it is not newby friendly and hassle-free; (2) An Archlinux LiveUSB requires at least 3 gigs, and creating one is far more technically complex then a Puppy LiveUSB. While, by this time, an Archlinux LiveCD can be built using either Archios or larch --and the latter seems to be similar in conception to a Puppy LiveCD's-- using either system is far more technically challenging than building a Puppy LiveCD.
Our Weaknesses: We have too much of a good thing. There is no such thing as the "Puppy Distribution." There's Ttuuxxx's 2.14x Updated, the 3.0 Series, the 4.12 Puppy and Pupplets, the 4.20 Puppy and Pupplets, the 4.31 Puppy and Pupplets, Puppeee and Fluppy, and sPups, and dPups and Lucid Pups, derivatives of any and all of them, and more. The first Newby question is "Which will run on my computer?" To which a dozen answers will be given, that can be summed up with the statement "Well, burn a couple and see which runs best." And the second Newby question, "How do I know if this
app will it work on my system?" And the third "Why doesn't the application I installed from XYZ distribution, upon which my Puppy was woofed, work?"
Puppy Package Manager is good as far as it goes in trying to bring order into a system which has 'grown like Topsy." But it is not perfect. Some apps in the Wary repository will run under sPup, or uPup; and some won't. Some in our Lucid repository will run under sPup; vice-versa, and some won't. And multiply that condition by every Puppy Version, every variant of that version using a different kernel, and then some. It may all depend upon what other apps you've installed, and the library versions they used.
Iguleder's pdebthing and pslackthing brings an improvement. But these are useful in only two of our menagerie, and the fact that there is more than one app reveals that even they are only a partial solution.
It is in the area of Package Management that Archlinux excels. As it currently stands --without any modifications we might make to conform it to our goals--
Arch installs a base Linux system, and then the user can configures it and expand it depending on his needs.
Central to Archlinux is the Pacman software manager. It is capable of resolving dependencies and automatically downloading and installing all necessary packages. In theory, a user need only run a single command to completely update the system. Pacman combines a simple binary package format with an easy-to-use build system. The Arch Build System (ABS) provides a way to easily build new packages, modify the configuration of stock packages, and share these packages. This makes it possible to easily manage packages, whether they be from the official Arch repositories or the user's own builds. Pacman keeps the system up to date by synchronizing package lists with the master server. This server/client model also allows users to download/install packages with a simple command, complete with all required dependencies. Pacman uses compressed tar archives for all of the packages, each of which contains compiled binaries. Packages are downloaded via FTP; it can also use HTTP and local files, depending on how each repository is set up. It complements the Arch Linux Build System (ABS) used to create packages from source.
Although Pacman, itself, employs the command-line, frontend GUIs are available using QT, Java, PyGtk2, and less importantly, Gnome and KDE. A cursory review of Archlinux reveals its heavy reliance on use of the command line. Here our devs experience in developing lightweight GUI's could produce a system more inviting to newbies and casual users.
Like Puppy --and unlike Ubuntu-- Archlinux is designed to be simple and lightweight. Its repositories contain, as far as I can see, most, if not all, of the applications found in debian or Ubuntu. Unlike Puppy, Ubuntu, debian, and Slackware, Archlinux is a rolling distribution: That means that rather than having to install a new version, and reinstall applications, whenever a new kernel or new applications become available, you can upgrade your existing system to employ those innovations. After your first Arch installation a simple "pacman -Syu" command will always keep you up to date. We, of course, could find a way for Newbies to do it by clicking a button.
Unlike Slackware, Archlinux is "bleeding edge." Unlike Ubuntu and its derivatives, Archlinux packages are not "bloated" by the need to run under any possible system configuration. Rather, as I understand it, the Arch build system only installs those libraries, drivers and modules, required by your architecture and desired by you. The user decides what will be installed and executed and every component of the OS is transparent, accessible and replaceable. That philosophy, and the way it is implemented, is similar to that of Slackware and may appeal to those of our devs who are Slackware-fans.
Our second weakness is that, although we have an active forum with numerous members, only a handful of them are technically savvy. When those go off in different directions, less is actually accomplished, and that which is accomplished takes longer. Our devs, however, are volunteers motivated by the joy of solving puzzles and sharing their time and talent with others. So, if "shot-gun approach" were the only objection, the response "the joy is in the journey" would win out.
The Pacman Software Manager was designed so that it could be installed on another Linux distribution, and then using it from that distribution, build a "Archlinux" system. I downloaded it, and all its dependencies, and created a NON-FUNCTIONAL SFS, that is it didn't run under Puppy Lucid. But, that's me and I rarely know what I'm doing in the absence of detailed instructions. Getting Pacman to play nice in Puppy may, however, be a puzzle our devs would enjoy solving. And obtaining a viable Arch Linux Build System under Puppy may also pose more than a simple challenge. [Shinobar's ingenious solution in the dpup-482 thread to the obstacle that Synaptic ordinarily requires a "Full Install" provides hope that there will be a solution to problems]. In solving those challenges we may, however, find allies in the active Archlinux Forum, with its many technically savvy members.
Consider for a moment the following goal: a newby friendly operating system, which can easily be installed and run from a USB or CD, employing Puppy's modular approach --one lightweight app of each genus necessary for common daily usage --to which other SFS apps can be loaded as needed, and employing Archlinux's techniques so that after the initial boot-up your operating system can be easily reconfigured, upgraded, maintained and expanded to the maximum potential of your hardware and your personal objectives.
It is a goal, I would suggest, to which the journey would be joyous, or at the very least, instructive.
(Footnote: In its present configuration, Archlinux can not be installed on systems less powerful than i686 based machines: that is pentium pros and pentium IIs, i.e. computers manufactured more than 13 years ago. But then, can Puppy Lucid run on even older hardware?)
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Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 08:28
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I am a total Nobody when it comes to Arch.
I did download the archiso-live-2011-01-04.iso and tried to make a frugal install but it could not see a file it needed. But it did boot a long way into the script.
I am lazy so I gave up after a few hours of fruitless attempt to find a working menu.lst code to it to boot on NTFS. Maybe it need an USB to boot but I was too lazy for that one too.
If somebody made an easy description on how to make a frugal install of archiso-live distro then many Puppyites got used to see it as a good thing to have a woofed Arch to use?
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
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Mike I am a true nobody but you got me interested in Arch.
so I gave Archiso linux a new try and could almost do anything now but not edit a text file and save it.
I had to go out to the prompt and do a root login
Dowload it from Archiso linux.
He himself was unlucky to get his computer fried and was sent a used one and that one had not enough memory so he use Slitaz on that one instead while he wait for his big Desktop to be available in a local shop or sent after from a webshop.
So for the moment he is not using arch but the iso is still there. It was built Jan 4 2011 so look for that one.
It is a live system but I made a frugal install and that works rather okay.
title Archiso-live
root (hd0,2)
kernel /archiso/boot/vmlinuz from=/dev/sda3/archiso elevator=deadline session=xfce load=overlay lang=sv_SE kmap=se-lat6
initrd /archiso/boot/initrd.img
Change the 0,2 to 0,0 or something proper for your gear. Sda3 to 1 or whatever.
lang= should be what your country have or use US there.
I made a subdir for it named archiso and placed the files in the iso there. I use grub4dos to boot and it works out of the box.
But being a live system and linux it does not allow one to listen to the music on the HDD it is on unless one go root.
So one do log out and then log in is root psw ArchLinux
observe the A and not arch Linux not linux.
It does not save any changes so one need to learn how to use the programs built in to make such a file or borrow such a one from some other linux?
Okay this is not puppy but one can learn about arch this way.
But don't ask me I know absolutely nothing about arch
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Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 18:19
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nooby wrote:
It does not save any changes so ...
Did you try to create a xfs-file-system on a file for persistent storage? Please look for the "changes" kernel parameter?
better: google for slax cheat-codes
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Posted: Fri 28 Jan 2011, 18:33
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Yes I should look into that.
I notice a thing.
When I am logged in as root it does not allow me to change a text file because it is read only.
Every file are like that. Kind of safe that way I guess but it is very unusual compared to Puppy.
How do you change the menu.lst without having to log out and reboot or something.
The only way for me to play music on the HDD was to become root. As usr I was locked out of playing or looking at pictures. Weird or me too dense obviously.
Very steep learning curve. But Ubuntu is like that too.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jan 2011, 11:47
Post subject: Archiso-live -Thanks nooby
Thanks nooby for the link:
And thanks, cinclus_cinclus for suggestions on creating persistent storage.
You've encouraged me to think about tackling a live-Arch from the other direction. Unfortunately, right now I'm having problems with my CD burner, and none of my Puppies would mount the ISO. I'll have to open the box and see if I can sort out the burner problem.
If I understood it right, godane built ariso-live using techniques similar to those used to build Puppy, including squash files. That suggests that it may be able, or modifiable, to use Puppy's technique of loading and unloading applications in SFS format "on the fly". Some one who know what they're doing can probably mount it, and see how it was constructed.
But from two comments on his blog --some people with nVidia cards being unable to boot [I know, nooby, that you didn't have that problem]-- I wonder if in building a Live-Arch, some of Arch's hardware recognition capability was lost. Which raises two other questions: Whether godane's techiques also sacrificed the two aspects of Arch by which Puppy could benefit:
(1) routines for keeping track of what you've already put on your entire system, so that only necessary "parts" are installed or upgraded as need be; and
(2) the capability of upgrading apps and even the kernel from an active system.
Or, in other words, Pacman and the Arch Build System.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jan 2011, 13:27
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(Footnote: In its present configuration, Archlinux can not be installed on systems less powerful than i686 based machines: that is pentium pros and pentium IIs, i.e. computers manufactured more than 13 years ago. But then, can Puppy Lucid run on even older hardware?)
Yes. Mostly Lucid 5.2 is compiled for i386 so it could run on older computers--but I agree-i686 is no big deal nowadays. Ubuntu did something clever I think--while the i386 libraries are default--it also provides the i686 libraries--Lucid 5.2 does *not* contain the i686 libraries by default for reasons of saving space but they are available in the Puppy Package Manager. Oddly, a few Lucid programs had a problem running on an AMD K6 cpu--but there is a K6-pack available in PPM also.
Anyway, I look forward to an ArchPup. One thing I have always liked about Arch is the "rolling release" model and I think that would make it easy for someone to very easily update an ArchPup. Best wishes.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jan 2011, 14:15
Post subject: Re: Woof Archlinux
Subject description: If you build it, they will come.
mikeslr wrote:
Since in theory any distro can be woofed, three inter-related questions arise: (1) Is there a detriment to woofing too many distros; (2) Does it make any practical difference which distro we woof; and (3) Is there any distro whose woofing might be the most beneficial?
Your answers to these question are invited, especially if you have experience with woof, and the distro you recommend or disapprove. But as I see it, resolution of these questions is intimately bound up with two issues: (1) What role does Puppy play in the Linux community? and (2) what are Puppy's strengths and weaknesses?
There's is no real detriment to having more puplets. The distro chosen does select which devs will be interested in it. Selecting one that will draw new developers into the Puppy community would be a plus. I think the arch community would be a good place to poach from.
Although, I personally don't think Puppy's architecture is that good of a match for other distro's packages. I mean why dedicate the months of effort to make Puppy elegant, simple, and small if the same effort is not applied to the packages. It's like putting a roof rack on a Miata.
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Posted: Sat 29 Jan 2011, 15:36
Post subject: Perhaps "Woofing" was the wrong term
Subject description: Co-opt Pacman & Arch Build System as an SFS
Hi Jemimah & Playdaz:
In the main, I agree with Jemimah that other distros' packages may not be the best fit for Puppy's architecture. The ability to use them, or some of them, is a plus, but does not play to Puppy's strength. That, as I see it, is a small, lightweight OS, that can run as a frugal install from (more or less) any medium, providing a full set of packages needed for 'everyday' use, but expandable 'on the fly' via squash files. What I'd like to see for Puppy --perhaps as a squash file-- is something like Archlinux's Pacman and Arch Build System, enabling (a) upgrading of apps and systems 'on the fly' and (b) semi-automatic compiling of new apps from source using the AUR repository. [Being able to use apps in Archlinux's repositories would be a plus, but not essential].
Playdaz, I wish I had the skill set, or years to learn them, but as I've mentioned I'm not the guy to build an Arch-Puppy. At 68, building new mental synapses required to analyze technical problems from within their discipline is an up-hill battle. My strength is that I've spent 48 of those years looking beyond the immediate problem at the "whole picture" in many disciplines. And I was inspired long ago by Bobby Kennedy: "I look at things which have never been, and ask 'Why not.'"
Which is why I suggested that someone who knows what they're doing should look at how godane developed a LiveArch ISO, and whether he had to sacrifice Pacman and Arch Build in the process. And perhaps they might also look at larch and Archiso..
P.S. For those still interested in Archlinux. I burned godane's iso to a CD on a different computer --my wife's XP box. I was then able to mount the CD and examine the files, but only after installing a pet which handles xz compression. Although I was in Lupu, I used the one gposil posted for dpup as it was handy. I was also able to copy Archiso-live's folders to a new partition. But it didn't boot, reporting about a file-system mismatch. I'll explore more later. Just wanted to note that xz was the format godane used. I don't know how that would complicate things.
One other thing I discovered is I'm not certain how much assistance can be had on the Archlinux forum. Unless I missed something, all versions of frugal install were developed by godane.
I'm in the process of installing Archlinux 64-bit on my "main" computer: the one I rarely get to use. But that's, in part, a way to build some mental synapses: doing is more effective than just reading.
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Amigo's src2pkg project should allow semi-automatic compiling and packaging from any type of source package.
The problem is that a lot of things just don't compile unmodified. I guess with build systems like arch or gentoo, a developer makes the necessary changes to the source code for you. Deciding what build flags to use, what dependencies are truly necessary, which libraries should be static and which dynamic, and what cruft can be removed is also a highly creative process - not easy to automate,
Which, with Puppy, leaves you in the exact same boat. If a developer is needed to mangle the souce before it gets to the user, that developer may just as well create a binary package.
Upgrading the base, on the fly, is also tremendously complicated, especially with Puppy as a lot of the applications are interconnected. And a remaster is needed to reclaim the space freed be removing old apps. This is another thing that the Puppy architecture is particularly unsuited for.
The main obstacle that keeps Puppy from having its own fully stocked repo is simply a shortage of package maintainers. Add to this the fragmentation of puplets, which is sort of inevitable, even without woof, because Puppy trades flexiblity for small size and ease of use - so nearly everyone with the requisite skill is going to want to create their own custom version.
We could try to fix this problem by creating a Puppy build kit along the lines of Puppy Unleashed - much less flexible than woof with a much shallower learning curve and having a legitimate community repository. Then at least we'd all be using the same sources. You'd still need a veritable army of developers to keep up with the churn of new application versions.
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Thanks Jemimah for mentioning src2pkg. As you said not everything can be automated -at least not from the start. all major distros have some system or method ofr automating building or rebuilding packages. But each distro does things differently than others in one way or another. Hence there is always a need for distro-specific modfications to some or many packages. Each distro has maintainers for each package and every distro uses some sort of 'recipe' for each package. Once a recipe is created, the package can be built automatically as long as no more changes are needed.
One of the biggest things that Puppy is missing is just such a system where each package has a recipe for building it. That precludes any sort of automation or repeatability of builds and means that any port of puppy to anbother mavhine architecture would be as excruciating as the original build. In contrast, debian or fedora use the samme recipes for any architecture -the recipes are created with this in mind, so that if a ceratin arch needs a certain patch not needed by other arches it gets applied automatically when building for that arch.
src2pkg provides for the same compatibility and somewhat like gentoo, it lets you download, compile, package and install in one fell swoop. What src2pkg provides that *no other system has*, is the ability to create *some* packages without any human intervention. It can actually draw from any human intervention which ahs gone before -by using configuration and compilation options created/proofed by debain or rpm maintainers. The real beauty of src2pkg is that it provides this very easy usage for people who know nothing about packaging, while also allowing for advanced packaging using tweaked recipes.
Sometimes it involves a lot of work to produce a perfect package using a customized recipe, but having that recipe then makes it a snapp to update the package to a new version or build the same sources on another architecture. And the recipes are much more concise than many paragraphs of prose on someone's blog or forum.
My view is that puppy should use *no* packages from other distros. Mixing and matching packages from other distros is simply crazy. The less puppy has in common with other distros, the more this is true. Probably around half of the stuff used to make puppy are not available in the repos of other distros -I mean on other distro includes all of what puppy uses. So, building puppy will always involve compiling and creating some packages which are not available elsewhere or that need puppy-specific modifications. If there was a way of automating the production of packages -once the recipe is established, rebuilding the packages would be very easy for the purpose of upgrading the package version or rebuilding for a new distro version or machine architecture.
To me, even using basic packages from another distro is insane. Doing so means you are always chasing some other dogs tail - trying to implement version upgrades according to soemeone elses schedule and priorities. the big guys have hundreds of developers and maintainers -debian has way over 1000 package maintainers! A small team can never hope to keep up with such a project. It sounds tempting to directly piggy-back on their work by using their packages directly. But, a small team would always be overwhelmed just trying to work out which upstream changes should be applied here, which should be ignored and which need tweaking.
Trying to have a ppup, spup, dpup, upup, apup simply means that the few developers and contribs who are talented enough to do *anything* significant are always gonna be spread out over many sub-projects -and this leaves little time and talent for developing and implementing *core concepts* which are essential to the identity and feel of your project.
To me, one of the biggest disadvantages of nearly all LiveCD distros is that they encourage forking or the production of derivatives. This hard to avoid because the main release inevitably contains a mix of software which is not suitable to everyone. The first and main argument is always over which browser to include. And then on and on. So, people whose preferences are different start producing derivative releases with different choices of software. What a waste of talent. Why not, instead, work on finding a way to make the distro more flexible or customizable. There are a few projects which provide a web-interface so that a user can have a cutom iso created for them which includes the software they want. Such a thing would be great for puppy and could stop a lot of waste of talent.
Having a package-based build system which is consistent and well thought out would make it possible to create all sorts of variants -for other arches as well. It would make puppy 'legitimate' in the eyes of other Linux developers and allow for incorporating the efforts of more contributors (or detractors with their derivatives) into the mainstream effort. I don't really mean to be derogatory about authors of variants being detractors. The point is that there is no good mechanism for consistently incorporating their efforts into the main production for the good of all users and devs.
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Thanks for all these insights in the many considerations for to get things to work.
My participation in this is more like a clumsy user that stumble on a used Car that is very different from all the cars one are used to with autmatic gears and anti spin of wheels and you almost are like sitting in Cockpit of an airplane needing to check that all the instrument show it is ready for take off. then you even need the clearence of the -Tower people and the Weather report too.
I failed booting Minino the other day. I spent some 6 hours on it.
I failed to boot Slitaz many times this month and spends many hours on it and I failed to boot Swift too and then suddenly found a suggestion on how to do an iso boot on the HDD and that one worked but then you have this unexperienced driver syndrome.
the machine booted the OS but the user has no practice in setting up the controls so I failed to listen to my video clips due to the HDD forbidden to mount something. Totally beyond my comprehension how one tell it to be allowed.
So it is Puppy for me until the other Linuxes get more user friendly.
But I have Archiso and it almost do anything but it fails to change the menu.lst due to only read permissions despite I logged in as root user.
I am downloading ArchBang iso to see if that one behave as Arciso version.
When Archiso dev got his computer fried by the power supply activing up then his new computer sent to him as a donation had too small resources to work with Archiso so he used Slitaz instead.
Maybe the laptop only had 256MB memory? So such considerations are important too.
the devs of Lupu 5.2 wrote that they skipped many SW due to the requirment to be able to run in RAM on a 256MB machine.
So is not the best approch to make a puppy that is as small as possible and then have all programs on the hardware as clickable programs and each user decide how big machine he need?
A kind of IronCore version of Puppy but working as good as Lupu in the set up. Or based on Fluppy so it works on my Acer D250 too.
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Posted: Sun 30 Jan 2011, 14:27
Post subject: Re: Archiso-live -Thanks nooby
mikeslr wrote:
And thanks, cinclus_cinclus for suggestions on creating persistent storage.
I tried Godane's Archiso 20100825
mikeslr wrote:
If I understood it right, godane built ariso-live using techniques similar to those used to build Puppy, including squash files.
He uses modified LinuxLiveScript (LLS)
mikeslr wrote:
That suggests that it may be able, or modifiable, to use Puppy's technique of loading and unloading applications in SFS format "on the fly".
you simply use arch2lzm and put the generated LZM-modules - up to 127 - into one of the module-folders of your USB-live-stick as for instance 'optional'.
mikeslr wrote:
But from two comments on his blog --some people with nVidia cards being unable to boot [I know, nooby, that you didn't have that problem]-- I wonder if in building a Live-Arch, some of Arch's hardware recognition capability was lost.
I am on a PC with Intel G45-Chipset mainboard (Intel-chipset graphics) and on a netbook (Intel Atom based).
mikeslr wrote:
Which raises two other questions: Whether godane's techiques also sacrificed the two aspects of Arch by which Puppy could benefit:
(1) routines for keeping track of what you've already put on your entire system, so that only necessary "parts" are installed or upgraded as need be; and
Godane's 20100825 works with packages installed using persistent storage and/or LZM-modules.
mikeslr wrote:
(2) the capability of upgrading apps and even the kernel from an active system.
My earlier attempts failed in this respect on Godane's 20100825.
I have positive results on CTKArch Live 0.6 release first installed on HD and then transformed back into a LIVE-System with the aid of Linus72's LIvecd-Kit and appropriate AUR-kernel packages. Please see comments of 'lq_asking' here:
mikeslr wrote:
Or, in other words, Pacman and the Arch Build System.
Pacman: for sure its ARCH, Arch Build System: should work,
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Posted: Sun 30 Jan 2011, 15:31
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thanks nooby. i had the same issues and failures as you with the previous arches. now i have downloaded the arch in your link and clicked it open in puppeee4.4-08, copied the iso contents to a folder, and booted with
title arch
root (hd1,0)
kernel /archiso/boot/vmlinuz from=/dev/sdb1/archiso elevator=deadline session=xfce load=overlay lang=sv_US
initrd /archiso/boot/initrd.img
this is posted from arch. to tell the truth it is very much like puppeee4.4-08 with my usual flw window manager, only arch is so slow.
to edit in arch try in terminal:
[arch@archiso ~]$ sudo leafpad
if it tells you the partition eg sda1 is already mounted when you try to open menu.lst try
[arch@archiso ~]$ umount /dev/sda1
[arch@archiso ~]$ sudo leafpad
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Posted: Sun 30 Jan 2011, 16:49
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Thanks aarf interesting to follow your tests and experiencethere.
I guess there is an error here. lang=sv_US
should that not be lang=en_US or similar.
So you are on sdb1
How come your not in sda1 instead?
Some distros need what you have there (hd 1,0) while other like mine needs (hd0,2) due to different partition.
title Archiso-live
root (hd0,2)
kernel /archiso/boot/vmlinuz from=/dev/sda3/archiso elevator=deadline session=xfce load=overlay
initrd /archiso/boot/initrd.img
IIRC the load=overlay is there to do an autonatic log in to user arch psw arch while if one take away the load=overlay then most likely it ask for user and password before booting up?
I had to log in as root using the psw ArchLinux to get access to the music files and the picture files. But it still did not allow me to do geany editing and saving. Read only it says.
Maybe that you being on an usb allow you to mount the HDD and listen to music videos?
Knoppix live was more like Puppy but too big.
I use Google Search on Puppy Forum
not an ideal solution though
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