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This is an old revision of NoobHelp made by CrustyLobster on 2011-08-17 07:48:16.
Nooby asks 'What is Spot'?
The current cutting edge version of Puppy is Lucid 'Findlandia' (puppy526 = Puppy 526 a bug fixed Lucid 525)
Spot is the code name for Puppy 5.3 which uses binaries from Slackware along with Puppy magic
How does this fit in with other Puppy versions?
Wary is a conservative design for older hardware from Barry Kauler
Quirky is a testing Puppy for new ideas from Barry Kauler
Dpup (Puppy + Debian) was designated as Puppy 6
and has recently been revived by Dejan555
puppy6 Saluki from Jemimah - Puppy rewrite (currently awaiting a kernel base))
is likely to move up to Puppy 7 when it gets off the ground
Puppy 8 is likely to offer Intel, ARM and 64 bit versions
and likely have support for tablet, phone and touch features and possible Woof Android
What about the name?
At the moment Spot alpha 3 is released. It has a Slackware base and we call this an Spup, that means a Slackware (the 'S') based Pup
Spot is given the development name slacko or spup with numbers dependent on kernel and version number
Spot uses both Puppy scripts and programs using the Woof or woofy development system to create a Puppy
Absolute noobs
- Educate yourself by using the IRC platform and wiki and reading the forum
- Do you know ISO's can be burnt to CD-RW or DVD-RW? So now you can boot and text reports to the forum
- Create logos, other artwork. No talent? Pah never stops us when we need logos . . .
- Sort through the various suggestion forum threads and sort out the various suggestions into a new thread and maintain the status in the first thread in concise terms (note - you may want to reply to it a couple of times to reserve the top 3 or so posts)
To Do
- Test current slacko/spup, just for a taste. Run on different machines
- Develop wiki page (that is this one and the main page) UsingThisWiki register with raffy for access if planning to contribute to wiki
- Open invitation/dialogue with Slackware developers
- Develop Bacon and scripting skills
- Recompile heaps of stuff
- Fix guis for small screens
- Decide what icon layout is best. Maybe someone can hack something together for small screens?
- Translate... no need to reinvent the wheel here, many of shinobar's wary quickset programs will fit right in
- Test and suggest cloud links and send to sszindian
