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Tiny Core Extensions => TCE Talk => Topic started by: qb4 on December 31, 2008, 03:19:30 PM

Title: Requests for extensions
Post by: qb4 on December 31, 2008, 03:19:30 PM
Maybe extension requests should be all kept in the one place, to save littering, and easy locating.

Following on from off-topic posts here, http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=326.msg2101#msg2101 ,
XWC is very like XFE (it's what XFE was based on, but is now discontinued, I believe), and it doesn't require Fox Toolkit.
For anyone only wanting a minimal (1.1MB file) filemanager like this, this is fine.
The latest XFE is a lot more sophisticated.

"Xfe aims to be the file manager of choice for all light thinking Unix addicts!"
http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/

I'll herewith submit a formal request for XFE.tce.
Title: Request for mc (non-GUI)
Post by: qb4 on December 31, 2008, 03:37:31 PM
Request for mc (non-GUI)

While we are thinking of file managers, what about the "essential" one?
http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/
Title: Re: Request for mc (non-GUI)
Post by: tobiaus on December 31, 2008, 05:44:16 PM
i wondered where that was too. it's great to see things i would have requested already made into extensions, i would have wanted html2text but it's already there.

inkspace (a more recent version with floodfill if it's not too large, otherwise you have to draw polyshapes or settle for line drawings) would be nice...

as would kompozer or if necessary, it's predecessor nvu. nvu is a lot closer to kompozer than very early inkspace next to more recent.

it would be awesome if there was an "mtpaint" of svg graphics (speaking figuratively,) but i haven't seen anything lighter than inkspace that lets you do much.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mikshaw on December 31, 2008, 06:13:37 PM
I have mc working in TC, but it's not ideal.  It seems to be fine for most features, but subshells don't work.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on January 01, 2009, 06:12:39 AM
I've built Rox filer and will upload it shortly.  I will shoot for having XFE today as well.
Title: Request for small image viewer
Post by: qb4 on January 06, 2009, 12:37:38 AM
Reuest for a small, light, fast image viewer like civ or gview or fotox, with slideshow capability.
Something smaller than gqview.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 06, 2009, 01:41:24 AM
If you don't mind using the framebuffer, fbv in fb-tools can do slideshows. It's 17kb IIRC.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: qb4 on January 06, 2009, 02:52:19 PM
Now that really is going to extremes,  :D
Some more criteria, I suppose..
Ability to display filename (somehow),
Ability to save/copyto.
Not necessarily the ability to select file to open.

Have been playing with various things like kwickshow etc, but need slideshow capability.
So far the best smallish thing seems to be Fotox for this purpose.

Also, Fotox almost provides an alternative for ImageMagick, for the purpose of viewing HUGE (~15MB) images, but it doesn't pan.
Mtpaint handles huge images better on RAM-challenged machines, and it pans. So does Gqview.

So, the plot here thickens.
There is no one-size-fits-all image viewer, and several are required for different purposes.
Gqview is probably the closest to an all-purpose viewer.

Having said that, I would like to request Fotox...  and Mtpaint and ImageMagick packages when you have nothing better to do. LOL.


Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 06, 2009, 05:49:40 PM
you'll be glad to know mtpaint has been available for a while.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: john712 on January 06, 2009, 06:41:06 PM
Any chance someone can make a remote desktop RDP extension?

Thanks,

john712
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: qb4 on January 07, 2009, 01:56:54 AM
Quote from: tobias
you'll be glad to know mtpaint has been available for a while.

doh!
I don't know how I missed that one. Thanks.

I just came in to say that I have found the "small, light, fast image viewer". gpicview.
http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/ (http://lxde.sourceforge.net/gpicview/)

I may not be pretty, but I am persistent.
Title: Problem with mtpaint
Post by: qb4 on January 07, 2009, 05:32:59 PM
Has anyone else had an issue with mtpaint displaying a tool box over the main window at the TLH corner?
I can't move it, close it... anything, or access the menu toolbar.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 07, 2009, 07:40:47 PM
You could try positioning the cursor over the window somewhere, holding down the <alt> key and trying to drag it away.

This works when a window title bar has gone off the top of the screen.
Title: Requests for extension - apt
Post by: latte on January 07, 2009, 08:43:46 PM
Hi all, I'm a first-timer here and LOVE Tiny Core! 

 I have a suggestion for an extension that I believe would *really rock* - apt! 
 Just imagine that - grab apt using a T.C. extension and you can instantly access the humungous Ubuntu repositories!  Awesome!  No need to download a huge ~690 Mb Ubuntu image - just grab Tinycore, grab the extension - done! 

 Thoughts..... ?   
 - latte   
Title: Re: Requests for extension - apt
Post by: tobiaus on January 07, 2009, 10:40:49 PM
just grab Tinycore, grab the extension - done! 

 Thoughts..... ?   

i don't know if roberts plans to do that. just today i was reading about using apt-get to make dsl extensions from packages in the debian woody repository. even then the idea was to create extensions, because using the apt environment "overwhelms" the free ram. it's more recommended for full installs, which tc avoids in its philosophy. also dsl is compatible (and only partially) with debian woody. installing apt in tc might just give you packages that perform in a sub-par way. but if it could work, and do so well, i'd like it too.

Quote from: qb4
Has anyone else had an issue with mtpaint displaying a tool box over the main window at the TLH corner?
I can't move it, close it... anything, or access the menu toolbar.

i think that's how you know it's a more recent version, i think i've experienced that with mtpaint in other environments too. if you can't move the window, try alt+f4 to close. (make certain some part of mtpaint is focused!)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 07, 2009, 11:30:41 PM
I'm not totally sure I see the difference between using app-browser to get extensions and using package mangement (apt-get, yum) in a full distro?

dsl had some libs that were the same as debian woody, some libs that were more recent than debian woody and (perhaps) some libs that were the same as debian serge. This meant that apt-get/dpkg would work cleanly sometimes, but more often than not, things had to be forced because of the lib mis-match with unpredictable results.

I believe I'm correct in saying that the initial compile environment in dsl was made from debian packages and, as such, sometimes gave strange errors - this was the initial driver for the compile-3.3.5 extension, which was built on dsl using the same libs as dsl and is the reasoning behind the compiletc extension.

I may be wrong, but I don't think apt-get or similar makes sense with tc (and it would certainly be a lot of work) - there is however a lot of learning/satisfaction to be gained in compiling your own extension and making it available to others  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 08, 2009, 12:17:55 AM
I'm not totally sure I see the difference between using app-browser to get extensions and using package mangement (apt-get, yum) in a full distro?

just the sheer breadth of the repository:

sudo apt-get install mped works, sudo /usr/bin/tce-fetch.sh mped tce doesn't. when you make a request for something already available in apt as a tce, you are at the mercy of your own compile environment and the generosity of wonderful contributors like yourself. i am not naive about the practicality of adding apt to tc. i'm sure it's entirely impractical. a nice thought, but an idle one. i'd love for you to disagree.

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there is however a lot of learning/satisfaction to be gained in compiling your own extension and making it available to others  :)

no, i disagree. i think compiling is one of the least straightforward, most unpleasant linux tasks there is, next to installing a printer or configuring wireless. i always avoided it, up until tc gained so much trust i tried with a few simple program sources. not only did it not work, i have no idea why and there seems to be no idiot's guide anywhere.

you're entitled to your opinion and it's a good thing for all of us it's different, but it's not for the average user that thinks tc is generally friendly enough.

i did compile one package in tc today: zile, based on roberts's book. first compile ever (yay!) then i tried mp from triptico.com. it said it couldn't find ncursesw, oh well. but it's not fun at all. using tc is. apt-get spoils you. everything is already ready already. if compiling was just tedious, that's one thing. it's actually somewhat painful.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 08, 2009, 01:43:30 AM
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it said it couldn't find ncursesw
if you look in the linux-from-scratch ncurses section, it explains how to get around that  ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: latte on January 08, 2009, 01:54:13 AM
I'm not totally sure I see the difference between using app-browser to get extensions and using package mangement (apt-get, yum) in a full distro?

just the sheer breadth of the repository:

sudo apt-get install mped works, sudo /usr/bin/tce-fetch.sh mped tce doesn't. when you make a request for something already available in apt as a tce, you are at the mercy of your own compile environment and the generosity of wonderful contributors like yourself. i am not naive about the practicality of adding apt to tc. i'm sure it's entirely impractical. a nice thought, but an idle one. i'd love for you to disagree.

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there is however a lot of learning/satisfaction to be gained in compiling your own extension and making it available to others  :)

no, i disagree. i think compiling is one of the least straightforward, most unpleasant linux tasks there is, next to installing a printer or configuring wireless. i always avoided it, up until tc gained so much trust i tried with a few simple program sources. not only did it not work, i have no idea why and there seems to be no idiot's guide anywhere.

you're entitled to your opinion and it's a good thing for all of us it's different, but it's not for the average user that thinks tc is generally friendly enough.

i did compile one package in tc today: zile, based on roberts's book. first compile ever (yay!) then i tried mp from triptico.com. it said it couldn't find ncursesw, oh well. but it's not fun at all. using tc is. apt-get spoils you. everything is already ready already. if compiling was just tedious, that's one thing. it's actually somewhat painful.

 Hi again all.... :)   
 Thanks for your comments!  Argh, I have to admit that I'd forgotten that tc ran in RAM, so that would indeed be a restriction (as tobiaus mentioned). 
 Yes, my main reason for thinking of an apt extension was just the sheer size of the Ubuntu (and Debian) repos, as mentioned above.   
 Going off-topic for a moment.... One thing I'd love to see in a small distro is a port of OpenBSD's pf firewall to Linux, but *that* would take a humungous amount of work, I imagine.
 As I understand it, the underlying security infrastructure is quite different in OpenBSD and Linux.   
 I believe pf is superior to the existing Linux firewalls, but due to the difficulty of porting it to Linux, I guess we won't be seeing it on Linux any time soon.   
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 08, 2009, 04:45:58 AM
A big downside in apt would be that to install anything it would first install ALL ubuntu/debian base libs. Thus downloading in practise several hundred MB to your ram. In the process also borking most if not all TC libs, which could stop many apps from working.

If looking for a light ubuntu, do the server install, and only apt-get stuff that you use.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on January 08, 2009, 08:39:07 AM
One feature that I would like to see in TC is a VNC extension. I actually tried creating one yesterday but ran into some problems. TightVNC would be good since it includes its own X tree to build the Xvnc server but I imagine that it would be quite difficult to port to the new pciaccess version of Xorg that we use. So I tried RealVNC instead...I got through the build of the wrapper files but when it came to building Xvnc it requires you to build the complete X tree (maybe I should of read the whole instructions first), something I'd rather not do but I don't know a way around it. I also assumed that you need Xorg to run the new versions of vnc...perhaps I should look into the possibility of building it across TinyX?

Are there any other options for vnc?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 08, 2009, 09:38:59 AM
Are you looking for a VNC server or a client?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 08, 2009, 11:04:22 AM
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it said it couldn't find ncursesw
if you look in the linux-from-scratch ncurses section, it explains how to get around that  ;)

are you referring to this:

Quote from: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/ncurses.html
Finally, make sure that old applications that look for -lcurses at build time are still buildable:

rm -vf /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" >/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
ln -sfv libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so
ln -sfv libncursesw.a /usr/lib/libcursesw.a
ln -sfv libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a

or perhaps something like --without-debug ? it saddens me to learn that ./configure varies from source to source, and is only a script that may not even include the same name (config.sh) let alone identical options. even roberts's suggestion of "use ./configure help" is not standard, as "configure" is a script native to each project, not a reusable tool. instead i used "cat config.sh | grep -i prefix" to see if it shared any options with the one for zile.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on January 08, 2009, 03:18:24 PM
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Are you looking for a VNC server or a client?

I'm looking for a server
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 08, 2009, 08:01:20 PM
You perhaps need both parts:
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Many applications still expect the linker to be able to find non-wide-character Ncurses libraries. Trick such applications into linking with wide-character libraries by means of symlinks and linker scripts:

for lib in curses ncurses form panel menu ; do \
    rm -vf /usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
    echo "INPUT(-l${lib}w)" >/usr/lib/lib${lib}.so ; \
    ln -sfv lib${lib}w.a /usr/lib/lib${lib}.a ; \
done
ln -sfv libncurses++w.a /usr/lib/libncurses++.a

Finally, make sure that old applications that look for -lcurses at build time are still buildable:

rm -vf /usr/lib/libcursesw.so
echo "INPUT(-lncursesw)" >/usr/lib/libcursesw.so
ln -sfv libncurses.so /usr/lib/libcurses.so
ln -sfv libncursesw.a /usr/lib/libcursesw.a
ln -sfv libncurses.a /usr/lib/libcurses.a
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 09, 2009, 02:00:59 AM
Dropbear should support SSH X forwarding, and that should be usable on windows too with the java Xserver & putty. Will check around though for a vnc server.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 09, 2009, 03:35:59 AM
:( and that was supposed to be an easy one. i don't know how minefield ever got compiled, but i'm pretty sure that satanic elves were involved.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 09, 2009, 04:07:14 AM
So, you tried too? A very filtered version of my feelings about it has been publicly posted, but that is not even near the reality. Not only does it work only at full moon, you'll need to sacrifice at least three first-borns.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on January 09, 2009, 09:08:34 AM
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Dropbear should support SSH X forwarding, and that should be usable on windows too with the java Xserver & putty.
I would prefer to use SSH X forwarding but that is too in depth for most of the end users of the system I am building. I'm targeting to people who only know how to click on an icon in Windows.

Thank you for your response and work  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 09, 2009, 11:41:49 PM
So, you tried too? A very filtered version of my feelings about it has been publicly posted, but that is not even near the reality. Not only does it work only at full moon, you'll need to sacrifice at least three first-borns.

hey, any minor misgivings i have about your minefield tce (and tcz) don't negate the fact that i look up to your ability to create it... at least until the day when i've learned all your tricks and surpass you (yeah, right...) and besides, you should be proud of it anyway. it's the only version of ff3 (i'm an ff2 guy personally) that i can stand to use. that's gotta be worth something :) and, it's super fast. and someday, they're going to make compiling easier. don't ask me how, i have no idea. but it's just ridiculous, the way compilling is sometimes. "configure, make, make install," my /usr/bin/as
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 11, 2009, 06:53:34 AM
Tightvnc posted. Only had to load old-X-dev.tce, because it uses the old X Imake system to build. I only tested via localhost though, but it should work fine over network.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on January 11, 2009, 05:28:56 PM
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Tightvnc posted

Thank you very much... I'll test it out tomorrow.

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Only had to load old-X-dev.tce

I didn't notice this extension before...thank you for pointing it out, that will make building some drivers that I need to try (to get HDMI support in Xorg) a lot easier.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on January 12, 2009, 06:18:26 PM
My requests:
Any AIM chat client (Pidgin, aytmm, etc.)
GnuCash
Some sort of small calender program that I can keep notes/dates on, something similar to http://kontact.kde.org/
Any lightweight text editor - preferably AbiWord
Last, but not least - Some sort of wireless management GUI, wlassistant, anything like that

I plan to add some bioinformatics related modules later this semester or over the summer so that TCL can be my OS of choice during grad school.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 12, 2009, 08:33:18 PM
it would be great to use a friendly gui zip/unzip (just tar.gz is fine, gz plus bz even better, and if it actually includes zip, that's great) program like file-roller. obviously file-roller itself is a bit much (gnome? xfce?) and emelfm is no good because i want to use it to remove individual files (edit tar.gz files...) and emelfm only ungzips them.

but i don't need a .tce (i wouldn't mind.) as usual i'd love to know something along the lines of what i'm mentioning that "just compiles" without crazy hacks. svensko just compiled mad-wifi and using the linux headers, and from the looks of his post it just took make, sudo make install. i wish there were more projects like that. probably because it's not a gui, or using ncurses, eh? so much fuss just for good old ansi escape routines. i'll keep looking, maybe i'll try to compile the gnu tar util.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 12, 2009, 09:18:24 PM
Did you have a look at peazip - http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (http://peazip.sourceforge.net/) ?

I believe version 1.9.x can be compiled with/without gtk2
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jpeters on January 13, 2009, 12:26:50 AM
Here's a copy of Skype that works with  OSS and libstc++5.0.7 installed.  I could never get this working with DSL, but it works great with tiny. I included a menu, or load with "skype"

[^thehatsrule^: link removed - compliance to company license not shown]

Edit: the license is included in the skype folder.  Not enough???
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 13, 2009, 12:42:11 AM
Did you have a look at peazip - http://peazip.sourceforge.net/ (http://peazip.sourceforge.net/) ?

I believe version 1.9.x can be compiled with/without gtk2

that was a great idea, thank you, but it seems you can only get source from cvs, and i can't find any binaries dating back to 1.9.x.

file roller couldn't modify the file anyway, i  ended up unzipping with tar (busybox tar refuses, even as #) and then zipping back up with tar. after copying it to tc again i can open the archive.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: qb4 on January 13, 2009, 12:54:50 AM
try Xarchiver.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xarchiver/

or Xarchive.
http://xarchive.sourceforge.net/

or, if you can wait for XFE.tce, you can use the archiver in that.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: qb4 on January 13, 2009, 02:13:31 AM
Any lightweight text editor - preferably AbiWord

Leafpad is available here (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/tce/leafpad-0.8.16-le.tce).

AbiWord is actually a word processor, but it wouldn't  hurt to have that also.

We are getting a bit of a backlog in extension requests, it appears.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 13, 2009, 02:57:43 AM
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Any AIM chat client (Pidgin, aytmm, etc.)
Ayttm was uploaded 2 days before your request, I must be psychic :D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 13, 2009, 03:01:20 AM
if you can wait for XFE.tce, you can use the archiver in that.

i used the archiver in xfe today, it's insufficient (to say the least.) i was looking for a way to open a tar.gz, select files from a list, and remove those files, thinking file-roller in xubuntu would do a better job. it did not, it was unable to help (although it has such a feature) and i ended up unzipping with full tar and rezipping with full tar.

this means i could probably create a dialog in the future that allowed me to do what i'm looking for using tar, and it would be more effective than file-roller, and it would run in aterm or from vt.

thanks for the two url's, i'll look at those anyway, but if they're just gui's for busybox tar, they're not going to make any difference.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on January 13, 2009, 05:53:43 AM
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Any AIM chat client (Pidgin, aytmm, etc.)
Ayttm was uploaded 2 days before your request, I must be psychic :D

Indeed! I also found out that oo2 was Open Office which is also a nice touch (if only a bit large). Very nice, guys!  :D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 13, 2009, 08:25:40 AM
Indeed! I also found out that oo2 was Open Office which is also a nice touch (if only a bit large). Very nice, guys!  :D

it is, i'm glad you mentioned it because i didn't know it was there. very odd extension to not be available as tcz, but i imagine that's what tce2tcz.sh is for. i wonder what you do with dep files if converting from tce to tcz.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on January 13, 2009, 08:55:33 AM
I won't lie, I'm not familiar with a lot of the applications in the tce repos. Is there an e-mail client? If not, can I place a request for Sylpheed?

http://sylpheed.sraoss.jp/en/

One final request: a .tcem containing the skge module. It seems I'm not the only one that would love to have it.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 13, 2009, 09:54:19 AM
If unsure, do try the search in appbrowser; it searches not only from the name but also the contents of all the .info files.

I do not think there's an email client yet though.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 13, 2009, 07:54:15 PM
Ref openoffice/002

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very odd extension to not be available as tcz

As mentioned in the initial post for oo2, I was waiting for feedback on the tcel extension to know if any modifications were neccessary before submitting a tczl extension...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 13, 2009, 09:50:47 PM
As mentioned in the initial post for oo2, I was waiting for feedback on the tcel extension to know if any modifications were neccessary before submitting a tczl extension...

i'm sorry, i try to read every post, but i just don't remember seeing that one. i'll install it and see what i can tell you about it. one of the main things i would use oo2 for is creating a pdf file.

edit: i installed it with libxml, expat, and fontconfig. i think that's enough for write to open and be useful (but first it reports incompatibility with locale en_US, perhaps because i didn't install the rest.)

i was able to type, spellcheck, insert an image, save, load, and export to pdf. more an issue with xpdf than write, but xpdf did not display the "hello" i typed for line 1. is that because it's the first line on the first page or because xpdf won't show any text? not your problem.

i do know the text displayed properly in epdfview, and in both epdfview and xpdf, the picture (just a screen cap made from the tc menu) displayed in both viewers. this is so preferable to using oo in xubuntu, thank you so much for this. if i can't display any text exported to pdf (in xpdf) i'll report it as an xpdf bug, but i'd like to wait for the tcz.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 14, 2009, 09:45:51 AM
... one of the main things i would use oo2 for is creating a pdf file.

There's got to be several lower bandwidth alternatives to making a pdf file than oo2 - cups, gs, gimp...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 14, 2009, 10:51:16 AM
There's got to be several lower bandwidth alternatives to making a pdf file than oo2 - cups, gs, gimp...

not for tc, and not that i've seen in any other distro (not that i've looked.) i love lower bandwidth stuff, that's why i always wanted dsl to be more like tc (before i'd ever heard of tc.) actually i'm in dsl right now, i wanted to help someone figure out a dsl task, and it's actually very nice. give it a week or two, i'd be trying to make it like tc again. in xubuntu, i've replaced xfce with jwm, thunar with xfe, mousepad with leafpad, and even removed usplash.

lower bandwidth solutions aren't always the best ones. i think they are for most people, most of the time, but i'm very glad that oo exists even though i'd rather something like abiword. my experience with abiword from distro to distro is it needs to be forked into a project that focuses on making it more reliable. great idea, but the implementation...

the way you did oo is low-bandwidth (for oo.) and that's the only way i'd want to use it, mostly for pdf's, but not only. i don't feel like creating pdf's via scripting, if that's one of the solutions. i avoid cups, and i doubt i'd want to use gimp to turn a book or essay into a pdf.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: pema on January 17, 2009, 12:44:45 PM
Would it be possible adding qtstalker ? Program for analysis of stock and bonds.

Maybe midbrowser could be a good webbrowser for tcl, works very neat in xubuntu 8.10.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 17, 2009, 01:01:29 PM
There was something QT4 did not like in our environment; for now at least qt4 apps aren't possible, qt3 should be when someone has the time for it. Qtstalker is a qt3 app.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 18, 2009, 04:30:10 AM
gdmap would be neat. :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 18, 2009, 05:20:15 AM
let me have a look - the install/readme files in the tarball are not exactly overflowing with information...

Edit: OK, compiled - it's a gtk2 app. It works on ext2 partitions but not ntfs and I'm not totally sure what it's (graphically) telling me  :)
I'll tidy things up and post tomorrow
Title: just had coffee
Post by: tobiaus on January 18, 2009, 07:03:49 AM
it's a graphical version of du, by far one of the most useful tools i've ever seen. there is a gpl windows version called windirstat, which is inspired by kdirstat for kde. thank you very much for this, it's a great tool. i also find du very useful, but busybox du is always good enough. the main difference is gnu du (i sudo gnu du, do you sudo gnu du too?) has -b, but i haven't used du -b in a long time.

"du -b du -b du && date dd dd ddate..." (strangers in the night) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: cmau on January 19, 2009, 09:07:30 PM
Would be great to have EDE as an extension.

http://equinox-project.org/ (http://equinox-project.org/)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 22, 2009, 07:23:42 AM
i'm happy with the browser i'm using, though it's worth mentioning that kazehakase and tc are two projects that seem like they would compliment each other well. each could be a good demonstration of the other.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Kingdomcome on January 22, 2009, 10:25:36 AM
If someone has time, I would like to have a pysqlite extension.  Thanks!

http://pysqlite.org (http://pysqlite.org)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 23, 2009, 01:46:44 AM
i'm happy with the browser i'm using, though it's worth mentioning that kazehakase and tc are two projects that seem like they would compliment each other well. each could be a good demonstration of the other.
kazehakase compiles without errors and starts up OK, but when you enter any url it crashes. As per google, plenty of others seem to be having the same experience...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on January 23, 2009, 02:16:22 AM
disappointing, i've never had any problems with it in xubuntu. thanks for trying, hopefully this is a project people will keep an eye on. incidentally, i removed it this week, in my attempts to strip xubuntu down to make it more and more like tinycore, and get tc to do everything is use xubuntu for until i can replace xubuntu entirely.

(this is how i migrated from win to linux also.) on the other computer i use tc every day, i only use xubuntu sometimes (lately just to strip it down.)

since there's no need for kaze and it's not in tc, i'm using ff in both distros. aterm replaced xfce4-term, jwm replaces xfce, i've even configured jwm to be virtually identical to tc in every way (tray, menu, theme.) i removed usplash, now booting and shutdown are more like tc.

i think the main features now are wireless and kompozer, and dosemu. except for games/multimedia, dosemu is faster/superior/better features, but most distros (especially most with 2.6) only support dosbox. i plan to get wireless working in tc one of these days (low priority,) then replacing xubuntu entirely is going to be a lot easier.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 23, 2009, 01:35:07 PM
I didn't see an extension for burniso2cd, pburn or other gui cd/dvd recording apps that handle img, data, audio and video formats. Are these or equivalents buried in one of the extensions? If not I would like to request them or an equivalent.

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edit: I've been playing around with pburn on puppy linux and find it to be a great little program for burning cd's and dvd's. It would be great to have it as part of tinycore. See attached image.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: darkvlad on January 23, 2009, 09:04:53 PM
I really really really need a way to use TrueCrypt in TinyCoreLinux....

Trying to make a portable truecrypt image i can use on a thumbdrive for cross platform development... I have a real nightmare of a setup to get it working...

TrueCrypt Fat32 image (containing):
 - project source code
 - perforce ext3 truecrypt image
 - portable virtualbox (for osx, and windows)
 - virtualbox hard drive image with tiny core linux installed

What I need to be able to do is boot the virtualbox image of tiny core linux and mount the truecrypt ext3 image of my perforce (p4d) server root. Then I can use dropbear to ssh punch through the virtualbox NAT on from the host pc's localhost:port to the guest tinycorelinux perforce server running from the mounted image in the shared folder mounted from the host.

Then, no matter where I plug in my thumbdrive, on whatever OS I am on, I can do development.

:)

So yea, PLEASE make a TCE for TrueCrypt!!!!!!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 24, 2009, 03:14:24 AM
Re pburn:
Quote
Dependencies...................(Puppy 4.1 includes ALL dependencies)
Required
- Pfilesearch-1.11 (8 kb) [In Puppy 4.1]
- Xdialog-2.3.1 (36 kb) [Puppy builtin] or gtklogfileviewer-0.1 (7 kb)
- coreutils-6.9 (320kb) [In Puppy 3/4]
- gtkdialog-0.7.20 (54kb) [In Puppy 3/4]
- cdrkit-1.1.6 (794 kb) or cdrtools-2.01.01a36 (888 kb) for CD burning and copying CD/DVD [Puppy builtin]
- dvd+rwtools-7.0 (53 kb) for DVD/Blu-ray burning [Puppy builtin]
Recommended
- ffmpeg-2007-10-07 (1738 kb) for converting audio/video [Puppy builtin]
- dvdauthor-0.6.14-patched (192 kb) for burning video-DVD [Missing in Puppy 4.00]
Optional
- vobcopy-1.1.1 (18 kb) for copying video-DVD [Missing in Puppy 4.00]
- vamps-0.99.2 (39 kb) for shrinking video-DVD [Missing in Puppy 4.00]
- vcdimager-0.7.23 (72 kb) for burning Video-CD [In Puppy 4.1]
- normalize-0.7.6-2-i386 (30 kb) for volume settings on Audio-CD [In Puppy 4.1]
Ouch ;)

Jason, what happened with Xcdroast?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Onyarian on January 24, 2009, 06:26:18 AM
Is possible to have a gui for mixer o something like that, to manipulate sound settings.
In OSS there is ossmix in command line, but is not clear and simple.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 24, 2009, 07:42:35 AM
OSS does have a gtk2 mixer, but it was not built for the extension. It will get done after the kernel update.

There are also a number of third-party mixers that can handle OSS. If you find one you like, for example from freshmeat, please do say so :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on January 24, 2009, 10:04:43 AM
Xcdroast had a problem with on-memory /tmp, but I will build it again and see if i can't solve it using tmpfs.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: delirium on January 26, 2009, 04:32:58 AM
I would like to request qiv!?  ::)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 26, 2009, 06:39:02 AM
I would like to request qiv!?  ::)
Ah-ha, a gtk1 app - I'll have a look in the next day or two.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: delirium on January 26, 2009, 07:59:06 AM
I'am not fixed to a special program, but qiv fits exactly my needs.
If anyone knows another lightweight program which is configurable by the commandline like qiv i am also happy!
Especially I need the slideshow option with screen fitting in real fullscreen and the abillity to load whole folders, single files or all files listened in a text file.
Thanks for your help!  :D
I really dont get It compiled on Tc...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 27, 2009, 09:14:16 AM
One of the great things about tinycore is the diverse environments it can support form truely tiny to large groups of applications. So it is with an acknowledgement that open office 3 may seem out of place on tinycore, I still would like to request it be made available as an extension. OpenOffice 3 can now handle the OOXML format — Microsoft’s default document format for Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac OS X. This ends up being an important feature that is hard to ignore.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 27, 2009, 09:22:13 AM
An area of extensions that seems to be missing is web page editing or for that matter design. I would like to request KompoZer or an equivalent and aptana.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on January 27, 2009, 09:42:03 AM
Kompozer is also offered in a binary tarball similar to the Firefox ones - does that work?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: chalbersma on January 27, 2009, 06:26:10 PM
You know I think a wiki page that has all the extensions, who's working on them and where it's at in development would be an awesome thing to have instead of trying to sift through all this info.  Then each extension could have a dedicated forum channel.

Think so?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 27, 2009, 07:49:24 PM
One of the great things about tinycore is the diverse environments it can support form truely tiny to large groups of applications. So it is with an acknowledgement that open office 3 may seem out of place on tinycore, I still would like to request it be made available as an extension. OpenOffice 3 can now handle the OOXML format — Microsoft’s default document format for Office 2007 and Office 2008 for Mac OS X. This ends up being an important feature that is hard to ignore.
There's some reasonably detailed instructions at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/openoffice.html (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/xsoft/openoffice.html) (albeit not for the same version) - why don't you give it a go and we'll help?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 28, 2009, 06:57:05 AM
Kompozer is also offered in a binary tarball similar to the Firefox ones - does that work?

I installed the komposer tarball in /home/tc as an experiment and ran the program. Received the error "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"

So, is there a better place to install the program?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 28, 2009, 07:04:13 AM
Quote
Received the error "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
This means you need to load the gtk+-2 extension (and probably its dependencies)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jls on January 28, 2009, 08:22:14 AM
I would like amule and nicotine
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 28, 2009, 01:00:04 PM
how to get Komposer to work?

Received the error "error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
This means you need to load the gtk+-2 extension (and probably its dependencies)

Ok that worked. Now I get the error "error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"

How about this error?

Perhaps the moderator should put this in a new thread named "how to get Komposer to work?"
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 28, 2009, 02:05:23 PM
Here's a copy of Skype that works with  OSS and libstc++5.0.7 installed.  I could never get this working with DSL, but it works great with tiny. I included a menu, or load with "skype"

[^thehatsrule^: link removed - compliance to company license not shown]

Edit: the license is included in the skype folder.  Not enough???

What happened here? It would be great to have skype!

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There is a Skype "package" for puppy linux if that makes any difference.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 28, 2009, 07:31:03 PM
Ok that worked. Now I get the error "error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
Xorg-7.4 extension (does google work on your machine  ;) )
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 28, 2009, 08:11:35 PM

Ok that worked. Now I get the error "error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
Xorg-7.4 extension (does google work on your machine  ;) )

Wow xorg is huge. This presents an interesting problem. I run my extension applications using the optional install method. I don't want to run xorg all the time, only when applications need it. So I would want Xorg plus dependencies, the config file and new xsession file all to install with the extension and then the xsession to restart automatically. Then upon reboot revert back to xvesa unless the extension is in the tce folder instead of the optional folder. I'll have ponder what to do about all this.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 28, 2009, 08:17:33 PM
There's a distinct possibility that you only need libXinerama.so.1 so you could make your own mini-extension of /usr/local/lib/libXinerama* to avoid loading the full X extension every time.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 28, 2009, 08:35:04 PM
Thanks for that tip. But when I install the xorg extension I don't get the libXinerama.so.1 file instead I get libXinerama.a and libXinerama.la in /usr/local/lib/.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 28, 2009, 08:50:20 PM
Those are the "dev" files, the lib has to be there somewhere (I'm not at a tc machine at the moment) - in /usr/lib as opposed to /usr/local/lib maybe?

Note that libXinerama.so.1 will mostly likely be a symlink, you will need all the libXinerama.so* files.

Edit: with the version of Xorg-7.4 I have:
Code: [Select]
$ ls /usr/local/lib/libXin*
/usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so
/usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1
/usr/local/lib/libXinerama.so.1.0.0
Note that there's no libXinerama.a/la - did you maybe load Xorg-7.4-dev in error?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on January 29, 2009, 05:50:45 AM
Thanks again for your help. Yes indeed I loaded the dev files by mistake. I decided to take a brute force approach and installed emelfm2 and xorg for support. Then I unpacked the Komposer tarball in /home/tc and ran the program. It came right up! So I now know xorg does not have to be running.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: chalbersma on January 30, 2009, 01:49:32 PM
How about an integrated developement enviornment.  Anyone would do fine.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jpeters on February 01, 2009, 08:34:46 AM
Here's a copy of Skype that works with  OSS and libstc++5.0.7 installed.  I could never get this working with DSL, but it works great with tiny. I included a menu, or load with "skype"

[^thehatsrule^: link removed - compliance to company license not shown]

Edit: the license is included in the skype folder.  Not enough???

What happened here? It would be great to have skype!

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There is a Skype "package" for puppy linux if that makes any difference.

The Puppy version probably won't work. Hats wouldn't allow my submission without getting permission
from Skype....and Skype doesn't respond to emails (I've sent two now).  Personally, I think it's a non-issue (there's some statement in the license about wanting latest version updates on sites which makes no sense for distros they don't support). Besides, they get subscription fees. You can PM me, and I'll send you a copy.   
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: florian on February 01, 2009, 11:56:38 AM
How about an integrated developement enviornment.  Anyone would do fine.
Gimme one or two days and I'll build FLDev and submit it. It's tiny minimal IDE made with FLTK.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jpeters on February 01, 2009, 11:24:58 PM
How about an integrated developement enviornment.  Anyone would do fine.
Gimme one or two days and I'll build FLDev and submit it. It's tiny minimal IDE made with FLTK.

could use XML support...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Surreal Killa on February 03, 2009, 04:59:45 AM
Awesome window manager.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Onyarian on February 09, 2009, 09:58:01 AM
Reply to bigpcman

Quote
how to get Komposer to work?
Quote
Ok that worked. Now I get the error "error while loading shared libraries: libXinerama.so.1: cannot open shared object file: no such file or directory"
Quote
Wow xorg is huge. This presents an interesting problem. I run my extension applications using the optional install method. I don't want to run xorg all the time, only when applications need it.

Now you have kompozer extension, and you don't need to load Xorg (23Mb) but skype_support.tcel extension with only 20Kb.

See:  http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=595.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=595.0)

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on February 09, 2009, 02:47:29 PM
Reply to bigpcman
Now you have kompozer extension, and you don't need to load Xorg (23Mb) but skype_support.tcel extension with only 20Kb.
See:  http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=595.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=595.0)

Good job! I have a brute force install but this is much better. Thanks for the contribution.

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: pema on February 20, 2009, 05:17:34 AM
May I ask for powernowd as tce ? it is a cpu governor, works excellent with ubuntu, having difficulties with the laptop-mode-tools.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on February 20, 2009, 11:50:07 AM
thanks for kompozer!

did xfe ever get compiled?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on February 20, 2009, 12:18:43 PM
xfe hit some snags with the fox toolkit, and I didn't look to hard at it.  I may try it again soon.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on February 20, 2009, 09:37:31 PM
What's the problem with laptop-mode-tools? Maybe I can help?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: kerpob on February 23, 2009, 05:08:58 AM
Can I put in a formal request for some sort of torrent client - like bittorrent, but any that works and has a gui would do.

Thanks!
Title: PHP and Sqlite for Apache2
Post by: sihorton on March 16, 2009, 03:55:51 AM
Having Apache2 in TCL opens up many possibilities, like running a small website entirely in memory in a virtual machine. This could generate a lot of interest in TCL.

Can someone create a PHP extension (ideally with the SQLite libraries as well)?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on March 16, 2009, 07:09:46 PM
Xampp works fine and provides a nice complete package of apache, php, mysql and proftp.
 - Need to install bash shell extension
 - Need to install firewall extension ( has in it ipv6 support) - to avoid the ip version 6 errors


download xampp to home/tc
unpack xampp with tar per xampp instructions - Note tar command requires -f option last.
tar creates lampp dir in /opt - lampp can be moved to a usb stick (ext2) with use of symbolic link in /opt
symbolic link can be created with a command in bootlocal at boot time to maintain persistance
/opt/lampp/lampp start - to start all the services

Works great!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jpeters on March 16, 2009, 10:31:16 PM
Note tar command requires -f option last.

That's interesting, because they have different instructions in the FAQ: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/faq-xampp-linux.html

Step 2: Extracting the archive
Now extract the downloaded package:
tar xvfz xampp-linux-upgrade-x.x.x-y.y.y.tar.gz
By the way: It doesn't matter where in the filesystem you extract the packet. Just make sure it's on the same machine as your XAMPP installation.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on March 16, 2009, 10:42:37 PM
i use -xvzf, whoever wrote the instructions is obviously using gnu tar, not the busybox version.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mikshaw on March 17, 2009, 11:48:51 AM
..or else it's a typo.
The -f option doesn't necessarily have to be last, it's just that it needs to be immediately followed by the filename.  You could just as easily do "tar -f filename.tar.gz -xz"
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on March 17, 2009, 07:11:57 PM
the two things i want most in tc right now are pcmanfm and qemu.

i like rox but i'd love a light fm with a tree folder view. xfe is heavier than pcmanfm, maybe pcmanfm is easier to compile.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on April 02, 2009, 01:15:08 AM
Hello, I was wondering if someone could possibly throw together TCEs for the openal library, and mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/)

Thanks!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 02, 2009, 03:37:08 AM
my wish list:

- text browser
- bc (calculation)
- cli email
- nmap
- openoffice 3.x
- httrack

thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on April 02, 2009, 04:30:48 AM
I'll have a go at nmap - give me a couple of days to play around with it.

openoffice-3 is a real monster - did you see openoffice-2 is already available as an extension (as is a text browser, I believe)?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 02, 2009, 05:41:04 AM
(as is a text browser, I believe)?

netrik and two versions of links. the newer version of links (of the two) is graphical and uses the mouse.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on April 02, 2009, 10:58:34 PM
I'll have a go at nmap - give me a couple of days to play around with it.

Looks like Key beat me to it  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 03, 2009, 12:33:19 AM
at juanito and tobiaus: thanks, I didn't see the links web browser in the repository, my own mistake. and thanks a lot for nmap, it works very good and it is a very useful app.

at juanito: let's then forget openoffice 3.x. What about a cli email client? as i believe, alpine has a lot of dependencies, but it is very easy to use and very flexible. what do you think about it?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on April 03, 2009, 12:37:26 AM
at juanito: let's then forget openoffice 3.x. What about a cli email client? as i believe, alpine has a lot of dependencies, but it is very easy to use and very flexible. what do you think about it?
I don't use e-mail in linux - just keeping up with work e-mail in windows is already a big enough task - so I wouldn't be able to test anything I compiled. Maybe somebody else in the forum could pick this one up...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: deniska on April 03, 2009, 12:01:02 PM
I need tkabber, pidgin, psi, gajim... Any jabber client. Ayttm is not usable for jabber.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 04, 2009, 12:40:37 AM
i forgot to mention: a vnp client (like vnpc) would be useful, too. thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 04, 2009, 12:52:45 AM
... as you have probably already corrected: VPN not vnp and VPNC, not vnpc
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 05, 2009, 07:09:32 AM
aterm if it's not going to be in the base, most likely the same fast, small version that was in tc up until version 1.3.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mfrna on April 07, 2009, 01:11:22 PM
Xampp works fine and provides a nice complete package of apache, php, mysql and proftp.
 - Need to install bash shell extension
 - Need to install firewall extension ( has in it ipv6 support) - to avoid the ip version 6 errors


download xampp to home/tc
unpack xampp with tar per xampp instructions - Note tar command requires -f option last.
tar creates lampp dir in /opt - lampp can be moved to a usb stick (ext2) with use of symbolic link in /opt
symbolic link can be created with a command in bootlocal at boot time to maintain persistance
/opt/lampp/lampp start - to start all the services

Works great!


tried that

doesn't work  :'(
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on April 07, 2009, 03:30:35 PM
Can someone create a package similar the current nvidia one but with the latest driver?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_180.44.html

Thanks!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on April 07, 2009, 04:38:23 PM
Xampp works fine and provides a nice complete package of apache, php, mysql and proftp.
 - Need to install bash shell extension
 - Need to install firewall extension ( has in it ipv6 support) - to avoid the ip version 6 errors


download xampp to home/tc
unpack xampp with tar per xampp instructions - Note tar command requires -f option last.
tar creates lampp dir in /opt - lampp can be moved to a usb stick (ext2) with use of symbolic link in /opt
symbolic link can be created with a command in bootlocal at boot time to maintain persistance
/opt/lampp/lampp start - to start all the services

Works great!


tried that

doesn't work  :'(

Can you be more specific?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mfrna on April 08, 2009, 04:54:03 AM
I extract the files into opt directory

but when I try to execute /opt/lampp/lampp start

shell tells me it's not found

------------

my guess is that : my usb stick is fat16, so links are not created right
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on April 08, 2009, 07:22:13 AM
I extract the files into opt directory

but when I try to execute /opt/lampp/lampp start

shell tells me it's not found

------------

my guess is that : my usb stick is fat16, so links are not created right
You need to install the bash shell. All the xampp scripts were written assuming you are running bash shell. You must be  root user as well.
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edit:
Sorry I missed the significance of your comment. The usb stick partition where the opt directory resides needs to be ext2.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alsvartr on April 10, 2009, 07:13:03 AM
I need tkabber, pidgin, psi, gajim... Any jabber client. Ayttm is not usable for jabber.
+1
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 11, 2009, 07:03:18 AM
ogg theora codecs? using mplayer nodeps, it can play the audio of http://s.ma.tt/dropbox/2008/09/gnu/Stephen_Fry-Happy_Birthday_GNU-lq_300px_190kbit.ogv but not the video.

there are ogg-vorbis (audio) codecs (not needed for mplayer to play ogg audio) but appbrowser doesn't note any support of theora. (it's not commonly used, but it's a pity to not have it supported one way or another.)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: 3rail on April 11, 2009, 07:06:42 AM
I'd like to request "fbi" please:

http://linux.byte..org/fbida/

Thanks!

p.s. I compiled my own fbi tce from source and it works but I'm not convinced I did everything properly enough to submit it.  And since it only took me 15 minutes or so to build it, I figure it'd be a snap for a more experienced builder to put it together "right".

requires: curl, fontconfig, graphics-libs, libexif, openssl and some others I couldn't find in the repo (like imagemagick)

edit:

Ok, I'll submit what I have after the holiday weekend per the instructions on how to submit extensions

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on April 11, 2009, 07:22:56 AM
why not take a punt and submit it - nobody will bite, it would be appreciated and everybody has to start somewhere, right?

[note that you'd need to submit imagemagic too]
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on April 11, 2009, 07:36:11 AM
Tobiaus-

Ogg theora would be a seperate extension from ogg-vorbis as it depends on ogg-vorbis and SDL, perhaps an ogg theora extension can materialize soon.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 13, 2009, 09:10:37 AM
... the post above refers to another section of the forum (related to this: http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=1121.0), and was probably put here because of my own mistaken manipulation, sorry for the buzz.

anyway to the topic of this section: i'd like to see a tce or tcz extension of pdftk which is very useful in order to manipulate files.

thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on April 14, 2009, 01:35:24 PM
who has this kind of beautiful soul, and especially time to provide us a tce or tcz extension of abiword; i must say, i don't like it over openoffice, but openoffice sucks too much even on respectable machines... (my opinion, obviously). thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: inknoir on April 14, 2009, 02:59:57 PM
hi,

is there a posibility to have dwm (with dmenu) as windowmanager? i would love to see that!!!
or is it impossible then to reach the programs/menus which are shown on rightclick?

greetings from germany

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 14, 2009, 03:06:18 PM
is it impossible then to reach the programs/menus which are shown on rightclick?

the program "shortcuts" in the menus are kept in /home/tc/.jwmrc and /usr/local/tce.menu. (to edit existing menu entries in /usr/local/tce.menu, you need to be superuser.)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mikshaw on April 15, 2009, 11:01:14 AM
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is there a posibility to have dwm (with dmenu) as windowmanager? i would love to see that!!!
Yes.  I use both in TC.  If you have compiletc, that should be all you need to build them, but you might need to change config.mk to point to the proper X11 includes in /usr/local (can't remember positively).

Quote
is it impossible then to reach the programs/menus which are shown on rightclick?
If you're using dwm then you can't have jwm running, and so you won't have a right-click menu.  You could write a shell script to parse the jwm menu and create a dmenu menu using the same items, although it might get complicated when adding multiple submenus.  Another option is to try adding another desktop application, such as dfm.  I had dwm running with dfm for a little while, just to see if it would work.  A problem occurs when using the default tile mode of dwm....you have to switch tags to use the desktop menu after opening an application.  That woud happen wih any desktop menu application.
Personally I just stick with dmenu, aterm and hotkeys for opening programs.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: sihorton on April 17, 2009, 12:27:21 PM
I tried to install the klik (http://klik.atekon.de/) software but got a bunch of errors. This software allows you to download and run software without installing, and it has a lot of different packages available, skype, audacity, etc. etc. etc.

If the install script could be made to work, or added as a package, then you would have access to all of their packages without additional work. I am no linux expert but how difficult would it be to get their install script working? After you have installed the program you are then able to install through simply clicking install buttons from their website.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: SublimePorte on April 20, 2009, 06:58:41 AM
It's a bit more than just the install script. I can get the install script to work (by installing Xdialog), but that's where the problems begin, not end.

The way it works is by mounting cramfs images, which doesn't seem to work too well. Even on Ubuntu I've run into a lot of problems trying to use their system. Perhaps their next release will be a little more refined.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Tinyest on April 20, 2009, 03:19:02 PM
For students, writers, or anyone who uses list making or outlines to organize their thoughts or life, there is the final free version of NoteCase v1.9.8, TuxCards - or TreeLine  http://treeline.bellz.org/scrnsht.html (http://treeline.bellz.org/scrnsht.html)

An advantage of TreeLine is its simple database features, and ability to adapt existing plain text user may have from years in other OS's.

I don't feel competent to set up an extension, but TC with such a tree-organized text app, Opera and eMail - this is all some folks would need in a 2nd hand, ($50) laptop.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: sihorton on April 28, 2009, 02:10:32 PM
I have been using Portable Ubuntu (http://portableubuntu.sourceforge.net/) it is pretty cool, and lets you run Ubuntu inside windows (so you get a ubuntu menu bar, and your ubuntu programs show up on your windows desktop). The portable ubuntu is based on coLinux (http://www.colinux.org/).
"coLinux can load and run an existing unmodified Linux distribution concurrently with the host OS."
 This means we could attempt to get TinyCoreLinux running inside coLinux, giving us a portable version you can run inside windows (no need for a virtual machine).

Check out the sites and see what you think.

/Simon.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on April 28, 2009, 04:42:08 PM
@Tinyest: I looked into building TreeLine for you, it requires new extensions of PyQt 4.0+ and sip. I was able to compile and install sip and have it ready to put into an extension. When I got to PyQt I ran into some problems with the location of Qt. I ran out of time to look into this more today but I should have some time tomorrow.

If there is anyone else who would want to take over feel free to do so since I'll be done with the computer for the rest of today.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 28, 2009, 10:52:45 PM
This means we could attempt to get TinyCoreLinux running inside coLinux, giving us a portable version

that would be the coolest thing i've ever seen in windows... last i checked, colinux was ridiculously huge, but i don't know if that was because of the distro it used or because colinux is just huge. obviously when i say "ridiculously huge" i'm saying it as someone who uses things like tc, but i think my xp install was smaller than colinux would have been.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jpeters on April 28, 2009, 10:55:15 PM
@Tinyest: I looked into building TreeLine for you, it requires new extensions of PyQt 4.0+ and sip. I was able to compile and install sip and have it ready to put into an extension. When I got to PyQt I ran into some problems with the location of Qt. I ran out of time to look into this more today but I should have some time tomorrow.

If there is anyone else who would want to take over feel free to do so since I'll be done with the computer for the rest of today.

For all the resources involved (QT4), it almost seems silly.  Emelfm or MC already has a graphic tree structure if you need one.  To read all the contents of listings  within an author directory, you could type "cat /author/* "   For research, I once had something like that attached to the browser which saved articles to various categories. 
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: sihorton on April 28, 2009, 11:47:46 PM
This means we could attempt to get TinyCoreLinux running inside coLinux, giving us a portable version

that would be the coolest thing i've ever seen in windows... last i checked, colinux was ridiculously huge, but i don't know if that was because of the distro it used or because colinux is just huge. obviously when i say "ridiculously huge" i'm saying it as someone who uses things like tc, but i think my xp install was smaller than colinux would have been.

Yes the Portable Ubuntu was 1.85 Gb on disk, when started it used the following memory:-
 - xming.exe                        24 Meg
 - colinux-slirp-net-daemon 2.2 Meg
 - colinux-daemon               4.5 Meg
 - colinux-console-nt           1.6 Meg
 - pulseaudio                      4.8 Meg

difficult to see if it is using any other processes, but a maximum of 34Meg additional. So yes compaired to TinyCore this is massive, but for a powerful windows machine it is no problem. Lets face it many people fire up a VM to test TinyCoreLinux out, this would give people a way to try it out in a portable fashion.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: kerpob on April 29, 2009, 02:19:14 AM
TC is rather thin on the ground for games - some of the simpler arcade games, like space invaders, or an emulator (mupen64) would be a welcome distraction from all the hard work. I've already put in a beg for lgeneral - my fave strategy game.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on April 29, 2009, 09:19:30 AM
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Emelfm or MC already has a graphic tree structure if you need one.
Yes, I know. But I wanted to get my hands a little more dirty with some more difficult compilations so I can learn more. Plus its always nice to have some more options.

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or an emulator (mupen64) would be a welcome distraction
There is snes9x extensions available if that interests you  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tobiaus on April 29, 2009, 12:48:35 PM
For all the resources involved (QT4), it almost seems silly.

gtk2 is so underrated!

a maximum of 34Meg additional. So yes compaired to TinyCore this is massive, but for a powerful windows machine it is no problem.

no if anything i can't think of a better use for colinux! i do occasionally find myself in front of someone else's machine using windows, and "cotc" would be a lot cooler than tc in qemu! i suspect it would need lots of things recompiled for it though, even if colinux uses native linux binaries, as i believe.

edit:
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Emelfm or MC already has a graphic tree structure if you need one.

okay, i've downloaded emelfm and emelfm2 because i've never seen the graphic tree structure. actually i don't care about the "graphics" it's the difference between a tree and a list: a list shows you one level of folders at once, and a tree shows you multiple levels at once in one place, usually letting you collapse parts of the tree. i've been through the settings and not for the first time, unable to find anything like that (or anything graphical either.)

funnily enough, the options dialog itself has a tree structure. it is gnome/nautilus style, having down or side-pointing triangles in a list, but both features of a tree. and yet no way to apply this to any file view. no tree in emelfm, that's why pcmanfm would be so good. trees make managing many folders a lot easier.

as for mc which is a high quality app in general, i've seen its tree view, it actually has one. but because it's a popup and not available in the pane, its merely a quicker way to change folders and lacks most of the benefits of a tree view that go beyond just opening a different list. a side view or pane tree lets you browse many folders on many levels quickly, more quickly than possible in mc- and stays open.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: thane on May 01, 2009, 12:17:58 AM
As far as games, I'd like a good version of Spider Solitaire (not to plug the competition [?] but Puppy Linux has one).

Please let me know if it's already here and I've overlooked it.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: arejaytee on May 03, 2009, 12:26:53 AM
Ive seen people talk about Apache and XAMPP, I was wondering if anyone was able to make a package with a Tomcat installation working also, for JAVA applications. Ive tried but failed miserably :(
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on May 08, 2009, 11:24:19 PM
Any chance we can get MOC (music on console) - http://moc.daper.net/

and

Cheese (or any webcam program)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on May 08, 2009, 11:47:07 PM
Cheese (or any webcam program)
mplayer perhaps?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: junan on May 11, 2009, 11:11:24 PM
request for htop http://htop.sourceforge.net/
i think top is not enough for tiny screen ...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Stratofortress on May 12, 2009, 12:27:01 AM
I would like to request the LIRC package with serial driver (http://www.lirc.org/) for my TC 2.x system. My laptop is to slow to install de debs (kernel headers) and I haven't figured cross-compiling out yet. Can somebody help me? Thanks!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on May 12, 2009, 05:04:36 AM
I'll try to have a look at it in the next couple of days - I see it says the 2.6.27 kernel is supported, so it's not sure that the 2.6.29.1 kernel is supported.

Also - I no longer have any hardware with an irda port, so this is going to be a shot in the dark...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on May 12, 2009, 05:08:40 AM
request for htop http://htop.sourceforge.net/
i think top is not enough for tiny screen ...
I'll try to have a look in the next couple of days...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on May 12, 2009, 05:19:52 AM
@Juanito - I think LIRC can't handle IRDA ports at all, it needs CIR (consumer IR, the remote control stuff)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Stratofortress on May 12, 2009, 06:48:37 AM
If I'm correct, a physical IRDA module isn't needed to build LIRC. LIRC can receive IRDA and normal IR (remote control). Also it can send (control devices) to IR and IRDA devices. The connection type is selectable by a driver (IR/IRDA/Soundcard/etc). I am only interested in a serial driver so the homebrew receivers are compatible and can be controlled by a regular remote.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on May 12, 2009, 06:54:54 AM
..in a very quick attempt, lirc did not want to compile against the 2.6.29.1 kernel source, but I have an 11 hour flight tomorrow so there's going to be plenty of time to play around with this...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: huy on May 15, 2009, 06:04:35 PM
SCIM :Smart Common Input Method
http://www.scim-im.org/

Fcitx :Free Chinese Input Toy of X
http://code.google.com/p/fcitx/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: PingPing on May 19, 2009, 02:02:59 PM
php please!

XAMPP is a behemoth - like 60MB worth of behemoth.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on May 20, 2009, 08:52:04 AM
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php please!
I built php 5.2.9 and will submit it when I have finished testing.
But I am having trouble integrating it with Apache.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on May 20, 2009, 04:10:10 PM
Quote
I built php 5.2.9 and will submit it when I have finished testing.
But I am having trouble integrating it with Apache.
PHP is finished and submitted.  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on June 15, 2009, 10:01:21 AM
is someone working on libpcap for 2.X? if not or you don't have the time I can do this...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on June 25, 2009, 02:21:09 PM
I'd like to request Miro (http://www.getmiro.com) and Mnemosyne (http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: daemonjax on June 26, 2009, 03:10:17 PM
I'd like to request the bluez 3.x package (instead of the 4.41) because it's well documented on the internet (and pand is included in it).  It seems Bluez 4.x isn't well documented, even though it's supposed to 'just work'.  When it doesn't 'just work', there's nothing anyone can do about it.

I tried compiling it myself, and while it does compile, it skips over the pand folder... make says there's nothing to do for 'all'.  I'm unable to resolve this.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: linus72 on June 26, 2009, 03:32:28 PM
My request would be for Gambas2, a nice easy programmimg language, but also because
Writer's-World-Maker, a "helper/outliner" for novelists depends on gambas2, cause it's written in gambas2

Hopefully someday ;)
thanks
Title: Request for alpine
Post by: tinypad on July 02, 2009, 08:02:33 PM
Hello,

First of all, nice job with this distro.  It is love at first side for me.  Always wanted an easy to use linux with exactly what I want to install.

I'm a Mac and Windows user.  But in my younger geekish years I used to use alpine/pine with Suse for emails.  Would be great if there is such an extension for Tiny Core.

Thanks again for your efforts.  Very much appreciated!!!

Title: Re: Request for alpine
Post by: bmarkus on July 02, 2009, 10:16:37 PM

I'm a Mac and Windows user.  But in my younger geekish years I used to use alpine/pine with Suse for emails.  Would be great if there is such an extension for Tiny Core.


Hi,

alpine is here in the queu, I will send it soon.

Regards

Béla
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on July 03, 2009, 12:17:30 AM
that`s a very great news; i tried myself to compile it, but have had issues with some dep. libs, and then no time left to continue to work on it
Title: emacs, latex, sendmail - oldies but still goodies
Post by: tinypad on July 08, 2009, 10:21:08 AM
Just realized that there is no emacs, latex, or sendmail.  Too old? 

Some ill will to use them even though suffered to get along with them in school long time ago . . .very long time ago.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: samedirection on July 09, 2009, 02:24:44 AM
Emacs is coming.   Just yesterday the Emacs devs released the final pre-release version for Emacs 23, the latest Emacs version, which comes with a lot of great improvements)  I've compiled the previous pre-release successfully and am just trying to figure out a sensible scheme for a little modularization (so you don't have to get all the docs and elisp source files if you're space is limited). 

I may get to making a tcz package of the 'base' part of TeXLive 2008 as well.  I don't see why it wouldn't work, since TeXLive contains all of it's own plumbing.  You can even run it straight from the DVD, without installing it.)

Of course both of these projects are BIG compared with the core of TinyCore.  But Emacs anyway runs fine.  And for those with a bit of RAM (a slightly modularized GTK2 version with TTF fonts support and all the bells and whistles will take 256MB or 384MB RAM to load as a tce), it gives a lot of functionality in a hurry.  Not to mention the possibility of adding any of hundreds of Emacs extensions. 

I know nothing about how necessary sendmail is on a modern Linux system.  Certainly the heavyweight mail user agents can be set just to send their mail directly to your ISP's SMTP server, which also solves those funny problems where your mail was sent from you@yourlocalmachinename.com, which could then get rejected downstream.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypad on July 09, 2009, 03:05:51 PM
samedirection:

Very happy to read this, thanks a lot!  Starting to understand the meaning of TCL as a loadpad w/ endless possibilities to enhance.  Big packages really doesn't fit quite well in this philosopy.

Anyway, emacs and TexLive much appreciated.

tinypad
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Xianwen Chen on July 13, 2009, 07:19:59 PM
Request vpnc.

vpnc is the open source vpn client for cisco routers. It is essential for TC users who need to connect to their office via vpn.

The URL is:
http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~massar/vpnc/

Thank you in advance!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on July 19, 2009, 06:37:44 PM
Request Qucs.

Qucs is an integrated circuit simulator which means you are able to setup a circuit with a graphical user interface (GUI) and simulate the large-signal, small-signal and noise behaviour of the circuit. After that simulation has finished you can view the simulation results on a presentation page or window.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: xpto09 on July 24, 2009, 06:26:31 AM

I have already installed Media Player, MediaPlayerConnectivity (extension do Firefox) and Flash.
I would like to install mplayerplug-in.
Is it possible make a extension to it?
http://mplayerplug-in.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wladek on July 27, 2009, 02:31:37 AM
Hi all.
Is anybody here who is willing to make a bible extension for TC ???

http://xiphos.org/development/hacking-xiphos/ (http://xiphos.org/development/hacking-xiphos/)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on August 04, 2009, 11:13:54 AM
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Is anybody here who is willing to make a bible extension for TC
Xiphos has a lot of dependancies that currently are not available in TC: gtkhtml, libgnomeui, libbonoboui, gnome-keyring...

BibleTime looks like it would be a little easier to integrate into TC (at this point) since it depends on QT instead of Gnome.

Would having BibleTime instead of Xiphos be a problem?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alex on August 10, 2009, 06:15:44 AM
Request Mjpegtools - http://mjpeg.sourceforge.net/

The mjpeg programs are a set of tools that can do recording of videos and playback, simple cut-and-paste editing and the MPEG compression of audio and video. Command line tools.

Thanks,

Alex
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wladek on August 11, 2009, 07:10:55 AM
BibleTime is quiet good and enough  :)

Many thanks robc
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on August 15, 2009, 11:41:19 AM
Alex, until someone makes that extension, would mencoder be able to do what you need?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: florian on August 15, 2009, 02:04:01 PM
I was thinking to try 'unison' (text interface, no gtk2) in order to keep some content on a few computers in sync: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/

Unison is coded in ocaml. So building unison might also require the ocaml compiler as an intermediate step. I tried to give it a shot but I ran into problem during the configure phase of the build...

Since file synchronization is a somewhat common problem, I guess someone might either:
- give a try building a 'unison' extension,
- or alternatively tell me how to implement a pain-free, robust, 2-way synchronization in order to keep some content in sync on different hosts.

Br, Florian
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bshuler on August 17, 2009, 10:10:29 PM
Requests:
gpa http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpa/index.en.html
tor http://www.torproject.org/
privoxy http://www.privoxy.org/
tsocks http://tsocks.sourceforge.net/
VirtualBox Guest Additions http://www.virtualbox.org/

With these I think I can build my ultimate, thin and secure virtual machine.

EDIT: tsocks and tor were submitted for review today....
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alex on August 18, 2009, 01:15:07 PM
Alex, until someone makes that extension, would mencoder be able to do what you need?

Thank you for your response Curaga. What I need from Mjpegtools is some utilities for analog video capture (i.e. lavrec). I guess that mencoder is for video post-processing only.

Alex

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: fladd on August 24, 2009, 10:17:57 AM
What about some sort of calendar programme?
Remind would do it for me, but others might want something more graphical like Osmo.

Regards,
fladd
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bmarkus on August 24, 2009, 10:21:53 AM
What about some sort of calendar programme?
Remind would do it for me, but others might want something more graphical like Osmo.

Regards,
fladd

Xfce4 + orage

http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on August 24, 2009, 01:07:43 PM
I was wondering is someone could possibly recompile Python with the SQLite USE flag enabled. This is pretty much stopping my research in its tracks and I'm not experienced enough to really mess around with compiling Python. My justification for this is the fact that there is Python in the repo, and SQLite 3 in the repo, but one cannot import the sqlite3 module in Python. :'(

Thanks,
Steven
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gogee on August 26, 2009, 12:06:34 PM
Hi, I'd like to request an alsa-modules built with the snd-aloop device as well as SDL compiled with ALSA support.

Thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on August 26, 2009, 12:45:31 PM
vpnc (strong need, also from other posts on this forum)
w3m
naim
an app to modify pdf files (extract/add pages, etc.)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: lucky13 on August 26, 2009, 01:09:41 PM
vpnc (strong need, also from other posts on this forum)
w3m
naim
an app to modify pdf files (extract/add pages, etc.)

I have w3m and naim compiled (as of last night) but haven't had much chance to test yet (especially since I lost wifi with an ath5k timeout again). I'll be out of town the next couple weeks but I should be able to get them packaged and submitted during that time frame.

Edit: Just to be clear, do you want only the w3m pager or w3m-el for emacs? I have both but I think I'd need to package emacs as well for the latter.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: dougall on August 26, 2009, 03:07:53 PM
I have tried wicd without any success what about ceni.  I have used it in antiX and Sidux and it appears to be very good
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: alu on August 26, 2009, 10:47:00 PM
vpnc (strong need, also from other posts on this forum)
w3m
naim
an app to modify pdf files (extract/add pages, etc.)

Edit: Just to be clear, do you want only the w3m pager or w3m-el for emacs? I have both but I think I'd need to package emacs as well for the latter.

thanks lucky13, w3m pager only, great
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: fladd on August 30, 2009, 09:16:10 AM
What about some sort of calendar programme?
Remind would do it for me, but others might want something more graphical like Osmo.

Regards,
fladd

Xfce4 + orage

http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/



Well, I guess if I would go for a GUI one, then it should certainly be a one with a complete PIM.

fladd
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: fladd on August 30, 2009, 05:59:07 PM
What about OpenOffice 3? There are some interesting new things in there, like the ability to see the comments of doc documents!

Another candidate is still Latex I guess.

fladd
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on August 30, 2009, 08:13:14 PM
There's a couple of posts a month or so ago on this - basically, I tried to compile oo-3, but there was a bug that prevents it from compiling with gcc-3 and gcc-4...

I'll have a look again at some point.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bmarkus on August 30, 2009, 11:22:33 PM
There's a couple of posts a month or so ago on this - basically, I tried to compile oo-3, but there was a bug that prevents it from compiling with gcc-3 and gcc-4...


What is about using the binaries instead of recompiling? I tried it a while ago but failed and gave up. Do not remember exactly what was the issue, but definitely did not spent time to fix, just tried once.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on August 31, 2009, 12:22:15 AM
What is about using the binaries instead of recompiling? I tried it a while ago but failed and gave up. Do not remember exactly what was the issue, but definitely did not spent time to fix, just tried once.
The number of unneeded deps and cruft from a generic binary, basically. It could be repacked though, just like firefox-official.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: terminator on September 10, 2009, 01:26:48 AM
I would love to use Konqueror on tinycore. Of course with all functionality, I mean as webrowser and filemanager with drag'n'drop support.  ;D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: fladd on September 12, 2009, 01:38:16 PM
Any chance we can get MOC (music on console) - http://moc.daper.net/

and

Cheese (or any webcam program)

Yes, a console music player like MOC would be great!

fladd
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on October 10, 2009, 08:01:36 AM
also vlc is nice  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Kingdomcome on October 11, 2009, 08:54:58 PM
@curaga

If you get a chance, would you take a look at converting libIDL to tcz format?  TIA
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jur on October 11, 2009, 10:09:42 PM
Game request: Mahjongg, there is a very nice one that comes with ubuntu, and another one is available for puppy linux, Xmahjongg.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: spence91 on October 12, 2009, 02:17:59 AM
Ratpoison, a tiling WM thats very bare bones. Good for Netbooks, because there's no screen real estate lost.

I tried to compile myself, but i ran into problems.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on October 12, 2009, 07:09:06 AM
There's a couple of posts a month or so ago on this - basically, I tried to compile oo-3, but there was a bug that prevents it from compiling with gcc-3 and gcc-4...

I'll have a look again at some point.
What did you conclude? Can oo3 run on tc?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on October 12, 2009, 08:03:47 AM
As it happens, I downloaded oo-3.1.1 today and will have a look at it in the next week or so...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: exi on October 13, 2009, 05:41:50 AM
ZoneMinder is possible convert in tce?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on October 17, 2009, 08:05:53 AM
As it happens, I downloaded oo-3.1.1 today and will have a look at it in the next week or so...

..same story as before I'm afraid:
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testshl2 -sf /tmp/mk5npdXv -forward ../unxlngi6.pro/bin/ ../unxlngi6.pro/lib/libbasegfx_tests.so
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'CppUnit::StubException'
dmake:  Error code 134, while making '../unxlngi6.pro/misc/unittest_succeeded'

ERROR: Error 65280 occurred while making /mnt/sdb1/usr/src/OOO310_m19/basegfx/test
rmdir /tmp/5907
dmake:  Error code 1, while making 'build_instsetoo_native'
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: roystonlodge on October 18, 2009, 06:51:45 PM
I'm migrating from DSL to TinyCore.  One of the DSL extensions I use extensively is EDNA (combined with SSH it allows me to listen to my music library when I'm at work).  It would be lovely to have a TinyCore version.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bmarkus on October 18, 2009, 10:29:01 PM
I'm migrating from DSL to TinyCore.  One of the DSL extensions I use extensively is EDNA (combined with SSH it allows me to listen to my music library when I'm at work).  It would be lovely to have a TinyCore version.

EDNA is a Python script. Install Python from the TC repository, download EDNA and try it, most probably it works, except OGG. If it is OK, extension can be created.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: slinxj on October 19, 2009, 06:59:14 AM
Hey guys thanks for an awesome project!

I really wanted to use XScreenSaver but couldn't find it in the repo. I'd love to be able to use it on my desktop install.

Thanks!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tayloratosu on October 25, 2009, 03:26:45 PM
What about some sort of calendar programme?
Remind would do it for me, but others might want something more graphical like Osmo.

Regards,
fladd

Xfce4 + orage

http://www.kolumbus.fi/~w408237/orage/



Well, I guess if I would go for a GUI one, then it should certainly be a one with a complete PIM.

fladd

Calcurse is a good curses-based calendar program . . .
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tayloratosu on October 25, 2009, 03:28:23 PM
I'd very much like to see a timidity extension.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on October 25, 2009, 09:53:47 PM
I'd very much like to see a timidity extension.

me too
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on October 26, 2009, 06:35:18 AM
I'd very much like to see a timidity extension.

I compiled timidity, but have no idea what sort of files - apart from midi, obviously - to try and play. Could you let point me to a midi file(s) I can use to test timidity?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on October 26, 2009, 11:28:15 AM
Timidity needs soundfont than a midi    (like this http://www.maidenmidi.com/im-midis/Genghis_Khan.mid )

I do not use it from much time but this page seems to explain well and quickly.
http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/TiMidity++/build/00README.slackware

i don't remember if one interface is included in timidity

Another useful thing would be a realtime kernel, for the music prodution is a must.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on October 27, 2009, 03:44:16 AM
Thanks - that seems to have got it.

timidity extension posted
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tayloratosu on October 27, 2009, 01:03:33 PM
Thanks.  I'll check it out.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on October 27, 2009, 02:32:01 PM
Really thank to you, Juan  ;D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on October 29, 2009, 02:43:40 PM
there is not much hope for open jdk?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wonderfulll on October 30, 2009, 04:01:50 AM
there is not much hope for open jdk?
+1
Title: Re: Requests for extensions - QTstalker
Post by: tinier on November 02, 2009, 09:36:22 AM
With this app, TC could be turned into a very lightweight trading station, (and without sharing the data flow and interruptions of all the MSWindows processes). TC could also be set up as dedicated trading station, where only the scripts and apps supporting this high-speed trading task would be active on a given workstation, and all its actions in RAM only, loaded pristine from CD/USB daily.

It could be fed by free End-of-Day data from Yahoo; or nearly free realtime Java tic data (including practice data) from Interactive Brokers, etc.

QTstalker -- "Similar to commercial wares such as Metastock, Supercharts and Tradestation. Keeps to a lean, simple design for speed, portability, and low resource usage. Because it uses a plugin model, Qtstalker can easily be extended."

http://qtstalker.sourceforge.net (http://qtstalker.sourceforge.net)

 A package for debian found here (http://www.zwets.com/qtstalker)
Title: Monkey Web Server
Post by: roystonlodge on November 06, 2009, 11:56:43 AM
Since I'm migrating from DSL, I've gotten used to using the Monkey web server. 

To use Monkey with TinyCore, would I have to compile from source, or could I just take the dsl extension, change the suffix from .dsl to .tar.gz, and figure out where all the pieces go from that?


I suppose I COULD just learn to use a different web server.  Naaaah....
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: robc on November 06, 2009, 01:52:25 PM
The .dsl extension will not work with TC.

You can try and use apache or lighttpd. I use lighttpd since it is small, just google for 'lighttpd config' to get information about the config file then just `sudo lighttpd -f /path/to/config/file` will start the server
Title: Re: Monkey Web Server
Post by: combo3 on November 06, 2009, 02:41:56 PM
Since I'm migrating from DSL, I've gotten used to using the Monkey web server.  

To use Monkey with TinyCore, would I have to compile from source, or could I just take the dsl extension, change the suffix from .dsl to .tar.gz, and figure out where all the pieces go from that?

I suppose I COULD just learn to use a different web server.  Naaaah....

Funny you should ask. I just compiled this yesterday and am in the process of testing it out before submitting.

Check back in the next day or two.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: maro on November 08, 2009, 09:56:21 PM
We will need a new extension after rsync was removed from TC 2.5.

Otherwise grsync is a GUI wrapper without the "worker".
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on November 09, 2009, 05:43:12 AM
will make extension tonight
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: trinity on November 09, 2009, 02:18:07 PM
Just installed TinyCore today.

Haven't found a usenet reader yet?
So my request would be for Pan.

Also need a good search tool eg Searchmonkey?

Thank you
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wdef on November 22, 2009, 11:59:42 AM
I have a request:

gtk-doc (also will require DocBook XSL Stylesheets - these are not included in the docbook_xml_dtd.tcz extension)

This is needed for building some gnome apps.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on November 22, 2009, 12:22:53 PM
Is this something that could be made separately and used with the docbook extension if required - if so please be my guest, if not let me know and I'll have a look.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wdef on November 23, 2009, 03:43:00 AM
Hi Juanito

I don't know.  This docbook stuff is a bit of a mystery to me so I thought I'd post in case someone else here already knew what to do to build this.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on November 23, 2009, 06:10:37 AM
I had to use blfs/cblfs to see how to do it - let me have a look after the weekend
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: wdef on November 25, 2009, 12:28:47 AM
Thanks.  I noticed there was a large amount of online documentation, which coincided with my interest level suddenly declining ;=)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: JoXo009 on November 25, 2009, 04:01:51 PM
I would like to ask for
xdotool
http://www.semicomplete.com/projects/xdotool/
as new extension,
solving some practical usage problems in a simple way.

Following Google code
http://code.google.com/p/semicomplete/
it's under New BSD License
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: OldAdamUser2 on November 26, 2009, 06:00:58 PM
I'd love to see Fbreader working on xvesa.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Clopen on November 27, 2009, 11:09:20 AM
hi!

i would like to request the gnu pascal compiler :) i'm pretty much a newbie so if anyone could help it would be great :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Medox on December 01, 2009, 09:43:43 AM
AdvanceMAME + AdvanceMENU would be really great because they can use almost any other emulators like ZSNES, SNES9X, (which already exist as extensions) and many more.

I don't know if AdvanceMENU could work without AdvanceMAME but if so, it would be even better (less space and so...).

There are many fans who would love to use that menu (media center kinda) look with future tinycore "arcade machines".

e.g.: http://advancemame.sourceforge.net/menu-snapshot.html

Thanks.

L.E.
seems like AdvanceMENU works just great without AdvanceMAME. (for external/generic emulators)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: kellykel on December 01, 2009, 03:45:28 PM
Yeah, some emulation would be fun! Genesis and gameboy and others on the go!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on December 02, 2009, 02:58:09 AM
I have a request:

gtk-doc (also will require DocBook XSL Stylesheets - these are not included in the docbook_xml_dtd.tcz extension)

This is needed for building some gnome apps.

docbook_xsl posted - maybe you could test it for me  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on December 02, 2009, 08:26:44 AM
A newsgroup reader?
I know this http://pan.rebelbase.com/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: kellykel on December 02, 2009, 04:15:36 PM
What about the best game EVAR! http://www.hedgewars.org/ HEDGEWARS!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: svensko on December 07, 2009, 12:06:04 PM
Would it be possible to get NetHack in the repo?

Thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bigpcman on December 22, 2009, 09:11:08 AM
Could someone please add zoneminder to the extension repository.

Quote
ZoneMinder the top Linux video camera security and surveillance solution.

http://www.zoneminder.com/ (http://www.zoneminder.com/)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: teastopple on January 14, 2010, 07:55:14 AM
I would like to suggest some stuff concerning older low end PCs, which can be easily turned into a mp3 jukebox using either tinycore or microcore. I've a couple of Pentium I machines with 64 MB RAM and Pentium II  with 128 MB RAM. Supplying such a machine with a DOC Module to hold the TCL/MCL stuff

(e.g. http://cgi.ebay.com/64MB-DOM-Disk-On-Module-40-44-Pin-IDE-Flash-HI-Speed_W0QQitemZ370187547178QQcmdZViewItemQQptZPCC_Drives_Storage_Internal?hash=item5630e5b22a),

a fanless CPU cooler, soundcard and an external 2,5 inch USB drive to hold the mp3 files, you get a fine player of low noise and low power consumption and of course of low price too.

For XMMS two plugins would be great:

1. Volume normalizer plugin (http://volnorm.sourceforge.net/) is described as following: "The volume normalizer plugin is an XMMS plugin that is used to give all songs the same volume level so that you won't need to play with the volume knob whenever a song changes."

2. Crossfader plugin (http://www.eisenlohr.org/xmms-crossfade/) is a crossfader/gapless plugin for XMMS and Audacious.

As far as I see you can use them both together.

For a console-only player (microcore) the ncurses based mixer 'umix'
(http://umix.sourceforge.net/) would be nice. I think for an avarage Windows user, not familiar with the command line, 'ossmix' supplied with OSS is a little too complicated. Aside from this umix may be a good alternative to ossxmix which depends on the heavy weighted GTK2 library.

Last but not least: What about mp3blaster and cmus In addition to MOC? The latter can be controlled via UNIX socket using cmus-remote.

http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/

http://cmus.sourceforge.net/

TIA


Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: spence91 on January 14, 2010, 08:26:59 AM
teastopple:
For the xmms plugins, you can source the *.so files from the relevant .deb package from one of the many Debian based distributions and then just drop them into your $HOME/.xmms/Input.

extract a .deb file by:
ar p $xmms_plugin.deb data.tar.gz | tar zx


Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on January 14, 2010, 08:45:12 AM
You could do this and it might work, but far better (and more satisfying) to try and compile it for yourself following the instructions in the wiki  :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: spence91 on January 14, 2010, 08:55:17 AM
You could do this and it might work, but far better (and more satisfying) to try and compile it for yourself following the instructions in the wiki  :)

indeed.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: teastopple on January 14, 2010, 09:54:43 AM
OK, I'll give it a try next days.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Frgl on January 14, 2010, 06:17:16 PM
Ratpoison
Commandline Appsaudit
Lynx
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: bmarkus on January 14, 2010, 11:02:06 PM

Lynx


You can try elinks.tcz
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Xianwen Chen on January 17, 2010, 07:32:48 PM
Hi! Could you please produce a TCE for KeePassX [1]? It's a password management software.

[1] http://www.keepassx.org/


I've made the extension myself.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: teastopple on January 19, 2010, 07:10:00 AM
You could do this and it might work, but far better (and more satisfying) to try and compile it for yourself following the instructions in the wiki  :)

I've compiled the two XMMS plugins so far. There are two issues left to be clearified yet.

1. There is a command line switch, whether the plugins will be installed in ~/.xmms/Plugins or under /usr/local/lib. The latter may require to symlink the files in .xmms/Plugins. Which is the preferable one by your opinion?

2. The crossfade plugin strongly recommends a patch to the xmms source to work properly. Is it possible to apply this patch directly to the tce extension package? It's just a mite (about 15 kB), so I could mail the patch to the maintainer of XMMS Jason W along with the README file, which explains what will be changed.

Please drop me a note.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on January 19, 2010, 08:00:14 AM
For the XMMS plugin, or any other files, I far prefer to put them in /usr/local when possible instead of in the /home directory. 

Send or upload the patch, and I will look into it.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: yoshi314 on February 02, 2010, 12:24:06 AM
i would like to see tigervnc client, but i'm worried about its dependencies. it's way superior to standard vnc client, because it has various bandwidth saving options, making it comfortable to use over ssh tunnel.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on February 02, 2010, 01:25:35 AM
I have a working crossfade patch for xmms and will try to get it worked in tomorrow as time was tight recently.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on February 02, 2010, 02:01:13 AM
So far tigervnc still loses in fps to turbovnc. I know, not relevant, but hey ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: yoshi314 on February 02, 2010, 08:37:51 AM
cool, i'll have to check out this turbovnc, whatever it is, then ;-)

edit: uhh, no :D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: althalus on February 03, 2010, 03:07:49 AM
Tools for opening UDF formatted discs
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on February 03, 2010, 04:01:58 AM
Do you mean formatting? UDF mounting is supported by the filesystems extension.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: dentonlt on March 01, 2010, 04:14:24 AM
I need something that will let me fill out PDF forms, and then save them to disk.

On Win I use Foxit, but it's a pain using Win. On Linux TC, Evince looks like the way to go, though it may be a bit big (3MB source).

I'm just starting this build project. Happy to take another solution if anyone has suggestions

EDIT (20100313): I tried Linux versions of Evince, Adobe Reader, Xpdf, epdfview, and Foxit. Nothing handled my forms on native Linux.  I am now using Wine + Win Foxit, which together are big (~ 50mb ...) but they work. Kludged.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on March 01, 2010, 05:59:03 AM
I need something that will let me fill out PDF forms, and then save them to disk.

On Win I use Foxit, but it's a pain using Win. On Linux TC, Evince looks like the way to go, though it may be a bit big (3MB source).

I'm just starting this build project. Happy to take another solution if anyone has suggestions.

hey i have evince built already let me have a look if it works from base though i did not enable postscript support
recently i have updated poppler that was for evince actually  ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: habalulu on March 03, 2010, 12:57:21 AM
Hi folks,

First of all, nice job with this distro!

I'm looking for something like fetchmail and procmail.
Any chance that someone could add it to the repo?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: aanuncibay on March 03, 2010, 05:00:16 AM
It's possible make a new version of wine
 
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gutmensch on March 06, 2010, 12:41:46 PM
added wine 1.1.39:
1. wine-gl needs Xorg and has 3D support as well as SSL, cups, etc.
2. wine is the "low dep" version, no 3D, doesn't require Xorg
feel free to test it out...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gwalther on March 06, 2010, 01:43:29 PM
A plugin for XMMS to play wma files and wma radio streams.

Found ...xmms-wma-1.0.5.tar.bz2..here but could not get it to  .."make"

http://ftp.oiram.net/pub/UNIX/FreeBSD/ports/distfiles/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gutmensch on March 06, 2010, 02:31:38 PM
hold on for a moment for wine, an updated version is on the way due to change in mpg123 and deps.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on March 06, 2010, 04:32:54 PM
It's uploaded.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on March 06, 2010, 05:09:34 PM
RE: xmms-wma:

I built the plugin and had the same experience I have read about, that is it crashes XMMS.  I could not get wma files to play so I did not upload it.

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: hairywill on March 13, 2010, 06:32:03 AM
How about a tcz for gpsd?
http://gpsd.berlios.de/ (http://gpsd.berlios.de/)

This would greatly increase the value of tangogps.
http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=5336.0 (http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php?topic=5336.0)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on March 13, 2010, 07:23:15 AM
i will have a  look it

actually i thought about gpsd when making tangogps but i didnt know how to test it
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: danielibarnes on March 13, 2010, 01:35:41 PM
I made a gpsd extension a while back but never submitted it. I'll do that.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on March 13, 2010, 02:42:58 PM
I made a gpsd extension a while back but never submitted it. I'll do that.

i have completed gpsd 2.39 :D but requires testing
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: danielibarnes on March 13, 2010, 09:20:22 PM
Version 2.39 is about a year old. I built 2.92 (released March 3) simply because it was the latest, but does tangogps require 2.39? As for testing, I have a BU-353, Garmin LVC 18, Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, and one other.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: hairywill on March 13, 2010, 11:17:54 PM
i have completed gpsd 2.39 :D but requires testing
I'm happy to test, I just could not get it to compile.
I have a garmin 60. Feel free to PM me with your package for testing.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on March 13, 2010, 11:27:23 PM
Version 2.39 is about a year old. I built 2.92 (released March 3) simply because it was the latest, but does tangogps require 2.39? As for testing, I have a BU-353, Garmin LVC 18, Garmin GPSmap 76CSx, and one other.

i couldn't get gpsd versions 2.90+ compiled so i fallback to 2.39 if you have a higher version please feel free to update
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gwalther on March 21, 2010, 01:13:31 PM
How about a tcz for...alien...
"Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware tgz file formats"
it can be found here:
http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/alien/
.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jls on April 05, 2010, 07:06:25 AM
I would like mplayer with alsa and lirc support
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on April 05, 2010, 08:30:45 AM
The gtk1 build seems to have alsa support.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jls on April 05, 2010, 01:40:41 PM
I was thinking about the cli version
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: [XAP]Bob on April 20, 2010, 02:47:24 AM
I think an x2x extension would be a powerful companion to SSH and tinycore.

Just plug in a machine next to you, boot with your tinycore image, then:
ssh -X "x2x -east -to:0"

and your main machine becomes a software KVM, use your existing mouse/keyboard.


Link: http://x2x.dottedmag.net
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on April 20, 2010, 03:18:59 PM
[XAP]Bob: I haven't tried that, but you may be interested in synergy - if you only need the keyboard/mouse sharing.  It's currently available in the repository.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: stlava on April 20, 2010, 08:07:31 PM
Having a php5 extension with sockets and curl would be nice. On a side note I've been trying to compile php5 on TCL and i think I'm hitting a roadblock with GCC. No explicit error is given. It just fails.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: mole on April 24, 2010, 03:50:05 PM
Could we have an Ophcrack extension please.

Also, what are you're thoughts on the best file manager to use for recovering files from a windows pc.

I'm trying to build a disaster recovery set-up.

Many thanks.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jur on April 24, 2010, 08:36:31 PM
Is there an extension avaliable for analysing one's internet connection speed? One that would show where any bottlenecks are, and what other network users are using up?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: althalus on April 24, 2010, 11:57:24 PM
Would be nice to have Haskell. Can't seem to get it working myself, and have reached the end of my patience with it.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jur on April 28, 2010, 08:38:34 AM
Request for gnome phone manager (to send sms from pc via phone bluetooth).
http://live.gnome.org/PhoneManager
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jur on April 28, 2010, 11:29:33 PM
Request for wvdial.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on July 03, 2010, 11:38:16 AM
Request for Qps (http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/), a real pro task manager :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: SvOlli on July 03, 2010, 02:20:10 PM
Request for Qps (http://www.student.nada.kth.se/~f91-men/qps/), a real pro task manager :)
I took a quick look, but trying to port this to TCL will be a big hassle: the software is _really_ old.

It uses Qt 1.40, the current Qt Version is 4.6.3, which is incompatible with anything before 4.0. You _might_ get it compiled using Qt 3.x, but I wouldn't even bet on this.

The specified kernel is 2.0 or later. Since 2.0 a lot has changed, TCL uses 2.6.33.3. From this, my rough guess is that Qps is about one decade without maintenance, I can't tell for sure, because the ftp-server hosting the sourcecode is down.

Maybe htop might be worth a look for you.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on July 03, 2010, 05:51:15 PM
oh, how unfortunate it was really good software.
Thanks for your interest :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 03, 2010, 09:54:44 PM
there is Qps in debian repos you can take their patches to compile
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/qps (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/x11/qps)
edit: there is no patch in diff file

found new home of project
http://qps.kldp.net/projects/qps (http://qps.kldp.net/projects/qps)
this site is very slow and in korean instead source can be found at
http://www.sfr-fresh.com/linux/misc/qps-1.10.12.1.tar.gz/ (http://www.sfr-fresh.com/linux/misc/qps-1.10.12.1.tar.gz/)
http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/qps/ (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/qps/)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on July 04, 2010, 02:09:50 AM
Great! my request is renewed  ;D
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 04, 2010, 03:45:26 AM
submitted qps for TC 2.x

but not possible for TC 3.x unfortunately there is bug w8ing to be fixed
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563380 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=563380)
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587180 (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587180)

edit: qt3 version of qps works fine for TC 3.x (the one in debian repository),
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on July 04, 2010, 01:49:56 PM
Bad luck! I can only use 3.x because 'I need xorg 7.5
Anyway thanks equally  ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: vinnie on July 05, 2010, 09:39:00 AM
thanks for qps!
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 05, 2010, 10:06:17 AM
thanks for qps!

no problem
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jls on July 06, 2010, 12:07:25 AM
ndiswrapper for 3.x. It's incredible how this kind of pendrive are given by our main telecom company
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on July 06, 2010, 12:38:33 AM
ndiswrapper for 3.x. It's incredible how this kind of pendrive are given by our main telecom company

I'll have a look
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on July 06, 2010, 04:00:19 AM
ndiswrapper posted
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: neonix on July 09, 2010, 02:58:50 AM
I would like ask about Opera 10.60 in brand new extension. Please don't delete Opera 10.10
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on July 09, 2010, 04:48:54 PM
Request for pcspkr kernel module (PC speaker)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: yoshi314 on July 13, 2010, 09:47:31 PM
since we already have the necessary gsm modem stuff (network maganer + usb_modeswitch, etc)
we could use mobile-broadband-provider-info (http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ServiceProviders).

not sure which app will make use of it. ubuntu had some nice mobile broadband provider wizard using this configuration.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 13, 2010, 10:35:00 PM
since we already have the necessary gsm modem stuff (network maganer + usb_modeswitch, etc)
we could use mobile-broadband-provider-info (http://live.gnome.org/NetworkManager/MobileBroadband/ServiceProviders).

not sure which app will make use of it. ubuntu had some nice mobile broadband provider wizard using this configuration.

ok i will package it,

i don't have a gsm modem but isn't ModemManager for gsm modems ? It is available in repo and when available automatically started by NetworkManager.

btw mobile-broadband-provider-info is used by network-manager-gnome
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: neonix on July 16, 2010, 07:16:01 AM
Request for "word war vi" - open source game.

http://wordwarvi.sourceforge.net/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: meo on July 18, 2010, 08:10:17 AM
Hi Y'all!

I would really appreciate if someone could take on the task of updating K3B to version 2.0 and make sure that it works on TC 3.0.

Have fun doing a good work in making extensions for TC,
meo
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: buggy on July 20, 2010, 04:14:25 AM
Wine 1.2 & Compiz 0.9.x?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 20, 2010, 05:06:03 AM
Wine 1.2 & Compiz 0.9.x?

compiz has to wait till gnome update is completed
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: elohim on July 20, 2010, 10:08:18 AM
I would be very happy, if someone adds GogglesMM or QuodLibet+QuodLibet-Plugins packages to TinyCore.
Where the priority lies on QuodLibet. They are both very lightweight, so it should'nt be conflicting with TinyCore's philosophy.

Thanks!
Here are The Project Sites:
http://code.google.com/p/gogglesmm/

http://code.google.com/p/quodlibet/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on July 20, 2010, 10:20:41 AM
elohim, rhythmbox has a very similar look to those two, if you'd like to take a look at it.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: elohim on July 20, 2010, 01:32:10 PM
Yes, it has a similar look, but the last.fm scrobbling doesnt really work.
Also rythmbox seems kind of slow to me.

BTW. My wireless card doesnt work.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8192SE
I need this driver. Could you add it to the wireless drivers? Because I saw that 8180 is in there, but it only works with r8192se_pci.
I know that from ArchLinux
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on July 20, 2010, 01:53:06 PM
BTW. My wireless card doesnt work.
http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=48&PFid=48&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false&Downloads=true#RTL8192SE
I need this driver. Could you add it to the wireless drivers? Because I saw that 8180 is in there, but it only works with r8192se_pci.
I know that from ArchLinux

The wireless- extension only includes drivers from the kernel source. Any third-party drivers can be separate extensions, assuming they can be redistributed.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: buggy on July 20, 2010, 05:01:38 PM
Wine 1.2 & Compiz 0.9.x?

compiz has to wait till gnome update is completed
For compiz-gnome or all compiz-packages? I've been using compiz with w/e the stock desktop system is.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on July 20, 2010, 10:52:38 PM
compiz gnome depends on compiz gtk window decorator which needs gnome headers to build so it has to wait
also compiz 0.9 is new which means it is untested, probably buggy and no other linux distro is updated to 0.9 yet. As a conclusion for good of everyone, and me it has to wait :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: SamK on July 21, 2010, 03:41:44 AM
Request for gmpc (graphical music player daemon client).

Packages are available in the main Ubuntu repos and at the maintainers Launcpad site:
https://launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/ppa

I am looking into using low spec (second hand) thin client booting TC to both play mpd streams locally and also control remote mpd server. Hopefully it will produce an appliance type unit based on TC with an attractive interface.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: ophiry on July 23, 2010, 03:06:44 PM
Are the old extensions automatically ported?

some extensions i'm looking for, and I believe at least part of them were available in older versions

sftp-server (for use with dropbear)
vmware tools + vmware player  \ virtualbox + tools
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: batnas on July 23, 2010, 04:17:40 PM
I would like to see samba divided in 2:
samba3-server
samba3-client

I would be smart if you want a samba server running, but dont use the client ;)

\\Batns
Title: Re: Requests for extensions : Newer Murrine engine?
Post by: marquitico on July 23, 2010, 04:38:21 PM
Any possibility of a newer Murrine engine than the 0.53.1 version in gtk-engines.tcz? Not only is it so old that the majority of the available Murrine themes break with this engine, but the maintainer on his blog admits a faulty algorithm (contrast-related, I think), which has since been fixed.

Not mission-critical, I know, but still.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions : Newer Murrine engine?
Post by: Arslan S. on July 23, 2010, 10:28:41 PM
Any possibility of a newer Murrine engine than the 0.53.1 version in gtk-engines.tcz? Not only is it so old that the majority of the available Murrine themes break with this engine, but the maintainer on his blog admits a faulty algorithm (contrast-related, I think), which has since been fixed.

Not mission-critical, I know, but still.

it is already done but not submitted yet, it is in the queue
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Kingdomcome on July 24, 2010, 07:40:28 AM
Could we get the kernel headers for 3.x packaged into an extension please?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on July 24, 2010, 08:18:54 AM
whilst waiting you can use base-dev  ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: ^thehatsrule^ on July 25, 2010, 12:09:42 PM
Kingdomecome: I'll try to get out something soon, even if it's just for testing ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: jls on July 26, 2010, 07:31:36 AM
I'd like lirc for tc/mc3.x
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: huffpuff on July 26, 2010, 01:11:05 PM
I am partial to minimalist text editors so I would like to supplicate to the Gods the following:

either the Python-scripted Pyroom or, ideally, the Qt-based Textroom which makes rather handy typewriting noises that, if nothing else, keep you awake late at night when all other sensible folk have slipped off with their Horlicks...
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: 3rail on August 01, 2010, 06:35:11 PM
I'd like to request OSS4.0 be ported from 2.x to 3.x.  Is this even possible given the new kernel in 3.x?

Thanks.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: donquixote2u on August 05, 2010, 04:01:37 AM
Request for gmpc (graphical music player daemon client).

Packages are available in the main Ubuntu repos and at the maintainers Launcpad site:
https://launchpad.net/~gmpc-trunk/+archive/ppa

I am looking into using low spec (second hand) thin client booting TC to both play mpd streams locally and also control remote mpd server. Hopefully it will produce an appliance type unit based on TC with an attractive interface.

... and now that we have mpd could someone with some packaging expertise add mpc too please!  I have compiled it and its libmpdclient dependency but hesitate to try to package it.

I am travelling almost the same path as SamK here, moving my music off Ampache running on an Ubuntu pc to a thin-client based TC setup.

My main desire was to quickly assemble ad-hoc playlists based on searches of my mp3 tags (as well as the Genre/Artist/Title tags I have used the Album tag space for a Mood attribute)  but I hadn't found any clients that do playlist compilation well.

I hadn't really thought about a console based client, but once I saw this screen shot - http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/File:Client-mpc-20030723_1.jpg  (http://mpd.wikia.com/wiki/File:Client-mpc-20030723_1.jpg)-  of mpc in action, I was sold. It works great - in seconds I can refine my selections and fire the playlist at mpd.

As well as the console mode, I wrote a very simple bash cgi web interface for mpc (lighttpd server) so the gf can do her selecting from her laptop . One day I might package that!  ;D


 
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: b1ackmai1er on August 09, 2010, 07:45:47 AM

Hi, looking for "mpc" or "gmpc" as well.

Thanks b1ackmai1er
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: b1ackmai1er on August 14, 2010, 11:24:44 PM
I have submitted a mpc extension for testing.

Regards b1ackmai1er
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on August 26, 2010, 02:09:41 AM
compiz gnome depends on compiz gtk window decorator which needs gnome headers to build so it has to wait
also compiz 0.9 is new which means it is untested, probably buggy and no other linux distro is updated to 0.9 yet. As a conclusion for good of everyone, and me it has to wait :)

compiz 0.9.x is unstable branch and a complete rewrite of 0.8.x to C++ which will be 0.10.x stable in time so 0.8.4 will be main compiz version for Tiny Core till a stable 0.10.x is released
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2010-July/003429.html (http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/compiz/2010-July/003429.html)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: eluring on August 27, 2010, 12:16:10 PM
Request for osmo-locale
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: nocturno on August 29, 2010, 12:41:25 PM
Request for lcdproc

microcore is great for headless systems with parallell lcd's
Title: Xlibs_support
Post by: peterc on September 03, 2010, 10:29:41 AM
I notice that there is no Xlibs_support extension for 3.x, and the maintainer (jpeters) hasn't been around since January. Does anyone want to adopt this?
Title: Re: Xlibs_support
Post by: Juanito on September 03, 2010, 10:50:37 AM
I notice that there is no Xlibs_support extension for 3.x, and the maintainer (jpeters) hasn't been around since January. Does anyone want to adopt this?

Doesn't Xorg-7.5-lib serve the same purpose?
Title: Re: Xlibs_support
Post by: peterc on September 03, 2010, 11:04:22 AM
Doesn't Xorg-7.5-lib serve the same purpose?

Ah, so it does, thanks.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: evilbob on September 07, 2010, 11:19:16 AM
Would love to see a tn5250 emulator.
http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/

This would make my life easy.
Title: VirtualBox Guest additions
Post by: peterc on September 10, 2010, 10:08:48 AM
I PM'ed kingdomcome (the maintainer the 2.x VBox guest additions) a week or so ago, and haven't heard anything, but it's possible that he's on vacation or something. In any case, something for 3.x would be greatly appreciated for running TinyCore within VBox.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: agrypa1 on September 16, 2010, 05:07:32 PM
Tinycore linux is an easy distro to boot, and very fast. I am in need to boot tinycore on one machine that has its flashrom populated with coreboot and filo as its payload, remove the chip while the computer is running and then insert a bad chip to reflash it. To do that I need coreboot, paylod and filo. All three are available via subversion.

but I guess many more packages are needed to build coreboot, paylod and filo under tinyCoreLinux.
Can tinycore provide the necessary software in order to build the three + flashrom?

thanks for any answers

Agryppa
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on September 17, 2010, 12:53:42 AM
svn, compiletc, libftdi are available.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: n2j3 on September 17, 2010, 02:34:27 AM
Requesting DeaDBeeF music player http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

thanks
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Arslan S. on September 17, 2010, 05:07:19 AM
Requesting DeaDBeeF music player http://deadbeef.sourceforge.net/

thanks


submitted
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: agrypa1 on September 19, 2010, 09:34:02 AM
Hi, I would like to see flashrom in the repository of extentions. Is it feasible to have one?

svn co svn://coreboot.org/flashrom/trunk flashrom

It is a popular (and new) utility to flash your BIOS chip in the motherboard. Available for these:
  Installation of binary packages

    * Debian: sudo aptitude install flashrom
    * Ubuntu: sudo aptitude install flashrom
    * Fedora: sudo yum install flashrom
    * Gentoo: emerge flashrom
    * Mandriva: urpmi flashrom
    * openSUSE: yast -i coreboot-utils

Thanks a lot

Agryppa
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 19, 2010, 10:37:28 AM

It is a popular (and new) utility to flash your BIOS chip in the motherboard.

Any references to popularity?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: agrypa1 on September 20, 2010, 02:13:35 AM
It might be a little of an overstatement on my part about it.
It does not change the fact that it is being used by a community of developers and users alike for experimenting with BIOSes.

I'd be happy to see it in the repo. Microcore boots so fast and is most suited for booting and flashing.

regards,
Agryppa
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 20, 2010, 01:20:08 PM
It might be a little of an overstatement on my part about it.
It does not change the fact that it is being used by a community of developers and users alike for experimenting with BIOSes.

I'd be happy to see it in the repo. Microcore boots so fast and is most suited for booting and flashing.

regards,
Agryppa

I'm aware this is getting a bit OT for thread subject...

Your current statement is more like it, "experimenting"
Neither is flashrom new as you claimed in your former post - "coreboot" is just the new name for what was formerly known as LinuxBIOS, but it is under development since more than 10 years and has not reached a stable state yet.

flashrom theoretically supports only about 3 rather exotic notebook chipsets and issues big fat warnings against use on notebooks, while the market trend since many years tends to notebooks and since a few years also to netbooks, so that alone would disqualify it from being or becoming popular at current state.

While it is a most fascinating and essential project with a great potential - the "last mile" of free software - recommending it to end users which are not very much aware of the risks and prepared to possibly end up bricking their hardware would not be most responsible, IMHO.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: agrypa1 on September 21, 2010, 03:16:22 PM
flashrom theoretically supports only about 3 rather exotic notebook chipsets and issues big fat warnings against use on notebooks, while the market trend since many years tends to notebooks and since a few years also to netbooks, so that alone would disqualify it from being or becoming popular at current state.

We must be talking about different projects, flashrom supports these:
cat flashrom_supported.txt
flashrom v0.9.2-r1178 on Linux 2.6.35-rc2-git4 (x86_64), built with libpci 3.1.4, GCC 4.3.4, little endian
flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org


Supported flash chips (total: 261):
Supported chipsets (total: 151):
Known boards (good: 256, bad: 18):
Known laptops (good: 2, bad: 7):
Supported PCI devices flashrom can use as programmer:

3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10/100 Mbps; shared 10BASE-T/100BASE-TX [10b7:9055]
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10/100 Mbps; shared 10BASE-T/100BASE-T4 [10b7:9001] (untested)
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10BASE-T (TPO) [10b7:9004]
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10BASE-T/10BASE2/AUI (COMBO) [10b7:9005] (untested)
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10BASE-T/10BASE2 (TPC) [10b7:9006] (untested)
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10BASE-FL [10b7:900a] (untested)
3COM 3C90xB: PCI 10BASE-FX [10b7:905a] (untested)
3COM 3C905B: Cyclone 10/100/BNC [10b7:9058]
3COM 3C905C: EtherLink 10/100 PCI (TX) [10b7:9200]
3COM 3C980C: EtherLink Server 10/100 PCI (TX) [10b7:9805] (untested)
Realtek RTL8139/8139C/8139C+ [10ec:8139]
SMC2 1211TX [1113:1211]
NVIDIA Mutara V08 [NV2] [10de:10] (untested)
NVIDIA RIVA 128 [10de:18] (untested)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT [10de:20] (untested)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2/TNT2 Pro [10de:28] (untested)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Ultra [10de:29] (untested)
NVIDIA Vanta/Vanta LT [10de:2c] (untested)
NVIDIA RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 Pro [10de:2d]
NVIDIA Aladdin TNT2 [10de:a0] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce 256 [10de:100] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce DDR [10de:101] (untested)
NVIDIA Quadro [10de:103] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX [10de:110] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 MX [10de:111] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 GO [10de:112] (untested)
NVIDIA Quadro2 MXR [10de:113] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS/Pro [10de:150] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS [10de:151] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra [10de:152] (untested)
NVIDIA Quadro2 Pro [10de:153] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce 3 nFX [10de:200] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce 3 nFX [10de:201] (untested)
NVIDIA GeForce 3 nFX Ultra [10de:202] (untested)
NVIDIA Quadro 3 DDC [10de:203] (untested)
Dr. Kaiser PC-Waechter (Actel FPGA) [1803:5057]
Silicon Image PCI0680 Ultra ATA-133 Host Ctrl [1095:680]
Silicon Image SiI 3112 [SATALink/SATARaid] SATA Ctrl [1095:3112]
Silicon Image SiI 3114 [SATALink/SATARaid] SATA Ctrl [1095:3114]
Silicon Image SiI 3124 PCI-X SATA Ctrl [1095:3124]
Silicon Image SiI 3132 SATA Raid II Ctrl [1095:3132]
Silicon Image SiI 3512 [SATALink/SATARaid] SATA Ctrl [1095:3512]
Intel 82541PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller [8086:107c]

but I will not insist if there's no general opproval of it. The thought that it can be used for many other things besides "experimenting" is tempting, though, and that calls for inclusion in a distro that seems perfect for such things.
I just don't seem to figure out how you arrived at the conclusion that flashrom "theorically" support maybe 3 rather exotic chipsets in laptops...

Agryppa
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: aus9 on September 21, 2010, 04:02:56 PM
hi

I am aware that http://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom can be used within a working system. The trouble is people may wipe their bios as the package offers that option and so we still have the issue of recovery?

flashrom is a utility for identifying, reading, writing, verifying and erasing flash chips


2) you can create cds, or floppies in linux to use....ms style files to flash your bios...if interested consider

http://www.linuxinsight.com/how-to-flash-motherboard-bios-from-linux-no-dos-windows-no-floppy-drive.html

and more graphical easy to use?
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net            .......using the freedos

Naturally you will need to download and maybe unpack any bios zip file your motherboard releases

3) some bios makers use certain archive tools that might include RAR.

In order to know how to unpack any pesky archive....try running

strings filetobetested.exe

strings command is obtained by downloading the binutils package

4) I did look and my cheap mobo.....ECS is not in the attached text file. ECS is a cheap mobo and is my defining characteristic...heh heh

good luck
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 21, 2010, 06:33:49 PM
We must be talking about different projects

I can't understand why you would say so, when you had posted a svn url in your first post, and i refer to same project with accurate details in my last post...

From the README at the url of the svn trunk which you posted:

Quote
Do not use flashrom on laptops! The embedded controller (EC) present in many
laptops interacts badly with any flash attempts and can brick your laptop
permanently.

You yourself say it:

Quote
Known laptops (good: 2, bad: 7):

Here are some references I invite you and everyone interested to read:

http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Supported_laptops.2Fnotebooks
http://www.flashrom.org/Supported_hardware#Unsupported_Laptops.2FNotebooks.2FNetbooks
http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops

I was never opposed to inclusion as an extension if there is an interest; I am opposed to calling an experimental utility which has not reached a stable state and bears a high risk for end users to brick their hardware popular, because that could mislead someone to act without being aware of the potential risks.

Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 21, 2010, 06:36:49 PM

strings command is obtained by downloading the binutils package


strings (busybox applet) is in base  ;)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: beroje on September 23, 2010, 05:39:53 AM
WARNING: Your ClamAV installation is OUTDATED!
WARNING: Local version: 0.96.2 Recommended version: 0.96.3
DON'T PANIC! Read http://www.clamav.net/support/faq
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on September 23, 2010, 06:03:58 AM
I will try to get to clamav this week.  0.96.3 was released a couple days ago, so using 0.96.2 after updating the database with "freshclam" is quite safe, for those who may not know, despite the apparent urgency of that warning.



Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on September 23, 2010, 03:30:30 PM
clamav updated.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 25, 2010, 06:52:36 AM
Request for mp3blaster
http://mp3blaster.sourceforge.net/

A lot has been mentioned lately in forum about complications and bugginess of various console audio players/streaming clients...

From a user comment on http://freshmeat.net/projects/mp3blaster/
Code: [Select]
I run mp3blaster 24/7, there is no mp3 player capable of doing that without crashing sometime, but mp3blaster.
BTW, I tried the debian package of mp3blaster, but it is compiled with a dependency of libsidplay.so.1 which I can't seem to find in repo.

Edit: nvm, getting libsidplay.so.1 from deb repo as well, mp3blaster works.
At least for mp3's. I can't figure out why it wouldn't work over the LAN as a streaming client of edna server with .m3u playlists (single mp3's work).
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: t_d_c on September 25, 2010, 01:28:23 PM
I noticed the repository includes tor, but there is no suitable HTTP proxy to go along with it. That is why I kindly request Polipo, a caching HTTP proxy often used with tor.

http://www.pps.jussieu.fr/~jch/software/polipo/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: TaoTePuh on September 25, 2010, 01:50:21 PM
@tinypoodle
[...]
BTW, I tried the debian package of mp3blaster, but it is compiled with a dependency of libsidplay.so.1 which I can't seem to find in repo.
[...]

I built the libs for sidplay2 last week. They are included in sidplay2-lib.tcz
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on September 25, 2010, 02:34:51 PM
I built the libs for sidplay2 last week. They are included in sidplay2-lib.tcz

Thanks, but sidplay2 != sidplay1 (which is required in this case).
Doesn't matter much I guess, as long as libsidplay1 is not required as a dependency by any other extension in TC repos.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: evilbob on September 29, 2010, 05:36:03 AM
Would love to see a tn5250 emulator.
http://tn5250.sourceforge.net/

This would make my life easy.


Please...
Request for tn5250.
Would allow tinycore to be a fully functional IBM AS400 terminal!

Thanks.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: SamK on October 07, 2010, 03:16:16 AM
In the past I have used a GPL 2 app named Autocutsel to conduct copy and paste between machines using a VNC connection (such as tightvnc.tcz).  I cannot find a similar app in the TC3 repository hence this request for an extension.
http://www.nongnu.org/autocutsel
   
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: aus9 on October 10, 2010, 06:20:06 AM
hi

I am looking into pptview, a power point presentation viewer of .pps or .ppt files.

there appear to be some alternatives such as

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/tcz/openoffice3.tcz.info

http://www.koffice.org/kpresenter/

but IMHO they are all bloatware with large dependencies while pptview appears to have none.

2) The source file appears to be a ms file structure that someone has converted to linux.

http://mirror.internode.on.net/pub/debian/pool/non-free/p/pptview/pptview_8.0.orig.tar.gz

3) I am thinking of using dpkg-deb to submit a package based on 8.0-6 deb file

any comments?

regards


oops forgot to add the license info as its non-free

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so maybe this will have to be a fetch script?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Juanito on October 10, 2010, 06:36:06 AM
As per debian, this depends  on wine and it looks like you would need to unpack the source tar.gz somewhere appropriate in the file system for it to work?
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on October 10, 2010, 06:53:14 AM
Not just a binary extension, but a Windows binary?

That's.. sacrilege, I tell you.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: aus9 on October 11, 2010, 03:05:38 AM
hi

sacrilege

I shall prostate myself on the virtual temple at the Linux Mount and offer penance for thirty days and thirty nights or I just slink away.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Scorp1us on October 13, 2010, 08:00:29 AM
I was hoping someone could provide a tcz package of Qt Mobility (http://qt.nokia.com/developer/new-qt-apis/), which is an add-on for Qt. The 1.0.2 version is stable and a 1.1.0 is in beta.

Specifically I want the Qt QML Audio/Video element from this package (provided by Multimedia) http://doc.qt.nokia.com/qtmobility-1.0/multimedia.html#qml-multimedia-elements

This will require gstreamer for the linux backend.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Ode_to_Oddness on October 15, 2010, 09:45:21 AM
Ok guys. Welcome all. First i must admit that TinyCoreLinux is the best OS i ever used. I am doing quite fine with customizing it on my notebook but i would also like to test some 3D games and also have a game to play in spare time (i have GeForce GPU so it's not a problem for me) so what i need is:

-libopenal.tcz extension
-AssaultCube.tcz (http://assault.cubers.net) - fun FPS game which have low sys requirements

so if anyone can do it without hassle for me (and TCL community) i would be grateful. Maybe i could do it alone but i am not so confident (i would learn it but now i am just too tired and i need to rest so pls answer me in the meantime).

Thank you and Best Regards.
Title: Re: What's the future direction of TC?
Post by: PIRAT507 on October 15, 2010, 02:38:34 PM
Somewhere i read one of the devellopers is also musician ;-)
So i request the marvellous Zynaddsubfx synthesizer.
It depends on (in Debian):
debhelper (>> 5.0.0),
fluid (>= 1.1.3+1.1.4rc1),
libasound2-dev (>= 0.9.4) [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386],
libfftw3-dev,
libfltk1.
1-dev (>= 1.1.3+1.1.4rc1),
libjack0.100.0-dev,
libmxml-dev (>= 2.0),
quilt,
zlib1g-dev

As I am new to Tinycore, I can't yet compile it myself.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gutmensch on October 16, 2010, 08:32:46 AM
libopenal and libopenal-dev sent for submission ;-)

[edit]you should be able to run assault cube then since it's precompiled binaries on the web site[/edit]
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: tinypoodle on October 18, 2010, 05:47:28 AM
Request for MemtestCL

Software-based tester to test for "soft errors" in GPU memory or logic.
Precompiled, ready-to-execute binaries of MemtestCL for Linux would only be available as 64bit version.

https://simtk.org/project/xml/downloads.xml?group_id=385#package_id906
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: docsulo on October 18, 2010, 11:47:46 AM
Request for Wikidpad 2.0rc7 1

http://wikidpad.sourceforge.net/

Awesome organizer that deserves more attention in my humble opinion.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: docsulo on October 18, 2010, 12:17:59 PM
Would love to have Keepassx.  Need it to open nearly every file I have.

http://www.keepassx.org/
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: TheNewbie on October 21, 2010, 09:09:52 PM
I believe this may have been posted already at some point, but not all of it, and not recently. (within past month or so) Please update Tor! (repo has 0.2.2.13-alpha, would appreciate 0.2.2.17-alpha and/or 0.2.1.26-stable)

[batnas has not been active for 2 weeks+ now, and there is no official thread, so have not contacted him wrt to an update]
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gutmensch on October 22, 2010, 01:41:51 AM
Sent polipo for submission as I already had it done before but not posted... :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on October 22, 2010, 01:59:09 AM
Hmm, I searched mail for polipo (I have deleted nothing since the beginning) and the only result was the one sent in today, and there is nothing in the spam trap.  Of course, spam older than 30 days is deleted so it could have been caught and automatically deleted there by now.

Regardless of what happened, it will be uploaded today.
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: gutmensch on October 22, 2010, 02:33:49 AM
My fault, Jason... I didn't sent it in before, just had it "done", lying around in my own testing/backup repo ;-)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: Jason W on October 22, 2010, 02:54:53 AM
Oops, I see I misread your earlier post.  I am used to an occasional extension slipping through the cracks, therefore I read that into your sentence.   :)
Title: Re: Requests for extensions
Post by: curaga on October 24, 2010, 10:15:34 AM
Please use the new subforum from now on. Locking this thread.