PuppyLinux: Puppy School

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Puppy School - RaspberryPi

Puppy is going back to his roots. Booting from SD. Moving to a new processor. Making every bit count. Join the Puppy geek adventure for 2012. Woof Woof
What is Raspberry Puppi?

Puppi is Puppy running on the Raspberry Pi ARM motherboard
Raspberry Puppi or RP or Puppi for short, is currently in pre-alpha preparation and experimentation

What Puppy centric news is available?

Python, Puppy and Raspberry Pi blog from Antiloquax and Lobster
Once Puppy is solidly on Pi, we will add drivers for other PARM devices

New Click for Puppi Arch base

Click for Puppi Debian Squeeze base

What are the proposed Puppi spec?

These are likely to change

Run in the 256MB ram of the Pi

This means we can lock the SD card if we wish and write to a second device for config and data e.g. a keydrive. It also means calling from memory cache rather than SD

Recognizable Puppy scripts and programs

In the Debian Squeeze Lobster is currently experimenting with:

running programs = Geany, Midori, Leafpad
installed mtpaint, xchat etc - see Puppi
Pets being compiled by Barryk - including gtkdialog

JWM - Joe's Window Manager
Rox File Manager

Puppi Package Manager and/or Appet based on QuickPet/SlickPet
Puppi Control Panel

Puppi Soft Phone
Puppi GROWL Security
Mhwaveedit
MoManager - create non-english Puppi

Puppi Cloud support, Meebo, Gmail, Yahoo, IRC etc
Transmission bit torrent
Emergency Yodel button - optional

How soon before Puppi is on the Raspberry Pi?

Guys our worst developer - that would be me Lobster, has a Rpi board. It came two days before general release. Debian, Fedora and Arch have had boards six months ahead of us. More able developers such as Barry, Raffy, Sickgut, Antiloquax, MarkG and others have boards on order.
Lobster tries out Raspberry Pi hardware
Lobster has Pi!
pre planning
The Raspberry Puppi is part of PARM. We are making Puppy available for ARM processors, tablets and smart dog and bones

How do I get an operating system for my Raspberry Pi NOW?

Mark (antiloquax) is working on an ARCH based Puppy in Qemu
We are recommending Debian Squeeze and using the Debian Arch process
This base will help bootstrapping a Puppi distro
Debian Squueeze for Raspberry Pi contains some Puppy familiar programs, such as Geany and Leafpad
Using Debian Squeeze

Can I have a step by step setup tutorial?

Here it is
more technical info

How do I burn the Debian Image; the downloadable .img with Puppy?

In Puppy Slacko and most modern Puppys, click on the downloaded Squeeze zip
The zip will extract.
Move to unzipped image directory, open a console by
right clicking and select new terminal. Type

	# dd bs=1M if=debian6-19-04-2012.img of=/dev/sdc

more info
The part debian6-19-04-2012.img is the operating system image and if you have a later image
replace with the updated image name

And for ArchLinux?

	dd bs=1M if=archlinuxarm-27-03-2012.img of=/dev/sdc

How to do I use Mtpaint screenshot?

See the info on installing favourite Puppy programs
When installed mtpaint is in your LX menu under graphics
The screenshot facility in mtpaint is under File/Actions/Time delayed screenshot

What the ffffffffff?

If you are getting strange auto-repeats or other weird behaviour try plugging the USB keyboard or other device directly into the Rpi, or use a powered hub.

What if I am American?

americanizing the raspberry pi

Any Youtube tutorials?

Tutorial will be available here

Can I have Raspberry PI FAQS?

Buying Guide
After developers, testers and users have Pi hardware, we can move towards the first mainstream ARM Raspberry Puppi ISO
Puppy artwork (already available), wiki and forum support etc.
Raspberry Pi hardware commitment
RPi Broadcom graphics info
RPi Chip manual

Which Raspberry Pi Foundation resources should I use?

Join Pi forum Pi thread
Join Raspberry_Pi on twitter for news as it happens