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June 29 2007

Ecopup 0.7 Beta
Aims:-

1. To have a large variety of applications that will be required by most non-technical computer users in a low income home environment.
2. To be intuitive and familiar to those with existing windows experience.
3. To be able to be installed extremely simply on donated hardware, in under ten minutes, perminantly removing all traces of the previous windows operating system. This is make it economically viable to refurbish older p.c.'s and sell them at a price point affordable to low income families and individuals.
4. To be natively compatible with as much hardware as possible, *without* additional setup time or training (i.e. autodetect).



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June 17 2007



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June 2 2007

NOP

Puppy 2.16 NOP is Nearly Office Pup created by a professional aerospace engineer
Abiword and Gnumeric have been removed so that there is no application function duplication when the Oo sfs is added.
Opera (browser / mail / chat).
The ICEWM system has been added, with a blue xp look as default with other options
Clean menus and desktop. Application duplication in the menus has also been reduced
Addition of Xsane and the inclusion of CUPS as the default print system.
The printer setup wizard now runs CUPS setup and the printer status menu option opens up the CUPS printer tools in a web browser.
ROX filer background patterns and updated the gtk themes to include some nice patterns.

http://pkagfiles.net/puppy-mirror-isos/puppy-216-NOP.iso
http://pkagfiles.net/puppy-mirror-isos/puppy-216-NOP-md5sum.txt




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June 1 2007