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Puppy School - RaspberryPi

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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 PARM other PARM devices

New Puppi fication of Debian Squeeze

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 and xchat

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 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?

Currently we are recommending Debian Squeeze

(Puppy not yet available) . . . coming soon . . .

We believe this to be the best basis or bootstrapping distro to start with

It contains some Puppy familiar programs, such as Geany and Leafpad

Using Debian Squeeze

Mark (antiloquax) is working on an ARCH based Puppy

Can I have a step by step setup tutorial?

Here it is

more technical info

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

In Puppy Slacko and most modern Puppys click on the downloaded Squeeze zip

It will expand

Move to the directory where the unzipped image is, 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 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

password root

No Window manager just cli

type help to get started

more Arch info

How do I get 'The Squeeze' started?

boot up

password raspberry

startx

for desktop

How using Squeeze, do I change the desktop image to something Puppi?

Right click on desktop

Change desktop/wallpaper and then drag the file from USB keydrive or other source (I added a lime coloured USB hub to the Raspberry) to the file selector

desktop wallpaper

older wallpaper design

pacer106 design

How do I install my favourite Puppi programs in the Squeeze?

Activate the menu bottom left

Use the Lxterminal in the top menu accessories

(password = raspberry)

	sudo su  
	apt-get update
	apt-get install mtpaint
	apt-get clean

then run mtpaint (that is an example) from the terminal

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 other Puppi style programs can be installed with apt-get?

rox-filer = Rox file manager

chromium-browser = Google Chrome

inkscape = structured drawing package

dia = structured drawing package

mhwaveedit = Jack sound driver not available yet

How do I move files from a USB keydrive on or off Debian Squeeze?

Change the permissions. You can do this from the file manager

I changed everything to read/write and executable

In Rox the USB will be visible in /media folder

How do I create an image file of my changes for other Puppi Users?

dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/a/mounted/filesystem/filename.img

details

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

Which Raspberry Pi Foundation resources should I use?

Join Pi forum Pi thread