I have to signal some warning.
I have downloaded and tested the Live Cd and unfortunately it has the same problem that I have encountered with Swift Linux and JULinux.
It boots up bu the fonts are not avaible.
I was inquisitive thinking that it is the problem with the switch that have connected to three couputers with only one Monitor.
When I checked with USB Mouse and USB Keyboard I encounter the same problem.
I tested the keys on terminal and they worked alright with both through Swich and USB keybard attached.
Problem is the etc/var/and fonts and I am not in a position to recommend it right now.
Gentoo in bit finicky as always.
I have reproduced here the latest release of PapugLinux and its web site content.
Hope they do not mind me doing that since I am directly promoting it to be used by our IT students.
I am no expert in Linux but use it for my daily work for the 10 years without any problem.
Reasons are obvious and our education department has made (without any books or prior research) python language almost compulsory for our students (students poor knowledge in English is a handicap).
One has to know how to work in a terminal and command line prompt to do simple as well as complex things in Linux. That is why I have reproduced the install procedure below including partitioning.
Please do not be lazy like me to use the graphic install for your early work.
You must buy a secondhand computer with 20 GiB (2 to 4 GiB GIB is enough for PapugLinux. Even though the image is 258 MiB when installing the compressed files are expanded to to about 1.2 GiB.
But remember if the RAM is 1 GiB, one needs twice as much as SWAP (2 GiB) and SWAP partition is essential for Linux.
Other essential thing is boot loader.
First command line is for install shell and the second command line is for boot.sh .
It is 10 years ago I did all this with RedHat and with all the RedHat publications in front of me when giving a command line instructions before I migrated to graphic install.
I still thank RedHat writers who did a yeoman service to Linux by writing instructions clearly for a newbie to learn. I have all the RedHat books up to FEDORA 6 in my library and if not for those books, I would not have come this far since I was a self learner (even in my profession).
Mind you each distribution has its own finicky way of doing things and Gentoo I have no experience since by the time I discovered Gentoo I was well into different tangent in Linux.
Has become a promoter of all Linux versions active and dormant.
If you have problems email it to the developer and learn to work as a team and not solo (old age catching up and I am not as talented as the young blood of today) like me.
Mind you I have the knack of picking up the right talent and most of them I have sent abroad with right connections and Master Gurus (with my medical connections having worked abroad).
PapugLinux is Gentoo based and Gentoo is ideal for learning basics of Linux but one should have a fast internet to install it from bottom up.
Live DVD has no install script in Gentoo.Gentoo is famous for producing XBMC.
But Sabayon is installable and is a good Gentoo based distribution and its current version is out with many seeders at LinuxTracker.
For students in IT TurnKey lucid is also out and it also has bottom up approach with 100 of utilities including wordpress
Once you get a hand one should go to TurnKey utilities.
Dear PapugLinux users,
PapugLinux-11.1 is available for download, this is a major release in term of package update.
We choose to focus our additions on development tools for this version. The great Python language comes in 2 versions (2.7 and 3.1) and we also include Subversion and the very popular Git as version control systems. This could make PapugLinux a great bundle to start to learn Python or simply browse the open-source projects all over the world.
The live running-mode uses new tools and another compression format, this results in more content in a smaller size.
The desktop image credit goes to
Flavio Takemoto from Brazil, this artist has a great portfolio of artwork.
Kindest regards,
Core
2.6 kernel
ALSA sound driver
X.Org X-Window server
Desktop
Fluxbox window manager
Mozilla Firefox web browser
AbiWord word processor
Gnumeric spreadsheet processor
Bluefish editor
Various CDR/DVDR tool
FR, PL, and US keyboard support
Server
Apache web server
Cups print server
ProFTP ftp server
Ssh server
Boot your computer with Papug Linux, then launch a terminal from the menu (RoxTerm, XTerm) and log as root (password papuglinux).
$ su -
You must create two partitions on your hard disk, if you don't plan to use the whole disk, be sure to backup your data. One partition will be used for the system and must be sized to 1.2GB or more. The other partition will be used for the swap and should be sized more or less the double of your RAM capacity.
The easiest way to do this operation is to use GParted as the file systems will be created in the same time. An alternative way using 'fdisk' and command line tools is possible in text mode.
# gparted
GParted will scan your devices, this can take a long time. Create the system partition using 'ext3' file system, most of users would also make this partition bootable. Then create the swap partition. Please refer to
GParted website if you need more informations.
Note the partitions name used, it will be needed for later operations. Most of users should have /dev/hda1, /dev/hda2 or /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2.
After preparing your disk, you can proceed to the installation. This process will mainly copy the content of the Live CD to your hard disk, then perform some needed operations.
In the following code, be careful to correctly set the parameters, the first one is the system partition, the second one is the swap partition.
# cd /root/install
# ./install.sh [system_partition] [swap_partition]
(eg. ./install.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2)
Most of users will have to make PapugLinux bootable on their computer. If you have another system installed on your computer (Linux or Windows) skip this operation, you need to manually set up the boot loader, you can email me for help if needed.
Once again be careful when typing the following code. The first parameter is the system partition, the second parameter is the disk id (mostly the same as the system partition except the last number which represents the partition).
# ./install-boot.sh [system_partition] [disk_id]
(eg. ./install-boot.sh /dev/hda1 /dev/hda)
PapugLinux should now be installed on your computer. Exit the terminal then reboot your computer. Remove the Live CD during the computer startup process.
