Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2017 05:23:13 -0400 From: Subject: [VOICENWS] SW: Testers needed for DFSee 14.6 BETA, new BOOTABLE USB stick and more ++ From the VOICE OS/2-eCS News Service http://www.os2voice dot org ++ From: jvwDESPAM at DESPAMdfsee dot com Some exciting new features for DFSee are in the pipeline, and to make sure they can be introduced with minimal issues, I am inviting all of you to participate in some BETA testing for the major new stuff: - MOUSE support for Linux terminals (xterm/rxvt etc, NOT the console) as well as for the Mac OSX Terminal. This has been a long-standing ommission, mainly caused by the fact that the Linux version of DFSee is generic, runs on almost any kernel, and beause of that it can NOT use any of the standard libraries like ncurses and libgpm (and it is cross-compiled on OS/2, not on Linux :) However, for XTERM and similar terminal emulators there is more generic support possible using Escape-sequences that are generated on request for mouse-events I have tested this now on 'urxvt' in a Puppy-Linux and some others, and in the MacOS Terminal, and apart from some minor timing issues with detecting double-clicks it seems to work just fine. Please test in any terminal emulators you have available, and let me know if it works or not. As said it will NOT work in the (virtual) consoles, without some kind of X-server running, since that still requires the use of libgpm to get mouse-events - Over the past weeks I worked on a NEW VERSION for a bootable USB stick that is meant to be much easier to use than the previous one. It is based on a PUPPY-Linux distribution (slacko), and has been customized by me to include DFSee and some related stuff directly on the presented Linux desktop. The stick uses a SYSLINUX mechanism to boot from a FAT32 formatted stick, holding a few PUPPY-Linux specific containerfiles that hold the actual Linux (and DFSee) stuff. However, since it is FAT32, it is also easy accessible from other operating systems to share any generated analysis files or disk/partition images. It should be quite easy to create such a stick, since EVERYTHING is contained in a single downloadable DFSPUPPY.IMZ image that can be restored to an USB memory stick (minimum 1GB, 32GB recommended) using the DFSee Scripts menu. For some more info, and a few screenshots see: http://www.dfsee dot com#plan and https://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/cdrom.php#usb I have tested the stick (a work in progress) on several Thinkpads and a few other laptops, but I would really appriciate some more feedback for as much other systems as possible. So please report any success or failure booting the stick ... Of course, feedback about the presented desktop and DFSee are welcome too (the mouse should work in this version) Download links for this BETA version 14.6 from the DFSee website: http://www.dfsee dot com/download/dfsee14x.zip http://www.dfsee dot com/download/dfsee14x.msi http://www.dfsee dot com/download/dfsee14x_warpin.exe and the image for the slacko-DFSee USB stick is at: http://www.dfsee dot com/dfsee/dfspuppy.imz Regards, JvW ========================================================================= DFSee Home: http://www.dfsee dot com; Jan van Wijk; Author of DFSee - mailto://info at dfsee dot com -- For a choice in the future of personal computing, Join VOICE - http://www.os2voice dot org [Moderator's note: All posts are sent without guarantee to the accuracy of the content. We try to verify details and URLs but this is an entirely volunteer run list, so 100% fact checking and the quality/useability of products announced here is impossible. If you respond to this post please remove the DESPAM from the poster's email addresses. Please do not send requests for information about a specific post to the moderator unless it is an update or I sent it. To submit news to this list please use the submission form at http://www.os2voice dot org/SubmitNews.html or send an email to "submit at os2voice dot org" To unsubscribe yourself from this list, send the following message to majormajor at os2voice dot org unsubscribe news end ]