Hello, I have a *really old* desktop with a 728MHz CPU, and 1 GB of RAM.

I really need the Puppy for the most reliable system with the least amount of junk possible and the presence of a package manager. It seems to be a great choice so far! (It zips from the bootloader to full desktop in about 6 seconds! I don't think I've seen that even on a really fast computer!)

Well, the Puppy repositories seem pretty limited. And I thought I could use Ubuntu packages with Puppy, so therefore have a wide selection of software, but it seems the docs were misleading on this.

Anyway, I am looking for the easiest-to-install and most trouble-free IME for Puppy. I would like to avoid iBus because it was buggy on my more modern laptop (which is now dead).

Any suggestions? Instructions? How to download? How to add a repository (if actually neccessary)...the docs are very confusing on how to add a repository or even which ones to add.

Thanks to you all ahead.

The main ones for linux, excluding ibus, are scim/uim. I don't remember if there's any larger distinction between them. For Japanese, you'd want to use them with anthy or mozc.

I'd give ibus a try as well, though. It's newer and was actually easier to get working for me, but YMMV.

astendra Wrote:The main ones for linux, excluding ibus, are scim/uim.

Puppy does not have packages for those. Does anyone know which IMEs are packages for Puppy?

(I'm looking in the Package Manager now, but don't see anything I recognize.)

Talking about the puppy linux, i have also a SLOW laptop working just with Puppy Linux (lucid 5.2). Unfortunately it has neither Japanese support (kanji/kana are not displayed at all) nor japanese input NOR anki.
Any ideas how to install the Japanese support at least on it?

Did you guys know there was a Japanese version of puppy dog? I'm pretty sure that had an IME when I used it.

*edit*
In fact if you look at the screenshot on their website you can see the icon for iBus or Scim in the system tray:


I was actually trying to do this a while back. I wanted to have a portable OS that I could load really quickly and do my anki reviews without any distractions. I had problems compiling a few things so I gave up, but now you've motivated me to try again =)

bombpersons, I *knew* there was one, but what I want is not to have a complete Japanese OS lol It's not entirely my laptop, some family members have to use it occassionally as well, therefore I just wanted to know if there is any chance implementing Japanese support on the normal Puppy lucid 5.2 linux (the newest distro so far, afaik).

Tori-kun Wrote:bombpersons, I *knew* there was one, but what I want is not to have a complete Japanese OS lol It's not entirely my laptop, some family members have to use it occassionally as well, therefore I just wanted to know if there is any chance implementing Japanese support on the normal Puppy lucid 5.2 linux (the newest distro so far, afaik).

mhh.. What about just having a small partition or usb stick with the Japanese one on? It's either that or compile scim or iBus yourself =/

I have no idea how to compile XD And I lost my usb stick (no lie)

You can install puppy dog to a partition though right? You could have a Japanese partition and another partition for other people to use?

Aha, found this version: http://sourceforge.jp/projects/toplinux/
This one has unicode support and has built in IME for different languages. It's also in english.

Wow, this one looks great! But I can't download the TOP-4.2.1.iso file It always aborts after a few mbs o0 Could somebody upload it elsewhere??

Tori-kun Wrote:Wow, this one looks great! But I can't download the TOP-4.2.1.iso file It always aborts after a few mbs o0 Could somebody upload it elsewhere??

Sure, hold on a sec.

http://www.mediafire.com/?reeb98171f1410x
Here you go =)

Thanks man!

Scim / Skim works in Kubuntu not to difficult