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Cayenne has added perl to DSLinux.
It’s microperl, so it doesn’t have all the features of normal perl, but writing perl scripts is much more fun than shell scripts.

GPF has been making good progress this week, first porting gpm to allow mouse input in the console, and then enabling graphics in links:

Cayenne has added a sudoku game to DSLinux.
There are a few known problems.
Try it out and send feedback to Cayenne.

stsp has fixed the crash in our ssh client.
Now you can connect to your more powerful computers securely.

stsp writes: “The cvs repository has been moved from sourceforge to a small independent ISP in Berlin. This means we can now include cryptographic software in dslinux without restriction. The first program that uses cryptography and is officially included in dslinux is the dropbear ssh suite. I committed it into CVS yesterday, it should show […]

stsp writes: “I have ported mathomatic to DSLinux. This is a great tool that can help you with most math problems. I hope it works well on all builds, because it is a bit memory hungry. I had to trim some defaults down to make it work. I have tested it on DSMEM and […]

I recently added most of the text games in the bsdgames package to DSLinux.
The games are:
adventure, arithmetic, backgammon, battlestar, bcd, boggle, caesar, rot13, canfield, cribbage, fish, gomoku, hack, hangman, mille, morse, number, pig, pom, ppt, primes, quiz, rain, random, robots, sail, snake, tetris, trek, worm, worms and wump.

GPF got the nanoX VNC client to work:

02:58 < GPFaway> cool got vnc client to partially work under nano-X
02:59 < GPFaway> nano-X & nanowm & vnc myvncserverip:0 -depth16 &
02:59 < +otakup0pe> no mouse though i bet
03:00 < GPFaway> yeah it crashes if i touch the keypad lol
03:01 < GPFaway> had to disable my vncserver […]

Bret’s modified Nano-X is now in CVS, and will be in the next nightly build.
It is enabled in the DSGBA, DSMEM and SUPERCARDCF builds.

Bret’s usage instructions:
To get it to come up with some aps, try the following:
fbset -depth 16 -n
ifconfig lo up
nano-X & nanowm & nxclock &
Without keyboard and pointer interfaces there isn’t anything you […]

Now that we have some more memory to play with, stsp has switched the shell over to the busybox msh shell.
This shell has command history and tab completion, so should be less of a pain to use.