Puppy 4.2.1 Final

[01micko]

joking of course.

Take a well earned break WhoDo, I'm sure after your hiatus you will be nice and refreshed to coordinate packaging for Woof 5x series.

Cheers.

[jackieflorida]

Firstly, thanks to all who contributed to the very nice 4.2.1.

I was always very pleased to find a PDF printer native in earlier distros, e.g. 4.0 and 4.1. So I was disappointed to see that it was not included in 4.2 and 4.2.1. I was somehow able to install a PDF printer in 4.2 by following my intuition but I can't get a working PDF printer in 4.2.1.

Specific directions anyone?

[dancingdog777]

An interesting note

my wireless adapter

NETGEAR WG311v3

working fine in Puppy 3.01 series, via NDISWAPPER, NEVER worked in Puppy 4.1, 4.1.1, 4.1.2, 4.2

now, in puppy 4.2.1, seems working without pains. today, (I'll reply tomorrow to make a double check)

I had that problem with my Cisco Linksys USB Wifi too. Unfortunately the Puppy I was using couldn't even 'see' the circuit board mounted ethernet port either. I just couldn't access the internet at all with Puppy.

I'm not knocking it since it obviously works for the majority. Though it is disapointing when things don't work.

[playdayz]

This is the one I am booting on my old thinkpad t22 laptop. Thanks WhoDo for the product and for the example.

[rcrsn51]

I was always very pleased to find a PDF printer native in earlier distros, e.g. 4.0 and 4.1. So I was disappointed to see that it was not included in 4.2 and 4.2.1.

Windows refugees are used to the idea of creating a PDF document through a virtual printer. But most Puppy applications have the option of printing to a file - either Postscript or PDF. If the resulting file is in Postscript format, it can be converted to a PDF with

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ps2pdf filename

The old CUPS-PDF printer backend needs recoding in order to work with the new CUPS security features.

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks for all you've done WhoDo, You did a top job, keep up the great work in the future Now run, run as fast as you can and don't look back lol
every long road ends somewhere and you just reached the end of the line, If people are having any modem etc issues, They can go to other threads for fixes, etc, as long as Abiword and Cups works, I would say your off the hook And even if they didn't work. you've done enough, take a break What are you still here reading this?? , man you should still be running, lol
Its been great working with you, If you ever need anything just send me a line
ttuuxxx

[raffy]

Thanks WhoDo and all the other volunteers who support Puppy Linux.

I've downloaded both the standard and retro versions and will test computers in the office by Monday.

IMHO, every Puppy Linux release is a labor of love.


In my eeePC 701, 4.2.x has been looking crisp and responding quickly (with the added extras by tempestuous), so nothing to complain, really.

But just in case, remember folks, NO WARRANTY - use at your own risk.

[ttuuxxx]

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But just in case, remember folks, NO WARRANTY - use at your own risk.

Well we could always provide people with a 100% refund
lets see $0.00 x 100%=$0.00 refunded to anybody who wants it
ttuuxxx

[tempestuous]

I had that problem with my Cisco Linksys USB Wifi too.

Then make a new post asking for help. That's what the forum's for.
Make sure you reveal the exact version of Puppy you are running, and the exact model of Linksys USB device.

Unfortunately the Puppy I was using couldn't even 'see' the circuit board mounted ethernet port either.

Then post a question for help. Again, reveal the exact version of Puppy you are running.
And in this case, also post the results of

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lspci -n

so we can identify the ethernet device.

[mattst8ler]

I just downloaded 4.2.1 and put it on my uncle's old computer. It truly is a beautiful piece of work! Thank you to all that have worked so hard to achieve such a great distro.

I am still running 4.1.2 on my own computer. Is anyone aware of any problems that I might encounter upgrading to 4.2.1 and using my existing pupsave file? Presently I just run Puppy from CD and have the pupsave on my hard drive.

Thanks again for the hard work!

[ttuuxxx]

I just downloaded 4.2.1 and put it on my uncle's old computer. It truly is a beautiful piece of work! Thank you to all that have worked so hard to achieve such a great distro.

I am still running 4.1.2 on my own computer. Is anyone aware of any problems that I might encounter upgrading to 4.2.1 and using my existing pupsave file? Presently I just run Puppy from CD and have the pupsave on my hard drive.

Thanks again for the hard work!

well be on the safe side, right click on your pupsave and copy it, rename it anything like safekeeping.sss then it won't load on bootup, then all you do is rename it back to what it was before if you need it.
ttuuxxx

[James C]

Looks great so far.Thanks to WhoDo and everyone who participated in the development of 4.2.1. Especially Ttuuxxx who put in countless hours trying to make everyone happy!

[ttuuxxx]

Thanks James C,
It was a great Group effort and wouldn't of been done without everyone who helped, sure I did my part, but lets not forget about Whodo,coolpup, aragon, pizzasgood, tempestuous, and new ones like Patriot, etc maybe of 20 of us:) and when you get that many people working on one goal, its going to be good I feel we did a excellent group effort Cheers Guys
ttuuxxx

[Lobster]

everyone who participated

Click on help and release notes to see the team
- as far as I know, no easter eggs in Puppy (though there may be in individual packages) . . .

[ttuuxxx]

everyone who participated

Click on help and release notes to see the team
- as far as I know, no easter eggs in Puppy (though there may be in individual packages) . . .

try this in seamonkey url
about:buildconfig
ttuuxxx

[FriedelBumm]

In my eeePC 701, 4.2.x has been looking crisp and responding quickly (with the added extras by tempestuous), so nothing to complain, really.

My EEE 701G runs quickly and stable (sometimes firefox crashes, but it's probably a flash problem) in 4.2.0, but the upgrade to 4.2.1 doesn't find the ath0 wifi device. I didn't tested with the devx-sfs, but any eee-extras take effect. - I'm happy that the downgrade with my pup_save was no problem.

[mindmagic]

I tried the retro version of 4.2.1 yesterday; it failed to find my Zyxel USB wifi adapter, which is no problem in earler standard versions (I haven't tried retro before). I was about to try 4.2.1 standard, but having read some of the other posts I think I'm probably better off sticking to 4.2.

[Crash]

Time line to install Puppy version 4.21 final:

0713 Create new p421f subdirectory and download the .iso file
............Edit menu.lst during download.
............Download md5sum file during download.
0725 Verify md5sum.
0726 Extract Puppy files from .iso.
0728 Reboot, try new menu.lst entry.
0729 Edit typo in menu.lst.
0734 Reboot
0736 Splash screen is up.

23 minutes from start to finish, including the download and troubleshooting the menu.lst entry.

Up and running. Looks good!

[jackieflorida]

Thanks rcrsn51 for your comments. The code is helpful; I knew only about "doc2pdf" which does not work on a ps file. The code works nicely.

I found that the default ps file viewer will "Save A Copy" as pdf which is a nice quick and easy conversion too. Nicely, the postscript printer is native. For the beginners: just click on PrintToFile in the printing operation.

Recognizing these work-arounds, I still wanted to print directly to a pdf file. I use pdf's a lot which seems to annoy some of my friends! But anyway....

I went back to one of my computers running 4.1.1 that has the native pdf printer that works so well for me and found the pdf driver: ghostpdf.ppd . I then took a copy of this file on a flash drive to my 4.2.1 computer, invoked the CUPS new printer installation for a pdf printer and pointed the installer to this ppd file and completed the installation.

It works and, if you don't want to dig around in an older 4.x, you can download it here : http://www.box.net/shared/rqkjsu0tov

So with much thanks to WhoDo et.al., my 4.2.1 installation is a keeper and a beautiful one too!

I was pleased to find that the Gadmin-rsync backup utility in now fully functional allowing more than one backup configuration. For me in earlier 4.x it would freeze when applying a second configuration. This is a great backup tool that I use daily like the pdf printer but more.

[rcrsn51]

I went back to one of my computers running 4.1.1 that has the native pdf printer that works so well for me and found the pdf driver: ghostpdf.ppd . I then took a copy of this file on a flash drive to my 4.2.1 computer, invoked the CUPS new printer installation for a pdf printer and pointed the installer to this ppd file and completed the installation.

Nice work! I had not thought of trying anything so simple.