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cthisbear · Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 3269 Location: Sydney Australia

Will this work?

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" I updated micko's pupRadio for 2.14x "

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?mode=attach&id=24800

Chris

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 10522 Location: SwedenEurope

abushcrafter · Joined: 30 Oct 2009 Posts: 1447 Location: England

Gxine fails to play Theora video Sad

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01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7547 Location: qld

devx is broken!!!

Where did gcc go?

Can use 499 version renamed to 500

pa_mcclamrock · Posted: Fri 14 May 2010, 05:54 Post subject:

Comments on Lucid Puppy 5.00 rc:

OK, now I see why Quickpet's "More Programs" menu won't work without a default browser; it's because the menu items will direct you to threads in the Puppy Forum, which you need a browser to view. But at least there should be a little dialog box or something, telling the user that a browser is needed before the "More Programs" menu will work. Yes? Quick last-minute fix? Please?

Everything else I tested works, as expected--with one glaring exception, also expected. Look at the attached screenshots. In the one from TextMaker 2002 (http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/textmaker-2002_full.pet), not included with Lucid Puppy 5.00, the text is formatted correctly. AbiWord, on the other hand--as expected--is still crappy after all these years. Using the Cloister Black-Light font (see http://www.pa-mcclamrock.com/pa_penguins_favorite_free_fonts-2.pet), I couldn't get the word "still" to stick together, or the letter "t" to show up in it, no matter how hard I tried.

I know this is too late for 5.00, but here's a strong recommendation for 5.0.1: please offer users a choice of word processors from the get-go, as they now have a choice of browsers. Let those who actually like AbiWord (for reasons unknown to me) use it--and let those who don't, never have to see it again.

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7547 Location: qld

Good idea Pa, A word processor gui like browser installer. Or a page in Quickpet.

I added a note in the "Readme" menu that you need a browser. That's the best I can do just for now and it's up to playdayz if he wants to include it.

Cheers

darwinev0lved · Joined: 29 Jul 2008 Posts: 83

Hi, I've been testing the RC on two computers, an ASUS 701 and my trusty Samsung X05.
On the ASUS I noticed one bit of annoying behaviour: the battery icon was blinking, warning me I was almost out of juice. This is fine. But it would be really nice if it stopped blinking when I plugged in the power.

One other thing: because the Java pet installs to /mnt/home (which is probably a good idea) if you haven't already created a savefile, you have to reinstall it again on second boot - would a warning message, i.e. "don't install this until you've created your savefile" be a worthwhile idea?

One separate issue. I've been trying to keep my firefox profile out of the puppy savefile too; i.e. I've tried sticking it in /mnt/home/randomstring

This seems to work for a bit and then stops working - I suspect it's a problem with one of my add ons (which tries to access a different folder, also on /mnt/home or at least that seems to be when it stops working), but has anybody else tried doing this successfully?

Thanks, Jon.

reckrhodes · Joined: 30 May 2007 Posts: 116

Play icon will not work. It will open or display but closes in an instant.

Good luck to everyone.

glenco · Joined: 14 May 2010 Posts: 38 Location: Milwaukee

Hi
Has Puppy 5 quit supporting win-modems?
My pci lucent/agere winmodem is not found in Lucid 5 and after having a look in /dev I can't find any of the old win-modems that have worked in puppy since puppy 2.17 or something like that.
Otherwise everything is working great on this old:
Hitachi deskview
PIII 800Mhz
512 Mb
SIS630 chipset with everything build in. Video,sound,etc.
The Lucent winmoden is installed in the only PCI slot.

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1936 Location: Ontario Canada

I did a full install of lupu 5.00 and it's working well. I updated the repositories in the puppy package manager and have installed several apps from the ubuntu repositories, gnome-terminal,vlc,tunapie,gnome-games,and pokerth.
I haven't been successful with some others.

It's running great on this p4.
Thanks,
Bill

BarryK · Posted: Fri 14 May 2010, 11:41 Post subject: Re: two quick comments

BarryK · Posted: Fri 14 May 2010, 11:50 Post subject:

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3788

Barry, do you have any thoughts on the copyright issue mentioned higher on this page?

playdayz · Joined: 25 Apr 2008 Posts: 3788

gerry · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 946 Location: England

Just tried the release candidate, having tried several earlier versions.

Running live usb on Acer Aspire One. Two problems that I found earlier are still there: sda1 icon lies on top of Quickpuppy icon. Could be due to the low vertical resolution of the small wide screen? And using Seamonkey, the screen breaks up into horizontal streaks when I scroll down. Not tried Firefox on this one, but it behaved the same on previous Lupus. Same happened on dpup. Last time, Opera was ok, I'll try that later.

Other than that- IMPRESSIVE!! Especially getting on line wirelessly.

Seamonkey is ok in Quirky on this machine.

gerry