Lucid Puppy 5.1- A Full-Featured Compact Distro

[rjbrewer]

I just install Seamonkey 1.1.18 on all my Puppies, including this one.

Nice and small; no hassles.

Neither the Seamonkey or Firefox in Quickpet will enable mms. streams
in about:config.

[Lobster]

Congratulations again to those creating and providing feedback
to 5.1 which is now announced on Distrowatch.

My favourite 5.1 features?

Straight to desktop and Quickpet
and being able to run GL (accelerated graphics driver)
- I been playing the game 'Gridwar2' (see above image)
- in our forum games section for those so inclined

The combination of the update button
directly in the Quickpet NEWS section
(We have had two updates already) works great

Being able to choose a Browser
is so civilized and I am now a Firefoxee
and Kompozer user
Others may have gone Operatic or
become Chrome Seamonkeys . . .
- yep why not have several browsers . . .

If you have the processing and broadband - 'Google earth' is great

My Lucid Dreams video was done with the 'Openshot' upgrade
announced in Quickpet News
The Openshot program is easy but unstable
but when I did the video
it never crashed once - I am happy
Perhaps because I only used stills . . .
http://youtu.be/xb_nUn5OMbs?hd=1

A very simple and pleasing improvement
- the messages that appear
when for example, downloading programs
- usual center screen
Again a simple improvement

As Playdayz mentions great efforts
were made to improve localisation
and that too is recognised

Larry (Playdayz) and Mick have
achieved a great success
Warren has ensured Puppy looks good
It was heartening to see people finding the time
to test the many alpha and beta releases.

I am very grateful for
such a secure, friendly,
responsive, working operating system

Yep I am a Lucid fanboy!

I hope everyone will retain their good will
and enthusiasm into 5.2

Some ideas here:

Puppy52
* Boot up menu, with extended options
" Window manager of choice (similar to Quickpet browser choice)
* More QuickPet Puppy optimised programs
* Extended Lucid Puppy News in Quickpet

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy52

Long Live Linux
Be a Happy Puppy

[edoc]

I just loaded 5.1 on another laptop and have the scrolling problem (slow to paint so text overlaps) in Seamonkey 2.0.5

Is there an upgrade to 2.0.6 available?

I don't recall the other potential variables.

I let Lucid test then recommend then install the optimal xorg-high driver.

WDYT?

[Nooblet0218]

i just upgraded my 2 lupu running computers to 5.1 from 5.01, they were both full installs and i had no problems installing, although my dude did something a little funny on one and i had to reinstall it but no biggie.

i like what i see, i've been using puppy for a year now and it seems to keep getting better and better, keep up the good work!

although i used the graphics test then installed the xorg-high driver and i'm happy to be able to play hd youtube videos now

[edoc]

Duplicate post ... router misbehaving ... naughty router! Go sit!

[Béèm]

Is there an upgrade to 2.0.6 available?

Yes I run it. Got it updated automatically, SeaMonkey being installed outside the pup save.

[sinc]

I just loaded 5.1 on another laptop and have the scrolling problem (slow to paint so text overlaps) in Seamonkey 2.0.5

Playdayz noticed this in firefox and attributed it to being below the taskbar. try hitting the maximize button. That seems to have fixed it in firefox.

[stu90]

Playdayz:

I have stellarium .0.10.4 installed - looking on the stellarium website http://www.stellarium.org/ there is a new version 0.10.5 available through a link to; Stellarium's Ubuntu Releases PPA can be found at Launchpad:
https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+arch ... -releases
from there i navigated to this page:
https://launchpad.net/~stellarium/+arch ... /+packages

and downloaded the 3.0mb "stellarium_0.10.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb"
and installed on puppy lucid 5.1 now when i start stellarium is shows as .0.10.5 - does that mean the whole stellarium has been updated ?

Update. unsure if that was full update as some things didn't work - downloaded and installed "stellarium-data_0.10.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_all.deb (31.2 MiB)" aswell and every thing seems to be working.

[edoc]

I just loaded 5.1 on another laptop and have the scrolling problem (slow to paint so text overlaps) in Seamonkey 2.0.5

Playdayz noticed this in firefox and attributed it to being below the taskbar. try hitting the maximize button. That seems to have fixed it in firefox.

It does appear to sold the momentary problem in SM 2.0.5 on that laptop, I am going to upgrade to SM 2.0.6 and see if that helps w/o the maximize setting.

Is there an idea as to what is causing this?

What if one wishes to browse in a non-maximized window?

Can the "maximize" setting be fixed in SM and FF as the default?

[01micko]

Hi stu90

(snip) ...and downloaded the 3.0mb "stellarium_0.10.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb"
and installed on puppy lucid 5.1 now when i start stellarium is shows as .0.10.5 - does that mean the whole stellarium has been updated ?

I just did what you did and same result.. however, did you notice that there was a 35M data file in that link also? Don't know for sure, but a fair bet would be that that is part of the full update.

Cheers

[stu90]

Hi stu90

(snip) ...and downloaded the 3.0mb "stellarium_0.10.5-0ubuntu1~ppa1~lucid1_i386.deb"
and installed on puppy lucid 5.1 now when i start stellarium is shows as .0.10.5 - does that mean the whole stellarium has been updated ?

I just did what you did and same result.. however, did you notice that there was a 35M data file in that link also? Don't know for sure, but a fair bet would be that that is part of the full update.

Cheers

hi 01micko just updated my post before reading yours - i have installed the 35M date file as well now as some things (plug-ins) were not working with just the 3 M download - every thing seems to work as it should with both installed

Also booted pfix=ram and installed all the dependences for 0.10.4 (but not stellarium 0.10.4 its self) from the ubuntu repo along with the 35M and 3M 0.10.5 .deb files from launchpad and it works so both are .deb files are needed.

[tronkel]

Here's another game for Lucid 5.1:

Dreamchess 3D chess game where you can rotate the board viewing angle. Comes with a few themes. Just under 5MB.

Get it here:
http://www.datafilehost.com/download-ed913c71.html

Tested on Lucid 5.1 I'm not sure about Quirky as yet. I'll have a go later tonight.

[2byte]

Can anyone recommend a USB fax modem compatible with Lucid?


@scsijon
Thanks for the tip about the video refresh frequency. Sure enough lowering it to 30-80 from 30-85 did the trick and I am now at 1024x768 with my Intel 865G video!

@sinc
Now I can see the WM Switcher menu entry thanks to scsijon

[Béèm]

At each connection to the puppy forum I get 'address not found' try again.
I push try again and I get the next post or whatever I did.

I thought that this was because murga-linux.comn is very slow in responding many times. I think sometimes a request gets lost and if I click Stop and then again click the link it often goes through. But if it is not that then we can add an update when the solution is found.

The fact that murga-linux.com was slow was my first idea also.
But I have the same issue with other web sites.
For the moment I exclusively use lucid.
But the fact that the nameserver entry just disappears is strange no.
In order to make this reply, I had to run the connection setup again.
The response I typed earlier is lost in cyberspace.

Just after posting this, I booted from quirky 1.2 and used it up to now.
I never had the issue that the nameserver entry in /etc/resolv.conf disappeared. I didn't have to setup the connection again either.

However some times I had to push 'try again' in SeaMonkey.
It looks to me also that SeaMonkey did run snappier in quirky.

[playdayz]

Béèm, Right now Firefox is running perfectly for me--no delay at all <well almost>. I took a hint off the forum and Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings and checked No Proxy. It hasn't worked this well in a while.

If others could try that we could put it in an Update if it really helped.

The suggestion is from DaveS

Good chance as I have had something similar with Firefox in both Quirky02 and Quirky NOP, though the connection remains intact. try changing the way Firefox connects to the internet, edit>prefs>advanced>network>settings, no proxy, or maybe configure that differently. No Proxy has been working for me.....

BTW, I also set the cache at zero..

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Tronkel's Dreamchess game and also Seamonkey 1.1.18 (as per rjbrewer's suggestion) are now in the puppy-lucid repo of Puppy Package Manager.

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... d-official

You can download the index file and copy it into /root/.packages in order to avoid the hassle of updating the repos. The seamonkey is the package from Puppy 4 but it seems to work nicely. Seamonkey shows missing library files--but they are not really missing. I will fix that.

[Béèm]

Playdayz, FireFox isn't SeaMonkey, but I am certain you knew.
I use SeaMonkey.
As far as I knew I never use a proxy and the option has normally been set at such, but nevertheless I checked.
And to my surprise proxy was set to 'use system proxy setting'.
Don't know how that comes, I didn't do it on purpose.
I changed also to no proxy now. Will see if there is a change.

Some 3 hours ago I installed wary 030 and am running it now.
The nameserver entry in /etc/reslov.conf didn't get erased.

Tomorrow I'll retry lucid with no proxy. Too late now at 01:28 am.

[edoc]

And to my surprise proxy was set to 'use system proxy setting'.

I believe that is the default, I will ask on the Seamonkey support discussion list for an explanation.

[scsijon]

Béèm, Right now Firefox is running perfectly for me--no delay at all <well almost>. I took a hint off the forum and Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Network -> Settings and checked No Proxy. It hasn't worked this well in a while.

If others could try that we could put it in an Update if it really helped.

The suggestion is from DaveS

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do you mean that by default your proxy is on, strange, as mine has been off from the start and my record book of default settings say I haven't played with this setting.

you may also find it can increase further by installing the "googlesharing" extension in add-ons, it actually does the reverse but still allows you to control whether you are or not. I know it gives me a positive bump when on dialup.

regards
scsijon

[playdayz]

do you mean that by default your proxy is on, strange, as mine has been off from the start and my record book of default settings say I haven't played with this setting.

No, it was set to Use System settings for proxy, which I also believe is the default.

All of my browsers seem to be running well tonight--no trace of the Try Again message.
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LXDE

Would anyone like to fix this up for us--or would a group collaborate on it? I got a tip from Eyes-Only today that he had it running so I made the pet.; It needs some work but it could be very useful. For one thing, it (Openbox) is compositable, at least I understand that it is, which means compiz could run, and that is a goal for our next version.

http://www.diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/L ... -Lucid.pet

I installed the pet and then started it by exiting to a prompt and running 'xwin lxde' Eyes-Only said he had written or rewritten the startup script--maybe he will send it. Thanks.

The menu is a mess and lxterminal does not run--those are two things I noticed. And, oh yes, the onlyw ay I could exit from it was CTRL-Alt_Backspace.


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[edoc]

It appears from one site that it will run on 32 or 64 bit, so good in Lucid and Fatdog64. Yes?