Puppy Gold 2.10 now available

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Lobster · #1 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 02:14

Barrys announcement - Wed Sept 13
http://www.puppyos.net/news/

Wiki (please add torrents)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy210

Lobster · #2 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 04:12

Firefox 1.5 is now available as a pupget

menu / setup / puppy package manager

click the bottom icon (install pupget packages)
and on the next screen the large box for a list
search firefox and install
reboot
right click on the earth icon / open as text
and change the text to

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#!/bin/sh
exec firefox "$@"

Firefox Puppy - Pure Gold

GuestToo · #3 Post by **GuestToo** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 07:41

i uploaded a torrent to http://linuxtracker.org/

http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2872

BarryK · #4 Post by **BarryK** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 08:11

Lobster, re Abiword's features, also add imports and exports Open Document
Format -- that's going to become a big thing.

I was wondering about the new Seamonkey, re carry-over of old email,
bootmarks, etc. from 2.02. Can anyone report on this?
Seamonkey uses /root/.mozilla for personal data, but the new Seamonkey
defaults to a different subdirectory, and I never found out what it will do, if
anything, if there is an older subdirectory already there.
If the new Seamonkey ignores the old stuff, perhaps you can just open two
Rox windows and copy stuff across.

cthisbear · #5 Post by **cthisbear** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 08:16

Top of the Pops here

http://distrowatch.com/

Nevermore · #6 Post by **Nevermore** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 08:53

oh XXXX great!

i was waiting for this release, and was afraid it would end in around xmas, instead was super swift!
i also got a new wifi card!
netgear wg511v1..hope it works out of the box so i can set up again my music box

okok · #7 Post by **okok** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 09:13

Looks good, but please do compile JWM with fribidi in the next release. This very small addition would make Puppy more usuable for users using right-to-left languages such as Hebrew and Arabic. Without it, characters in these languages are displayed in the UI in a reverse order.

Lobster · #8 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 09:41

These are the download locations - something new from
Kenny - a metalink which I am hosting (just the link file)
Thanks for setting up the torrent G2
Barry have amended the wiki page - please also update your page to latest mirrors and links as distrowatch links to that

- now we need seeders

That will spread the load
Great to see so many mirrors so - quick
thanks to everyone

Keep the seeds open as long as you can when downloading

DOWNLOAD
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... uppylinux/

Mirror 1
http://puptrix.org/Puppylinux/2.10/

Mirror 2
http://htb65.de/puppylinux/puppy-releases/2.10/

Mirror 3
http://www.puptrix.org/isos/

Bittorrent
http://linuxtracker.org/
Details
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2872

**Metalink**
http://tmxxine.com/meta/puppy-2.10-seam ... o.metalink
Metalink is similar to torrents. Use one of these applications to download the metalink.
aria2 (Unix) [ http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ ]
Get Right 6 (Windows) [ http://www.getright.com/ ]
Speed Download (Mac) [ http://www.yazsoft.com/ ]
wxDownload Fast (All)[ http://dfast.sourceforge.net/ ]
//Metalink is an Open Standard, makes downloading easier by bundling the various ways (FTP/HTTP/P2P)//
//to get files into one format for easier downloads, as well as bundling checksums//
//to automatically verify completed downloads. The more mirrors the better the metalink//
//Similar to torrent but supports more protocols//
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Lobster · #9 Post by **Lobster** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 10:28

Digg this story if you use Digg
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Puppy_gets_B ... nd_Smaller

GuestToo · #10 Post by **GuestToo** » Thu 14 Sep 2006, 18:26

i uploaded the torrent file to mininova.org and Snarf-it.org

Eyes-Only · #11 Post by **Eyes-Only** » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 04:32

Hi Barry!

Just waiting until tonight when finished with my browsing and email to burn the new 2.10 to disk. I can't wait!

About your question on SeaMonkey email. Yes, it can easily be done as I do it all the time. In fact, I set up my SeaMonkey/Tbird/Firefox, plus 10 email accounts in about 5 minutes flat. It simply requires use of being able to see ALL hidden files in ROX, use of the prefs.js file and Leafpad.

#1: Take and go into your old mozilla folder in /root/.mozilla/default and take out the Profile. It'll have a bunch of numbers in it and end in .slt. Place this entire folder in a Temp storage file on C:\ in Windows.

#2: Start up the new 2.10. In /root/.Mozilla/default (You may have to start up SeaMonkey BEFORE this directory is even made!), go into the .slt folder.

#3: Open a second ROX window and point it to the temp folder in Windows which has the OLD .slt folder. Open it and copy the "Mail" folder over into the new .slt folder in 2.10. Next, from the old .slt folder COPY over the following files:

ANY file ending in .mab. This will be "abook.mab" (and any extra abook.mabs!), history.mab, etc. copy over a file with numbers and ending in .s. Copy over Bookmarks.html. Copy over prefs.js. Allow these files to over-write the EXISTING files.

IF you've done any theme alterations and have saved them in your Chrome folder, then copy over the userChrome.css and userContent.css to Chrome---but not the themes as those will have to be reinstalled along with extentions.

If you've used Chatzilla: Copy over that folder as well.

#4: Set the run action on "prefs.js" to open in Leafpad. Then click on "prefs.js". Scroll down through the file until about 3/4ths of the way down and you see the OLD .slt directory of Puppy's SeaMonkey. I believe it began with 1jiciei.slt? Something similar to that. In Leafpad go to "Edit/Replace" on the menubar and enter the old .slt (make SURE it's correct! Don't take my word for it---find it in the file) and then look at the top of 2.10 ROX and see what the NEW .slt number is and place that in the bottom box and just "Click replace all".

#5: Save file.

Now when you start up SeaMonkey's email you SHOULD have all of your accounts, email, everything, even your old settings. You shouldn't even have to reset any preferences.

All you have to do now is reload your themes you may have had and extensions. That's it!

Admittedly: This LOOKS confusing as can be. It's not. Especially if you copy this out in leafpad and save it as a step-by-step file to go by. Okie-dokie?

I hope this helps you folks?

Amicalement,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"
(Former K-Meleon/Gecko Dev and Mozilla/Firefox beta-tester)

mikkh · #12 Post by **mikkh** » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 04:50

As always, a new release was eagerly downloaded, but 'puppy gold' lacks a bit of shine for me.

MUT loads a lot quicker, but trying to mount my 'data' partition (NTFS) results in an empty window opening for some reason? Sun java doesn't get installed properly in sea monkey, and a few other minor niggles I have sorted out myself.

The main sticking point is MUT though, why is it not working like it has flawlessly in older versions?

Bert · #13 Post by **Bert** » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 17:16

Puppy Seamonkey 2.10 is also available from :

http://ftp.nluug.nl/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/

klhrevolutionist · #14 Post by **klhrevolutionist** » Fri 15 Sep 2006, 23:17

I contacted the maker of metalink to notify them that puppy also is using metalink as a way to distribute iso's, recieved a reply and they have added the news to their news section.

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14 Sep 06 : 	PuppyLinux uses Metalink for their ISO download. "Puppy Linux is a small, fully featured Linux distribution. Puppy works swiftly on older systems and on modern computers including ThinPCs."

Go to this page, http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy210 to download the puppy.
Go here to read about metalink, http://www.metalinker.org/

BarryK · #15 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 16 Sep 2006, 00:05

mikkh wrote:As always, a new release was eagerly downloaded, but 'puppy gold' lacks a bit of shine for me.

MUT loads a lot quicker, but trying to mount my 'data' partition (NTFS) results in an empty window opening for some reason? Sun java doesn't get installed properly in sea monkey, and a few other minor niggles I have sorted out myself.

The main sticking point is MUT though, why is it not working like it has flawlessly in older versions?

Can you also try File managers -> Pmount
Let me know if that works thanks.

BarryK · #16 Post by **BarryK** » Sat 16 Sep 2006, 00:32

Eyes-Only,
You just got mentioned in my News Blog:
http://www.puppyos.net/news/

kirk · #17 Post by **kirk** » Sat 16 Sep 2006, 01:30

The main sticking point is MUT

Mut mounts my NTFS partitions in 2.10. I think I read somewhere that the NTFS-3g driver won't mount a volume it thinks is corrupt. You might want to boot Windows and run scandisk, then try again.

Eyes-Only · #18 Post by **Eyes-Only** » Sat 16 Sep 2006, 08:13

Thanks Barry! I'm just glad that I could help after the countless hours of sheer fun and enjoyment I've had with Puppy, the numerous things it has taught me about Linux, and the countless times it has bailed my friends and I out of disaster as the Ultimate Rescue disk.

I'm just glad I could help in some way since I'm unable to even donate a dollar for such an incredibly brilliant Masterpiece.

Again, thank you.

Amicalement / In Friendship,

Eyes-Only
"L'Peau-Rouge"

mikkh · #19 Post by **mikkh** » Sat 16 Sep 2006, 22:31

Thanks for the input on my problem

Yes it works fine in pmount - well it gives me read access, which is all I wanted

The error message said .....
The ntfs-3g driver was unable to mount the NTFS
partition and returned this error message:
Couldn't mount device '/dev/hdb5': Operation not supported
Windows did not shut down properly. Try to mount volume in windows, shut down and try again.
Mount failed.
So, the inbuilt kernel NTFS driver has been used
to mount the partition read-only.

I must admit I'd never used pmount, thinking MUT was the only tool available.

The problem is, it's a second HD I attached which had/has XP on it, and more importantly the 'data' partition with my bookmarks and MP3's on it

The first HD has windows ME on it, so it can't even see the NTFS partitions on the other HD.

Fabulous distro btw, it never ceases to amaze me how much puppy crams in, in such a few MB's

mikkh · #20 Post by **mikkh** » Sun 17 Sep 2006, 08:32

Problem solved, I deleted windows

It was installed on another PC anyway, so it was unlikely to work if I made it the master drive.

Anyone else noticed how windows is very poor at readjusting itself on new hardware - especially a different motherboard, whilst Linux copes very well most times?

It's also much superior at finding the hardware in the first place

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