Tahr64 6.0.6?

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Bushbuck
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Tahr64 6.0.6?

#1 Post by Bushbuck »

I noticed

tahr64-6.0.6-uefi.iso 2017-Feb-15 16:42:44 285.5M
tahr64-6.0.6-uefi.iso.md5.txt 2017-Feb-15 16:42:47 0.1K,

over in the

http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-tahr directory

Index of /puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup -6.0-CE/

Is that where it was meant to go? (because there's also an empty
Index of /puppylinux/puppy-tahr/iso/tahrpup64-6.0.6/ directory)

and,

Is it a UEFI-ed update of tahr64 6.0.5? That sounds very useful, just in case...
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#2 Post by bigpup »

666philb released Tahrpup64 6.0.6 for testing.

You can read about the release here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 485#942485
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#3 Post by Bushbuck »

Thanks, Bigpup.
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6.0.6 update

#4 Post by Snail »

606 was announced in February 8, as a fairly minor update to 6053. The ISO has been copied from the testing subdirectory on Ibiblio but nothing has been announced officially, nearly 7 months later.

Some people have apparently been using it.

What is it's status now?

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#5 Post by rufwoof »

6.0.5 ... very nice. Tried 6.0.6 test the other week (built from woofce)... ok, but not there yet.

As the Ubuntu Tahr (preferred/best) kernel has passed EoL and Tahr itself is that much closer to EoL, I guess that more development effort is perhaps being expended on Xenial? I tried 7.0.8.5 test the other day and that certainly did seem more along the road than Tahr 6.0.6.

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#6 Post by rcrsn51 »

rufwoof wrote:As the Ubuntu Tahr (preferred/best) kernel has passed EoL ....
The Tahr series are able to accept a kernel-change to a newer version.

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#7 Post by rufwoof »

Very oddly, when I upgraded from the 3 series to a 4 series kernel, the fonts weren't as good (so I switched back). Seen that on a few different Pup's. Maybe my hardware is too old (10 years) that newer kernels don't support (or support differently). i.e. even Xenial Pup 7.0.8.x with its 4 series kernel ... the fonts aren't as nice as in Tahr 6.0.5. I've tried all-sorts of adjustments (hinting variations ...etc.). I even tried moving the fonts over from Tahr etc. Might be down to using a old 720p TV as a monitor (I should really have investigated further and swapped out the monitor etc. but at the time just switching back to a post EoL kernel was the easier choice).

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tahr64_6.0.6

#8 Post by Limbomusic »

I just wanted to chime in and say that I really like the latest tahr64_6.0.6 - I managed to use woof and build a shiny fresh one
with the latest 4.9.30 kernel. And it seems .deb packages intall flawlessly and the old problem: "cups gets broken by chrome" is gone. I got my Brother LaserJet printer working on it today very easily. With latest chrome 59 already installed. (and no bitching about not being root)

When I first booted from the fresh iso tho - there were no .png s linked to any icons so everything was kinda raw - but I set up everything like I wanted - and installed latest chrome and then remastered (and copied the .chrome folder to /tmp/root before /root gets added) and also - (this I learned from Mike Walsh bless him) added a "silent-launch.desktop" (for chrome) in the autostart folder in .config with this text:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Name=silent-launch
Exec=google-chrome --silent-launch &
and it makes chrome start superfast (on my 5 year old generic but good gaming-pc)

Anyway - this is actually the fastest and most trouble-free
linux-puppy I have ever tried. It also works awesomly on my semi-new lenovo ideapad. (dual booted with win10)

In case anyone would care to try out my puplet its at
http://pissekult.com/linux/kjartans_pup ... 64uefi.zip

Its for new pc s tho - with uefi boot
So u just unzip and copy all files to a fresh formatted usb drive (fat32) and boot from it.

(sorry - default settings set to norway - just choose your own

So uh - tahr64_6.0.6 rocks ! (MY world anyhoo)
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suddenly

#9 Post by Limbomusic »

huh. I sudenly read this:

NOTE: If you're trying to build 64-bit system, please make sure that
your own OS is 64-bit. You can't build 64-bit on 32-bit system.
On the other hand, 64-bit system will happily build 32-bit puppies.

from https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... /woof-next

I used an ancient Dell Vostro 1000 from 2005 to build my puplet
and I,m pretty sure it ran on tahr 6.0.5 32 bit - but still managed
to build a 64 bit tahr.

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Tahr606-64bit

#10 Post by ozsouth »

I started using it last week & made a wl driver (see Broadcom-STA posts). It also opens newer cameras. Like it.

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#11 Post by Burn_IT »

It is OK to build it on the "wrong" sysem as long as the "right" libraries are first in the search sequence.
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