(old)Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

l2ulinux wrote:I think the 4+ series of Puppy was stopped before its time. That has been the problem with Puppy from the start. About the time you get it setup the way you want it they just stop. I know they take their time to do it, but don't just stop and do something in another world of Puppy.

Sc0ttman made a new 4.2 edition with special features but does not get much response.


http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=63381

I do like Puppy 4.3.2! And I certainly am last person on earth who can blame ttuuxxx, and on the contrary I have to thank him and the other guys working for the improvement of this magic tiny distro.

What I am criticizing is the lack of organisation and cooperation within the community, because we currently have at least two different (four, if I enclose Iguleder’s attempt, and above mentioned sc0ttman's Puplite) development projects of Puppy 4.3.X, either halfway (ttuuxxx’s 4.3.2 test V3) or abandoned (technosaurus’s Puppy 4.4). Instead of over-loading people with tasks and dissipating thus valuable work, I wonder why there is not a “mini-group

Gurglin says : What I am criticizing is the lack of organisation and cooperation within the community,

Nooby says: But that is life, that is how the Devs of Puppy want it to be or they would organize themselves better. They want this freedom to do what it fun and not what is demanded from outside.

They have organized it this way by trial and error. This is the only way it works for them.

nooby wrote:Gurglin says : What I am criticizing is the lack of organisation and cooperation within the community,

Nooby says: But that is life, that is how the Devs of Puppy want it to be or they would organize themselves better. They want this freedom to do what it fun and not what is demanded from outside.

They have organized it this way by trial and error. This is the only way it works for them.

Maybe, and maybe anarchy can also be a "way" for expressing personal creativity, but I do miss Barry's benevolent dictatorship...

Anyway, let me thank ttuuxxx once again for the work done so far: Puppy 4.3.2 is very nice and works fine in my 10-year-old laptop.

Just wanted to let you know.

I was trying to get a wireless connection on an old Acer Aspire 3681 WXMi from about 2004, 504MB RAM and 1.46GHz Single-CPU.
It has WinXP and a frugal install of Puppy on an ext3-Partition with Grub4dos.
Wireless ran under XP from the beginning.
So far so good.

Then I tried these Puppies:
Slacko
528
525
525retro
520

Not one did connect, not even after installing these PETs
rfkill-upgrade-k2.6.33.2.pet
ath5k-patched-k2.6.33.2.pet
to make the ath5k run.

My next idea was Wary 5.2.
Wireless works, but Firefox and Thunderbird are a no go, or are so difficult to install, that it was beyond my scope.

Last chance: Your Puppy 432v3


Bingo! This Puppy reckognises the Atheros Modul and establishes a connection that survives a reboot. And....I can use FF and TB from mnt/home.

Great and thanks for a Puppy that came in handy after all these years.

Thanks for the link. I'm going to give 4.32 a try; I didn't know it existed.

Cheers,

CP .

@ttuuxxx

Hi ttuuxxx,
after my very positive experiences with 432v3 on the road and the interest it might have generated:

How about reviving the link to the iso on page 1 of this thread?

It might bring in some new "customers"

This should be a good link......

http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/ ... 432-V3.iso

Thank you James,

yes yours
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/mike/ ... 432-V3.iso
is a good working link.

So is this
http://www.lamiaworks.com.au/puppy_isos.html.

yet, most people that would stumble upon this thread may not locate this particular page and these links.

Therefore, my suggestion that ttuuxxx amends the first post on page one with working links.

I have been using pulp 0.1 (puppy 4.1.2 based) because pizzasgood helped me get it to work with framebuffer console.
Does the puppy 4.3.2 kernel have fb support and modules and X driver?
I prefer to work in console mode, also I have old laptops with little RAM and fb but not xvesa capabilities.

Youtube downloader downloads an mp4 which gxine cannot play.
Something about demuxer.

'Convert' cannot find any file to convert though it is there in /tmp.

Broke in 4.3.1 I think because of a Youtube file format change - should the Downloader be removed or maybe updated?

Other things besides 'Save' are offscreen right and bottom, as in 4.3.1.

All else so far works nicely. Networking, mouse.

Lamia link to the iso works, brainwave does not (for a week now)

Trash icon is halfway off screen bottom at 1024 res

On my Latitude D600 laptop, save file size can be only -1MB (-1024K)
which of course does not save anything so this version (V3) is not useful.

Still using a full install of 432 v3 for my backup os.... still as solid as when I installed way back when it was released.Not flashy but it just keeps on working.
No problem keeping the browsers updated.... Firefox 9.0.1, SeaMonkey 2.6.1 and Opera 11.60.

I've now downloaded it (Puppy 4.32 v3) and am using it now. I'm extremely impressed; as far as I can tell it does everything the 5 series Puppies can do and unlike most, if not all, other 4 series Pups it also recognises the ext4 file system as well.

Thanks and well done.

Cheers,

CP .

I am testing this, and wow!

I was having troubles with video skipping in 4.3.1, but this one works perfectly. And all the 4.3.1 software (that I have tried and use) works with it too.

Hi mini-jaguar - could you post your specs please? Some of us tragics with 1999-2002 era hardware (P111) looking for robust Puppy base I'm sure would appreciate it. Cheers

EDIT Thanks mini-jaguar - retrospective to your post, below. Hmmm it might work fine, but I'll give Puppy 4.1.2 a workout on them, too - tuxtoo has a beaut collection of puplets and pets (they might work for 432 too) http://412collection.co.uk/index.php

Sorry Dell from 2007/8 or around. Memory 800 or 900 something megs. A lot newer than your computer (but you could try it, might work fine).

vtpup wrote:For those interested, or currently running it and who need the original ISO again, the 4.3.2 v3 "Official 4.3.2" of this thread is available here:

http://www.lamiaworks.com.au/puppy_isos.html

about half way down that page as:

puppy432_v3.iso

checksum is 71aea85e9fd805b7e6d02ea3baa3d0df

Thanks.

Since (unfortunately) the X Windows installation in 4.20 Deeper Thought broke on my machine, I had to look for something else to run on my old machine and I remembered this one, which I've now installed to my hard drive (full install). It's very good indeed IMO and even with Seamonkey and LibreOffice Writer (which I've installed from a pet) open, it still only uses 155 MB of RAM and with Firedog and Opera 11.11 added as well, it only takes up 1.68 GB on my hard drive. Thanks again!

Cheers,

CP .

Been having a little bit of fun with this Pup and woofy and decided to produce an updated iso with regards to glibc to 2.10/and added gtkdialog 4 etc anyway download from here and read the notes in text form also from here

http://sourceforge.net/projects/dazsbar ... bc%202.10/