Puppy 4.2 Final

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raffy · #81 Post by **raffy** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 05:40

Congratulations to the Team!

(Better late than never - Forum was inaccessible at this time yesterday).

Lobster · #82 Post by **Lobster** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 05:53

Warren says:

It is by no means certain that I will continue to lead the standard Puppy build projects going forward to 4.3 and beyond. Barry may have
other plans entirely; who knows.

As much as is known of the future is here
As always it is 'Developer led' so as their intentions
become clear we will organically organise around their efforts

http://pupweb.org/wikka/PuppyKennel/

Timeline for Puppy 4 and 5 series

4.2 Deep Thought∞ Standard and Retro released
4.2 Deep Thought Barebones
4.2.1 Deep Thought patch released
4.2.2 Deep Thought CE Kennel Alpha 1 (Warren?)
4.2.3 Deep Thought switches to use Git / Woof 4
Puppy 5 Kennel (Alpha 2) uses 4/5 of Woof and/or Git

I have been in contact with our logo designers
The wiki page will I hope be moved to our main web site at some point
The idea of Kennel is to support and integrate the skills of puplet creators by creating a solid basis and to concentrate on specific
'Guest' puplets

WhoDo · #83 Post by **WhoDo** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 06:49

Within 24 hours of the upload of Puppy 4.2 Final, the Distrowatch HPD rankings tell the tale as to how much interest there is in Puppy.

I'd say that Puppy has just about come of age in the distro stakes, wouldn't you?

01micko · #84 Post by **01micko** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 06:52

...no surprises there...

capoverde · #85 Post by **capoverde** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 06:54

Running 4.2 Final; haven't yet had time to get a deeper look around but sure gives a top-class first impression.

Besides being a fast, small, complete and beautiful Linux distro, Puppy 4.2 is an exemplary model of positive collaboration among humans, most of whom never met personally and none of whom has any financial return from it.
Heroic work Whodo and Ttuuxxx, get some deserved relax now -- and thanks to all: once more Puppy shows the way to go.
WOOOOHOOOHOO! (Doggie howl of joy)

WhoDo · #86 Post by **WhoDo** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:00

01micko wrote: ...no surprises there...

Well not for you, BUT .... I remember when Ladislav (Distrowatch) refused to look at Puppy for a review because he viewed it as a "hobby OS". IOW, he didn't consider Puppy a serious player. Puppy is still a "hobby OS" but I think a few people will be surprised by just how popular a hobby it is!

Watch out for the inevitable backlash from the Illuminati claiming that running as root is sacreligous, or that an OS can't be useful with only 100Mb of iso to install, or that with a name like "Puppy" why would any serious Linux devotee bother? When that happens, drop the Woof article on 'em and see where they'd stand with a Debian-Puppy, Slack-Puppy, Arch-Puppy or Ubuntu-Puppy! Will they get it? Some never will but who cares what they think, eh?

01micko · #87 Post by **01micko** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:13

Well not for you, BUT ...

Most know me by now... tongue firmly planted in cheek!

I'm proud as you and ALL the devs and testers here should be

#88 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:18

WhoDo wrote:Within 24 hours of the upload of Puppy 4.2 Final, the Distrowatch HPD rankings tell the tale as to how much interest there is in Puppy.

I'd say that Puppy has just about come of age in the distro stakes, wouldn't you?

Maybe for some other release, just post all download links from distrowatch, and have them hidden so everyone would be forced to download the links from Distrowatch and we'll probably be either #2 or #1,lol
ttuuxxx

DaveS · #89 Post by **DaveS** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:39

HOBBY OS HUH? I run my business accounts on Puppy, which is mission critical. Why? Nobody here even needs to ask

Lobster · #90 Post by **Lobster** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:41

I'd say that Puppy has just about come of age in the distro stakes, wouldn't you?

Over the next few days (this is for the last 7 days) we will go higher
than we have ever been.

We are now a top 10 distro
Soon we will be a permanent top 5

Welcome to the Kennels
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 250#289250

01micko · #91 Post by **01micko** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 07:55

DaveS wrote:HOBBY OS HUH? I run my business accounts on Puppy, which is mission critical. Why? Nobody here even needs to ask

Me too Dave... I think it has been discussed.

tronkel · #92 Post by **tronkel** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 08:03

WhoDo wrote:

I'd say that Puppy has just about come of age in the distro stakes, wouldn't you? Razz

That is one place higher than Debian! - who'd have thought it

Kudos to WhoDo & Co.

To retain that position - or to go even higher (that's very likely and certainly possible) we are now into Woof versions. I reckon that Puppy could go even higher in the rankings with this.

Maybe the advertising/promotions dept. (Advertising Director = Lobster) should be preparing the way for this, by promoting the Woof concept in the aether? Product awareness etc.?

rhadon · #93 Post by **rhadon** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 08:41

Hi everybody,

first I also want to say Thank You very much for this excellent work to all.I followed the threads about 4.2 as good as I could and I can imagine how hard the work was sometimes.

Till now I found only two small issues on resolution 1024x600x24 on my EeePc900: The Icons of drives and partitions are not complete visible (really no problem to fix, only doesn't look nice the first time), and second freemem appears only the upper half in JWM. In IceWM it's OK.

I think it's the best standard Puppy we've got.

Greetings
Rolf

tronkel · #94 Post by **tronkel** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 08:55

Blaf! again CUPS problems

Worked OK in RC3 with hpliplite but not in 4.2 final.
Printer is visible to system via HPLIP usb, but will not print the test page.
If I then go to modify printer (within the CUPS interface) it shows that the printer is connected via normal usb and not HPLIP despite the HPLIP connection having been selected during printer CUPS printer setup.

Any attempt to change back to the HPLIP usb connection just hangs the CUPS setup screen where it is.

Again looks like a permissions problem, but no idea where to look further.

lluamco · #95 Post by **lluamco** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:24

tronkel wrote:Blaf! again CUPS problems
...
Worked OK in RC3 with hpliplite but not in 4.2 final.
...
Again looks like a permissions problem, but no idea where to look further.

Please try this postinstall. It has also been included in the hpliplite thread. You have to gunzip it and run it once.
I hope that helps.
Lluis

trio · #96 Post by **trio** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:35

rhadon wrote:Hi everybody,

first I also want to say Thank You very much for this excellent work to all.I followed the threads about 4.2 as good as I could and I can imagine how hard the work was sometimes.

Till now I found only two small issues on resolution 1024x600x24 on my EeePc900: The Icons of drives and partitions are not complete visible (really no problem to fix, only doesn't look nice the first time), and second freemem appears only the upper half in JWM. In IceWM it's OK.

I think it's the best standard Puppy we've got.

Greetings
Rolf

Use the patch from here.
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=40444

peterj99 · #97 Post by **peterj99** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:38

Thanks for a new version. It looks fantastic and works very fast. I will reccomend it to my friends.

I have been a new Puppy Linux fan for a few weeks. Since I bought an ancient Dell Latitude LS just for web browsing.

I have some problems with a buit-in e-mail client (I went back to SeaMonkey 1.1.15), PGPRS setup (never worked) and configuring my HSDPA modem (worked under 4.1 with nozomi driver). I have to work on it.

tronkel · #98 Post by **tronkel** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:49

Please try this postinstall. It has also been included in the hpliplite thread. You have to gunzip it and run it once.
I hope that helps.
Lluis

Thanks Lluis, yes, that works great!

Funny thing though, I did actually run that script downloaded from the original forum thread, but it didn't seem to work.

Maybe a good idea to upload this current good version again to the original post, just in case it got corrupted somehow?

Thanks for the great work you have done on CUPS for Puppy!

lluamco · #99 Post by **lluamco** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:56

tronkel wrote:
Thanks Lluis, yes, that works great!

Funny thing though, I did actually run that script downloaded from the original forum thread, but it didn't seem to work.

Maybe a good idea to upload this current good version again to the original post, just in case it got corrupted somehow?

Thanks for the great work you have done on CUPS for Puppy!

Glad to help!
The script is the same in both places... Strange it did not work the first time...
The great work on CUPS is patriot's merit, not mine...

cthisbear · #100 Post by **cthisbear** » Sun 29 Mar 2009, 09:57

WhoDo:

Puppy would be number 3 by now if this had worked.'

" When you click on a m4a sound file
nothing plays and the run action is asked for. "

""""""""""""""""""
" I'm pretty sure I set that mime-type for RC4, chris. "

""""""""""""""

But it's OK!
I'm not disappointed.
I'll just post your phone number across the website.

Otherwise for you being a young bloke I s'pose it's not too bad a release.

Have a virtual coldie on me.
Regards..............Chris.

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well done

How much interest?

Re: How much interest?

Congratulations