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Puppy 4.2.1 Final
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ttuuxxx
 Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
well be on the safe side, right click on your pupsave and copy it, rename it anything like safekeeping.sss then it won't load on bootup, then all you do is rename it back to what it was before if you need it. ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games 
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James C
 Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4741 Location: Kentucky |
Looks great so far.Thanks to WhoDo and everyone who participated in the development of 4.2.1. Especially Ttuuxxx who put in countless hours trying to make everyone happy! |
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
Thanks James C,
It was a great Group effort and wouldn't of been done without everyone who helped, sure I did my part, but lets not forget about Whodo,coolpup, aragon, pizzasgood, tempestuous, and new ones like Patriot, etc maybe of 20 of us:) and when you get that many people working on one goal, its going to be good I feel we did a excellent group effort Cheers Guys 
ttuuxxx _________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15109 Location: Paradox Realm |
Click on help and release notes to see the team
- as far as I know, no easter eggs in Puppy (though there may be in individual packages) . . . _________________ Puppy WIKI |
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ttuuxxx
Joined: 05 May 2007 Posts: 10720 Location: Ontario Canada,Sydney Australia |
try this in seamonkey url about:buildconfig ttuuxxx
_________________ http://audio.online-convert.com/ <-- excellent site http://samples.mplayerhq.hu/A-codecs/ <-- Codec Test Files http://html5games.com/ <-- excellent HTML5 games
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FriedelBumm
Joined: 07 Dec 2008 Posts: 5 |
My EEE 701G runs quickly and stable (sometimes firefox crashes, but it's probably a flash problem) in 4.2.0, but the upgrade to 4.2.1 doesn't find the ath0 wifi device. I didn't tested with the devx-sfs, but any eee-extras take effect. - I'm happy that the downgrade with my pup_save was no problem. |
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mindmagic
Joined: 16 May 2009 Posts: 17 |
I tried the retro version of 4.2.1 yesterday; it failed to find my Zyxel USB wifi adapter, which is no problem in earler standard versions (I haven't tried retro before). I was about to try 4.2.1 standard, but having read some of the other posts I think I'm probably better off sticking to 4.2. |
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Crash
 Joined: 09 Dec 2005 Posts: 425 Location: Garland, TX |
Time line to install Puppy version 4.21 final: 0713 Create new p421f subdirectory and download the .iso file ............Edit menu.lst during download. ............Download md5sum file during download. 0725 Verify md5sum. 0726 Extract Puppy files from .iso. 0728 Reboot, try new menu.lst entry. 0729 Edit typo in menu.lst. 0734 Reboot 0736 Splash screen is up. 23 minutes from start to finish, including the download and troubleshooting the menu.lst entry. Up and running. Looks good! |
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jackieflorida
 Joined: 28 May 2008 Posts: 122 Location: MIAMI |
Thanks rcrsn51 for your comments. The code is helpful; I knew only about "doc2pdf" which does not work on a ps file. The code works nicely. I found that the default ps file viewer will "Save A Copy" as pdf which is a nice quick and easy conversion too. Nicely, the postscript printer is native. For the beginners: just click on PrintToFile in the printing operation. Recognizing these work-arounds, I still wanted to print directly to a pdf file. I use pdf's a lot which seems to annoy some of my friends! But anyway.... I went back to one of my computers running 4.1.1 that has the native pdf printer that works so well for me and found the pdf driver: ghostpdf.ppd . I then took a copy of this file on a flash drive to my 4.2.1 computer, invoked the CUPS new printer installation for a pdf printer and pointed the installer to this ppd file and completed the installation. It works and, if you don't want to dig around in an older 4.x, you can download it here : http://www.box.net/shared/rqkjsu0tov So with much thanks to WhoDo et.al., my 4.2.1 installation is a keeper and a beautiful one too! I was pleased to find that the Gadmin-rsync backup utility in now fully functional allowing more than one backup configuration. For me in earlier 4.x it would freeze when applying a second configuration. This is a great backup tool that I use daily like the pdf printer but more. |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7748 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Nice work! I had not thought of trying anything so simple. |
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rarsa
 Joined: 29 May 2005 Posts: 3053 Location: Kitchener, Ontario, Canada |
WhoDo, Great job coordinating and bringing this job to completion. Thanks to all the people that contributed to a very successful Puppy CE It was a long road but I am sure you can look back and think it was worth it. _________________ http://rarsa.blogspot.com Covering my eclectic thoughts http://www.kwlug.org/blog/48 Covering my Linux How-to |
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Pizzasgood
 Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 6270 Location: Knoxville, TN, USA |
_________________ Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. --Muad'Dib  |
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Minnesota
Joined: 11 Sep 2008 Posts: 312 |
Thanks WHODO... and ttuuxxx and ... all who contributed! FOR ALL THE HARD work and perseverance..., some days.. well... but the end results worth the efforts. On to bigger and better things. GOOD JOB to all. Greg |
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trio
 Joined: 21 Dec 2008 Posts: 1786 Location: अनुमोदना |
open up a bottle of champagne, and let's ask ecomoney to join the celebration... 
_________________ PET Maker|WbarCC|My Website |
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ecomoney
 Joined: 25 Nov 2005 Posts: 2183 Location: Lincolnshire, England |
Yes...Ive been putting off posting here, thinking of the "best" thing to say....
The real achievement of 4.2.1 was not in producing the ISO, but in finding the way of producing the ISO. We now have a basic bug-tracking system and a set of guidelines for testing. There is also a renewed focus around the forum on Puppies Mission statement, and a clarification of where Puppy Linux's place is in the whole Linux "ecosystem", along with an Extremely welcome focus on Puppies looks/theme which has been overdue for a very long time. We are a lot better set up IMHO for BarryK's inevitable retirement and continuing the project without (so much of) his guidance. Its no secret I believe it was detrimental to Puppies reputation to leave a distro with broken core functions (WP, CUPS) up for so long. This release would have been better named 4.2.2, 4.2.1 being a hastily released 4.2.0 with a regressed Abiword and CUPS. from 4.1.2 while we got these problems sorted out (its not like the fixes wernt available, just not released. I realise now that my own protestations about this, through the psychology of the people in charge, was counterproductive in this getting fixed on a speedier basis. I put a lot of time into 4.2.1 - as a result my Company earnings(and its website) are down, its bank account overdrawn, and if I dont do something soon about my paperwork its going to get struck off at the register of companies. My other IRL projects are also behind schedule. In terms of the "Collective Wisdom" in developing Puppy in the future I consider it one of Ecomoney Systems Ltd's most productive periods ever....the Company Secretary disagrees Im going to have to take some "time off" now to catch up.
Kudos to WhoDo, Ttuuxxx and everyone else for sticking with the project and producing the "no-fun" bugfixed version.
Woof Woof and Champagne all round. _________________ Puppy Linux's Mission Sorry, my server is down atm! |
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