Puppy 4.3 Beta 1

[BarryK]

Official announcement here:

http://puppylinux.com/blog/?viewDetailed=00988

Lobster's new thread for feedback:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=45566

DaveS,
Although PPM doesn't offer any Ubuntu repos, you can install .debs. Download any Debian, Ubuntu, Arch or Slackware package and Puppy can install it -- just click on it. No dependency information though.

Once installed, it can also be uninstalled by PPM.

[01micko]

Tried both downloads (both Kernels) from gposils link. Neither would boot, giving 'disk error 80'. Is there another mirror yet?
Reading Barry's blog, this implementation is built from Puppy, not Ubuntu, so CANT use .debs?
For that, we have to wait for Upup.

When downloading from gposils mirror use wget. I found using the browser, it breaks. (don't use an accelerator)

I stumbled across the .deb compatibility the other day when I couldn't compile imlib2, tried a .deb of it and it worked! Stripped it back some and made a .pet out of it and posted on Pwidgets thread. The guys don't report any problems. It may interest you DaveS. You are bit of a Conky fan aren't you? Works with conky-1.7.1.1 so long as it was compiled with imlib2 support. (shows images in conky )

Cheers and thanks BarryK

[Caneri]

Here's another
http://puppylinux.asia/puppyfiles/test/puppy-4.3beta1/

We are seeing a problem while using the Hiawatha web server on .ca . Some files will not download even with mime types edited...some work as is and some will not without renaming...very strange. A ticket has been raised to Hugo from Hiawatha.
Please use the url above for Barry's beta1..thanks.

Eric

[gposil]

Sorry DaveS, but 01micko is right use wget on the gposil server, any download accel or multi-login with browser and the server will break the download...the server is set for single login from ip, to avoid bandwidth gobbling.

DaveS...if you can wait a week or so dpup481 with Barry's 2.6.29.6 kernel will be out, ttuuxxx and I are just finalizing 476e-2.6.27.4 and then moving to the new kernel...dpup uses the debian repos and reports have been good.

Cheers

[ttuuxxx]

When downloading from gposils mirror use wget. I found using the browser, it breaks. (don't use an accelerator)

I stumbled across the .deb compatibility the other day when I couldn't compile imlib2, tried a .deb of it and it worked! Stripped it back some and made a .pet out of it and posted on Pwidgets thread. The guys don't report any problems. It may interest you DaveS. You are bit of a Conky fan aren't you? Works with conky-1.7.1.1 so long as it was compiled with imlib2 support. (shows images in conky )

Cheers and thanks BarryK

Hi mic just make sure you proved the dev for imlib2 maybe in another package, so that it can be useful for compiling to Pup-shots uses it with scrot and gimp/ other image viewers etc, Its actually a very popular lib. Thanks
ttuuxxx

[Ivansampa]

I am a fan of puppylinux and have a community in Orkut "Puppy Linux Brasil" I put a video on youtube, recorded with gtk-recordmydesktop and edited with Smile and Avidemux.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WiysU62M-k