Lucid Puppy 5.2 Official Release JAN 5 2011

[pemasu]

Lucid 5.2 laptop-001.pet which consists of laptop goodies is posted here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 993#484993

[playdayz]

I removed Chromium 10 from Lupu News and from PPM. It is a nightly build--not stable. My mistake. If you want it
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/
Does anyone know what the difference is between the linux directory and the rel-linux directory on that site?

[purple_ghost]

I created a multi-session CD from Puppy 5.2 on my tower. (Dual Quad Core Q6600 with 4 GB RAM, Using Quick Pet I downloaded and installed Firefox, then Opera and, then Chromium. Opera and Chromium have tabs installed in both Menu/Internet and Menu/Network. Not a biggie.

When I used Quick Pet to download and install Java I was warned that it would be saved to home directory, which would be wiped out when rebooted. When I did a Java test the Sun site said I did not have the latest version of Java, and I should.... I rebooted, the and found the message that I would lose Java is correct. While I might sort this one out, is this how this is supposed to work? Losing Java automatically for a multi-session?

I am using a 20 inch LCD. First boot leaves me with a 800x600 and the other option offered is the 640x480. When I tried to install the first Nividia driver for the board, the Nividia driver and the monitor plus Puppy 5.2 conspired force it into 16??x12?? which yields screen text to be like a 32nd of inch high. Obviously I will need to play with the options to get it to work for me. Just thought I would mention it.

Last night I started Puppy (pfix=ram) and downloaded a fresh copy of 5.20. I burned that to a CD that was a single session Live-CD. Then I tried to burn a multi-session DVD. For some reason Puppy chose to recognize the DVD burner as -some strange name- for a burner from India. I did not record the name as I just let Puppy do what it wanted and it would probably work OK. Maybe I did not give it enough time to finish, I think at some it just went to sleep on the burn. Right now the System Information sees the drive as a Optiarc DVD burner, which is probably OK. Just I know that some programs sometimes have problems with switching between CD and DVD modes, if others are having problems burning. I am not sure what I did wrong.

Puppy 5.20 works Fast. Looks quite good. Another credit and big thanks to the Puppy developers.

[Béèm]

Beem wrote about Frisbee pet:

Do I understand well, you tried it in Lucid 5.2?

Yes, it works in Lucid 5.2 at least at my end.

Cheers.

I installed it.
It wasn't in any menu.
And when I executed in a terminal I got error messages about wpa_supplicant not found.

So I installed Pwireless2.

[pemasu]

Beem. You get Frisbee among other things from my laptop-001.pet. The link is posted above and also here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 993#484993

[Jades]

as for me, Pburn has usually worked fine both with standard CD-Rs and with CD-RW. I've been using rewritable mini-CDs regularly for more than a year now, and some have been successfully remastered over ten times -- always with Pburn.

I've been very impressed with Pburn on my K6 machine. One problem I did have for a time was that it wouldn't blank or write to certain CDRW discs. After a bit of thinking, I realised that the problem was caused by the minimum write speed of the disc (4x) being faster than the maximum rewrite speed of my elderly Sony CRX100E writer (2x). Using CDRWs with a write speed range of 1x-4x does work.

[Béèm]

Beem. You get Frisbee among other things from my laptop-001.pet. The link is posted above and also here:

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 993#484993

Thank you.
I had seen the pet earlier and was going to download it anyway.

[Bert]

I removed Chromium 10 from Lupu News and from PPM. It is a nightly build--not stable. My mistake. If you want it
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/
Does anyone know what the difference is between the linux directory and the rel-linux directory on that site?

I don't think there's any difference. I did a long google search and didn't find anything meaningful. Maybe this division between 'Linux' and ''rel/linux' is part of a cunning plan yet to be announced? Or maybe it's just a peculiar way of organizing directories...

Thanks for your efforts to offer a bleeding edge Chromium.

For those who would like to try out one of the most recent versions of Chromium, I've had a totally positive experience with Chromium 10.0.617.0.
I've installed it on at least four lupu pre-releases and now on 5.2 final and it has always been completely stable and fast.

I was lucky to find it in .deb form. It installs in Puppy without hic-ups. ( (And PPM uninstalls it just as easily.)

It's an Ubuntu Maverick package, available here

EDIT:Chromium can become about 12 MB smaller by deleting the not needed locales from /usr/lib/chromium-browser/locales!

[BHINTZ]

laptop-001.pet works likes a charm on latitudeD410

many many thanks

bob

[svgt]

Hi,

In the anouncement of Lucid 5.2 in Puppy Linux News, there is a clock including calender in the desktop sceenshot. From where I can get this item?

Thanks Svgt

[James C]

Hi,

In the anouncement of Lucid 5.2 in Puppy Linux News, there is a clock including calender in the desktop sceenshot. From where I can get this item?

Thanks Svgt

I hadn't noticed before but that's my screenshot......

Anyway, those are Pwidgets........look under "popular pets" in Quickpet.

HTH.

[Volhout]

OK, let me rephrase the question again.

Is it intended to run 520 from stick or not ? Why does 520 not start from stick as other puppies do. Is it Unetbootin ?

Volhout.

I tried lupu 520 from USB stick (using Unetbootin).
When I try to boot from USB with default startup, my PC hangs at "searchig for save files, searching deeper" returns to the commandline.

When I manually start (press F2) with "puppy pmedia=usbflash" it work okay.
But it is rather annoying ...

This happens on a AMD64 desktop, but also on a eee pc netbook.

Volhout

[einar]

OK, let me rephrase the question again.

Is it intended to run 520 from stick or not ? Why does 520 not start from stick as other puppies do. Is it Unetbootin ?

Volhout.

I tried lupu 520 from USB stick (using Unetbootin).
When I try to boot from USB with default startup, my PC hangs at "searchig for save files, searching deeper" returns to the commandline.

When I manually start (press F2) with "puppy pmedia=usbflash" it work okay.
But it is rather annoying ...

This happens on a AMD64 desktop, but also on a eee pc netbook.

Volhout

Open your memorystick and find the file : syslinux.cfg

edit that file. the last line should look like this :

append initrd=initrd.gz pmedia=usbflash

Save it and your done.

[svgt]

James C wrote, where I find the Pwidgets. I found and installed them. I tried two different versions. But there are additional needle displays for ram and cpu in the middle of the desktop. How can I get them without the needle displays?

[Terryphi]

I removed Chromium 10 from Lupu News and from PPM. It is a nightly build--not stable. My mistake. If you want it
http://build.chromium.org/f/chromium/snapshots/
Does anyone know what the difference is between the linux directory and the rel-linux directory on that site?

I've been testing it for several days and it has been very stable. I'm glad I downloaded it before you removed it.

[sm6lod]

James C wrote, where I find the Pwidgets. I found and installed them. I tried two different versions. But there are additional needle displays for ram and cpu in the middle of the desktop. How can I get them without the needle displays?

Run Pwidgets again with only the items you want.

[Volhout]

First of all, thanks for the tip to edit syslinux.cfg. It works.

I used Ubuntu 10.10 netbook remix, and wireless worked, but unreliable on my eee pc 1001ha. In ubuntu I had to install RT3090STA manually, and blacklist the RT2860/70 drivers.

In lupu 520 I see wireless not working perfect, could this have the same cause ?? I see connect problems (sometimes it connects, somtimes not, sometimes slow). I haven't done a sustaining test yet once it connects. Maybe it works perfect once it is connecting.

Does 520 support IP settings per ssid ?

Harm

[darkcity]

What has changed from 5.11 and 5.2 to make it necessary to edit config file when using Unetbootin?

Also, why isn't Pwireless or Frisbee included in 5.2. I can't access net using Network Wizard or Simple Nework Setup. Making net access as easy as possible is surely a priority, then people can add what they want?

[magerlab]

tried on samsing n145

no sound at all
sound card is recognized and gmplayer seems to play the file

first time i din't recognize openbox and fbpanel:)
thought it was jwm

[playdayz]

Thanks for all the fish.

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 371#485371

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