The Official Release of Lucid 5.25 (Lucid Five Twenty-Five)

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bigpup · #466 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 01:21

Here is another terminal to consider. It also needs VTE.
You can add tabs, has right click menu, color change, font size change, session save and open, many extras.
Termit
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=39106

ASRI Ã©ducation · Fri 11 Mar 2011, 01:40

bigpup wrote:Something to consider putting into PPM
Virtual Magnifier Glass

Yes, it is a very practical application.

scsijon · #468 Post by **scsijon** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 02:44

Maybe offtopic, but while your only in beta!

Anyone (hint,

a hint, for our favorite programmer) considered adding a QT Window Manager for the next version (if not this one).

I came across Egg http://qt-apps.org/content/show.php/Egg ... ent=136862 while perusing qt-apps.org for something else and only 3-4 meg ram footprint.

Considering the number of apps already there and available.....

Very impressive.

regards
scsijon
ps I take it we have a working QT4 pet somewhere for 5.2+?

playdayz · #469 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 02:56

Here is the Blueheart GTK theme from luci-253. it is the first dark theme I really liked--I think it is very readable. It's too big though to include in the iso when there are good themes that are much smaller.
.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ucid52.pet

puppyluvr · #470 Post by **puppyluvr** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 03:42

Hello,
Loaded smoothly, auto configured correctly....
Looks great!! Never been a fan of OB but This looks really nice, and Gnomeplayer works fine FS...
Love Blueheart...Similar to my Bluejay theme, but better...
Pup Control is great...
Everything Ive tried so far works perfectly....
Frugal installed..
Machine:
Compaq CQ56
Intel Celeron 2.2ghz
2 gb ram 250gb Hdd
Intel audio and video
Realtek rt2860 wireless via ndiswrapper (via a D/L driver in /root)

bigpup · #471 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 04:14

Playdayz,

In quickpet->news
In the play section.
The link to Puppy Studio is dead.
It seems the author left and closed out the topic.
More info here:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65455
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=65480

wuwei · #472 Post by **wuwei** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 09:42

good morning playdayz,

been running 253 for almost a week now, and can happily attest that everything I tried worked so far. Great job!

Now, maybe you can help me understand something concerning Firefox, but it applies to Thunderbird, as well.

Here

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... -Lucid.pet

Firefox 4.0 is released . They call it rc1 but it shows 4.0.

you announced a pet for the new FF 4.0. This pet, I assume, will install to /usr/lib the usual way.

Personally I have found that one only needs the tar.gz from the Mozilla website and unpack it to /mnt/home of a frugal install of Puppy. Works for me, for as long as I can remember.

Now here is my question. Apart from the lack of Menu entries, is there any other disadvantage of the /mnt/home installation vs. the /usr/lib installation that I haven't come across, yet?

Thanks for the enlightenment.

live · #473 Post by **live** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 10:47

Hmmmm might not be all that easy to play a WMA lossless file

Well, I don't want to leave you without some challenges ')

See:
"For wma lossless you need MPlayer + an external codec:"
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php? ... 5&page=140

And

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9338517

bigpup · #474 Post by **bigpup** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 14:41

All this video audio talk, not sure if this is something that will help.
In the Puppy repository
Pet packages-4
There is a mplayer codecs full pet.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ackages-4/

playdayz · #475 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 15:02

you announced a pet for the new FF 4.0. This pet, I assume, will install to /usr/lib the usual way.

Personally I have found that one only needs the tar.gz from the Mozilla website and unpack it to /mnt/home of a frugal install of Puppy. Works for me, for as long as I can remember.

Now here is my question. Apart from the lack of Menu entries, is there any other disadvantage of the /mnt/home installation vs. the /usr/lib installation that I haven't come across, yet?

No problems doing it your way that I know of.

In quickpet->news
In the play section.
The link to Puppy Studio is dead.
It seems the author left and closed out the topic.

Yes. I've got it now. Thanks.

Jades · #476 Post by **Jades** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 15:19

live wrote:Google chrome 11 (still in dev) or possibly Chrome 9(last with H264 support) are my default browser, since end 2010, because they satisfy my golden rule and no other browser. Everyday I see more evidence of this:
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/ ... hack_match

Apparently on the recent Pwn2Own thing the guy that was supposed to be hacking Chrome didn't actually show up (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/11 ... ry_hacked/). Whether this was because Google had fixed the loopholes he was going to exploit or he had an 'unfortunate' Google Maps related accident seems unclear.

Quite easy for a browser to survive a hacking contest if nobody tries to hack it. Nobody's tried to hack NetSurf - doesn't make it more secure.

I personally avoid Chrome as I don't particularly trust Google - preferred them when they were just a search engine rather than a 'not evil' megacorporation out to own all info about everyone ever. On Puppy I mainly use Firefox 3 and Opera 11.

live wrote:Gnumeric I will not even consider it, has a spreadsheet soft in 2011, that can NOT properly handle a .csv test file with 6 cells, it just crap., (Bug reported, confirmed months ago, but still don't wanna fix).

I rarely use CSV files, when I do need to transfer a file between Schema 2 (a spreadsheet on RISC OS) and Gnumeric I usually do it using Excel as the intermediate format, but I am a bit surprised that Gnumeric would have problems. What sort of stuff happens?

Lobster · #477 Post by **Lobster** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 15:19

new wiki page for Lucid 5.2.2

http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy522

Upgraded to FireFox 4 (puppy style) - I was already running 4 RC
the non pet version was throwing up errors about not saving configuration . . .
The error message has gone . . .

Abiword,Virtual Magnifier Glass and XFE file manager appear to be working OK
on my system

playdayz · #478 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 18:11

new wiki page for Lucid 5.2.2 Smile
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy522

Mr. Crustacean, It will be 5.2.1.

Cool page. I will try to feed you some more details. Thanks.

pemasu · #479 Post by **pemasu** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 18:57

I made just for my own purpose from Billtoo`s great compile stripped down xfe. I removed unneeded apps for filemanager functionality and included only xfe-theme. I also preconfigured it to not show root warning, single click opening and I changed the preferred file managing apps to those which are included in Lucid Puppy.

But I thought someone might be satisfied for this preconfigured and stripped down version, so I upload it here.

playdayz · #480 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 19:38

Luci-254 is now posted in the first message of this thread.

It will be hopefully the last beta before a Lupu-521 rc..

Please test especially the things that have been updated. Please test Guvcview if you have web cam. Thanks.

Jades · #481 Post by **Jades** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 20:13

playdayz wrote:Luci-254 is now posted in the first message of this thread.

Downloading now! Won't be able to test it tonight as it's not my turn on Merlin (own it jointly with my Brother) but I'll give it a shot tomorrow if I have time.

playdayz wrote:It will be hopefully the last beta before a Lupu-521 rc..

With any luck anyway! We seemed to get quite a lot done with 253, three days testing of 254 will probably be enough assuming nothing major pops up. I do feel we benefitted from the week we had to look at 253.

666philb · #482 Post by **666philb** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 21:49

updated fine this time, all my installed apps working, and all icons intact.

majorfoo · #483 Post by **majorfoo** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 22:11

downloaded 254 iso using wget and received following messages
/root
# wget -c http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci-254.iso
wget: /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by wget)
wget: /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by wget)
--2011-03-11 14:05:58-- http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci-254.iso
Resolving diddywahdiddy.net... 74.208.244.178
Connecting to diddywahdiddy.net|74.208.244.178|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 133548032 (127M) [application/x-iso9660-image]
Saving to: `luci-254.iso'

100%[======================================>] 133,548,032 80.3K/s in 30m 53s

2011-03-11 14:36:54 (70.4 KB/s) - `luci-254.iso' saved [133548032/133548032]

references to no version information available (required by wget) did not cause any problems - iso completed normally - burned to cd and booted. is openssl 0.9.8.o needed here

tested history file and commands entered from terminal.
found something interesting.

if i make entries from console (uxrvt) in live cd, creates history file in root = /root/.history command line entries recorded ok

reboot and install roxterm and make entries from console (roxterm) creates following in root = /root/.bash_history. command line entries recorded ok

playdayz · #484 Post by **playdayz** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 22:29

# wget -c http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci-25wget -c http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci-254.iso4.iso
wget: /lib/libcrypto.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by wget)
wget: /lib/libssl.so.0.9.8: no version information available (required by wget)
--2011-03-11 14:05:58-- http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/luci-254.iso
Resolving diddywahdiddy.net... 74.208.244.178
Connecting to diddywahdiddy.net|74.208.244.178|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 133548032 (127M) [application/x-iso9660-image]

Oh, you scared me. You downloaded luci-254 with luci-253, right? Luci-254 will not show that error/warning message.

James C · #485 Post by **James C** » Fri 11 Mar 2011, 22:36

Fresh manual frugal install of 254 on the old P3 test box. For whatever reason,internet connection was not autodetected on initial boot......SNS popped up instead.No problem running SNS but usually autodetect has been working.
Display and sound good on boot.
Installing Xorg_High and a browser, more in a bit.

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