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This is the Official Release of Lucid Puppy 5.2.5.

Lucid Five Twenty-Five

A Five Digit Update from Lucid 5.2
The Ultimate Expression of the Lucid Vision
IMHO, Lucid 5.2.5 is probably not the best choice for AMD K6, because some programs in Lucid 5.2.5 are not compatible with K6. Lucid 5.1.1 would be a better choice--not that 4.3.1 is not perfectly good also. http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... ppy-5.1.1/

Instant Update 001 for Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 (known as the Bigpup Update) ->
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... te-001.pet
The update
--> fixes Bootflash which did not work in the release of Lucid 5.2.5
--> fixes xgamma-gui which did not work in the release of Lucid 5.2.5
--> updates Psync to be aware of both UTC and local system time
--> updates Firewallstate to leave program icon off on reboot when turned off
--> adds report-video-glx which might be a useful standard for diagnosing video issues
--> adds ffconvert to convert between video formats
--> updates the Lupu PPM in Puppy Package Manager
--> links Help to LupuNews Help

The pet is 132KB.

Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 ->
http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-525.iso
b6658ab75cd5d48f358f0ee31b06b934 lupu-525.iso

Devx for Lucid Puppy 5.2.5 ->
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/dis ... vx_525.sfs
a72c8744b220c5bf02d5161445927382 lupu_devx_525.sfs

Lucid Puppy 5.25 is the most leading-edge Lucid ever.  It has Bash 4.1.0, Syslinux 4.03, and e2fsprogs 1.41.14, the latest from Ubuntu Natty. It now has JWM 500, up from 493.  Gnumeric 1.10.13 is a necessity because our very own yarddog had posted a bug to Gnumeric that is corrected in 1.0.13.   Lucid 5.25 uses the Woof of FEB 28 replacing the Woof of NOV 28 for 3 months of progress in Woof development. All of the favorite Puppy programs are there in their latest versions. Check out Pburn by zigbert which now compares favorably with Nero Linux. Gnome-mplayer 1.02 compiled by our own ttuuxxx is a substantial improvement and now works well with both the Openbox and JWM window managers. All this and the the low overhead that makes Puppy fast and the friendliness that makes it fun.

Updated Puppy Programs
Pschedule
Psync
Pburn 3.3.4
Pcd
Pfind
Pmusic 1.6.6
Pnethood
Pprocess
Searchmonkey
Viewnior
Xlock
Asunder from 2.0 to 2.1
xz-utils added
Osmo from 0.2.8 to 0.2.10 (even though it stills says 0.2.8 on the titlebar)
Asunder cd ripper from 2.0 to 2.1
grub4dos config 1.7
JWM Thememaker 1.5
replaced pStopwatch and Ptimer with pClock and pTiming
PupRadio 0.8 (from 0.7)

Updated Ubuntu and other binaries
Sylpheed 3.1.0 (from 3.1.0 b2)
gnome-mplayer 1.0.2
Geany 0.20 (from 0.19.1)
Gecko-mediaplayer 1.0.2
libntfs-3g (lucid update one library)
Gparted 0.8.0
openssl 0.9.8o (from 0.9.8k)

General Update
Flashplayer 10.2r153

From Instant Update 001 for Lucid 5.2
include some “exotic drivers

playdayz wrote:Luci-250 will become Lucid 5.2.1, hopefully by March 5, the 2-month anniversary of the release of Lucid 5.2 and the 10-month anniversary of the original Lucid 5.0. It should be the last release of Lucid Puppy.

glad to see you are back in the saddle again - perhaps this will be the last release of Lucid Puppy but looking forward to seeing your name on many more exciting projects in the future

d/l luci-250 and booted from live cd - installed browser and few other items - autoconnected to internet and everything looking good so far

regards
yarddog

couple of small things

1. geany is listed under Utilities - General Utilities

2. Did not find Pup Control setup icon on desktop
found under Utilities - General Utilities

sound is working properly on my system - was set to 75% on bootup opened full window and all entries are same as 520 final.

intel 82855 processor - ATI tech VGA

regards
yarddog

Luci-250 live pfix=ram on the main Linux box.Internet,sound and display all working and correct on initial boot.
One little thing, in JWM there are no menu icons for Sylpheed, Geany and Gnome MPlayer......no problem in the default Openbox though.
No problem turning on the firewall and no problems with Quickpet.

I've already done a manual frugal install on the P4 test box....I'll reboot into Luci-250 in a few for a better test.
Looking good here so far.

Sylpheed, Geany and Gnome MPlayer.

Ah-ha, 3 that were updated. Do I see a pattern? Thanks.

Did not find Pup Control setup icon on desktop

I should have said that the Setup icon on the desktop starts PupControl.

Posting now from Luci-250 frugal on the old P4 test box. No problems, everything working on initial boot..
Installed SeaMonkey 2.1 b1 and Xorg_High.


VIDEO REPORT: Lucid Puppy, version 250

Chip description:
Intel Corporation 82865G Integrated Graphics Controller

Driver used by Xorg:


Video mode used by Xorg:
Resolution: Depth:

...the above also recorded in /tmp/report-video
#

# glxgears
1239 frames in 5.0 seconds
1275 frames in 5.0 seconds
2037 frames in 5.0 seconds
2084 frames in 5.0 seconds
2051 frames in 5.0 seconds
1999 frames in 5.0 seconds

Looking good here as well.

Upgrading frugal installs.
A big thing that needs testing is how well pup-save files update.
This is the first version of Lucid Puppy to have the changes that should correct the problems of the past.

Barry wrote in his blog;

Posted on 22 Jan 2011, 8:11 by BarryK
Version upgrade improvements
Thanks for the feedback guys. I have made some changes, which will be in the next build of Wary.
there are changes in the 'init' script in the initrd.gz file. A new release of Puppy is required.

I assume this means the changes are in the newest version of Woof used to make this Luci 250.

Posted too soon.......losing the sound on every reboot.Experiencing the same in Snow Puppy 010 as well....
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 004#498004

Will try this when I have a chance and will report back with results.
Can't wait to try it!
Quite frankly, I'm so pleased with the last beta that came out I'm still using it! (Also because the official release doesn't seem to cooperate with Amarok.)

James you ahve to teach me do the GLX thing looks impressive to be able to give such figures. I use Acer D250 Netbook and they are very small and have a single core Atom CPU so I don't expect they render graphics that fast.

I will download the latest iso now and test but how do I get the GLXGear thing going so I can tell how it appears here.

Sound not up to expectations. Is that not something puppy have always have problem with. My poor memory but does not some of the other Linux has higher sound output? Slax? Antix, Elive, Knoppix? CDLinux? Even TinyCore?

I am hopefully wrong. I get back and tell how the latest Luci behave on my little puter

Edit I am in Luci-250 now and typical of me I renamed it luci-520 and it failed to boot.

What to test? Browsing seems as usual. Opps forgot to listen to sound on youtube. Yes we have sound. So check if mediaplayer do what it should.

pictures and mediafiles play as they should. I did download and installed Chrome to see that the PPM in Quick set up worked.

How does one do the glx gear thing?

playdayz wrote:

Sylpheed, Geany and Gnome MPlayer.

Ah-ha, 3 that were updated. Do I see a pattern? Thanks.

check the desktop-files to see if they have the file-suffix in th Icon-Line.

aragon

Manual frugal install on my HP550 laptop

Initial bootup including wifi Broadcom B43 OK (old problem of association dropping after short time still there but fixable)

No sound after reboot - used retrovol to recover - reboot - sound gone again - deleted 10alsa as suggested - reboot - sound OK.

Tested pnethood samba share with WinXP - OK

Tested cups remote raw printer using smbc: - OK

Using Dillo to post this.

Cheers
Peter

p.s. copied lupusave.2fs into the test directory - renamed lucisave.2fs - all seems OK.

If this is the last release of Lucid Puppy, what is planned to follow?

Also any chance of updating the Fujitsu fpit driver for 5.2.1 as the version shipped with 5.2 is broken. See http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=64937

[quote="playdayz"]

Note: It looks like we might have the same problem with alsa that we had in Lucid 5.2. If sound is not persistent, right-click the volume/speaker icon in the tray and choose full window and then make sure Front is turned up. You can also delete /etc/init.d/10alsa, which fixed it last time (courtesy of 01micko).[quote]

also had problem with sound after creating save file on usb stick. on second reboot sound was muted.
tried alsafix provided by pemasu from snow puppy 010
did not work
deleted 10alsa from /etc/init.d, rebooted and sound is now ok

no other problems detected

regards
yarddog

Hogweed don't get me wrong but doesn't he explain that on the first post in this thread. Maybe you mean further away from that goal?

If this is the last release of Lucid Puppy, what is planned to follow?

guess you mean it is the latest just now?

I was just wondering if anyone noticed how stupid some menu icons are and how poor quality it is

It is not about this distro but all puppies

No offense to anyone OK, just saying what was in my mind

But are not most such things incredibly subjective. Something that looks great to me can look extremely crazy to somebody else?

I trust that all of them do their best to have icons that look okay to them. Why else would they chose them

thanks that was a very friendly reply. I am lucky that I am not the one deciding what icon to use. I would make every one mad at me for choosing the wrong looking one.

nooby wrote:But are not most such things incredibly subjective. Something that looks great to me can look extremely crazy to somebody else?

I trust that all of them do their best to have icons that look okay to them. Why else would they chose them

Maybe I guess

@playdaz

I was also wondering if things like i686_ffmpeg, i686_libc, e2fsprogs, openssl, syslinux-4, bash 4.1 will be updated?

playdayz wrote:Luci-250 will become Lucid 5.2.1, hopefully by March 5, the 2-month anniversary of the release of Lucid 5.2 and the 10-month anniversary of the original Lucid 5.0. It should be the last release of Lucid Puppy.
.

Complete noob here, and unworthy to comment on anything, really. But statements like "should be the last release" panic me. Does this simply mean that the next puppy will be based on spup, or T2 or something else. And will those new puppies read in my lupsave file? Will those of us using 5.2 whatever have to simply continue on with unofficial updates in the future? Is 5.2 the new 4.3? I know, I know, I'm an unwashed doofus. And believe me, as a windows refugee, I'm eternally thankful for whatever the Lords of Puppy dish out. "Thank you sir! May I have another!"