Puppy 8 Available 24 March '19

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Lobster · #1 Post by **Lobster** » Sun 24 Mar 2019, 14:02

Image shows 64bit default start up screen.

Puppy 8 is built from Ubuntu Bionic Beaver 18.04 packages, has binary compatibility with Ubuntu 18.04.and access to their package repositories. BionicPup is built from the woof-CE build system, forked from Barry Kauler's Woof.

Updated software.

Palemoon,
DeadBeef,
quickpet,
pburn,
JWM,
change_kernels,
Gnumeric,
AbiWord,
MPV,
Samba,
jwmdesk,
Geany,
Simple Screen Recorder,
mtPaint,
dunst,
Transmission,
pkg,
uget,
osmo

etc.

Some new stuff: woodenshoe-wis Rox filer. Rox now has copy and paste! Compton compositor set up as default. Adds subtle shadows to windows and menus. Matching JWM, GTK2 and GTK3 themes. Claws-mail now has a tray icon. Steps findnrun now default in tray. Homebank is back. Sunfish chess, guvcview, redshift-gui, janky_BT bluetooth, gpick instead of gcolor, Take A Shot instead of Screeny.

Blog Announcement
http://blog.puppylinux.com/bionicpup-32 ... t-released

Puppy Master Announcement
http://www.01micko.com/12-BionicPup-released

Linux Questions Announcement
http://iso.linuxquestions.org/puppy-lin ... linux-8.0/

Youtube showing Puppy 8 running ...
https://youtu.be/qibxDA_Kxdk

Download
http://puppylinux.com/download.html

topic discussion, questions etc
Bionicpup 8.0 64bit main developer 666philb
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=114311
Bionicpup 8.0 32bit main developer peebee
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=113244

We are The Dorg
Resistance is Futile

Woof! Woof!

backi · #2 Post by **backi** » Sun 24 Mar 2019, 14:23

Hi Lobster !
Can barely keep up .
Excuse my ignorance.......who or what the Hell is Puppy 8 ?
But thanks anyway !

backi · #3 Post by **backi** » Sun 24 Mar 2019, 14:24

Think i got it .

gychang · #4 Post by **gychang** » Sun 24 Mar 2019, 14:46

Lobster wrote:

Blog Announcement
http://blog.puppylinux.com/bionicpup-32 ... t-released

Puppy Master Announcement
http://www.01micko.com/12-BionicPup-released

https://youtu.be/qibxDA_Kxdk

We are The Dorg
Resistance is Futile

Woof! Woof![/i]

BionicPup64, impressive but too new to be widely known...

jd7654 · #5 Post by **jd7654** » Sun 24 Mar 2019, 22:11

Congrats! Works pretty well so far, had tested the latest version uploaded on 3/14/19 on my Acer Chromebook C740. Added zRam swap to match the native Chrome OS setup, and works good too.

oui · #6 Post by **oui** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 09:53

what will distinguish the new Puppy's rel. 8 and over from the precursors rel. 7, 6, and 5. New bottle for the same wine or really new wine?

The question is highly interesting for those already using BionicPup but a low release 7.9.4 etc because they did fat it immediately and don't want to repeat that job each new step of the evolution.

is an actualisations package for all intermediate releases available and what is with it use on a very fatten remaster version?

musher0 · #7 Post by **musher0** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 11:09

@oui:
Why don't you yourself go on a diet instead of harassing Puppyists about their
perceived fatness!!!

@Lobster:
For a minute, there, I thought you were the author of a Puppy-8. No, you're only the
trumpeter!

@01micko:
It is totally unfair of you to leave out of that list josejp2424's excellent DPupBuster
-7.9.0.2. It would have been nice to offer the public a non-Ubuntu Pup for a change.
People will start thinking that PuppyLinux is a farm club for Ubuntu -- if they are not
thinking it already.

BFN.

bigpup · #8 Post by **bigpup** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 11:38

oui,

I guess you do not understand that a new Puppy version build is released for people to use and help bug fix.
The early versions are not release versions.
They are alpha, beta, interim, etc..... releases.
Bionicpup64 was first released as the alpha version 7.0.
Version 7.1, 7.4.3, 7.9.4, 7.9.7, 7.9.8 were all testing and bug fixing releases.
It developed and got bug fixed until the final release of 8.0
Bionicpup64 8.0 is the finished official release that should be stable and bug fixed.

The Quickpet>Info>Bionicpup updates may get a early testing version updated.
But probably will not provide all the changes or updates that are in version 8.0

The Bionicpup64 version 8.0 was compiled using a newer version of Woof-CE than the earlier versions.
It has all the Woof-CE latest improvements to core Puppy files and programs.
So, with Woof-CE changes, bug fixing, added and deleted stuff, improvements, etc... it is very different from the alpha 7.0 version.

Starting over with a fresh new install of Bionicpup64 8.0 is really the best option.
Unless some really big bug pops up.
Quickpet>Info>Bionicpup updates should keep it updated with any needed changes or updates.

If you did a remaster of any of these testing versions.
That is your version of Bionicpup64.
You know what you changed, added, deleted, etc....
You only know what could be bug fixed, improved, deleted, changed, etc......

wanderer · #9 Post by **wanderer** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 15:30

hi puppy gurus

using puppy 8 32 bit now

posting from light browser

everything is working great

very awesome

thanks for creating this

no bark ?

wanderer

watchdog · #10 Post by **watchdog** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 16:29

Woof, woof...

perdido · #11 Post by **perdido** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 17:26

Here is the 32-bit start-up screen since Lobster forgot to "lob" it

oui · #12 Post by **oui** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 18:42

Hi bigpup

Thank you for your infos

bigpup wrote: So, with Woof-CE changes, bug fixing, added and deleted stuff, improvements, etc... it is very different from the alpha 7.0 version.

Starting over with a fresh new install of Bionicpup64 8.0 is really the best option.
Unless some really big bug pops up.
Quickpet>Info>Bionicpup updates should keep it updated with any needed changes or updates.

If you did a remaster of any of these testing versions.
That is your version of Bionicpup64.
You know what you changed, added, deleted, etc....

I did begin with version 7.9.4 because of RSH (he did stay on that version, I myself did test 7.9.6...) and did fat it with a lot of stuff (size of puppy_bionicpup64_7.9.4.sfs is actually 475 MB

/ iso 518 MB )

Later, I did rebuild that remaster on 7.9.8 because I don't have the devx from 7.9.4. After that, diverse important details from precedent remaster did not go any more (especially it did not remember the main setting keyboard any more... It is probably the most important setting for each user, but it stay as the main problem for non English people! Since 15 years!!! (*1 )

I have both but use only the 7.9.4 version running perfectly...

as no details if what to win with success changing a time more and 7.9.4 all that what I require from it, I thing

never disturb a running system

and stay reserved against the announced upgrade

...

(*1 I don't have some exquisite keyboard layout: only US, but VARIANT INTernational and Puppy did never offer it although it could be the main proposal without damage for English guy's (they ignore it, nothing more

!). It is the variant used and documented with picture at inputking.com for the most European languages! Only that! Are English people really

racists? Chinese people (inputking is Chinese) are more open

oui · #13 Post by **oui** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 19:00

musher0 wrote:@oui:
Why don't you yourself go on a diet instead of harassing Puppyists about their
perceived fatness!!!

excuse me Christian but it is only the main characteristic from Puppy

!

@01micko:
It is totally unfair of you to leave out of that list josejp2424's excellent DPupBuster
-7.9.0.2. It would have been nice to offer the public a non-Ubuntu Pup for a change.

DPupBuster is a very different Puppy, a kind of new line requiring maximal comprehension

from Puppyist's!

peebee · #14 Post by **peebee** » Mon 25 Mar 2019, 20:52

musher0 wrote:It is totally unfair of you to leave out of that list josejp2424's excellent DPupBuster-7.9.0.2. It would have been nice to offer the public a non-Ubuntu Pup for a change.

See:
http://puppylinux.com/download.html
that's where other woof-ce builds are listed - including DPup....been there for some time.....

darry19662018 · #15 Post by **darry19662018** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 08:27

Dpup Stretch listed.

musher0 · #16 Post by **musher0** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 08:35

peebee wrote:
musher0 wrote:It is totally unfair of you to leave out of that list josejp2424's excellent DPupBuster-7.9.0.2. It would have been nice to offer the public a non-Ubuntu Pup for a change.
See:
http://puppylinux.com/download.html
that's where other woof-ce builds are listed - including DPup....been there for some time.....

Please, peebee.

It's useless to try to "drown the fish."

There is no DPupBuster in that list.

peebee · #17 Post by **peebee** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 10:27

My understanding is that DPupBuster is only at Alpha release status....at least that's what the iso name says.... if the developer thinks it has been tested sufficiently to raise its status and it is a true woof-ce build (it should be RC ideally) then I am sure it can be added to the list.

musher0 · #18 Post by **musher0** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 12:37

What does "RC" mean?
Not "Really Canadian" I presume...

bigpup · #19 Post by **bigpup** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 12:55

musher0,

It is spring now!
Your brain should be thawed out by now

release candidate

Abbreviates as RC, a release candidate is a version of a program or software that is functional but not quite ready to be released to the consumer market.

tallboy · #20 Post by **tallboy** » Tue 26 Mar 2019, 22:20

Moved to http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 37#1023337

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