Well it's beta time everybody.
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 4.99.1.iso
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wget -t0 -c http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko01/stuff/puppy/spup/testing/slacko-4.99.1.iso
checksum: 18b6856911f3ffbc5ece41ed9350738a slacko-4.99.1.iso
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DEVX
http://brainwavedesigncentral.net/micko ... 4.99.1.sfs
checksum: 0933f8f86fecabcd8f68fcab93b6e605 devx_slacko_4.99.1.sfs
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Changes:
- *fix added for Brookdale Graphics, big thanks Charlie6, MHHP, cowboy, James
*ffmpeg severe video bug fixed, thanks to ffmpeg developers (ffplay is included on ISO, confirmed fixed)
*gnome-mplayer cd bug, thanks to sszindian and James C for reporting, fixed by Kevin, gnome-mplayer dev
*Pmusic is now 1.9.4 Beta 1, thanks zigbert
*USB booting with no HDD, fixed thanks BarryK
*lots of woof enhancements from Barry
*slickpet updated for move to ibiblio
*lots of underlying stuff
*we are now in "Official Beta". thanks to you guys and Barry
Get Slacko!
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It has been asked.. "Why Slacko?"
No offence taken by anybody I expect.Volhout wrote:I hope I don't offend anyone by asking a very basic question. What is Slacko ?? Your post #1 shows "it's time to test" but no reference in what Slacko is. I understand it is based on Slackware, but why use slackware ?[snip]
Well you got the bit right about using Slackware binaries/packages. They seem to work very well. I am happy if this thing runs on a P3 with 256 RAM all the way up to a modern machine. That said, it won't run on everything. There will be some hardware that fails, it is the nature of things. However we do our best to get it to run on everything.
Also, this showcases the power of woof. It also showcases that Puppy built form Slackware stuff is still Puppy. It's no more Slackware than Lupu is Ubuntu. There is a mindset out there that "Puppy is based on XXX distro" (XXX being whatever flavour bins are used at the time) which simply isn't true. It just uses those bins to take advantage of the repos. Don't think Slackware has much in the repo? Take a look in PPM .
Another thing.. Puppy needs to keep moving. The debian "Squeezed" derivatives made by Iguleder/pemasu/stu90 are great, advancing Puppy just as this is doing.
Ubuntu at the moment, for me at least is in the "too hard" basket. I chose to support this version.
I hope this goes some way to answering your query.