Puppy109CE released

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Puppy109CE released

#1 Post by Nathan F »

Today marks the release of the first community developed Puppy iso. Many people contributed to the development of this version, and the level of involvement has been truly outstanding. The major features of this update are:
  • Firefox-1.5.0.3 browser with Puppy bookmarks and startpage
    xdg dynamically generated menus, portable for use in multiple WM's and ready for internationalisation
    Geany-0.5 text editor as a replacement for Beaver
    Transmission-0.5 bittorrent client
    New graphical backgroundsetter by Mark Ulrich
    Leafpad-0.8.9
    Sylpheed-2.2.4
    Improved trash utility by dvw
    jwm-1.7 with blinky-0.8 and minixcal-1.1 (thanks to Joe and Lior for making this the very best jwm ever!)
    Improved integration of Rox-2.4.1 as an optional package by Pizzasgood
    An improved xkb setup by Pakt, with better i18n support
    Enhanced and simplified interface
    Multiple bugfixes
It is very difficult to give proper credit to all who were involved in this project, as we had countless testers as well as numerous suggestions and pearls of wisdom offered by the community. While it's not always possible to please every person with every aspect of such a project I believe that most users will find this to be one of the most complete, usable, and stable releases yet made in the Puppy-1.x series.

Users who have previously been running an alpha or beta version of 109 should reset the file /etc/puppyversion to read 108 before booting this, in order to allow the upgrade script to perform it's work. Please also back up any important data first.

mirrors (more are sure to appear shortly):
http://puptrix.org/std/puppy109CE.iso
ftp://anonymous@puppyfiles.us@puppyfile ... es/v1.0.9/ (give your email as a password)

Barry has said that he will support this effort with an announcement on his news blog, but is currently out of town somewhere in Perth, so it is up to us to spread the word. He will also be making this release available for purchase, but has given any of us authorization to do so as well provided proper credit is given. Look for an update to usr_devx.sfs to appear in the next couple of days as well as an updated Puppy-unleashed core.

Enjoy and have fun. Don't be shy about posting feedback here on the forum, positive or negative.

Nathan
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Team Puppy - well done.

#2 Post by Lobster »

:D Downloading now
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Added to Wiki News, Front page and 1.09 page

DOWNLOADS HERE PLEASE (add any new ones)
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Puppy109

more mirrors and bittorrent required
please inform distrowatch and anyone else who might be interested

A big thank you to everyone involved, especially Nathan who has worked hard to bring it all together. Puppy Singer was a great basis. I hope everyone enjoys 1.09 Community Edition.

Puppy is mature. Team Puppy - well done.

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#3 Post by dominic »

been running on liveCD from version 107, been waiting for the 109 release to come out for dual HD install with XP. downloading it now, then formatting my pc:D can't wait.

Looks good:D

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Re: Puppy109CE released

#5 Post by kwiller »

Nathan F wrote:...
mirrors (more are sure to appear shortly):
http://puptrix.org/std/puppy109CE.iso
ftp://anonymous@puppyfiles.us@puppyfile ... es/v1.0.9/ (give your email as a password)
...
A torrent available here

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#6 Post by Nathan F »

I've informed Vladimir at Distrowatch, so hopefully he will post an article shortly.

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#7 Post by papakanush »

Downloaded it and it looks great ! (I'm typing from 109CE now). I like the simplified menu. I have been using puppy 107 on my laptop and 108r1 on our families home computer. Will update to 109 CE.

I just got some old outdated computers from our church. I'll see if Puppy can resurrect some of them to donate to some good use.

Kudos to all puppies, lobsters,.....
:D

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upload

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I'm downloading the torrent now! To all the volunteers, thanks!
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#9 Post by Caraibes »

:D
I am using 109 right now, and it is an absolutely outstanding version !

Very good job, I want to congratulate all the members of the community who took the time to make it happen...

-Here's a simple question : I am now running 109 from a live-cd. I have 108r1 on my pendrive.
-Is it possible to upgrade frome my pendrive 108r1 to 109, or do you guys recommend formating the pendrive and re-installing 109 ?

And I wouldn't be honest if I didn't mention the traditional SOUND ISSUE...

I really hate to have to say it, but, no, sound doesn't work on 109 (just like in any other version so far...)

However, I will download and try the beta version of Puppy2 to post some feedback...

For the information of any new reader, there is no sound for me, in VIA 82xxx integrated chipset. I am confident sound works great on other hardware. (Sis chipset usually don't have sound neither...)

Anyway let me repeat my applause to that great team work, and all my friendship and respect to the Puppy crew !

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#10 Post by Nathan F »

It is rather easy in most cases to upgrade an installation on a pendrive, just launch the installer and choose 'upgrade' when prompted for it.

The sound issue is a common one, although it has gotten better and better for me over the year or so I've used Puppy. Puppy2 does promise better support in that area, from what I can tell so far.

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Great news!

#11 Post by raffy »

This is great news! It's a hurricane of a news (coincided with the coming and going of hurricane "Caloy" here :) ).

Power is just restored so am downloading now.

Rarsa has done a lot of work for the XDG menus in 1.09CE...

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#12 Post by Pizzasgood »

Coolness. You forgot to mention that there are now more loop devices. :) Now I just have to set my stuff back up and re-do my bookmarks (they've been in need of cleaning anyway, otherwise I'd just copy them over).
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#13 Post by Pizzasgood »

Nah, I'm too lazy to re-do my bookmarks, so I copied them. They match the mess on my computer desk at least :)

What did you do to Firefox though? It won't stop nagging me about clearing my personal data. If I were on a public computer that would be fine, but I want it to save the stuff on this one. I have it set to save it and the box keeps popping up anyways. If I didn't want it to save it, I'd have it set to not save it in the first place. I assume it's a setting in about:config, but that thing is huge and I don't feel like digging through it if you can remember which one it was.
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#14 Post by Nathan F »

Just go into the preferences dialog, open the privacy section, and click on the cache tab. Down near the bottom there is a button marked settings that brings up another dialog, where you can set this up however you want. There's almost never any reason to go into about:config anymore.

Sorry you found it annoying, I should have consulted others on this bit I guess.

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#15 Post by BarryK »

My apologoes, it will still be another day or two before I can announce
109 on my own developer news page.
Right now I'm at a public library.

My friend who has adsl, currently doesn't. Changing from Westnet to iinet
there have been delays, like westnet not removing the "adsl codes from
the line" when they said they had.

Tomorrow I might take my PC to a sister who has just got cable
internet.
Thursday arvo I'll be back home.

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Browser doesn't work???

#16 Post by PeterSieg »

Hi, just downloaded 109ce from MU site.

boots up fine, nice, clean and polished look!
However, clicking on browser icon does nothing?!
Menu entry for firefox does nothing?
calling 'firefox' in rxvt does nothing?

firefox is a shell script, that seems to call 'run_mozilla.sh'..?
find this file returns nothing?

But other people have written forum postings with it..?? strange..

This is from live-CD with NO prior pup001 and within qemu/w2k..

Will/Must check md5 now...

EDIT: md5sum is ok!
uncommented #set -x for debugging of /usr/bin/firefox script.
last message is exit 127


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#17 Post by GuestToo »

Firefox ran ok on my machine

i did find that there were default firewall rules that were blocking Firefox's access to the internet, so i had to run the firewall wizard before Firefox could access the internet

Roaring Penguin worked ok without crashing X

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#18 Post by GuestToo »

also, is geany supposed to be in JWM's menu?

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#19 Post by Indy »

Hi,

I found Geany in Utilities -> Geany Text Editor...

Is that it?

Indy

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Firefox not running...

#20 Post by PeterSieg »

Hi. Some more facts.

The pup001 file on the simulated hdd was only app. 6MB because there was
no more space left due to puppy2 test...

I booted also with option 4 - totally in ram. Also firefox no nothing..?!
(Simulated 128MB Ram!)

So I did suspect not enough free space..
I changed the simulated ram to 256MB .. and voila.. firefox works..

So that means:
with 128MB ram and NO pup001 (or pup001 too small), firefox will
*** NOT RUN *** with 109CE!
For me, this is a major issue/drawback!

Another point concerns the bookmarks.
I don't know, how it comes that the german puppy site links to:
http://puppylinux.abcde.biz/puppy
That is completedly wrong!? The correct url is:
http://puppylinux.abcde.biz/cms/?Linux_ ... uppy_Linux
(Just look at: www.pupweb.org )

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