Puppy 1.09 reviews

[Lobster]

Been using the release version since 15 May 2006

How good is it?

You click on edit and an editor (leafpad) with an open doc ready for text opens . . . simple improvement
Proper icons - simple improvement . . .
1.09 sticks very close to 108r1 which was released in February and was very good.

For me (surprising this) I found Firefox takes a little getting used to
- been using Mozila and Seamonkey for so long . . .
It does have loads of links to extra Puppy programs and all sorts . . .
(that was my little contribution - which others worked on too)

The menu structure in 109 is intuitive. Even though I have been using Puppy full time
for a year I still have to hunt for programs through the menus in pre 1.09 Puppys
and Puppy2 Alphas - I hope we will find the XDG menus in Puppy2
The best thing I can say about the menu structure
- hardly notice it - just there to load programs - just the way it should be

Geany the more advanced editor is very good (not used it much
but those who do will find it very usable - and hey it is in Puppy 2 Alphas)

We now have a bit torrent. So the next time I upload (probably a Puppy2 Beta)
I hope to do it via bittorent.

We could not have done this version without Barrys work as basis and Nathans
mature leadership and efforts, which are much appreciated.

How good is Puppy 1.09?
Well I am biased
download it and tell us . . .
Any bugs? Tell us. Nathan is working on a bug release - not many so far and pretty minor

Is it Raman who says "Hail Puppy"?
Yep - hail Puppy

DOWNLOADS
http://puptrix.org/std/puppy109CE.iso
http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/1.0.9-CE/
http://www.turturia.it/idel/iso/puppy109CE.iso

Multi-Session and standard DOWNLOAD
http://www.puppylinux.net/

Bittorrent DOWNLOAD
http://linuxtracker.org/torrents-details.php?id=2017

[papakanush]

With the disclaimer that I am a real newbie just trying to learn and use Linux and Puppy, I tried out Puppy 109CE on both of my machines (Compaq presario desktop and IBM Thinkpad R40 laptop), both worked great, and I must say I am impressed. I think the team did a great job.

That said, I'll probably stick with my old Puppy 107 for now for the following reasons:

1. When I started 109CE with my old pup001 file (that had all my stuff, I backed it up of course) the nice icons in 109 seemed to be replaced by my old 107 icons, and it messed up the JWM menu a little.

2. When I just started with a fresh pup001 file, and manually copied over my 'my-documents', and email folders, it worked better, but I couldn't figure out how to copy my gaby database over. This is my own ignorance, not any fault with 109.

3. I know a lot of people prefer Firefox, but to me Mozilla seems to be the fastest and cleanest to me. Dillo is just a another browser that I don't see the need for.

4. After getting Icewm set up just the way I liked, I just didn't like going back to JWM. I know Icewm can be used in 109, but I ended up with the same 108 menu.

I got to say that Puppy is my favorite of all the distributions I have played with, including Ubuntu, Mandriva, Slax, DSL, DSL-N, Feather, Knoppix, Austrumi, etc. that a beginner could tackle. The main reason is the wonderful pup001 file that I can save on to my laptop's NTFS hard-drive, and puppy has the ability to read and save to it. As far as I understand, this special feature is unique to Puppy. I hope that the future puppy2 pup_save files have the same capability.

[rarsa]

I know Icewm can be used in 109, but I ended up with the same 108 menu.

Ooops. There was some miscommunication here between me and Nathan. I had the impression that he was going to update the IceWM package with the new menu.

One of the main differences between pre 109CE and 109CE is the menu system. Not only the menu organization, but how the menu is generated.

I will release a package with the IceWM menu for 109CE tonight.

Edit
Apparently there was not misscommunication. I will not create a separate dotpup. I'm leaving the original text just for reference.

Sorry for the confusion.

[rarsa]

As a temprorary quick fix.

Please test this icewm-menu file.

I'm at the office and unable to create a dotpup but if you test the menu I will create the dotpup as soon as I get home.

Don't forget to rename your existing icewm-menu file before copying this file in case it fails.

This was a false alarm (see next post). I am removing the quickfix file as it is no longer needed

[papakanush]

I'm sorry Rarsa, I must have been smoking something.

I tried 109CE again with my old pup001 file and opened Icewm24.pup; and all the menu items are consistent with 109. Sorry for the false alarm.

It was the JWM Dotpups menu that had a few items that I had deleted in the past, and thought were gone.

Thanks for the fast response though. I'll try not to start any wild goose chases in the future.

[papakanush]

I found something new.

If I started with a fresh pup001, the Alsa sound worked. When I start with an old pup001 (from my puppy 107), the sound doesn't work.

Hmmmm.


1 hour later..........

This probably belongs somewhere else in the forum, but I'm finding something interesting here. On both 108 and 109, when I first started up on the puppy live CD on my laptop (IBM Thinkpad R40 with full NTFS hard-drive) the alsa sound worked. Anytime after that, even on what I thought was a complete do-over with a new clean pup001, to try and replicate the first startup, I cannot get the alsa sound to work. This is specific to my laptop I'm sure. 107 sound never has a problem, so I'm sure there is some bug that my laptop, or NTFS, has with alsa.