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[BarryK]

Wary 5.3.92 (5.4beta2)

See my blog for download link:
http://bkhome.org/blog2/?viewDetailed=00056

Forum feedback starts on page 6:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=668609#668609

Wary and Racy 5.3.90 (5.4beta1)

Blog announcement and download links:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=03011

It has been awhile, over 5 months. Wary and Racy 5.3 were released on April 5, 2012, see blog announcement:
http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=02784

So, we need to get another Wary and Racy release out there! The kernels have been left at same versions as for 5.3, and for future Warys that will probably never change. However, the kernel for Racy can be upgraded, as can Xorg, but I might target that for version 5.5 (the next after 5.4).
For now, lots of Woof infrastructure and application upgrades.

Please test!

[don570]

faster download of wary 5.3.90 and racy 5.3.90

http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/quirky/test/

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[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 32gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Thu 27 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation Device 1082 (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF110 Board - 12630002 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nvidia

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (513x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

OpenGL
Vendor NVIDIA Corporation
Renderer GeForce GTX 560 Ti/PCIe/SSE2
Version 4.2.0 NVIDIA 304.51
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
303 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.406 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.001 FPS

Computer
Processor 8x Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-2600 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Memory 16613MB (168MB used)

I added a couple of programs, 5.3.90 is working well so far.

EDIT:I've been using 5.3.90 more and have updated some apps, switched to openbox + lxpanel 0.5.10 as well.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to 32gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Thu 27 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc Manhattan
[Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: PARK 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: fglrx

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1600x900 pixels (423x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

OpenGL
Vendor Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
Renderer ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5400 Series
Version 4.2.11762 Compatibility Profile Context
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
28553 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5710.406 FPS
28893 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5778.413 FPS
28752 frames in 5.0 seconds = 5750.340 FPS

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU M 430 @ 2.27GHz
Memory 4005MB (176MB used)

Network controller Atheros Communications Inc. AR928X Wireless Network Adapter

5.3.90 is working well so far.

[James C]

Manual frugal install of Wary 5.3.90 to sda 15 on my old P3 test box. Failed to find the sfs.
Burned a cd,used installer to install to sda15 ........failed to find the sfs.
Finally installed to sda6 and Wary finally booted. I have 5 or 6 other frugals on sda 15 with no problem so......

Anyway, display and sound good on boot....... used SNS for internet and connection was persistent.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Thu 27 Sep 2012 on Wary Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 2.6.32.59 i686

Chip description:
1.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel810(TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
451 frames in 7.0 seconds = 64.109 FPS
276 frames in 5.7 seconds = 48.727 FPS
414 frames in 7.6 seconds = 54.514 FPS
276 frames in 5.2 seconds = 53.580 FPS
276 frames in 5.6 seconds = 49.679 FPS
276 frames in 5.2 seconds = 52.828 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (127MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Thu 27 Sep 2012 10:51:15 PM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH


-Processor-
Name : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Family, model, stepping : 6, 8, 6 (Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron)
Vendor : Intel
-Configuration-
Cache Size : 256kb
Frequency : 730.86MHz
BogoMIPS : 1461.71
Byte Order : Little Endian

Other than being unable to find the Wary sfs things are looking pretty good.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to 32gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Thu 27 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 1
oem: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Chipset Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(R)Ironlake Desktop Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (507x285 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc
Renderer Mesa DRI Intel(R) Ironlake Desktop x86/MMX/SSE2
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
Running synchronized to the vertical refresh. The framerate should be
approximately the same as the monitor refresh rate.
302 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.397 FPS
300 frames in 5.0 seconds = 59.999 FPS
301 frames in 5.0 seconds = 60.000 FPS

Computer
Processor 4x Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU 540 @ 3.07GHz
Memory 6087MB (117MB used)

Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter - linksys rt73

5.3.90 is working well so far.

[James C]

Pretty low resource usage.....

[Ray MK]

Racy 5.3.90 (5.4beta1), Sept. 28, 2012


Report Video 1.3 - Fri 28 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
2.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
oem: Intel(r)852MG/852MGE/855MG/855MGE Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS
product: Intel(r)852MG/852MGE/855MG/855MGE Graphics Controller Hardware Version 0.0

X Server: Xorg Driver used: intel
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (270x203 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

So far all is looking good. Nice background. Report attached.

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to a 32gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Fri 28 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RV530 [Radeon X1600]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS
product: RV530 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

OpenGL
Vendor Mesa Project
Renderer Software Rasterizer
Version 2.1 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
839 frames in 5.0 seconds = 167.618 FPS
840 frames in 5.0 seconds = 167.816 FPS
857 frames in 5.0 seconds = 171.321 FPS

Computer
Processor AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3300+
Memory 1554MB (189MB used)

Compact Wireless-G USB Adapter - linksys rt73

I think Precise Puppy will get the most use on this pc.

[Sage]

First Look:

Wary 5.3.90 incredibly slow even on decent (old) kit eg AMD2500+ with 768Mb.
The PPM Flashplayer options offered do not seem to match the SM version which asks for 10.3 or higher.
Otherwise, welcomed home and comfortable like an old pair of slippers.

Racy 5.3.90 - different ball-game, everything works and fast. Tyson present, where is the surfing mutt? Quick right click on sr0 causes its disappearance.

[OscarTalks]

Out of curiosity, does this one now have dbus and dbus-glib included or does it make use of the nobus method as posted by Technosaurus?

Also, can I draw your attention to this post which mentions a problem with compiling Linphone in Wary or Racy 5.3

http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=77303&start=75

Is there any chance that this might be resolved during the development of 5.4 please?

[Ray MK]

 Wary 5.3.90 (5.4beta1), Sept. 28, 2012


So far all seems good with Wary. Another nice background.
As expected - extremely low resource usage. Nice.
reports attached.

[01micko]

Wary working nice here on my IBM Thinkpad r51, PentiumM 1700MHz, 512 RAM shared with Radeon Mobility graphics @ 32M RAM.

1 issue. Cant get 1 finger tapping for left click to work, I couldn't in some older slacko's too so I guess it's the older Xorg or older kernel module.

1 request. That purple gui for mtpaint screen capture is antiquated! I made a nice GUI that takes screen caps here called simply "screeny". It takes window snaps, fullscreen, auto resizes for the forum (as an option), opens for editing in defaultpaint (as an option), can turn off splash messages for speed.. all in 14k (including the xwd dependency, compiled in Racy, works fine in wary).

-Computer-
Processor : Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.70GHz
Memory : 514MB (155MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri Sep 28 22:40:54 2012
-Display-
Resolution : 0x0 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH4 - Intel 82801DB-ICH4
-Input Devices-
AT Translated Set 2 keyboard
SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad
TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint
ThinkPad Extra Buttons
Lid Switch
Sleep Button
Power Button
Video Bus
PC Speaker
-Printers (CUPS)-
CUPS-PDF : <i>Default</i>
-SCSI Disks-
ATA HTS424040M9AT00
TEAC DW-225
SanDisk Cruzer Blade

EDIT: updated screeny

[Billtoo]

Manual frugal install to an 8gb flash drive.

Report Video 1.3 - Fri 28 Sep 2012 on Racy Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 3.0.25 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller:ATI Technologies Inc RV280[Radeon 9200](rev 01)
oem: ATI RADEON 9200

X Server: Xorg Driver used: radeon

X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (380x238 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

OpenGL
Vendor Tungsten Graphics, Inc.
Renderer Mesa DRI R200 (RV280 5961) 20090101 AGP 8x x86/MMX/SSE2 TCL
Version 1.3 Mesa 7.10.3
Direct Rendering Yes

# glxgears
7995 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1598.891 FPS
8040 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1607.846 FPS
7985 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1596.848 FPS

Computer
Processor 2x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz
Memory 1553MB (189MB used)

Racy 5.3.90 is working well on this pc.

[James C]

Frugal install on my main Athlon XP box.Everything working on initial boot.

# report-video
Report Video 1.3 - Fri 28 Sep 2012 on Wary Puppy 5.3.90 - Linux 2.6.32.59 i686

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
1003 frames in 5.7 seconds = 174.868 FPS
828 frames in 5.6 seconds = 148.098 FPS
828 frames in 5.0 seconds = 165.513 FPS
828 frames in 5.3 seconds = 155.713 FPS
828 frames in 5.1 seconds = 163.889 FPS
828 frames in 5.3 seconds = 157.478 FPS
828 frames in 5.3 seconds = 155.029 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2400+
Memory : 1034MB (153MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Fri 28 Sep 2012 11:23:41 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1440x900 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa GLX Indirect
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : VIA8233 - VIA 8235