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fatdog · Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Posts: 99

James, Kirk and Jake (with a lot of help from Step) are happy to announce Fatdog-710 Beta.

Fatdog64-710 is a major update built from source, with new base packages, using a new build system.

There have been about 230 commits since the alpha release. So there's been a bit going on. The alpha release announcement can be found here.

Updates/additions:

guvcview-2.0.4
mdview-2016.06.17
yad-0.36.3
mtr-0.86
xorg-server-1.18.3
mesa-11.2.2
xf86-video-ati-7.7.0
xf86-video-intel-081816
seamonkey-2.40
vlc-2.2.4
transmision-2.92
urxvt-9.22
findnrun-2.3.0
multirename-1.8
openssl-1.0.2h
flash-player-11,2,202,632
engrampa-1.14.1 (replaces xarchiver)
rox-filer-jun7-08192016 (https://github.com/jun7/rox-filer)
pidgin-2.11.0
libbluray-0.9.3
libaacs-0.8.1
geany-1.28
gimp-2.8.18
posixovl-2015.03
wallpaper-setter-0.7.5.3
linux-4.4.18 (Will update to latest 4.4.x for final.)

Other notables:

rc.sysinit: ability to load extrasfs even from unmounted device (by specifying device: prefix). These SFS can be loaded to RAM too. This enables fully savefile-less operations. Rc.sysinit now supports loading extrasfs from device/label/uuid; fatdog-initrd: basesfs now accepts ram/expand parameter (deprecating base2ram)

Xattr enabled for all file systems.

Plus numerous bug fixes.

Big thanks to all the 710 Alpha testers.

Get it from here:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/iso/710beta/

fatdog · Joined: 16 Apr 2013 Posts: 99

SFR · Joined: 26 Oct 2011 Posts: 1725

If anyone's interested in playing with Compiz, take a look here.

Greetings!

Doglover · Joined: 24 Jun 2006 Posts: 262 Location: Humboldt

'bout time Smile

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Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3680 Location: Ontario Canada

I installed to a 32gb usb-3.0 flash drive, computer is a lenovo
desktop:

video-info-glx 1.5.3 Sun 28 Aug 2016 on Fatdog64 710 Linux 4.4.18 x86_64
0.0 VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GF108 [GeForce GT 430] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA
product: GF108 Board - 1071v1p1 Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.18.3
dimensions: 1920x1080 pixels (524x292 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: GeForce GT 430/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.3.0 NVIDIA 367.44

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E8400 @ 3.00GHz
Core 0: @2003 1: @2003 MHz

No problems so far,
Thanks

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smokey01 · Posted: Sun 28 Aug 2016, 23:27 Post subject:

Had a quick look and everthing, so far seems to be working well. Frugal install with dirsave on a ssd.

I'm not sure why xcalc is included instead of galculator or similar. Also defaultimageviewer is pointing at mtpaint, why not viewnior?

Cheers

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 3680 Location: Ontario Canada

kirk · Joined: 11 Nov 2005 Posts: 1545 Location: florida

quirkian2new · Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2016, 11:06 Post subject:

drunkjedi · Joined: 24 May 2015 Posts: 897

Satori · Joined: 14 Jan 2013 Posts: 47

Hiyas...

extracted ISO to a directory that grub knows about booting fatdog and cleaned the save directory
it references for a fresh startup...

#
title FatDog 7.10 (4.4.1 Cool

==> (sda2)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /puppy/fatdog-710/vmlinuz pmedia=atahd pfix=fsck savefile=direct:device:sda2:/puppy/fd64save
initrd /puppy/fatdog-710/initrd
#

machine: Dell E6510 / i7 / nvidia / 8g

- booted and setup the wifi with no problems
- ran Chrome 52 from an external directory that the other dogs use, with no problems
- sys info finds 8 cpus from the i7 as well as the installed 8g mem sticks
- keyboard's vol keys changes volume and shows the onscreen display
- video drivers show nv drivers for nvidia chip being used
- video screen of 1600x900 is correct
- mdsn shows 100% usage of a cpu core, disabled it from services manager (not needed)

looks real good.

all I need now is the kernel sources for 4.4.18 to install the nvidia blob.

a previous save dir with nvidia compiled with k4.4.3 sources causes xwin to fail to start, but
that's to be expected.

Thanks

smokey01 · Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2016, 17:49 Post subject:

Yes you are correct it is calcoo. It works fine and small but it just doest look good. Galculator or similar would be better IMHO.

Fotoxx is a good image viewer but I think viewnior is less complicated. I always make viewnior the default to open all images. Mtpaint and Gimp have right click options to open. I often make fotoxx a right click option as well.

The new touchpad software doesn't work with my Asus netbook but flsynclient is still included and work fine.

You might like to include the 23oz theme that's on my repo, it adds some nice glossy bars and bits.

It's working well here on three different systems.

Cheers

prehistoric · Joined: 23 Oct 2007 Posts: 1746

In keeping with my moniker, I have gone the old route of burning an actual DVD, because I like to use Fatdog on suspect machines to examine file systems without the risk of having flash drives compromised.

Fatdog 710b is now running nicely on an old homebuilt machine with AMD dual-core processor and Nvidia graphics using an ASUS M2NVP-VM motherboard. I don't expect problems on two less problematic machines, but will post results later.

I happen to agree with Smokey about galculator, which I use in scientific and RPN mode, though I do replace the ugly icon on the desktop with one from Gnome Accessories.

Also keeping with my moniker is my taste in email. I use Sylpheed and text because there are too damn many things HTML can do to the unwary. I like to look at stuff passed by email before I let a browser display it, even when the browser is run as spot.

So far, this looks good enough for a place on my menu of systems on hard disk. I expect to install Google Chrome, but would like the option of using Firefox.

Anyone tried that on Fatdog since the recent upgrades to FF48?