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bark_bark_bark · Joined: 05 Jun 2012 Posts: 1935 Location: Wisconsin USA

Ubuntu 12.04 LTS support ended April 28th 2017! II suggest you migrate way from precise-based pups if you are using them.

Burn_IT · Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3110 Location: Tamworth UK

Surely that in itself is irrelevant to Puppy users.

souleau · Joined: 23 Oct 2016 Posts: 125

From my cold, infested hands!

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 3805 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

I would think in large part this is going to depend to what extent you've installed stuff from the Ubuntu repos.

Although I run 571, just about all of my software is packages either from various places on the Forum, or stuff I've run up and/or re-packaged myself. And in any case, I have to agree with Burn_IT. I really don't see what it's got to do with Puppy; Canonical dropping support is hardly going to have any major impact on Pup...

Mike. Wink

rockedge · Posted: Sun 14 May 2017, 11:42 Post subject:

I run Lucid 5.2.8 still on several machines.....still have not had a single security issue. Matter of fact running several web servers exposed 24/7 to the wild world of the Internet on UPUP 3.9.9.2 .....nothing...nada...nichts. server has been down 3 times in 4 years due to power outages, one during a Hurricane. The Tahr based servers most running ZoneMinder some exposed directly to the Internet....still nothing. Even if I take a machine out for a stroll like Xenialpup or Tahr64 and go crazy looking and probing corners some darker than others....so far not dragged home anything...lucky I guess..or Puppy Linux is pretty resilient and so bizarre in structure and mostly running on old hardware that the newest code in the newest mal-ware ransom ware may not find a foothold unless we make one a PET.

bigpup · Posted: Sun 14 May 2017, 12:25 Post subject:

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 3805 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 842 Location: Mid-mitten, USA

rockedge · Posted: Sun 14 May 2017, 23:50 Post subject:

When UPUP 3.9.9.2 became older the repos moved. A small change to the urls in the DISTRO_COMPAT_REPOS and the PPM was fixed. I think adding this

nic007 · Posted: Mon 15 May 2017, 02:06 Post subject:

rockedge · Posted: Wed 17 May 2017, 16:36 Post subject:

you know because a mention of Racy 5.5 I realized I have never tried it out....well I did now..... and this OS performs really really well on my dual core Dell laptop. Racy is fast.

Moat · Joined: 16 Jul 2013 Posts: 842 Location: Mid-mitten, USA

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 3805 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

belham2 · Joined: 15 Aug 2016 Posts: 1520

Hi Mike, Moat, Rockedge & all,

Went to look for my old Racy 5.5 CD after reading this thread, and , of course, it's disappeared into thin air. Rolling Eyes

Outside of Ally's repo, where are you guys downloading MAR--2013 Racy 5.5 RC2 from? I went to Barry's thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=84748&start=150

...and every link from Barry's was "Forbidden 404:...". Then I remembered a year or few years or so ago Barry had moved everything, and I'll be danged if I can find it right now. What's his link for Racy 5.5 RC2 final version that he talks about in the thread? Is it still on Ibiblio? I cannot find it, though at the moment I wouldn't find my head if it wasn't attached. Been one of those weeks.

Thanks.

[UPDATE; ok, at least some of the blonde-ness for the week fell out of my head. I found it at ibiblio:

http://distro.ibiblio.org/quirky/racy-5.5/

Mike Walsh · Joined: 28 Jun 2014 Posts: 3805 Location: King's Lynn, UK.

Hi, belham2.

Yah, it's the same as Precise; in the 'Quirky' folder. Not the automatic location you'd think of to find it...

In fact, the more I compare 571 and 5.5, the more similar in so many ways they appear to be..... Laughing

Mike.