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MU · Last edited by MU on Fri 18 Jan 2008, 17:27; edited 20 times in total

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News: new version 008.1 availabe.
Details:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=166662#166662

DO NOT DOWNLOAD THE OLD 008 ANY MORE!
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screenshot:

Full-size (400 kb):
http://noforum.de/pics/Muppy008-1600.jpg

There are 2 isos, one is english, the other partially german.

It runs well and pretty fast on my IBM Thinkpad with 256 MB Ram and 800 Mhz.
I run it as frugal installation, is also runs fine from a fast CD-drive.
The ISO works too in qemu, with at least 128 MB ram assigned.

You can see a list of included programs and screenshots and download-links at:
http://dotpups.de/Minisys-Linux/

Some programs were tweaked, e.g. the Installer PSI now uses petget directly for pets.
Older version uses pkgtool instead.
I'll update the corresponding dotpups next week, so other pupletts can use them.

Hardware accelleration for graficscard is enabled by default using free drivers, so you can play tuxracer or descent2 immedeatly from the Live-CD.
Propriatary Nvidia-drivers are included, too, Muppy will detect such cards and launch an installer.

Feel free to post suggestions, and please report bugs you find.
Muppy 009 in some months will contain even more german, and enhanced wizards, e.g. for Icewm.

I want to thank especially Barry for Puppy and encouraging me in continuing the Muppy-Series.
And Whodo for Ezpup, that is a great refinement and enhancement of the icewm-ultra dotpup I made long ago, and that is very outdated meanwhile.
I could mention many more, like Pliney and Zigbert who have coded so many wonderfull wizards meanwhile.
Take these name as representatives for all other contributors, who I do not name directly, please Smile

Please install the Service-Pack 3, too:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=166583#166583

Mark

related links:

Installation to harddisk (fix problems):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=24892

Installation auf Festplatte (Problembehebung, deutsch):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25425

Mini-Muppy (smaller version):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25414

build-a-muppy (create your custom Muppy):
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23272

bugfix for puppys initrd.gz:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=23381

gslapt packagemanager:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=21908

Lobster · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2007, 21:59 Post subject:

Hi Mark

Only seems to be 17MB - or is that a zipped iso and I had a faulty download?

MU · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2007, 22:04 Post subject:

no, you chose minisys without muppy Wink

Muppy is at bottom, under "file-releases".
Click on
Minisys-Linux-Muppy008a
there to see the isos and checksums Smile

Mark

Lobster · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2007, 22:14 Post subject:

my only excuse is stupidity

thanks Cool

MU · Posted: Wed 07 Nov 2007, 22:18 Post subject:

no, sourceforge really could need a good screendesigner.
The page is confusing.

It really was an adventure, to find out how to upload, luckily I started another project there some years ago, so we finally succeeded in less than an hour Laughing

But having those mirrors is great and worth the effort.

Time to sleep, have a good night Smile

Mark

Lobster · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2007, 02:52 Post subject:

Wiki needs updating
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/MuppyPuppy

OK I am in and running from CD

First of all it looks and feels very usable. Very Happy

The early Muppy was rather overwhelming

MU · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2007, 12:31 Post subject:

with build-a-muppy it is very easy, to create different flavours.
In future, we plan a desktop-muppy (almost as it is now), a game-muppy, and a server-muppy. When I release the final, I also will upload the whole buildscript with all packages, so you quickly can build a custom version.

I think the current version should satisfy a wide range of needs until then.

Non-free Nvidia-drivers will be added later, I must check out first what they overwrite, so that I can add a "restore" program in case a nvidia-installation breaks things. This would restore the inbuilt open-gl drivers and such.

As muppy comes with a business-background, stability has a higher priority than in older muppys, and new programs will be tested longer as before.

But compatibility with new nvidia-cards is important of course. We will try to get a testmachine by one of our customers.

thanks for reporting your impressions Smile

Mark

willhunt · Joined: 05 Oct 2005 Posts: 495

I Did not see my hdb10 part but the

MU · Posted: Thu 08 Nov 2007, 20:25 Post subject:

You downloaded the german iso?
to set the lang to en click on start-desktop-chooselocale.

But firefox and openoffice will remain german, as I had to use german versions as a whole.

If you want english versions, please use the english iso.

Docs for minisys itself are german, you just can use the translation-link on http://www.minisys.org .
Though minisys itself supports several languages.
We soon will enhance the language-choice.

Mark

veronicathecow · Joined: 21 Oct 2006 Posts: 526

Hi Mark, just tried your ISO (frugal) but I just get the 3.01 desktop (It picked up a current pu_save file. I tried fix menus but no joy.
any thoughts appreciated
Many thanks
Tony

klu9 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 345

Hi Mark,

I'm updating the wiki page on Muppy and would like to know: what's the main idea of Muppy? Its distinguishing features or basic description etc.

Thanks

geneven · Posted: Mon 12 Nov 2007, 06:13 Post subject: The Mup

I installed Muppy tonight and it went pretty well. It looks like a nice setup, close to what I want. I was happy to see an old friend, the file manager xfe, among the programs. Thanks!

geneven · Posted: Mon 12 Nov 2007, 06:24 Post subject: Things I forgot to say

I installed on a 2 gig flash drive.

I have the infamous bcm43xx wireless, which worked fine after the standard things I have to do, which is run the standard connection setup for wireless. I go to the advanced area and fill in everything that I can. THEN, I still can't access the Internet. So I go to the Wiki and find the WIFI section and the instructions for manual setup that follow the instructions for the connection dialog stuff.

I put in the first two lines of the manual setup. Then I can access the Internet.

All this is just for the first time thru. I save my settings, of course, and I take the lines I needed from the manual setup and put them in a text file, which I make executable and all I have to do from then on is execute that file and I'm on the internet.

This has not much to do with Muppy; I have to do this with Puppy proper 3.00 or 3.01 as well and every other version of Puppy I've tried.

klu9 · Joined: 27 Jun 2007 Posts: 345

I've added multiple download methods to the Muppy wiki page

BTW you can make a more direct sourceforge link by right-clicking the download section heading for muppy008a, which gave me this:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=141936&package_id=238140&release_id=552584

just the muppy008a downloads, nothing else in between.

MU · Posted: Wed 28 Nov 2007, 21:37 Post subject:

I currently uploaded Alpha2.
Tomorrow there will follow the Beta-version.

The only difference will be an updated minisys, as Stefan currently is fixing a nasty bug.

Muppy itself will contain no further changes I think.

One thing is absolutely untested:
If you have a Nvidia-graficscard, it uses the free xorg-drivers (xorgwizard will use them).
Then when X starts, Muppy detects this driver, and offers to install the propriatary drivers instead.
If that fails, you can restore the free driver in the comandline by typing:
uninstall-nvidia

I have no nvidia-card here, so I have no idea, if it really works.
I leave for 1-2 weeks on friday, so I'd be glad to get a feedback until tomorrow, if it works or not.
If it fails, I'll remove this from the Beta.

** this version is outdated, use the beta instead! **
Download using wget like this:
wget -c --referer=http://puppyisos.org http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-07-to-12/pfiles/muppy-008c-DE.iso

or
wget -c --referer=http://puppyisos.org http://puppyisos.org/isos/2007-07-to-12/pfiles/muppy-008c-EN.iso

The beta-version will be uploaded to sourceforge.net tomorrow.

So what is new?
I added several gtkbasic based programs I already announced.
I fixed several bugs.
I added more german translations.

Mark