Puppy 4.2 Alpha4 Seamonkey Bugs & Fixes
Posted: Sun 08 Feb 2009, 19:20
I have just uploaded the fourth and final, final ( ) alpha for Puppy 4.2 Deepthought with Seamonkey and Claws mail. There are still a few issues with this one although it's pretty solid:
Known issues:
1. I have removed the latest CUPS which produces a 404 error when attempting to load the manager on my test machine.
2. There are still only two desktop icon thems - Deepthought and Stardust - until we can get someone to sync the icon names properly. I haven't had time.
3. grub-gfxboot is installed but not configured. Catdude and I are working together to get it configured properly - almost there
4. Blinky starts up but disappears after any jwmconfig change
5. epdfview doesn't work because it is missing CUPS dependencies
6. I broke ROX right clicks by updating to a later version of ROX filer. It only looks for a SendTo directory in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net when ROX right clicks creates an OpenWith directory - rename and it works fine.
7. I haven't set /usr/share/doc/home.html as the default home page for Seamonkey. It's there and contains the link to the puppy web portal but you'll need to add it manually to test.
On the positive side, I have updated to the most recent ROX filer in the dotpets-4 repository without any other apparent ill effects. New applications include Pwidgets (0.6), load-sfs, dhcpd (4.0.10), dosfstools (3.01), gdmap (0.8.1), geany (0.15), Gftp(2.0.19), gphoto2 (2.4.2), icewm-402-v5, libgphoto2 (2.4.4), libsamplerate (0.1.2), ntfs3g (2009.1.1), pburn (2.2.0), tkspider (1.0.4), vorbis-tools (1.20), wget (1.11.4). No-one can say the background stuff hasn't received equal treatment to the bling! Xarchive is still in because I still didn't have time to alter all of the dependent scripts. I'm not sure if ttuuxxx has done that so I don't know if the mods are in this release. If they are Xarchive will be out.
Coolpup has also submitted a host of back-end updates and deserves special mention for that effort as well as a lot of work done on the wiki to make life easier for yours truly.
Mirrors:
1. http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/4.2-alpha4/ (user=puppy pwd=linux)
2. http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-test/
3. http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/
If the mirrors don't show the Alpha4 it's probably because the admins haven't had time to move the files to the download area ... try again later.
This release is 95Mb, so there is room for CUPS to go back in when it works. As before, if you don't see this boot screen on first boot then you've got the wrong download!
STOP PRESS: Zigbert, trio and 01micko have worked hard on Pwidgets and version 0.7 is now available for download. I strongly recommend updating to this before testing. It will be in the next release, no question, and it works like a charm.
Enjoy!
Known issues:
1. I have removed the latest CUPS which produces a 404 error when attempting to load the manager on my test machine.
2. There are still only two desktop icon thems - Deepthought and Stardust - until we can get someone to sync the icon names properly. I haven't had time.
3. grub-gfxboot is installed but not configured. Catdude and I are working together to get it configured properly - almost there
4. Blinky starts up but disappears after any jwmconfig change
5. epdfview doesn't work because it is missing CUPS dependencies
6. I broke ROX right clicks by updating to a later version of ROX filer. It only looks for a SendTo directory in /root/.config/rox.sourceforge.net when ROX right clicks creates an OpenWith directory - rename and it works fine.
7. I haven't set /usr/share/doc/home.html as the default home page for Seamonkey. It's there and contains the link to the puppy web portal but you'll need to add it manually to test.
On the positive side, I have updated to the most recent ROX filer in the dotpets-4 repository without any other apparent ill effects. New applications include Pwidgets (0.6), load-sfs, dhcpd (4.0.10), dosfstools (3.01), gdmap (0.8.1), geany (0.15), Gftp(2.0.19), gphoto2 (2.4.2), icewm-402-v5, libgphoto2 (2.4.4), libsamplerate (0.1.2), ntfs3g (2009.1.1), pburn (2.2.0), tkspider (1.0.4), vorbis-tools (1.20), wget (1.11.4). No-one can say the background stuff hasn't received equal treatment to the bling! Xarchive is still in because I still didn't have time to alter all of the dependent scripts. I'm not sure if ttuuxxx has done that so I don't know if the mods are in this release. If they are Xarchive will be out.
Coolpup has also submitted a host of back-end updates and deserves special mention for that effort as well as a lot of work done on the wiki to make life easier for yours truly.
Mirrors:
1. http://puppyisos.org/isos/2009-01-to-06/4.2-alpha4/ (user=puppy pwd=linux)
2. http://www.pkagfiles.net/puppy-test/
3. http://www.puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/test/
If the mirrors don't show the Alpha4 it's probably because the admins haven't had time to move the files to the download area ... try again later.
This release is 95Mb, so there is room for CUPS to go back in when it works. As before, if you don't see this boot screen on first boot then you've got the wrong download!
STOP PRESS: Zigbert, trio and 01micko have worked hard on Pwidgets and version 0.7 is now available for download. I strongly recommend updating to this before testing. It will be in the next release, no question, and it works like a charm.
Enjoy!