Puppy 4.2 Final

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#31 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 11:57

Its all switching fine now

I added the kills to the icon switcher, I nolonger have the /root/myapplications/bin system links either. Pwigets&Ptray is gone 100% not turned off, and now it refresh's menus in about 1/10 of the time.
ttuuxxx

#32 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 12:25

Wrong size at distrowatch.com

#33 Post by **ttuuxxx** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 12:32

Screenshots needs to be updated at Distrowatch
http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy
which leads to
http://www.thecodingstudio.com/opensour ... p?os=puppy
ttuuxxx

CatDude · #34 Post by **CatDude** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 12:45

Hi

Just trying out 4.2retro on a Thinkpad T21 with a Buffalo Air Station Turbo G (Model: WLI-CB-G54HP)
and i notice that there is a very limited number of modules listed (7) in the Network Wizard (see image below)
although i was able to modprobe those that i needed to enable me to send this.

Just thought you needed to know.

CatDude
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Caneri · #35 Post by **Caneri** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 12:45

OK...ready here http://puppylinux.ca/puppyfiles/

Eric

steve_s · #36 Post by **steve_s** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:12

I can't say this enough: great job everyone...

WhoDo, you the man.

Congratulations...

tasmod · #37 Post by **tasmod** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:24

Congratulations to all involved.

It's a distro to be super proud of.

I've just added the start up eye candy of the graphical grub, it's now complete for me.

ttuuxxx,
excellent job on SeaMonkey, best yet.

Well done everyone.

Rob

jebaJQ8 · #38 Post by **jebaJQ8** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:32

Congratulations to all developers and testers.
Thank you, WhoDo.

rheya · #39 Post by **rheya** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:33

is the kernel different from puppy 412 ?

it seems it's the same...
it's important for me to know because I would like to mantei all my save FS from puppy 412, is it possible ?
thanks for help

WhoDo · #40 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:38

rheya wrote:is the kernel different from puppy 412 ?

No, it's the same kernel. No modifications at all at the kernel level.

WhoDo · #41 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:42

trio wrote:In 4.2 Final..bcm43xx is still being a problem...for those of you who wants a workaround..just edit /etc/rc.d/MODULESCONFIG (line 33) delete the red word

PREFLIST=' rt2500usb:rt73usb ath5k:ath_pci orinoco_nortel:hostap_plx orinoco_plx:hostap_plx orinoco_tmd:hostap_plx orinoco_pci:hostap_pci bcm43xx:wl b43:wl b43legacy:wl ssb:wl prism54:p54pci r8169:r8101 rtl8187:r8187 '

and reboot, then go to network wizard and bcm43xx won't be loaded

Hi trio. This is important enough to be posted in the Puppy 4.2 Patches and Updates thread in the Bugs forum.

It's not a bug; just a small oversight on my part and your workaround will resolve it quickly, so please post it there as well. Thanks.

WhoDo · #42 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:45

trio wrote:Not to blame anyone but when decided to use icewm's blinky and freememapplet 2 things happen:
1. blinky will not follow theme for background
2. the freememapplet still shows only part of what it supposed to show

so I made up a fix for any jwm users who wants it.

Also a useful update, trio. Please post in the Puppy 4.2 Patches & Updates thread in the Bugs forum. Thanks, mate.

WhoDo · #43 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:51

BarryK wrote:The snapshot of the desktop looks beautiful -- that's going to create a very good first impression!

I'm downloading it right now.

There was some real Serendipity in the choices, Barry. You'll notice that the colours of the background are a perfect foil for the icons and theme, the unmounted Puppy event drive icons look like they're under the water in the foreground and Zigbert's top level menu icons look like they were drawn in the sand with a stick!

I picked the default image because to me it said everything most people usually think of when they think of Australia - sun, sand and sea - without being obvious like using the Opera House or Uluru. I'm glad you like it!

WhoDo · #44 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 13:55

runtt21 wrote:Is the devx.sfs ready yet?

No, not yet. I will be uploading a devx_420.sfs, a new Unleashed_core-420 and some updated pets for the pet-packages-4 directory. Patience please.

WhoDo · #45 Post by **WhoDo** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 14:01

ttuuxxx wrote:Screenshots needs to be updated at Distrowatch

Those shots are from Puppy 4.1 so they are considerably out of date but changing them is kinda out of our control, Jeff.

Let's hope the Australian editor of Distrowatch Weekly picks that up and Reviews 4.2 as well. At least they spelled my name right! Two L's in Willson - yeehah!!!

aahhaaa · #46 Post by **aahhaaa** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 14:05

This is truly the 'global-est' group I know... again Congrats guys!

Minnesota · #47 Post by **Minnesota** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 14:08

Looks very good and FAST.

Thanks WhoDo for the corrections to welcome screen.
Printer works, normal CPU.
Spell check works as well as insert symbol insert.

Menus more readable. Thanks... lots of hidden stuff I am sure has been corrected as well.

THIS LOOKS GOOD!!!

I join the crowd of clapping hands

. Congratulations to ALL for the hard work!!!!

magerlab · #48 Post by **magerlab** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 15:04

it's a pity that localized menus are not included( see localising scripts section)
puppy really needs at least basic localization.
everything i've tested runs fine!

magerlab · #49 Post by **magerlab** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 15:04

it's a pity that localized menus are not included( see localising scripts section)
puppy really needs at least basic localization.
everything i've tested runs fine!

floborg · #50 Post by **floborg** » Sat 28 Mar 2009, 15:08

So, I took screenshots to illustrate any differences between this and Puppy 4.1.2 w.r.t. memory and CPU usage.

All I did was boot up, select Xorg with the same resolution, wait for the getting started message to go away, connect to the network, start top from the command line, and take a screenshot.

Afterwards, I installed LXTask and took another screenshot in each.

PS: In the Puppy 4.2 shot, you can see that the lower desktop icons are bunched together. Didn't happen in 4.1.2. My resolution was 800x600.

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