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BarryK

Quirky 1.3-final is released. I built it with the 2.6.33.2 kernel, not the latest.

See the announcement and links on my blog:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewDetailed=01822

To follow progress on Quirky:

http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=Quirky

There was a 1.3RC forum thread:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=60096

Feedback welcome!

Lobster · Posted: Wed 22 Sep 2010, 05:59 Post subject:

This is feedback on the RC but I hope the combination of Flash and Seamonkey is the same in the Final

I can watch streaming multimedia (just watched a BBC documentrary about the BBC) Will now be rebooting into the Final version. For some reason (I believe 64bit 'updates' of Adobe Flash 10.1) were not working in Puppy Lucid 5.1.1, Ubuntu, Squeeze etc. They would cut out at between 6 and 20 minutes.

Quirky is allowing me to watch streaming vids.

Smile

Many thanks

01micko · Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 7037 Location: qld

Further to my initial reports on 'Barry's Blog"...

I have found that ndiswrapper is far more stable with my wg311v2 (netgear pci wireless, TI chipset) than tempestuous' driver which was, I think, compiled in Lupu, (slightly different kernel compile... that may be the cause IMO, and also NOT included in this quirky, for those concerned)

Also, I have an old TNT nvidia video card which defaults to the vesa driver. While that works fine, I can only get 1024x768 resolution with my old P3 with an old CRT. If I "choose" the 'nv' driver I get 1280x1024.. and acceleration. Is it worth the extra 5 meg to include the proprietary driver? (considering probably well over half of users don't have an nvidia, and another half of those have a compatible nvidia card with the driver, [those numbers are pure speculation!]).

Cheers

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1067 Location: Vienna Austria

Solid as ever.

I notice a slower boot-up time where the script shows a "pausing" indication in red. This is the point where it is looking for Puppy files. Runs very fast when loaded. Nice and stable - ideal for recommending to friends/clients.

I remember reading something about changes to the way the system searches for Puppy files at boot, but can't remember the details.

There's a lot of new Puppy versions appearing now on an on-going basis, so it's becoming a task in itself trying to test them all. Look at it like this:

Group A is Barry's base versions
Group B is non-Barry official versions e.g. (Puppy 511)
Group C is the Wild West where anything goes (Geeks' Paradise) e.g. Puppy Squeeze.

Group B uses stuff from both Groups A and B

Each of these groups has got prodigious output at the moment. No wonder Joe Public has problems deciding on anything to do with Linux. Other distros are also appearing on the scene thick and fast. Puppy's total output of new stuff is simply ballooning compared to only a short time ago.

Just been trying real Debian Squeeze 64 bit. Nice distro, but not as fast as 32 bit Puppy Squeeze.

So Puppy is still the nippiest, but I wonder if a 64-bit version would make it go even faster.

Can Woof be hooked up to the Debian or Ubuntu 64-bit packages specifically? I doubt if it's that simple though.

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 22 Sep 2010, 12:20 Post subject:

tronkel · Joined: 30 Sep 2005 Posts: 1067 Location: Vienna Austria

rcrsn51 wrote:

rcrsn51 · Posted: Wed 22 Sep 2010, 13:07 Post subject:

I believe that Quirky's new init script drills down farther into partitions looking for Puppy files. That might explain the pause.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3695 Location: UK

Interesting this? With all previous Puppies, using my Acer Extensa laptop, intel graphics, if I tried to reduce/increase the screen brightness using the Fn/arrow up.down keys, I had to re-start X to make the changes visible. In 1.3, the brightness just goes up or down in real time (as it should)... cool.

DaveS · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Posts: 3695 Location: UK

Savefile menu is back Smile

raffy · Joined: 25 May 2005 Posts: 4639 Location: Manila

This quirky is on steroids! Impressive.

Seamonkey has been very snappy and stable.

BarryK · Posted: Wed 22 Sep 2010, 20:05 Post subject:

James C · Joined: 26 Mar 2009 Posts: 4768 Location: Kentucky

Fresh frugal install w/ new save file on the old P3 test box.Really no problems.......Gnome MPlayer now plays fullscreen,SeaMonkey is fast and most everything is good.

gnomic · Joined: 20 Aug 2010 Posts: 74

Have the iso from day before yesterday at which point I think it was still an RC. Sad to discover that my laptop ThinKPad R51 seems to be out in the cold. With Quirky 1.2 I could choose intel i810 and get a display. All I can get from 1.3 is the cold black hell of KMS darkness. Ungood. That is to say opting for 'intel' is no good and trying vesa is also no good. Too bad, I kind of liked Quirky.

Lobster · Posted: Thu 23 Sep 2010, 01:26 Post subject:

Ethernet auto connected on my first boot - so I was net enabled.
Today it was gone and I had to set it..
Seamonkey and Flash combi still working great.
The time (I think I choose the second option 'utc')
is working OK - many wooflets have problems with providing the right time and I have to check my watch.
Smile

BarryK