Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Sage · Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 4637 Location: GB

Moving stuff is trivial on this Board! Wait till we get another spate of deletions! Or rogue title renaming! This board has always suffered a lack of moderation by professional editors who also observe the courtesies associated with that endeavour. There is a long history of such events around here. It doesn't help that there are no admins with the keys to the house who live near the International dateline. Every crook in the world knows they've got nearly a days' grace before they are deleted. Afraid John is just too busy himself and travels with his work. We need to be thankful for his incredible generosity.

mavrothal · Joined: 24 Aug 2009 Posts: 1062

I think that a main puppy, as 5.x is, is always a main puppy. Is not the latest main puppy, but main non the less.
The 5.x series in particular is probably the most developed, tested and mature (see bug-free) Puppy.
I also think may have a bigger user base and thanks to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and playdayz, be a really Long Term Support release.
So definitely a "main puppy".

Yes it runs an old kernel and is based on an old woof. But has all the fixes and more!
Kernel wise, all I can say is that I mod it for the XOs both with the 2.6.35 and the 3.1.4 kernel and runs just fine with either!
May be is time for a real derivative, "Super-Luci" with the 3.x kernel that the next Ubuntu LTS (12.04) will use. Wink

bigpup · Posted: Thu 19 Jan 2012, 16:01 Post_subject:

Just to show the "old dog Lucid Puppy 5.2.8" can still run with the young new puppies and give them some competition.

Home built:
Intel core i7 2600K
Gigabyte P68 motherboard
8GB 1600 DDR3 memory
Nvidia GTX 560 TI video card
Intel 320 series SSD drive
Western digital 1TB hard drive

Booted with live Lucid Puppy 5.2.8-004 CD
Booted to usable desktop, auto network/internet setup, sound good, etc..... Everything working.

Only expected problems:
Only 4GB of memory showing due to kernel not set to support more than that much.
Nvidia proprietary driver needed for full support of graphics card.

Yes, lets have some more of that long term support. Very Happy

Note for Playdayz:
The Vesa driver had better support for this video card, than the NV driver it tried to use at initial boot. However, it did boot to desktop you could use.

ttuuxxx

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 184

I'm afraid that I haven't followed the thread all that closely and now I'm unsure what updates are relevant to 004. Any chance that those relevant to 004 could be listed at the top of page 1 this thread?

Just a suggestion, maybe they could also be listed in the Lupu News page.

I am not sure if this would be too much work but it would be really cool if they were also in a tab of their own in Quickpet (After thorough testing in that case of course).

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2012, 22:02 Post_subject:

also things like browsers for quickpet, its painfully slow downloading firefox from ibiblio compared to 30seconds @ http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/pet_packages-lucid/Firefox-9.0.1-2-Lucid.pet
ttuuxxx

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State

ttuuxxx · Posted: Fri 20 Jan 2012, 22:46 Post_subject:

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State

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

Amgine · Joined: 21 Sep 2011 Posts: 212 Location: Washington State

Snail · Joined: 18 Oct 2009 Posts: 184

Hi James C

I tried downloading Flashblock from the Seamonkey add-on manager and it isn't there. I found this site;

http://flashblock.mozdev.org/installation2.html#current

It has Flashblock 1.3.18. However, when I attempted to download and install, Seamonkey was extremely suspicious of it. The warnings were strong enough that I aborted the process.

is this a good site? If so, why is Seamonkey so sniffy about it?

Flashblock is a great app. I can't think why it is not included in the Seamonkey add-on site.