Guy Dog 5.0.1

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Guy Dog 5.0.1

#1 Post by Iguleder »

Introduction

Guy Dog is a minimalistic, elegant, innovative and full-featured puplet based on dpup. Its main goal is to be a modern battle machine that can compete with the official line of Puppy releases in speed, size and features: all three at once.

Its desktop is based on the wonderful combination of Openbox, tint2 and wbar, which conquered the hearts of many minimalistic desktop lovers and eventually spawned a new generation of lightweight distributions, most notably ArchBang and CrunchBang. Guy Dog joins this party.

Guy Dog was born out of frustration with Puppy’s growing size, decreasing functionality (e.g a browser, Xorg_High) and the lack of innovation in the never-ending battle against size. It rose from a solid infrastructure that automates the process used to build it, which means development is extremely easy and requires zero effort.

It is the direct descendant of Next Puppy and follows the footsteps of Puppy Squeeze, Squeezed Puppy and Dpup Exprimo, while combining the one-application-per-task philosophy pioneered by Zenwalk with the KISS principle followed by Arch Linux and Slackware.

It’s main features are:
- Completeness: Guy Dog ships with all applications a major distribution ships with, including a web browser.
- Small size: about 105 MB.
- Great speed.
- Rock-solid stability.
- Elegant and minimalistic looks.
- Built automatically, with strict quality control and optimization.

If you wonder what the name means, it's a pun on the term “guide dog": Guy Dog tries lead the way and show “blind
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#2 Post by puppyiso »

Finally....

Someone presents a "new" puppy.

:)

But the download link is not working and I don't see screenshots only x boxes

Please check the link.

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#3 Post by Iguleder »

Wrong. All download links work, screenies too.
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#4 Post by James C »

Already been downloading for several minutes(almost completed actually) and screenshots are good here.

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#5 Post by pacer106 »

Downloading iso & devx now screenshots look awesome :) Can not wait to test it out.

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#6 Post by James C »

104 MB .... downloaded really quick. :lol:

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#7 Post by Iguleder »

pacer106 - I'll also make a Window Maker flavor if you want :)

I built it the same as Next Puppy, and it's just Openbox, tint2 and wbar that make the difference. Well ... also a different agenda :lol:
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#8 Post by pacer106 »

A window maker version would be fantastic Iguleder :) I am already thinking of a wallpaper for guy(guide)dog puppy. An invisible dog im thinkin :) will check out this version for some inspiration & then get it started :)

I will have to see if i can make some themes for it as well :)

I think the work you are doing now is going to improve puppy overall from woof to finished puplets :)

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#9 Post by tubeguy »

Grabulating now! So this is using squeeze too right?
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#10 Post by Iguleder »

Yep, the same Squeeze core that served us loyally since dpup :)

EDIT: to be more percise, it also has certain packages from the Squeeze Backports repository (cmake, SANE and X).
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#11 Post by puppyiso »

Everybodyelse got it. I should call up the internet service company tomorrow morning.

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#12 Post by stu90 »

Looks great Iguleder - will download and test tonight. 8)

cheers.

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#14 Post by pacer106 »

Great desktop :)

Had my normal issue with getting online. So I did an experiment which leads me to believe Next Puppy, the newer versions of slacko & now guy pup does not like WEP network encryption. I started out with my normal wireless setup & could not get online. sns told me pretty much that wpa_suplicant isnt workin. So i switched my network encryption to wpa & almost instantly got online. (then desktop locked up on me lol ctrl+alt+backspace wouldnt get me out either so rebooted the hard way.)

This should probably be asked in another thread but not sure where. Could there be an issue with newer puplets (ones mentioned above) that does not like WEP network encryption?

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xorg

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:( Can't get xorg to work i use xvesa to test it.

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#16 Post by playdayz »

This sounds splendid iguleder. Lucid is almost 2 years old now. We darn well should be moving on!

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#17 Post by tubeguy »

Rollin' with Aqualung.

I have found that right-clicking an app in the task bar closes it. Is that the intended behavior? Also how do I switch between desktops?
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#18 Post by Ray MK »

Hi Iguleder

Looks and feels nice -

manual frugal to ext3 sda1
8/9yr old Acer TravelMate 243LC
256mb ram. 2.5Ghz Celeron proc. 800mb swap partition.

Even Firefox runs well - (unusual recently)

Not sure the firewall is working here.

Anyway - many thanks for all you do for us - luvly puppy.

Very best regards - Ray

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#19 Post by tubeguy »

puppyiso wrote:Everybodyelse got it. I should call up the internet service company tomorrow morning.
I have mirrored here:
http://tubeguy.org/puppybg/iso/guydog-5.0.0.iso
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Guy Dog 5.0.0

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Manual frugal install to acer desktop pc.

Sat 15 Oct 2011 Operating System: Guy Dog-5.0.0 Linux 2.6.39
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200]
(rev a2) 0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300 GE] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev

X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.10.4
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes


Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2499 1: 2499 MHz

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