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Is this true?

Yes. It's true. I wish I knew it before.

Downloading the RC.

I did a full install of Racy 5.2.90.
I haven't had any problems.
I changed to icewm and added "Desksetup Templates for Desk Icons" from
Slacko which allows removing all the desktop and drive icons.
Racy 5.2.90 seems to be rock solid, making small changes is fun though

Frugal install of Racy 5.2.90 So far everything just works!

Frugal install to my PIII laptop. All good!

Manual frugal install of Wary 5.2.90 on my main Athlon XP box. All basics working on initial boot.

# report-video
Wary Puppy, version 5.2.90 on Sun 18 Mar 2012

Chip description:
0.0 VGA compatible controller
nVidia Corporation NV18 [GeForce4 MX 440 AGP 8x] (rev c1)
oem: NVidia
product: NV18 () Board Chip Rev A2

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: nv

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1440x900 pixels (411x263 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
#

One small aggravation ......the Video Upgrade Wizard reports Wary not being connected to the internet, from the screenshot there obviously is an internet connection.Note this forum in the background.

I have updated Russian langpack. Changes: xdelta translation, hunspell-ru etc. Some help files are not translated yet.
Since quicksetup.mo is part of base Puppy I put it separately from langpack.
And here is also Ukrainian mini-translation for Quicksetup.

If I choose ru_UA locale at first boot in Wary I have black squares in xorgwizard instead of letters. Console font is not loaded, In Racy it doesn't happen since it boots directly to desktop,

5.2.90
all seems well.
two things not racy enough: fsck,
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

Release 1.42.1 of e2fsprogs is available!

I am happy to announce a new release of the e2fsprogs distribution. All users of e2fsprogs are urged to upgrade to the 1.42.1 version as soon as possible, which can be found here.

racy:

# tune2fs
tune2fs 1.41.14 (22-Dec-2010

and rhadon reports there is a gparted that does btfs files systems.
rhadon was talking of 11 there is now stable 12 at
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
racy has 07

I did a full install of Wary 5.2.90 to my Acer Netbook.

Sun 18 Mar 2012 Operating System: Wary Puppy-5.2.90 Linux 2.6.32.55
5.0 VGA compatible controller:ATI Technologies Inc M880G MobilityRadeonHD4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: vesa
X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (256x144 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
8897 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1779.301 FPS
8910 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1781.847 FPS
9000 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1799.803 FPS

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: 1695 MHz

It's working well.

New Racy RC is running like a dream on my old laptop. Got all my favourite software working - Vim, Python 3 with pygame and Scratch.

Fresh manual frugal install of Wary 5.2.90 on my old P3 test box. Everything working on initial boot and looking good.

# report-video
Wary Puppy, version 5.2.90 on Mon 19 Mar 2012

Chip description:
1.0 VGA compatible controller
Intel Corporation 82810E DC-133 (CGC) Chipset Graphics Controller (rev 03)
oem: Intel810(TM) Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS

X Server: Xorg
Driver used: intel

X.Org version: 1.3.0
dimensions: 1024x768 pixels (321x241 millimeters)
depth of root window: 16 planes

...the above also recorded in /tmp/root/ as report-video,
and archived with xorg.conf and Xorg.0.log as report-video-full.gz
# glxgears
1507 frames in 5.0 seconds = 301.376 FPS
2528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 505.490 FPS
2467 frames in 5.0 seconds = 493.394 FPS
2528 frames in 5.0 seconds = 505.453 FPS
2479 frames in 5.0 seconds = 495.763 FPS
2486 frames in 5.0 seconds = 497.058 FPS

-Computer-
Processor : Pentium III (Coppermine)
Memory : 254MB (113MB used)
Operating System : Unknown distribution
User Name : root (root)
Date/Time : Mon 19 Mar 2012 03:36:11 AM CDT
-Display-
Resolution : 1024x768 pixels
OpenGL Renderer : Mesa DRI i810E 20050821 x86/MMX/SSE
X11 Vendor : The X.Org Foundation
-Multimedia-
Audio Adapter : ICH - Intel 82801AA-ICH

-Version-
Kernel : Linux 2.6.32.55 (i686)
Compiled : #1 Thu Jan 26 16:38:55 GMT-8 2012
C Library : GNU C Library version 2.10.1 (stable)
Default C Compiler : Unknown
Distribution : Unknown distribution


# free
total used free shared buffers
Mem: 254208 245132 9076 0 19348
-/+ buffers: 225784 28424
Swap: 1020088 0 1020088
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Now on Racy 5.2.90
Clicking on the clock (left click or right click) brings up minixcal calendar which doesn't have a close button on it. It does have a taskbar button though.

If I do the instinctive move of right click the taskbar button and then left click on "close" this exits X to prompt which is a little alarming.

In fact a left click of the taskbar button closes the minixcal calendar and a right click of the taskbar button also closes minixcal but also brings up the usual context menu including "kill" and "close", so unless you realise that the function of the taskbar button is non-standard and that minixcal has already closed it is easy to give yourself a fright.

Upgrade savefile from 5.2.2.7 to 5.2.90

Everything went well, I believe all personal info in savefile was properly updated, desktop of course was changed and had to re-do it to my personal prefs.

One slight flaw noticed... in pwidgets, changed a clock-face. Clock changed OK but at the bottom there was some other foreign (not en (U.S.) language as per my setup in the 'select buttons'. I took a shot that the r/h one was the 'OK' button and, 'it was' as the clock changed.

Other than that, I haven't noticed any change to any programs so I assume all the upgrades etc., are working in the background. So far,everything working real well!

>>>---Indian------>

It appears that something happened to 'WiFi' in 5.2.90? (at least with my config)

WiFi was working in 5.2.2.7 with the rt2X00-new-firmware-folder-0.0.1.pet pemsau made and posted in an earlier (this thread) page.

Racy 'Does Show wlan0' as being available in Puppy Connect Wizard.

Linksys blue light comes when doing a scan to connect but... does not connect.

Using (same computer as previous):
rt2800usb
LinksysAE1000 usb-stick
Belkin 300 Router

Even tried re-installing the: rt2X00-new-firmware-folder-0.0.1.pet from pemasu again but still no connection with WiFi.

No problem with eth0... it connects automatically every time!

>>>---Indian------>

Wary works very well on my Acer netbook, it couldn't find the builtin
wireless though and I had to use a linksys usb wireless adapter that
uses the rt73 module.
The linksys adapter works well with Wary but it only leaves me with 2
free usb ports, so:

I put a full install of Racy 5.2.90 on another partition of the hard
drive.
Tue 20 Mar 2012 Operating System: Racy Puppy-5.2.90 Linux 3.0.17
5.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M880G [Mobility Radeon HD 4200]
oem: ATI ATOMBIOS product: RS880M 01.00

X Server: Xorg Driver: # vesa
X.Org version: 1.11.0
dimensions: 1024x600 pixels (270x158 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes

direct rendering: Yes
server glx vendor string: ATI
server glx version string: 1.4
OpenGL vendor string: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
OpenGL renderer string: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4200 Series
OpenGL version string: 3.3.11554 Compatibility Profile Context

# glxgears
8957 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1791.246 FPS
9059 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1811.796 FPS
9053 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1810.572 FPS

AMD Athlon(tm) II Neo K125 Processor
Core 0: 1695 MHz

06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

I used the network wizard to setup the wireless and it found the
builtin adapter and it's working fine.

Racy 5.2.90 continues to work great on my full install to an HP
desktop.

Billtoo wrote:Wary works very well on my Acer netbook, it couldn't find the builtin
wireless though

06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)

Hi Billtoo

You may find the later b43 firmwares that I've provided links to at:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495
may help in Wary

- or you could try the Broadcom-STA wl driver which I've tested on wary5.2.90 and is uploaded here:
http://ubuntuone.com/5gAMo7ljr84Tw2GjR85e0j
and which Broadcom explicitly say supports your version bcm43225

Cheers
peebee

Difficult....
not only for foreign languages

peebee wrote: You may find the later b43 firmwares that I've provided links to at:
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=76495
may help in Wary

- or you could try the Broadcom-STA wl driver which I've tested on wary5.2.90 and is uploaded here:
http://ubuntuone.com/5gAMo7ljr84Tw2GjR85e0j
and which Broadcom explicitly say supports your version bcm43225

Cheers
peebee

Thanks, I'll give that a try.

EDIT: I installed the Broadcom-STA wl pet and then loaded the module, it's working fine, it sees the wireless as eth0 but it is working.

Thanks again.

unable to fix wrong translations in menus

just one example:

the Bcrypt entry should say 'cifrado de archivos' (file encryption), the existing translation says 'encriptado de aplicaciones' (application encryption) -- the word 'encriptar', is so un-Spanish

langpack_es installs the new translations, but existing fuzzy translations remain

Having a bit of a problem with ffmpeg. Trying to run Lobster's screen video-capture script, but I get