Puppy-109beta1

[Nathan F]

Okay, here it is.

temporary mirror
http://grafpup.com/puppydev/puppy-1.0.9beta1.iso
bottorrent
http://texasangel.org:6969/

This is now beta status, and uses pup001 by default. So far as I can tell you can safely upgrade from an earlier Puppy version without breaking things. There are a few outstanding issues that need worked out or discussed further still.

• There is an outstanding issue with both Sylpheed and Leafpad regarding i18n. Upgrading versions seems to fix the problem for both programs, but that is not done in this iso.
  The icons still need sorting through. Klhrevolutionist sent me a nice pack of icons but I've not done the replacement, and I'd like for a little more conversation on it before doing so.
  The menu may still be given a few more tweaks.
  The package repo is still not in place, so Pupget still points to ibiblio.
  The fvwm95 package needs updated to tak advantage of xdg menus.
  A small handful of bugs as noted on the tracker.

We are getting to the stage where much of the remaining work is little more than polish, although there are still quite a few things to be done yet. Since we're setting up a new repo we could feesibly add one or two packages to it, for instance an official icewm unleashed package is sorely missing, as well as a Seamonkey package. We also need to make a few changes in usr_devx.sfs because of a few program updates or changes (Firefox!). Plenty left to do and contributers are still needed, however we're well on the way to a sucessful 109 final.

Nathan

[MU]

do you have a md5sum?
Mark

[marksouth2000]

do you have a md5sum?

I downloaded it and got

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d8d1eaedc0df10339f11d7f1bb48dd53  puppy-1.0.9beta1.iso

Is that right, Nathan?

[Nathan F]

Yes, that md5 is correct. Sorry about not posting it in the first place.

Nathan

[MU]

ok, thanks.
mirror:
http://dotpups.de/isos/puppy-1.0.9beta1.iso
http://dotpups.de/isos/puppy-1.0.9beta1.iso.md5.txt

Mark

[Lobster]

I have put a pic on the wiki news


http://puppylinux.org/wikka/LatestNews

Certainly stable enough to update 108 singer and use
I did this from CD booting puppy
I went to mnt/home and created a directory on my hda1
into this I backed up pup001

Then I booted into 109beta

Some programs were deleted (cleanup)
That was a good thing - too many progs I had in the wrong place
or not being used

When I loaded Firefox it tried to update extensions but did not seem to be doing this
so closed Firefox and imported my bookmarks which I have previously exported from Mozilla

One program XaraXL was showing an error so dragged it into the trashcan - very satisfying delete with sound
The background had a band on the top so used MU's background stretcher and choose another . . .
Rarsas improved menu was much easier to negotiate
and as you can see a calander has been added to JWM taskbar

I also like the show and hide desktop (do not remember that in the alpha)

You can offer testing and other input to this Community edition Puppy here:
http://www.forum.puppylinux.net/

[marksouth2000]

Yes, that md5 is correct. Sorry about not posting it in the first place.

No worries. Thanks for the confirmation.

Now to toast a CD

[BarryK]

We are getting to the stage where much of the remaining work is little more than polish, although there are still quite a few things to be done yet. Since we're setting up a new repo we could feesibly add one or two packages to it, for instance an official icewm unleashed package is sorely missing, as well as a Seamonkey package. We also need to make a few changes in usr_devx.sfs because of a few program updates or changes (Firefox!). Plenty left to do and contributers are still needed, however we're well on the way to a sucessful 109 final.

Seamonkey Unleashed package has been available for ages here:
http://www.puppyos.com/test/

[eMeRy]

Well done, nice work!

I think there will be a topic for bug report later. At first try I recognized that Tray Autohide Option in Taskbar from Jwm configuration menu doesn't change the tray 'autohide' option. (Yes, I restarted jwm) I think these configuration menu scripts should be checked because jwm configuration files have been modified.

All the rest seem fine, hardware detection, xorg configuration, keyboard layout o.k.

eMeRy

[rarsa]

Please log all your Bug reports to the Mantis bug tracker

http://tracker.nfshost.com/mantis

That way we can keep track of all the bugs.

[marksouth2000]

Quick review after 24 hours playing with 109b1:

Everything that used to work in 108r1 still works.

Some new stuff is very nice. The menus have benefited from the tidying up, although I would plead for having "defaultplayer" back on the desktop.

I'm running on a humble machine with 128Mb. Firefox is slow to load and painful to run on small machines. Seamonkey or good old Mozilla may be a better choice. Besides, every other distro in the world uses Firefox, why not be different?

The problem with multisession is still there as in 108r1, where the puppy insists that the CD drive is a DVD drive and won't save back to the CD-R or CD-RW. However, Barry has multisession drive detection working really well in puppy2alpha. Is it possible to steal his new scripts for 109?

Sorry for all the questions.
All the best,

[raffy]

Have used this release for 3 hours yesterday and had no problem.

Yes, perhaps Barry can help in pointing out needed changes to multisession scripts for 1.09.

I just gave out a CD with 1.09b in it, and then was apprehensive that the testers could try saving data to CD-RW and experience problems