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Barry Kauler's Announcement of Dingo 4.1alpha6

playdayz — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 18:52:03 -0500

In his latest blog entry Barry Kauler announces the availability of Dingo 4.1alpha6. This is a development release and testers are encouraged, just don't use it for mission critical stuff. The blog entry contains the link to download the iso.

Release of Dingo 4.1 alpha 6

Puppy 4.1 Alpha 6 available

lobster — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:25:57 -0500

Developers and especially testers welcome

Details

Get A Pet for Your Puppy - New Add-On Software - SoftPhone, Virtual Box, Open Office 3

playdayz — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 12:58:41 -0500

Get Your Puppy a Pet - Exciting New Software - PSip (Puppy SoftPhone) - Virtual Box - Open Office 3 Beta 2.

The easiest way to expand Puppy's capabilities is by adding Pet packages. They install with one click and are already tested. Many are available by clicking the Install icon to start the Puppy Package Manager, but others are being prepared almost daily and posted in the Additional Software (Pups, n' stuff) Discussion Forum. Here are three you might find interesting: PSip (Puppy SoftPhone) - Virtual Box - Open Office 3 Beta 2. Please click the links below the descriptions for further information.

PSip - Puppy SIP - a Softphone for Dingo 4 that is a collective project of the Puppy Community coordinated by Official Crustacean Lobster. This is a Beta release and everyone can help by testing it and reporting their results. Softphones are one of the topics that are getting a lot of attention in the Linux world, and Puppy is right there at the forefront.

PSIP - Puppy Softphone

VirtualBox - A free Virtual Machine for both Windows and Linux, Virtual Box is now owned by Sun Microsystems. It allows one to run both Windows and Linux programs in a virtual machine inside of Puppy, so it is a way both to check out other Linux distributions and, if neccesary, to run Windows programs inside of Puppy (though running Windows programs requires a copy of Windows). Running a VM is not, as they say, trivial, but it is a great way to learn stuff.

VirtualBox for Puppy

OpenOffice 3 Beta 2 - The free OpenOffice suite is well into its release cycle for version 3 and this second beta seems quite stable. This program mounts as an sfs file instead of as a pet, since it is large and would take too long to install as a pet and consume too much memory. The ability to mount sfs files is another strength of Puppy, as it offers a second way to install useful additional software.

OpenOffice 3 Beta 2

BarryK's Retirement Pre-Announcement

playdayz — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 17:10:37 -0500

Barry Kauler announced that he would be retiring as "Commander in Chief" of Puppy Linux sometime after the release of Puppy Dingo 4.1.

Barry's Blog

Macgic has been released

prit — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 16:22:37 -0500

Macgic has been released

(Macgic - Transform Dingo to Macpup Dingo)

This is a pet package that can convert a default Puppy Dingo to a Macpup Dingo. The best part is that this can be uninstalled and everything restored back to the way it was before. The following forum thread has details:

http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=31177

Puppy 4.0 Manual Released

hairywill — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 07:10:05 -0500

The manual for 4.0 has been released. It is currently available in german and english, other languages will follow as translated. Both these versions are maintained by oli who wrote the original. He would like to hand over the english version to someone else, it could be done by a group. We are not short of english speakers who know a bit about puppy, so volunteers can contact him direct or join the thread on the forum. Your knowedge does not need to cover everything, there are a couple of volunteers already. It could be a good opportunity to collaborative with some other puppy users.

Oli deserves a big round of thanks for the work he has done so far. If you want to give something back to the community don't be shy jump in and lend a hand.

Will

VUPPY

cretsiah — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 18:06:34 -0500

MAINLY FOR VMHEADS:

HAVE TESTED IN FULL HARDRIVE INSTALL RUNNING PUPPY 4, LINUX MINT 5 AS GUESTS...UNFORTUNATELY I LOST MY PRODUCT KEYS FOR WINDOWS SO WOULD LIKE SOME TESTERS TO CHECK THEY WORK

Basically its just puppy 4 with a couple of extra files..

Well its not much, it needs work on the graphics, ie splash screens and things like that its around 113megs to download......try it out for me plz....it has dosbox launchable from menu, Virtual Box Launchable from menu a couple of hopefully interesting read help files (mainly for newbs).......tell me what you think of the slogan on the background screen lol.....thought it was kinda appropiate......

If the download link here doesnt work type it intothe irc chat window it does work from there.....

download link: VUPPY

type this in irc chat if above doesnt work: http://www.2shared.com/file/3378587/bb767eab/VUPPY.html

EZpup4 Released June 1 2008

caneri — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 09:07:25 -0500

Whodo has released the new EZpup4 June 1 2008

Pet package here http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/EZPup/EZpup-4.0.pet

Md5sum here http://www.puppylinux.ca/tpp/EZPup/EZpup-4.0.md5.txt

EZpup is 37mb of eye candy for your Puppy compressed into an 18Mb dotpet. Installation instructions here

A Star is Born

lobster — Mon, 26 May 2008 23:48:42 -0500

Astronomy CD uses the entire Puppy 3.01 Linux as it's core and consists of over 2 dozen programs

Cloudy Skies Live can be downloaded from

http://www.puppylinux.ca/members/CSL/index.html

(446 MB download)

New Astromers Puplet (more info)

Puppy 4 going strong

tombh — Mon, 26 May 2008 08:18:06 -0500

Well we've continued to see a lot of forum activity concerning Puppy 4 this week, lots of questions means lots of users. There's been a few niggles, but mostly everything seems to be working well and there's been some great feedback and testimonials.

Barry has released an experimental version of Puppy 4.1, notably featuring some event management (automatic mounting of drives, media, etc) improvements and a reduced modules set. Get it here http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/test/puppy-4.1alpha1/

Forum member dinky released TigerPup this week, a new puplet based on wNOP, the Compiz-Fusion puplet.

Here on the 'new', well maybe it's just the community website now, things have been settling down a bit, we're starting to get the hang of things and content is steadily being contributed. There's quite a few editors now keeping an eye on things, there's still room for more, just let know if you wanna help out.