Puppy Pre-Alpha release 4.4 CE

Puppy Linux 4.4 Testing in Progress

Technosaurus reports:


I am announcing the initial Pre-Alpha release of the 4.4 CE for testing and comments. Many programs have been updated and recompiled so report any unusable or otherwise annoying changes that you come across.

The iso is available here:
http://puppy-development.googlecode.com/files/pup-431-2.iso

The bug tracker is here:
http://code.google.com/p/puppy-development/issues/list

This is currently an extensive manual remaster of 4.3.1 (by hand - no remasterpup) with bugfixes and new pets, pieces, parts from several puplets for initial testing prior to building with woof.

Special thanks to Zigbert for the Stardust suite of applications as well as many appropriate package selections

New Drivers
+ ATI graphic drivers
+ Broadcom wifi drivers
+ splix - Samsung, Xerox, Dell printer drivers

New Programs
+ acpid
+ default-wizard
+ fileedit (set to defaulttextviewer)
+ floppy-formater (- floppy-format.sh)
+ Galculator (- all other calculators)
+ lameNFSxplorer
+ lameSMBxplorer (- pnethood)
+ Pmusic (- aqualung)
+ printoxx
+ Pupradio (- pstreamvid)
+ Pscreenshot
+ pstartupsound
+ Pwireless2 (- Pwireless)
+ RetroVol (- absvol and - zmixer)
+ seahaven card game
+ Stardust desktop environment - including pcc (Puppy control center), desktop configuration tools and Pwidgets
+ startmount
+ woo-ff
+ xgamma

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Tags:

• puppylinux
• linux
• puplet
• puplets
• technosaurus
• puppy
• 4.4

[sulement]

Wow. A Puppy with a Control Panel like many major distros. Can't wait to see the RC.

Puppy folk, you make me proud. Your work with this great little Linux has turned heads and attitudes regarding the future of this superb "little" powerhouse of an O.S .

aka puponmanyoldlaptops

[netwalker72]

I say nothing. this beauty recognize my old video card perfectly. Thanxs again.

[netwalker72]

Great work!!! thanxs a lot 4 the improvments!

BTW: will be great a geforce2 mx400 support on xorg... I tired to use xvesa..

[shinto29]

Oh! Bark! Bark! For Joy! LOL