Puppy Linux 2.x

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• Puppy version 2.00 with Opera web browser is released
• FULL release notes:∞ * Opera version 9.0 beta2 replaces SeaMonkey 1.0.
  * Amaya 8.8.51 WYSIWYG HTML editor replaces SeaMonkey Composer.
  * Gaim has been removed (Opera has an IRC chat client).

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• 39Meg Puppy2 Barebones released∞
• PUPPY 2 RELEASED∞

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Iblio ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/∞
puptrix http://puptrix.org/std/puppy-2.00-seamonkey.iso∞
MU http://dotpups.de/puppy-releases/2.00/ISO/∞
Lobster http://tmxxine.com/puppy/puppy-2.00-seamonkey.iso∞

Highlights

This is a major upgrade from the 1.xx series. How to summarise five months work? The graphical user interface is much the same, as most work has been on the underlying architecture. In a nutshell, the fundamental architecture and bootup-shutdown scripts are a total rewrite, from scratch, no relationship to any other distro. Release notes:


The files in Puppy2
Users of Puppy1 will have to become accustomed to new file names:
pup_save.3fs
Puppy1 approx. equivalent: pup001
pup_xxx.sfs
Puppy1 approx. equivalent: usr_cram.fs
initrd.gz
Puppy1 approx. equivalent: image.gz
This table is an extract from "How Puppy works", a webpage that explains the architecture of Puppy2 in some depth. Strongly recommended that you read it:
http://www.puppyos.com/development/howpuppyworks.html∞

RAM-challenged PCs
The 'standard' live-CD has become a bit fat and for PCs with 128M or less RAM (and no Linux swap partition) one file (pup_200.sfs) is mounted from the CD, not copied to RAM. This means that the CD/DVD drive is not free for other uses and also Puppy will run a bit slower.
However, there is a simple solution, that will result in very fast boot time, frees up the CD/DVD drive after bootup, and causes Puppy to run very fast! See the notes below, dated May 31.
This simple fix is recommended for PCs with any amount of RAM, even if you have oodles, like 1G, as it speeds the bootup time from CD.

Hardware detection
We are getting close to rivalling the likes of Knoppix for automatic hardware detection. The intention is that if you install Puppy to a portable media such as USB Flash pen drive, or save sessions to a multisession-CD, you will be able to take that media to another PC and have the new hardware autodetected -- in other words, it won't be statically set for the hardware of just one PC. We are getting there... sound, mouse, network are just about there. Currently you would need to choose Xvesa Kdrive X server for portability.

Burning to CD
The iso file can be burnt to CD-R or CD-RW using most Windows or Linux CD-burner programs. If you want to use it in multisession mode (sessions get saved back to CD-R), then be sure the CD-burner program supports multi-session burning (leaves CD "open" for further tracks to be burnt later).

Burning to DVD
You need a Linux DVD-burner program, such as Burniso2cd in Puppy -- this program burns the DVD "open", so that it can be used normally or as multisession. There was a report on the forum that DVDDecypter (www.mrbass.org/dvdrip) works okay in Windows, but beware, many Windows DVD-burner programs will not burn the iso file correctly.

Multisession CD/DVD
Now works extremely well, but note that DVD still is the superior choice. See note above for burning CD and DVD 'open'.
For the multisession-CD, there is one problem with laptop drives. Sometimes at shutdown, when the session is being saved back to CD, the drive tray opens then closes before the actual save -- or rather, that is what happens with normal drives. The laptop drive can only be closed manually, so if the tray opens just before the actual save, you have to manually close it. I will try to determine why this happens and fix it.

Upgrading
If you have a pre-existing pup_save.3fs file, from using earlier alpha-releases of Puppy2, it will now be upgraded automatically. However, I recommend that you first boot up the new CD totally in RAM, by the boot parameters "puppy pfix=ram" to get a feel for how the new Puppy2 works, and you can then try a normal reboot and see if the upgrade works and gives you a correctly updated working environment.
If you want to upgrade from Puppy1, that is, you have a 'pup001' file somewhere, there is a script for importing from it. Open a terminal window and type "importfrompuppy1". This script is pretty bare-bones and I would like help with improving it.

Download
You can find the 'standard' Puppy version 2.00 iso file, puppy-2.00-seamonkey.iso, via the Puppy Download page:
http://www.puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm∞
Download the complete set of modules for the 2.6.16.7 kernel, patched kernel source, also the latest pup_200.sfs compiler file: http://www.puppyos.com/test/∞

Puppy Unleashed
The complete Unleashed tarball (247M), as well as the 'core' tarball (11M), is available at:
http://www.pupweb.org/test/∞
For further information on Puppy Unleashed:
http://www.puppyos.com/puppy-unleashed.htm∞


Regular HTTP downloads and torrents. md5sum's included.



Details:
http://www.puppylinux.com/development/howpuppyworks.html∞

• Perl language added
• working automatic mouse detection
• Automatic serial modem detection for true hardware modems
• New CD remaster program written from scratch. Nice GUI interface, easy to use.
• Reorganisation of the directories to normal Linux layout
• All of "/" is writable, and /etc is no longer a symlink into /root/.etc. Files written to /usr no longer get stored in /root/.usr However, in case any script does directly access /root/.etc or /root/.usr, these are symlinks to the actual /etc and /usr
  
• Pupsafe - a layer of protection above root.
• Can use other installed distro resources from Puppy
• Universal GUI installer for USB, IDE-CF and hard drive
• Installed files are retained during update
• Save personal data to floppy disk / USB / HD - selectable at end of live CD session
• Seamlessly handles big USB flash drives, like 1G, 2G
• Saves volume settings
• ALSA replaces OSS
• Seamonkey suite 1.0 replaces Mozilla
• mtPaint 2.20
• gFTP 2.0.18
• JWM 1.5 with Blinky network monitor
• Serial mouse support
• Bash as default shell
• devx_xxx.sfs replaces user_devx.sfs (includes whole /, not just /usr)

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