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Puppy 4.4.0 Pre-Alpha release
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
Goals
4.4 "Woofy" will use a modular approach, rather like the ChoicePup puplet. Woofy will be based on 4.3.2 and will aim for ~105MB size on its first release
Applications will be easily available as .sfs add-ons (with choices)
Bug Reporting
- Users are requested to please visit the Puppy Linux 4.4 Development Project Page to report any bugs they may find. To sign up for an account please view the New Bug/Issue tracking system on Google Code thread at Puppy Linux Forum.
- Icon-stacking fix when there are too many drive icons to fit horizontally on the screen. Appropriate script is /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d, function free_coord()
- Network Wizard fix - having to scan twice for a wireless network, and settings not (properly) remembered between boots. USB solution
Detailed Objectives
- Update software applications and all libraries: OpenSSL OpenSSL Viewnior; ISO Master FFmpeg FFmpeg ALSA
- Include new software: libtheora Transmission
- Software packages added to Puppy repository
- On-the-fly mounting of .sfs files
- AdBlock Plus or MonkeyMenu in SeaMonkey added
- Puppy Desktop Cloud services website
Puppy44Team Puppy 4.4 Team add yourself; Technosaurus project leader.
Releases
4.4 Official release is the umbrella name for development versions 4.3.3 - 4.3.9. Once development is completed, the final product will be 4.4 Official Release
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46890 (announcement)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46497 (development thread)
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=46941 (pet tests thread)
Status – Under development, but is dependent on completion of 4.3.2
