Puppy Linux
4.2.1
'Deep Thought' broke new ground as the first "official" release
without Barry Kauler leading the development team. This "official update" is another first in the same vein as the Puppy community resolves that in future updates will be issued monthly in between major releases.
Features
Same Improved Look and feel
- Two Window Managers
IceWM and JWM window managers with extra GTK+ themes and desktop icon
theme
- Desktop widgets (weather,
battery, wireless, calender, RSS feed, slideshow) provided by Pwidgets
Support
Online, live support using XChat
New and upgraded software
- Puppy Control Panel upgrade to the more compact PCP-1.0.2
- PBurn-2.2.3 patched release fixes a bug preventing CDs being read under Windows
- Cups printing improved by regression to 1.3.10 version while retaining 1.4.2b interface
- Hardinfo updated to full 0.5.1 release
- Axel-2.3 regressed from Puppy Downloader due to problems with host downloads
- Abiword regressed to 2.6.3 but with 2.6.6 plugins and extras to fix bug reading some font types in Word documents
- nbtscan and mountcifs patches added for Pnethood
- Remax updated to bugfixed 4.2.1 version
Other Details as per 4.2
The Deep Thought Team
We are grateful to those who have
participated with their valuable contributions. This list is by no
means exhaustive.
* Warren (WhoDo) - Co-ordination
* Barry Kauler - Consultation and advice
* Jeff (Ttuuxxx) - Design, Development, Packaging, Troubleshooting
* Sigmund (Zigbert) - Design and programming
* Will (HairyWill) - Programming, and compiling support
* Aragon - Compiling support
* Tempestuous - Programming
* Kirk - Compiling support
* Muggins - Programming, and compiling support
* Jeremy (Pizzasgood) - Programming and advice
* Dougal - Development
* Chase (Cb88) - Sourceforge
* Mark Ulrich (MU) - Programming, compiling, and kernel support
* Technosaurus - Default webpage
* Caneri (Eric) - Hosting
* Ed Jason (Lobster) - General dogsbody, wiki maintainance, and
publicity
* Patriot - Programming
* Trio - Programming
* Tasmod - Programming
* 01micko - Programming
* MinHundHettePerro - Programming
* Jrb - Programming
* JebaJQ8 - Design
* Coolpup - Wiki maintainance, and compiling support
* Pre-release testers: all of the above plus 01micko, 8-bit, `f00,
alex12, Béèm, big_bass, brymway, capoverde, Christopher,
cthisbear,
d4p, davesurrey, daklander, darrelljon, dejan555, Doglover, Dogone,
droope, edoc, esmourgit, ferikenagy, Flash, gerry,
Greatnessguru, growler, himajin, jabu2, jakfish, jcoder24, Jim1911,
JMX, liberomureddu, mawebb88, mikeb, Minnesota, NathanO, nic2109,
pa_mcclamrock, panzerpuppy, PaulBx1, Ray MK, rerwin, seeker, straypup,
Terryphi, tom4jesus, Tom Raft, trapster, tronkel, WB7ODYFred,
Wellesfargo, zygo
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