Puppy Dingo 4.00 released

It's out! See the announcement and release notes here:
http://puppylinux.com/download/release-4.00.htm

Download from:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/
or from a mirror. Such as:
http://ftp.nluug.nl/ftp/pub/os/Linux/distr/puppylinux/
ftp://ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/

Please do note that the build with 2.6.25 kernel is less mature. You may have more trouble with setting up wireless, and on some hardware there seems to be a problem with recognition of USB (this should be easy to work around, monitor this blog and the forum -- probably just a driver not getting loaded).

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Comments

Pup 400 k21.7 works
Username: GeoW
Barry, You have amazing speed. I've downloaded both versions. This is the 21.7 kernel version. Now I will go test the 25. Great job, GeoW

Pup 400 k25 works too
Username: GeoW
" Now I need to reboot Windows - defrag so I can have a save file. GeoW

Kernel source for 2.6.25
Username: Kirk
"Barry, Did you post the patched kernel source for 2.6.25?

BIG THANKS!
Username: sanb
"BIG THANKS Barry!!! from Russia with love)

WOW....
Username: Subito Piano
"Baryy -- kudos!! This is one SWEET Puppy! Love the new automount feature -- the classy GTK themes and the icon swticher are nice touches as well. Fotox remains another thoughtful feature...and i realize there is lots more under the hood...but i gotta get back to work...sigh... Thanks again so much! "Puppy just keeps getting better!"

Re: 2.6.25 source
Username: BarryK
"No, I have notuploaded the patched source for 2.6.25, nor the 3rd party drivers. I'm going to be moving up the the 2.6.25.1 (or .2) very soon, like in about a week, and 4.1alpha will be out soon after. So, expect the 2.6.25.x and 3rd party driver sources in about 1 - 2 weeks. Besides, I'm stuck in Perth right now as my car has broken down, and my PC with all the kernel sources, patches, drivers etc is on another PC at home. I am expecting my car to be fixed by Saturday and I should be able to get up there (Dalwallinu, where it broke down) by Monday or Tuesday.

Thanks
Username: Prit1
"Barry, The issues with wireless I reported were because I used the latest kernel. I moved back to the preferred one and rebooted several times and my wireless is working fine now. Thanks for the great release. One of my desires for a future release would be to see Gxine not crashing anymore. :) Also, this time somehow the download speed at ibiblio was around 500Kb/s. Cool. Regards, Prit

disappearing kernels
Username: paulh
"I downloaded k2.6.25 from nluug last night, but this morning can't get on to it for k2.6.21 ftp://ftp.oss.cc.gatech.edu/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/ doesn't seem to have either version of the 400 final, and ibliblio only has 2.6.21.7 I see that ther are two different devx_400.sfs available -- assuming devx_400 is for k2.6.21.7 ?

oops
Username: paul
"ok sorry -- posted that 1 minute before Barry updated his post. question re devx still stands though paul

Re: devx
Username: BarryK
""I see that there are two different devx_400.sfs available -- assuming devx_400 is for k2.6.21.7 ?" Yes

Upgrade
Username: wildwolf
"Nice to see you got the final version done. Keep up the good work. How to upgrade an existing puppy instalation on a rewritable DVD? I now have the 4.0rc and because I got it to connect to the internet for the first time (with the new rp-pppoe script) I customised it and i wouldn't want to start from scratch.

Upgrade Problems
Username: rjackson@nmcourts.com
"In the course of upgrading from 3.01 to 4.00, all goes well until it tries to run the Xwizard. I can't get either xorg or xvesa to work. When I do a 'puppy pfix=ram' with 4.00 everything works just fine. Any suggestions?

Reporting bugs
Username: BarryK
"Please go to the 'Bugs' section of the forum to report bugs: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=10

Linux kernel 2.6.25.2
Username: coolpup
"The latest stable version of the Linux kernel. http://www.all.kernel.org/

Re: 2.6.25.2
Username: BarryK
"Wow, those maintenance releases are coming out fast! Either they are very enthusiastic or they are finding lots of bugs. Regarding a failed upgrade from 3.01, if desperate try booting with 'puppy pfix=purge'. It's a radical cleanup and you could loose something that you installed though.

Linux Kernel 2.6.25.3
Username: coolpup
"The latest stable version of the Linux kernel. http://www.kernel.org/

hate to say that
Username: windows user
"i hate to say i love this!! THANX A LOT TO EVERY DEVELOPER WHO IS INVOLVED! this is my rescure system for all my computers. ..in fact, i had it running now on my own pc as a desktop replacement for my well loved windows. byebye good old days. since im not playing anymore, puppylinux has made me addicted to linux. i have not figured out how to get the deluge torrent client working, but it only could be a question of time.. or help ;-) so guys, again: thanx for ure work Bene

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