Guy Dog 5.0.1
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Guy Dog 5.0.1
Introduction
Guy Dog is a minimalistic, elegant, innovative and full-featured puplet based on dpup. Its main goal is to be a modern battle machine that can compete with the official line of Puppy releases in speed, size and features: all three at once.
Its desktop is based on the wonderful combination of Openbox, tint2 and wbar, which conquered the hearts of many minimalistic desktop lovers and eventually spawned a new generation of lightweight distributions, most notably ArchBang and CrunchBang. Guy Dog joins this party.
Guy Dog was born out of frustration with Puppy’s growing size, decreasing functionality (e.g a browser, Xorg_High) and the lack of innovation in the never-ending battle against size. It rose from a solid infrastructure that automates the process used to build it, which means development is extremely easy and requires zero effort.
It is the direct descendant of Next Puppy and follows the footsteps of Puppy Squeeze, Squeezed Puppy and Dpup Exprimo, while combining the one-application-per-task philosophy pioneered by Zenwalk with the KISS principle followed by Arch Linux and Slackware.
It’s main features are:
- Completeness: Guy Dog ships with all applications a major distribution ships with, including a web browser.
- Small size: about 105 MB.
- Great speed.
- Rock-solid stability.
- Elegant and minimalistic looks.
- Built automatically, with strict quality control and optimization.
If you wonder what the name means, it's a pun on the term “guide dog": Guy Dog tries lead the way and show “blind
Guy Dog is a minimalistic, elegant, innovative and full-featured puplet based on dpup. Its main goal is to be a modern battle machine that can compete with the official line of Puppy releases in speed, size and features: all three at once.
Its desktop is based on the wonderful combination of Openbox, tint2 and wbar, which conquered the hearts of many minimalistic desktop lovers and eventually spawned a new generation of lightweight distributions, most notably ArchBang and CrunchBang. Guy Dog joins this party.
Guy Dog was born out of frustration with Puppy’s growing size, decreasing functionality (e.g a browser, Xorg_High) and the lack of innovation in the never-ending battle against size. It rose from a solid infrastructure that automates the process used to build it, which means development is extremely easy and requires zero effort.
It is the direct descendant of Next Puppy and follows the footsteps of Puppy Squeeze, Squeezed Puppy and Dpup Exprimo, while combining the one-application-per-task philosophy pioneered by Zenwalk with the KISS principle followed by Arch Linux and Slackware.
It’s main features are:
- Completeness: Guy Dog ships with all applications a major distribution ships with, including a web browser.
- Small size: about 105 MB.
- Great speed.
- Rock-solid stability.
- Elegant and minimalistic looks.
- Built automatically, with strict quality control and optimization.
If you wonder what the name means, it's a pun on the term “guide dog": Guy Dog tries lead the way and show “blind
Last edited by Iguleder on Fri 13 Jan 2012, 16:06, edited 18 times in total.
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A window maker version would be fantastic Iguleder I am already thinking of a wallpaper for guy(guide)dog puppy. An invisible dog im thinkin will check out this version for some inspiration & then get it started
I will have to see if i can make some themes for it as well
I think the work you are doing now is going to improve puppy overall from woof to finished puplets
I will have to see if i can make some themes for it as well
I think the work you are doing now is going to improve puppy overall from woof to finished puplets
Great desktop
Had my normal issue with getting online. So I did an experiment which leads me to believe Next Puppy, the newer versions of slacko & now guy pup does not like WEP network encryption. I started out with my normal wireless setup & could not get online. sns told me pretty much that wpa_suplicant isnt workin. So i switched my network encryption to wpa & almost instantly got online. (then desktop locked up on me lol ctrl+alt+backspace wouldnt get me out either so rebooted the hard way.)
This should probably be asked in another thread but not sure where. Could there be an issue with newer puplets (ones mentioned above) that does not like WEP network encryption?
Had my normal issue with getting online. So I did an experiment which leads me to believe Next Puppy, the newer versions of slacko & now guy pup does not like WEP network encryption. I started out with my normal wireless setup & could not get online. sns told me pretty much that wpa_suplicant isnt workin. So i switched my network encryption to wpa & almost instantly got online. (then desktop locked up on me lol ctrl+alt+backspace wouldnt get me out either so rebooted the hard way.)
This should probably be asked in another thread but not sure where. Could there be an issue with newer puplets (ones mentioned above) that does not like WEP network encryption?
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xorg
Can't get xorg to work i use xvesa to test it.
Rollin' with Aqualung.
I have found that right-clicking an app in the task bar closes it. Is that the intended behavior? Also how do I switch between desktops?
I have found that right-clicking an app in the task bar closes it. Is that the intended behavior? Also how do I switch between desktops?
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[b]Tahr Pup 6 on desktop, Lucid 3HD on lappie[/b]
Hi Iguleder
Looks and feels nice -
manual frugal to ext3 sda1
8/9yr old Acer TravelMate 243LC
256mb ram. 2.5Ghz Celeron proc. 800mb swap partition.
Even Firefox runs well - (unusual recently)
Not sure the firewall is working here.
Anyway - many thanks for all you do for us - luvly puppy.
Very best regards - Ray
Looks and feels nice -
manual frugal to ext3 sda1
8/9yr old Acer TravelMate 243LC
256mb ram. 2.5Ghz Celeron proc. 800mb swap partition.
Even Firefox runs well - (unusual recently)
Not sure the firewall is working here.
Anyway - many thanks for all you do for us - luvly puppy.
Very best regards - Ray
I have mirrored here:puppyiso wrote:Everybodyelse got it. I should call up the internet service company tomorrow morning.
http://tubeguy.org/puppybg/iso/guydog-5.0.0.iso
[b]Tahr Pup 6 on desktop, Lucid 3HD on lappie[/b]
Guy Dog 5.0.0
Manual frugal install to acer desktop pc.
Sat 15 Oct 2011 Operating System: Guy Dog-5.0.0 Linux 2.6.39
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200]
(rev a2) 0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300 GE] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.10.4
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2499 1: 2499 MHz
Sat 15 Oct 2011 Operating System: Guy Dog-5.0.0 Linux 2.6.39
0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation C77 [GeForce 8200]
(rev a2) 0.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300 GE] (rev a1)
oem: NVIDIA product: MCP77 Board - mcp78pvo Chip Rev
X Server: Xorg Driver: nvidia
X.Org version: 1.10.4
dimensions: 1280x1024 pixels (382x302 millimeters)
depth of root window: 24 planes
Athlon(tm) Dual Core Processor 4850e
Core 0: 2499 1: 2499 MHz