First rolling release, update 1.3.1

The first rolling release update is now live:

Changelog:
    - libgpg-error updated to 1.36
    - Deadbeef updated to 1.8.2
    - Addded Flatpak support (more info at https://flatpak.org/ and 
      https://flathub.org/home)
    - Puppy version bumped to 1.3.1

How to:
First, upgrade the finstall script by typing "finstall script update" do this 
2 times one for the finstall script then for it to download the rolling release 
scripts, after that is just a simple "finstall upgrade".

nex iso will be 2.0 i have no plans to upload minor version isos unless it's
mandatory

Rolling Releases for 1.3 (and beyond)

I've just finished testing the new rolling releases system and it finally works 
as i want it:

 - Updates are distributed as sfs files containing deltas and/or new files.
 - The rolling releases script processes incoming new files first, patch the 
   deltas on a temp folder and finally apply the patched files to the system.
 - If the delta patch is for a system-wide lib or application it first declares 
   a temp PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, makes a backup, copies the patched files into 
   the system an then redeclares the original PATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH, i know 
   this doesn't ensures 100% success and saying "nothing wrong is gonna happen" 
   is stupid but at least it makes it a little safer.

The idea for this system is to avoid uploading isos for minor or patch updates
(following the major.minor.patch versioning).

I've uploaded frankenpup isos since 2009 and tried really hard to make all of 
them worth uploading and with the rolling releases i'll upload isos ONLY for major 
releases or critical minor updates instead of when a base lib is added removed or 
updated or a software is removed or replaced making deployment easier and smoother.

This opens many new challenges for me since i'm no expert programmer but this 
small puplet has been my small plaything for years and i'm willing to take on the 
challenge and give it a try.

Frankenpup 1.3

Frankenpup 1.3 is now LIVE! 

Features: 

 - Full multilib system out of the box

 - CLI package manager "finstall"

 - nvidia-xrun on the repo for Intel/Nvidia hybrid graphics laptops.

 - Vulkan, wine, and dxvk packages on the repo.

Changelog:

Base chages:
 - Kernel updated to 3.5.11

 - finstall now supports local package installation

 - devx updated with the new kernel headers. 

 Packages Repo changes:

 --> Updated

    - Nvidia closed source driver updated to 440.31 for better DXVK performance. 

THIS RELEASE MAKES 1.0 DEPRECATED, i'm working on a rolling release system for full 

install and frugal to avoid this in the future based on deltas.
  

LINK: HERE 

DEVX: HERE 

KERNEL SOURCES: HERE  
   

bugtracker and "wiki":https://github.com/samedog/frankenpup64/issues


 

 SOME SCREENSHOTS: 

Installing a local package with finstall:

Power Mizer enabled by default on the Nvidia private driver xorg config: 

Coanan Exiles on Proton (Valve's wine): 

The Sims4 on wine-4.0.1 from the repo with vulkan and dxvk enabled:

Frankenpup v0.5 RC3: Almost Stable

Ok, i think it's time for the RC3:

Changelog:

Main sfs changes:
 - Fixed init script to mount /dev as devtmpfs
 - Fixed init scripts to allow kmod create the static
   nodes and udevd to manage everything.
 - Fixed multiple firmware related errors and bugs.
 - fpackages now reloads the jwm menu.
 - fpackages now has a really basic dependency support
   (version pushed to 0.3).
 - Recompiled Gparted
 - Some minor fixes on dbrowser and qupzilla was added.
  
  Upgrades:
   - atk-2.16.0 (recompiled with gobejct introspection)
   - libnotify-0.7.6 (same as atk)
   - eudev 2.20
   - kmod-21
   - dconf-0.24.0 (this was breaking glib2 and thus,
     breaking gtk3)
   - transmission-2.84 (GTK3)


Packages Repo changes:
  -->Added
    --> Added to python 2.7:
      - cython
      - dbus-python
      - pygobject
      - pygtk
    - android-file-transfer-2.3
    - qt5-5.5.0
  --> Updated
    -the package "database" no has a "dep" field.

SCREENSHOTS:

Android file transfer:


 

Qupzilla:




Transmission (GTK3):





This build is really close to be stable, i only need feddback (so far 0 feedback) to ensure everything wokrs like it should


THIS RELEASE DEPRECATES RC2, DEPRECATED AND UNSUPPORTED.

LINK: HERE

DEVX: HERE

bugtracker and "wiki": https://github.com/samedog/frankenpup/issues

Frankenpup v0.5 RC2: The Experience

Almost a week of recompiling shit, not getting enough sleep and procrastinating like a mofo on my job i'm finally announcing frankenpup 0.5 RC2:(Links on the bottom)

Changelog (differences) from RC1:
- fpinstall is now called fpackages.
 Main sfs changes:

    Recompiled:
             - libpng-1.6.17
             - cairo-1.14.2
             - cups-2.0.3
             - deadbeef
             - doxygen-1.8.10
             - dvdauthor-lipng16
             - epdfview-0.1.8
             - fontconfig-2.11.1
             - freetype-2.6
             - gcolor2-0.4
             - gcr-3.16.0
             - gdk-pixbuf-2.31.4
             - geany-1.24.1
             - gegl-0.2.0
             - gfnrename-0.6
             - ghostscript-9.16
             - gmeasures-0.7
             - gnome-common
             - gtk+-2.24.28
             - gtk+-3.16.4
             - gtk-doc-1.24
             - gtklp-1.3.1
             - gtksourceview
             - gxmessage-2.20.4
             - harfbuzz-0.9.40
             - icoutils-0.31.0
             - Imagemagick-6.9.1-7
             - itstool-2.0.2
             - jwm-2.3.1
             - lcms2-2.7
             - libglade-2.6.4
             - libnotify-0.7.6
             - librfm5-5.3.16.0
             - librsvg-2.40.9
             - libtubo0-5.0.15
             - libwep-0.4.3
             - libxml-2.9.2
             - libzip-1.0.1
             - netpbm
             - oiio
             - openjpeg-1.5.2
             - pango-1.36.8
             - pixman-0.32.6
             - poppler-0.33.0
             - rodent-diff-5.2.6
             - viewnior
             - vte-0.28.2
             - webkitgtk-1
             - xchat2
             - xcur2png-0.7.1
             - xsane-0.999-linpng16
    Upgrades:
             - gmtk-1.0.9b
             - glibmm-2.44.0
             - libsigc++-2.4.1
             - gtk-engines-2.91.1 (for gtk3)
             - gtk-engines-2.20.2 (for gtk2)
             - gtkmm-3.16.0 (for gtk3)
             - gtkmm-2.24.4 (for gtk2)
             - pangomm-2.36.0
             - cairomm-1.10.0
             - xorg-server-1.12.2.902
             - mesa-10.6.1
             - libdrm-2.4.66
             - valgrind-3.10.1
             - libgpg-error-1.19
    Added:
             - GnuPG-2.16
             - Libassuan-2.2.1
             - Libksba-1.3.3
             - NPth-1.2
             - cabextract-1.6

  Package Repo changes:
    Added:
             - wxPython-3.0.2.0 to python 2.7.10
             - wine-1.7.47
             - playonlinux-4.2.8
    Upgrades:
             - inkscape-0.9.1
             - gimp-2.75a
             - qt4-4.8.7 (recompiled due to the libpng16 upgrade)


Screenshots:


Desktop:

Music Player:

Mesa 10.6:

PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS  A "RELEASE CANDIDATE", EVEN IF THIS IS THE SECOND RC THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE I CAN CALL IT "STABLE" SO KEEP THAT IN MIND BEFORE DOWNLOADING.


DOWNLOAD LINK: HERE
DEVX PACKAGE: HERE


bugtracker and "wiki": https://github.com/samedog/frankenpup/issues
 

frankenpup dev road map 2: FINALLY!

Well i'm finally done with the libpng16 system wide reompilation process, everything is linked to it now and there is no trace of puppy's libpng12 and libpng14, it was a shitton of configure, autogens and libtoolize but now the system is cool and compiling anything graphics related is not a clusterfuck of passed args and code fuckery. Now i'm finishing the main sfs, striping it down a bit and doing some basic testing. Will try to upload the RC2 as soon as the system is stable enough.

frankenpup dev road map 1: FUCK THIS, I'M GOING TO SPACE

Bueno estoy teniendo un rato bastante desagradable recompilando un monton de libs y aplicaciones porque aguien penso "Linkiemos algunas libs y bins a versiones retrasadamente antiguas de libpng" (libpng12 y 14) y algun otro tarado le respondio "Eso suena increible!". No lo es... y no voy  aentrar en detalles ya que con un poquito de sentido comun se pueden dar cuenta de que a lo unico que lleva eso es a resultados de mierda. TL;DR:

Lista de paquetes recompilados (hasta ahora) para relinkear todo a libpng16:


- cairo-1.14.2
- doxygen-1.8.10
- dvdauthor-lipng16
- vepdfview-0.1.8
- fontconfig-2.11.1
- freetype-2.6
- gcolor2-0.4
- gcr-3.16.0
- gdk-pixbuf-2.31.4
- geany-1.24.1
- gegl-0.2.0
- gfnrename-0.6
- ghostscript-9.16
- gmeasures-0.7
- gnome-common
- gtk+-2.24.28
- gtk+-3.16.4
- gtk-doc-1.24
- gtklp-1.3.1
- gtksourceview
- gxmessage-2.20.4
- harfbuzz-0.9.40
- icoutils-0.31.0
- Imagemagick-6.9.1-7
- itstool-2.0.2
- jwm-2.3.1
- lcms2-2.7
- libglade-2.6.4
- libnotify-0.7.6
- librsvg-2.40.9
- libwep-0.4.3
- libxml-2.9.2
- oiio
- openjpeg-1.5.2
- pango-1.36.8
- pixman-0.32.6
- poppler-0.33.0
- vte-0.28.2

Me quiero bajar :(

frankenpup dev road map 1: FUCK THIS, I'M GOING TO SPACE

Well i'm having  really hard time recompiling a shitton of applications and libs because someone thought "Hey, let's link some bins and libs against some old as fuck versions of libpng :D" (libpng 12 & 14) and some other guy said "Yeah, that sounds completely awesome :DD". Well... it's not, and i'm not going into details here it just takes a little bit of common sense to know this can lead to really, REALLY fucked up results. TL;DR:

List of recompiled packages (so far) to amke everything link against libpng16:

- cairo-1.14.2
- doxygen-1.8.10
- dvdauthor-lipng16
- vepdfview-0.1.8
- fontconfig-2.11.1
- freetype-2.6
- gcolor2-0.4
- gcr-3.16.0
- gdk-pixbuf-2.31.4
- geany-1.24.1
- gegl-0.2.0
- gfnrename-0.6
- ghostscript-9.16
- gmeasures-0.7
- gnome-common
- gtk+-2.24.28
- gtk+-3.16.4
- gtk-doc-1.24
- gtklp-1.3.1
- gtksourceview
- gxmessage-2.20.4
- harfbuzz-0.9.40
- icoutils-0.31.0
- Imagemagick-6.9.1-7
- itstool-2.0.2
- jwm-2.3.1
- lcms2-2.7
- libglade-2.6.4
- libnotify-0.7.6
- librsvg-2.40.9
- libwep-0.4.3
- libxml-2.9.2
- oiio
- openjpeg-1.5.2
- pango-1.36.8
- pixman-0.32.6
- poppler-0.33.0
- vte-0.28.2

Hope this nightmare ends soon =/

Frankenpup v0.5 RC-1, esta vez si es verdad

Bueno, despues de un año de haberlo anunciado al fin esta aquí el ISO de frankenpup v0.5 (Release Candidate):

Algunas características:

- Kernel 3.17.8 i686. (Voy a subir una versión con kernel 4.X... quisas).
- Casi todo recompilado desde fuente (Glibc, GCC, GTK 2 and GTK 3, OpenSSL, JMW, ffmpeg, pango, cairo, etc, etc, etc).
- El sfs devx ya no incluye Python, ahora se pueden instalar python 2 y 3 desde el "administrador de paquetes"
- Agregados scripts para instalar software:
  -> fpinstall: una mierda de administrador de paquetes CLI.
       - Con este se puede instalar el driver AMD de vídeo (RTFM).
  -> dbrowser: para escoger e instalar un navegador.
       - Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Midori, Palemoon  (por ahora).
- Nuevos íconos agregados para todos los MIME que existen, nuevos temas de GTK y JWM y estoy INTENTANDO hacer una puplet que se vea y funcione fluida.
- Estoy trabajando para mejorar el tiempo de carga y estoy  "optimizando" el script init (eliminando moludos antiguos como el de las disketteras y jodiendo con el código del init tabién) .
- DRI y mesa incluidos.

Screenshots:


Escritorio:

Reproductor de Vídeos:

Nuevo tema de GTK para un "mejor" aspecto visual:

 

Menu de JWM:

Alardeando un juego nativo de Linux:

 
Script fpinstall para administrar paquetes (ya que PPM siempre ha sido inutil en frankenpup):

dbrowser para bajarse un navegador sin necesidad de otro navegador:

POR FAVOR RECUERDEN QUE ESTE ES UN "RELEASE CANDIDATE" Y LE FALTA PULIR MUCHAS COSAS ANTES DE CONSIDERARLO UNA VERSION ESTABLE.


LINK DE DESCARGA: obsoleto tras la salida del RC2
PAQUETE DEVX: obsoleto tras la salida del RC2


Reportes de bugs y "wiki": https://github.com/samedog/frankenpup/issues
 

Frankenpup v0.5: This time for real.

Well after a year since i announced it here you guys have (finally) a frankenpup v0.5 ISO (Release Candidate):

Some features:

- Kernel 3.17.8 i686. (will offer a version with kernel 4.X... maybe).
- Recompiled almost everything from stable latest sources. (Glibc, GCC, GTK 2 and GTK 3, OpenSSL, JMW, ffmpeg, pango, cairo, etc, etc, etc).
- Python no more included on the devx sfs, instead you can install python 2 and 3 from the "package manager".
- Added custom scripts to install tested software:
  -> fpinstall: a really shitty CLI package manage.
       - You can install the AMD video drivers from this script (RTFM).
  -> dbrowser: to choose an install a tested broser.
       - Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Midori, Palemoon  (for now).
- New Icons added for every fucking mime type ever, new JWM and GTK themes and i'm TRYING to make a smooth good looking puplet.
- Working to make the boot time faster and "optimizing the init" (by disabling or removing old as fuck kernel modules for old as fuck storage media like fucking floppy and some code fuckery) .
- DRI out of the box, mesa and stuffs.

Screenshots:


Desktop:

Video Player:

New GTK Theme for a "better" layout:

 

JWM Menu (edgy colors ftw) :

just showing off a native linux game:

 
fpinstall script for "package management" (since PPM has always been useless in frankenpup):

dbrowser to download one precompiled browser without the need of another browser:

PLEASE REMEMBER THIS IS  A "RELEASE CANDIDATE", THERE IS STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE BEFORE I CAN CALL IT "STABLE RELEASE".


DOWNLOAD LINK: obsolete since RC2 release
DEVX PACKAGE: obsolete since RC2 release


bugtracker and "wiki": https://github.com/samedog/frankenpup/issues
 

Frankenpup 0.5 updates, aiming for bullshit: CRUISE CONTROL

Well, well, well udev, udisks, PAM, dbus polkit, consolekit... look at this fucking mess... even harder on a puppylinux based distro... FUCK FUCK FUCK... at least udev and PAM works, dbus is 50% up but consolekit and polkit are some serious bullshit to make run on puppy full force: folders permissions, new users and groups... BULLSHIT BULLSHIT BULLSHIT.

It will eventually work, maybe today, maybe tomorrow.

More updates on frankenpup

Last night i did a brand new sfs, now frankenpup has xorg 1.15.1, better baselibs, filesystem sfs was reduced from 320Mb to 280Mb, recompiled fontconfig, Freetype, dropped razor-qt for LXQt because razor code was shit since teams merged together, i'll be adding more libs to make everything work smoothly as possible, most stuffs are from git so this build is pretty "bledding edge" on some specs, now i will struggle with mesa to get DRI (again) ad will release it as frankenpup BETA v0.5 in a couple of weeks.

Updates on frankenpup

WELL, WELL, WELL shit is going cool now, i have a fairly stable system, new Desktop Environment (Razor-qt because fuck you), and updates are going better than expected. The devx sfs also is doing well, it doesn't bitch (too much). Now regarding size the main sfs (frankenpup-v0.X.sfs) is almost 350Mb, and the devx is 320Mb, but I don't give two fucks about the size so GG.

Now some screenshots of the latest builds:

Some screenshots

Some frankenpup screenshots:

By me:

 gnome-mplayer:

 deadbeef and some nastly FLACs:

 Showing the bling:

 Photoshop on wow's wine sfs:

By user wow: 

Some minecraft action:

OH, THE HUGE MANATEE!

here will be the full list of recompiled bullshit on teh brand "new" frankenpup:
[new stuff in bold]

-kernel 3.8.0
-acl 2.2.52
-attr  2.4.47
-dbus 1.8.0
-gcc 4.8.2
-glibc 2.18
-gtk2 2.24.22
-gtk-doc 1.19
-gdk-pixbuf 2.30.4
-gobject-instrospection 1.38.0
-poppler 0.24.5
-cups 1.7.1
-glib 2.36
-atk 2.8
-freetype 2.5.2
-expat 2.1.0
-fontconfig 2.11.0
-pixman 0.32.4
-harfbuzz 0.9.26
-fribidi 0.19.6
-pango 1.34
-cairo 1.12.14
-gamin 0.1.9
-jwm 2.2.0
-cups 1.7.1
-cups-filters 1.0.44
-ijs 0.35
-qpdf 5.1.1
-mtpaint 3.40
-libpng 1.6.8
-libjpg 9
-libtiff 3.6.1
-libnl 1.1.4
-libxml2 2.9.1
-imlib2 1.4.4
-libcddb 1.3.2
-libcdio 0.92
-libmad 0.15.1b
-libogg 1.3.1
-libsndfile 1.0.25
-libvorbis 1.3.4
-ragel 6.8 
-lcms2 2.5
-xorg & friends 1.12.2
-netpbm (from stable subversion repo)
-ffmpeg git-2014-01-31-dce9321
-curl 7.35.0
-epdfview 0.1.8
-openssl 1.0.0l
-make 4.0
-patch 2.7.1
-yasm 1.2.0
-ghostscript 9.10
-gutenprint 5.2.9
-automake 1.12.2
-fltk 1.3.2
-perl 5.18.2
-python 2.7.6
-git 1.9-rc1
-flex 2.5.37
-gettext 0.18.3.1
-ncurses 5.9
-bison 3.0.2
-mesa 10.0.2
-wpa_supplicant 2.0
-deadbeef 0.6.1
-faad2 2.7
-flac 1.3.0
-mpg123 1.18.0
-SDL2 2.0.1


CONTRIBUTIONS ADDED TO THE COMMIT:

By Dejan Rackovic 
-gtkdialog 0.8.3
-transmission 2.60
-libevent 2.0.21


The list will be updated on the fly as i continue compiling stuffs.

Some weird case of NECROMANCY

WELL WELL WELL... looks liek someone is working on a puplet again... but this time after years of TRYING i'm actually baking a good puplet featuring:
-kernel 3.8.0
-xorg 1.12.2  (and finally, WITH MOTHERFUCKING DRI)
-Glibc 2.18
-Gcc 4.8.2
-AND MUCH MORE

i'm still compiling libs, removing deprecated shit, TRYING to make it stable, and unlike all my other puplets this time i didn't used slackware as binary resource for missing shit i'm just compiling everything from source just to make the goddamn system a little bit more stable (IT IS slackware binary compatible)... anywhore, some screenshots:
(yeah, fuck you work in progress screenshots are BEST screenshots)

samedog OUT!

ZOMFG! frankenpup-v0.2.1337!!

LINKS ON THE BOTTOM

v0.2.1337 just kicked in YO!
pretty much a fixes/upgrades release, nothing "AWESOME" to see, for the next release i will try some *interesting* stuffs, like hibernation (a.k.a suspend to disk), cpu freq scaling, and a new Xorg build (that's why i installed the libX*, let's call it anticipation) with direct rendering and hardware acceleration for intel cards (that would be nice isn't?), also the kernel was compiled in frankenpup8 (first of the family with gcc 4.5.2 and my personal "test" build), or in other words: it was compiled with the packed version of gcc so compiling kernel modules shouldn't be that hard.



List of upgrades:

alsa-lib-1.0.24.1
alsa-oss-1.0.17
alsa-utils-1.0.24.2
cairo-1.10.2
fontconfig-2.8.0
libSM-1.2.0
libXau-1.0.6-i486-1.txz
libXcomposite-0.4.3
libXcursor-1.1.11
libXdamage-1.1.3
libXdmcp-1.1.0
libXevie-1.0.3
libXext-1.2.0
libXfixes-5.0
libXfont-1.4.3
libXfontcache-1.0.5
libXft-2.2.0
libXi-1.4.2
libXinerama-1.1.1
libXmu-1.1.0
libXp-1.0.1
libXpm-3.5.9
libXrandr-1.3.1
libXrender-0.9.6
libXres-1.0.5
libXt-1.1.1
libXtst-1.2.0
libXv-1.0.6
libXvMC-1.0.6
lm_sensors-3.1.2
pango-1.28.4
polkit-0.101
python-2.6.6 (I REALLY HATE TO INCLUDE THIS BUT IS NEEDED FOR SOME FUNCTIONS)
texinfo-4.13a



screenshots










LINKS
NO LINK


Frankenpup en español: ya tengo casi todo el sistema base completamente traducido, me falta el script: xorgwizard, el script de arranque de sistema y uno que otro scrip en el initrd.gz.

That's all for now.




Samedog.

Frankenpup 8, the ocho

 Well i'm annmouncing the latest frankenpup alpha, short story:

LINK 1 file 160Mb iso

-WARY-070 / Slackware-13.1
-kernel: 2.6.34.1 SMP (WARY)
-glibc: 2.11.1 (from Slackware 13.1)
-gcc: 4.4.4 (same)
-fluxbox instead jwm (from slack)
-python script to keep the fluxmenu structure (fixmenus linked to that script)
-firefox 3.6.10
-no office software yet =P (i'm still stripping down Open office)
-removed a lot of apps (abiword, gnumeric, osmo, attym, gftp, and some others i will upload the list later)
-The run action for the txz packages is linked to my TXZinstaller script so you can install them with 1 click =)
-dbus-uuidgen on starup (to prevent dbus to FAIL hard)
-dbus-daemon on starup (for obvius reasons)
-on shutdown a script cleans the /var/run/dbus/ folder (to prevent starup FAIL)


Slackware packages used so far:

>cxxlibs-6.0.13-i486-2 (MAIN)
>dbus-1.2.24-i486-2 (MAIN)
>dbus-glib-0.86-i486-3 (MAIN)
>gcc-4.4.4-i486-1 (devx_8.sfs)
>gcc-g++-4.4.4-i486-1 (devx_8.sfs) [testing]
>glibc-2.11.1-i486-3 (MAIN) [testing]
>gmp-5.0.1-i486-1 (devx_8.sfs)
>python-2.6.2-i486-3 (MAIN)(will upgrade it to 2.7)

Software from WARY:
-pmusic
-mplayer
-geany
-mp
-calcs

and all the common puppy apps (i'm deleting a lot of them)

screens:

That's all so far, it's the first build i made using WARY(Quirky family) so i'm going slow because i don't wanna fuck the whole system.