Puppy Linux

Lucid Puppy 5.1 consists of the popular Puppy Linux architecture that Puppy founder Barry Kauler has been refining through 4 editions of Puppy Linux.  But this time Puppy is built with binary packages from the latest Ubuntu release Lucid Lynx, hence Lucid Puppy 5.1.  The Puppy architecture is well known to be lean and fast, and friendly and fun, and Lucid Puppy is no exception.  

LucidBecause of the Ubuntu binary files, the development time to produce program packages  that are tested and configured for Lucid Puppy is extremely short.  In fact, one thing that is new in Lucid  Puppy isQuickpet, offering many Linux programs ready to use with a single click.  So, click, and you can be using Gimp to edit pictures, Kompozer to build a web site, Songbird to manage your music collection, and many others.   Because Puppy is built for personal computers, there is a choice in browsers: the four main ones, Firefox, Seamonkey, Chromium, and Opera are all also available for one-click installation.  Some people even like to alternate browsers so Lucid Puppy has a simple program to select whichever of the browsers you would like to set as default.  The Puppy-Lucid Repo has been added to Puppy Package Manager (PPM), with one-click install of about 50 of the best Linux programs, tested and configured for Lucid Puppy, including, oh, there are too many, you need to have a look for yourself.  Lucid Puppy 5.1 also make a recomendation about which addon video driver you can use to get thehighest performance graphics for such programs as Google Earth and Stellarium, needless to say, the drivers are right there in Quickpet (and the programs are there and in PPM).

Lucid Puppy boots directly to the desktop.   Many people will not need to do anything more than that in order to begin using Lucid Puppy.  However, if there is anything you want to change, the tools topersonalize the desktop are all immediately at hand.  Locale and Language can be changed with just one click and many of the programs, including the word processor Abiword, the spreadsheet Gnumeric, the text editor Geany, the multimedia player Mplayer, Quickpet, and the browser Chromium, open immediately in the language of choice.  For other programs such as Firefox, selecting one’s language involves just a few more clicks than that.  Yet another of the tools that needs very few clicks is a new tool for connecting to the Internet, named  Simple Network Setup, which it is.  Quickpet now  has a very simple, one-click Lucid Puppy News feature to keep abreast of the latest.

Lucid Puppy is the first major edition of Puppy Linux (1 through 4, and now 5) that was not directly prepared by Barry Kauler.  For this 5th Puppy, it was the entire Puppy community that did the work, with Mick Amadio (01micko), Chief Developer, and Larry Short (playdayz), Coordinator, joined for Lucid Puppy 5.1 by Warren Wilson (WhoDo), Art Director, with Jim1911, James C, JustGreg, CatDude, pa_mcclamrock, Tasgarth, shinobar, ecube, gjuhasz, tasmod, pemasu, Béèm, rhadon, rjbrewer , stu90, nooby, Iguleder, Lobster, 8-bit, tubeguy, prehistoric, smokey01, DaveS, Snail, aarf, gerry, Billtoo, darwinev0lved, Minnesota, don570, Eyes-Only, enhu, rcrsn51, scsijon, ICPUG, Abnormalter, Stripe, gur, sata80, scruffy, live, smil99, and alec78.  The default tok-tok icon set was created by BluePal, with additions and modifications by Who Do.