Lucid Puppy Revitalized as 5.2.8.6!

Released 04-Apr-2014

by rerwin


info at :
 
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=90461


The popular Lucid Puppy has been upgraded with its major components brought up to date.


The download sites contain a set of ISO files of identical function, different only in their internal structure. All were created with the "remaster" tool. Of all these variants, the one that supports both dialup hardware and the (xz) compression method used in modern SFS files is lupusuper2 (or lupusuper2plus, with LibreOffice, or lupusuper2libre)- 

The main lupu has everything in the main (lupu_528) SFS file. 

lupu-5.2.8.6-20140321.iso 

 md5sum: 35d46551b01c3e7e90d7d4b75301dde8 

 - lupulibre has LibreOffice and java/jre included in the large main file, to load into RAM if 1 GB of RAM is installed. 
lupulibre-5.2.8.6-4.1.5-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: f46a6c68f9cc9e1b5711660e1b7db7a0 

 - lupumini has a "zdrv" SFS file so that the main file fits into 256 MB of RAM. 
lupumini-5.2.8.6-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: e9fa876d0f84816cf298fdd88b8d0dcc 

 - lupuplus is lupumini with added SFS files such as LibreOffice and java runtime (jre) to be copied to a frugal installation directory. 
lupuplus-5.2.8.6-4.1.5-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: c7b49e59c937564df4f95e818e398bcd 

 - lupu3hd (3-Headed Dog) is lupu based on linux kernel 2.6.37.6, to support somewhat newer hardware than does the lupu kernel (2.6.33.2). 
lupu3hd-5.2.8.6-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: 0f39a9edf9892c95078d745cacde85cc 

 - lupusuper (or "sulu") is/are based on kernels 3.x, to support newer hardware and xz compression:
- lupusuper1 
lupusuper1-5.2.8.6-k3.0.25-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: 76abe39f6bf920da5abf5b0b8e5c7de2 

 - lupusuper2 (kernel from precise 5.7.1, which includes analog modem support) 
lupusuper2-5.2.8.6-k3.2.48-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: b5b5e42ac19ffbe277b174a30dfcb523 

 - lupusuper3 (kernel from pemasu's dpup wheezy) 
lupusuper3-5.2.8.6-k3.5.2-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: 2a97544df304d4268907e75a2bf31637 

 - lupusuper4 (kernel from pemasu's upup raring) 
lupusuper4-5.2.8.6-k3.9.9-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: a5205707ad3c2a00ecdaeaf03d557f91

 - lupusuper2plus is lupusuper2 with added SFS files such as LibreOffice and java runtime (jre) to be copied to a frugal installation directory. 
lupusuper2plus-5.2.8.6-4.1.5-k3.2.48-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: 940a358439a57f4a435a6afbd34736d3 

 - lupusuper2libre is lupusuper2 with LibreOffice and java/jre included in the large main file, to load into RAM if 1 GB of RAM is installed. 
lupusuper2libre-5.2.8.6-4.1.5-k3.2.48-20140321.iso 
 md5sum: 8e6b36f0da99dce2dea5a3ec0a978ead

The main ISO files will be updated together and will have the same date-tag in their names. "3hd" and "super" may have later date-tags because they may be updated more frequently, due to their being considered experimental. They provide the full lupu capabilities to newer hardware, but with some risk of incompatibilities with the newer kernels used. 

 Note that Lucid Pup is not released in the same manner as other puppy projects. The version level is frozen at "5.2.8", so that all puppy-main files are named "lupu_528" and will not trigger the normal pupsave-update function. To manage the cases where a pet package has been installed and becomes part of a later upgrade of lupu, after replacement of the main files in a frugal installation and subsequent boot-up, a check is made for packages now included in the main (lupu_528) file. If a conflict is found, a (pop-up) recommendation is made to uninstall the conflicting package, so as to utilize the new version in lupu. 

 This effort is endorsed by the originator of Lucid Pup, playdayz, who has committed to maintain the QuickPet aspect of lucid support and advise me in maintaining the core of Lucid Pup. A big "thank you", playdayz! 

 The history of the upgrades made to lupu528-005 to create 5.2.8.6 is here: 
 
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=726108#726108 

 Mirror sites are: <allys site, and mediafire whose links cant appear at pirate bay > and  
http://shino.pos.to/party/bridge.cgi?puppy/lupu/test/ (shinobar)