14 DAY TRIAL // Barry Kauler proudly announced last night (September 22nd) the immediate availability for download of the Quirky 1.3 lightweight operating system.
The new Quirky 1.3 release comes with a new Linux kernel, lots of updated packages, a new wallpaper created by "stu90," and some important bugfixes.
"This is built from the "forked" Woof that I have been discussing recently, and is an opportunity to evaluate the changes in Puppy files and streamlined searching in the 'init' script."
Without any further introduction, here are the highlights of Quirky 1.3:
· Linux kernel 2.6.30.5 (recompiled with patched Aufs); · Updated FFMpeg to support webM; · Updated Gnumeric to version 1.10.6; · Updated Sane-backends to version 1.0.21; · Updated Gparted to version 0.6.0; · Updated Parted to version 2.2-5.fc14; · Updated libusb to version 1.0.8; · Updated Busybox to version 1.16.2; · Updated Pfind and Pprocess utilities; · Updated Pburn, Pfileseach and Pmusic tools; · Updated Pmusic and Pcd; · Updated lameSMBxplorer to version 0.2.2b; · Updated Ffconvert to version 1.0; · Updated Udev to version 151; · Improved Samba; · Fixed CPU scaling bug; · Fixed Roaring Penguin PPPOE; · Recompiled Abiword 2.8.6; · Fixed Disktype; · Fixed Nathan's Wallpaper Setter 0.5.6; · Network reconnect/disconnect; · New artwork!
"Note that there have been some application upgrades since 1.2, but not much, as I have been working on Slackpup, Wary and Woof in the interim. I expect that most, maybe all, apps in Wary will work in Quirky."
"1.3 is built with the 2.6.33.2 kernel and also has the commercial Nvidia Xorg driver. The .iso file is 111MB -- note, if I had built without the Nvidia driver it would have been 106MB." - said Barry Kauler in the official release announcement.
Download Quirky 1.3 right now from Softpedia.