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Lucid Puppy 5.1 is Released

August 11, 2010 - Lucid Puppy 5.1 is released, featuring more applications in the repository and support for high-performance graphics. See the Forum announcement by playdayz.



Playdayz describes this release: Lucid Puppy 5.1 is a “full-featured compact distro.” It’s a Puppy, so it is fast, friendly, and fun, and it can also serve as one’s main Linux desktop. Quickpet and Puppy Package Manager allow easy installation of many of the best Linux programs, tested and configured for Lucid Puppy. It is just as easy to choose your favorite browser and your language. And it all looks as good as it is, because the core Lucid team now includes an Art Director. Lucid Puppy boots directly to an automatically configured graphical desktop, with the tools to personalize the desktop right at hand, and it even recommends which add-on video driver to use for high-performance graphics. Also, many packages and tools (especially for video and printing) have been upgraded/improved, including synchronizing with a recent release of the Woof Puppy-builder.

On configuring Lucid Puppy, Playdayz explains: Lucid Puppy is the most language aware Puppy ever. It is a very easy thing to change one's Language and Locale and just as easy to change one's keyboard layout--using tried and tested Puppy code. Further, many of the main programs, the word processor, the media player, the text editor, the spreadsheet, Quickpet, and several of the browsers are language aware by default. 01micko spent numerous hours organizing and implementing the internationalization of Quickpet--and it is beautiful. All of our users are international users of one kind or another, and they are going to be well-served and extremely happy with Lucid Puppy 5.1.

Read more details in the release notes.

Download the bug-fixed 5.1.1 Lucid Puppy 5.1.1
130 MB, md5sum = 6e34d1bcdad74df7d6352a6d672522ec

NEW: Read the 5.1.1 update.

For feedback about the original 5.1 release, visit the Forum. Or go here for bug reports and fixes. You can also download quick updates (get the latest update and click to install - previous updates are included in the latest - note that 5.1.1 has been released!).

Added by raffy August 11, 2010 (6:30PM)

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