Tahr64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released December 2015
Tahr64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION
December, 2015
The debut stable release of Tahr64 Puppy Linux is out!
This is the first official release of an Ubuntu based 64 bit Puppy!
Tahr64 Puppy, or tahrpup64, is built from Ubuntu Trusty Tahr DEB (64 bit)
packages, hence has binary compatibility with Ubuntu and access to the
Ubuntu Trusty Tahr repositories. .
Features include:
- Updated "First Run" GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
- New following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 3.14.55
- New "change_kernels" script to easily change kernels
- Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
- Updated Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
- Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new PTheme, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
- Pale Moon browser, a lighter fork of Firefox
- new graphical firewall program
- VLC Media player
- Many other updated programs.
As mentioned above, tarhpup DISTRO_VERSION is shipped with kernel 3.14.55, however kernels can be compiled from kernel-kit and easily changed using the change_kernels script.
For more information see the puppy forum page.