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<h2>Tahr64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION - released December 2015</h2> <!--edit for 64-->
			

<h4>Tahr64 Puppy DISTRO_VERSION
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<h4>December, 2015</h4>
<p>The debut stable release of Tahr64 Puppy Linux is out!</p>
<p><strong>This is the first official release of an Ubuntu based 64 bit Puppy!</strong></p>
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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. </a>.<br>
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Features include:</p>

<ul>
  <li>Updated &quot;First Run&quot; GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
  </li>
  <li>New following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 3.14.55
  </li>
  <li>New &quot;change_kernels&quot; script to easily change kernels
  </li>
  <li>Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
  </li>
  <li>Updated Joe's Window Manager (<a href="http://joewing.net/programs/jwm/">JWM</a>).
  </li>
  <li>Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new <strong>PTheme</strong>, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
  </li>  
  <li>Pale Moon browser, a lighter fork of Firefox
  </li>
  <li>new graphical firewall program
  </li>
  <li>VLC Media player
  </li>
  <li>Many other updated programs.
  </li>
</ul>
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<p>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 <em>change_kernels</em> script.
For more information see the <a href="http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=96748" target="_blank">puppy forum</a> page.
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