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masinick
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PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2025 9:49 pm    Post subject: Distribution Release: Quirky 1.0 Reply with quote
http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=06053
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Quirky is a new Linux distribution crated by Barry Kauler, the founder of Puppy Linux, "as an avenue to explore new ideas." The project's inaugural stable release was announced earlier today: "This first release is quite straight, not very 'quirky'. Some of the interesting ideas that I want to try are still to come. The focus for now is to test a lot of the new stuff in Woof, such as Rerwin's analog and 3G modem detection/setup scripts. Here is a summary of features specific to Quirky 1.0: GRUB Legacy and Grub4dos; Flsynclient - synclient GUI configuration of touchpad; Openbox, Fbpanel, JWM window managers; numerous updated applications (AbiWord, Pmusic); 2.6.33.2 kernel, updated firmware, bug-fix patches; new tray applets - Traytemp, Powerapplet, Freememapplet, Retrovol...."



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PostPosted: Wed May 05, 2025 10:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Might be neat. I know puppy is a great little live distro, even if it's of limited (to me) real world use.



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2025 3:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
tlmiller wrote:
Might be neat. I know puppy is a great little live distro, even if it's of limited (to me) real world use.


I am grabbing it; small enough that I will have it here in just a minute and I can run it from Virtualbox OSE.



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PostPosted: Thu May 06, 2025 4:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Here with Quirky. It is a bit Quirky, but I have it working in full screen mode, so that counts quite a bit.



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