New in Puppy Linux "Racy" 5.5 RC (Mar 1, 2013)
- Racy 5.5RC has the 3.8.0 Linux kernel, configured without PAE support (so only accesses first 4MB of RAM), and for a i586 CPU. It also has 'f2fs' (Flash Friendly File System) support, which is the main reason I was keen to use the 3.8 kernel.
- Most of the system libraries and some applications in Racy (and Wary) have not been upgraded since 5.3, however a plethora of "in house" applications have been updated. Also, the Woof infrastructure has undergone mammoth fixes and improvements since 5.3.
- In fact, it is the significant improvements in the infrastructure that have made building of a new version of Racy imperative.
- I might upgrade some libraries and more applications, but targeting that for Racy 5.6.
- A note about KMS, for those who know what that means. Wary does not use KMS at all. Racy has KMS enabled for the intel 'i915' kernel module and for the 'nouveau' kernel modules, but not for the 'radeon' kernel module. Wary doesn't even have the 'nouveau' kernel driver, only the 'nv' driver (Racy has both, but the 'nv' driver is by default not used).