[Openchrome-devel] [Bug 91966] No signal to monitor with X and openchrome using VX855 chipset graphics

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91966

--- Comment #28 from Christopher <laserhawk64 at gmail.com> ---
That would be, er, TahrPup 6.0.2... the one mentioned in the first post in this
bugthread.

We have never actually gotten to eg 5.99... minor versions are bugfixes and
minor updates, major versions introduce major changes. 4.2.0 was I think our
last official 4-series Pup... might've been a 4.2.1, don't remember. A 4.3.2
was released much later, it had not been finished when the 5-series Pups were
released, with a different direction -- Puppy changed at that point from being
its own thing built on T2 packages, to being primarily a derivative distro
built on other distros' packages, and there were (around that time) two
official Puppies and a remarkable number of 'Puplets' (not made officially).
The two Puppies were Wary Puppy (really old heap computers, and still based on
T2) and Lucid Puppy. Eventually Lucid became Precise and Wary was joined by
Racy, and we also had a Slackware-based 'Slacko Puppy'. That was the
5.5.x-5.7.x series...

A note about Puppies vs Puplets vs Pups. I use 'Pups' to refer to the
collection of all Puppies and Puplets together, or to Puppy Linux releases in
general where distinguishing between un/official releases would be cumbersome
or complicating. Puppies, are the official Pups, and Puplets are the
'unofficial' Pups -- think of it like Chrome vs Chromium, where Google makes
Chrome, everyone else makes Chromium -- except if the Chrome devs and the
Chromium devs were one and the same, with a community around them cooking up
different special Chromiums and all getting support from the same pool of
talent.

That's Puppy -- the devs kind of blend in with the users in what in my opinion
is a truly extraordinary way. Our lead dev and 'benevolent dictator' Barry
Kauler actually stepped down into semi-retirement (he still tinkers with
Puppy-like stuff that isn't quite Puppy, but he doesn't officially release any
new Pups) and TahrPup was released afterwards. Yes -- for a decade, Puppy has
been, in some sense, a one-man distro -- and in another sense, a multi-person
distro. Mr Kauler did not act alone -- others (handles 01micko and 666philb
being two amongst several more) helped a lot. TahrPup is 666philb's production
AFTER Mr Kauler's retirement. We couldn't have done that without our community
being the way it is...

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