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Puppy Linux: small fully featured Linux distribution (Linux Hound with Teeth!)

Posted March 6th, 2007 in Distros

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Puppy Linux, started by Barry Kauler, is a small (28-72M), fully featured Linux distribution.

Puppy Linux Trivia

Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need for a hard drive.
Booting from USB, Puppy will greatly minimise writes, to extend the life of Flash devices indefinitely.
Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use.
Puppy will just work, no hassles.
Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs

Blindingly fast, incredibly powerful, amazingly tiny…

These are extraordinary goals, yet Puppy achieves them all. Obviously, some objectives have qualifications, for example, to load totally into RAM the PC must have either 128M RAM or failing that a swap partition. Also, the “will just work, no hassles” objective is a work-in-progress!

One thing to be very much aware of is that Puppy is incredibly small. After all, to load totally into RAM and run from there, Puppy has to be small. The live-CD is about 28-72M, yet “every” applications you need is there — I’m quite serious — it doesn’t seem possible but it is. Furthermore, as everything runs in RAM, there are no delays and the speed is nothing short of astounding. Download Puppy / Get CDs

Puppy 2.15CE project has been launched!

“The next release of Puppy is going to be 2.15 Community Edition, incorporating improvements and ideas that Puppy enthusiasts want. Official releases of Puppy are created by me, and everything gets filtered through me, which is good from the point of view of maintaining a unified development of Puppy. However, now is the opportunity for users to have a more direct input to the final product.

Here is a forum thread, supervised by WhoDo:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15529

Note, I’m still here, and will test the alphas/betas on all my hardware and also offer suggestions and contributions.”

Alpha release will be available this weekend 23/24 Feb:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=15674