Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is a space-saving and fast Linux distribution that can be used, among other things directly from a live CD. Compiled from source, Puppy based on any other Linux distribution. The name derives from the now defunct Chihuahua Puppy (German: puppy ) from the Australian Project founder Barry Kauler.

One goal of the operating system is to be used by users without Linux knowledge immediately. The developers are trying to achieve this through simple, user-friendly operation and broad hardware support.

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History

Puppy Linux was developed in 2002 by Australian Barry Kauler.

The version 0.1 he published on 18 June 2003. Since the system with increasing support and performance has been further developed.

October 2008 Barry Kauler retired as head of the development of Puppy Linux and focused more on related projects such as Woof, with the foreign - distributions packets in the packet format PET ( Puppy's Extra Treats ) can be converted for Puppy Linux. Puppy 4.1.2 was the last version to go up because of it. The community used the distribution continues to Puppy 4.2 " Deep Thought ", published in March 2009.

Again coordinated by Barry Kauler followed in September 2009 Puppy Linux 4.3. , Building on Woof. On the basis of Woof Barry Kauler introduces two lines of development of Puppy with Quirky and Wary on.

The development of Puppy from the community out has led to Lucid Puppy and Puppy Slacko, with additional ideas and programs.

Features

The approximately 100-128 MB ( depending on your software selection) Distribution starts quickly, even if it was not installed on the hard disk of a computer. When installed on hard disk it consumes very little memory. This is especially on netbooks with solid- state hard drives beneficial. It provides low demands on system resources, so that it runs smoothly even on old devices. The system is completely loaded into memory, thereby achieving a high operation speed. Live operation without installation is possible depending on the BIOS from almost all removable media. The use by users who are accustomed to the Windows operating system is to learn without much difficulty.

Single-user root

Unlike most Linux distributions, which are designed as multi-user system, Puppy automatically starts the only available root user can perform all system changes without entering a password. To use the PC and the Internet as gaining root with all rights can be dangerous, so this concept has been criticized.

Since Wary 5.1.3, there are some based on Puppy distributions that allow experimentally also use Puppy without superuser privileges.

Current ( official ) versions

  • Slacko Puppy 5.4 - Developed and coordinated by Mick Amadio and other members of the Puppy community, it was published on 2 December 2012. To Puppy base even binary packages were involved from Slackware.
  • Wary and Racy 5.3 - Wary: Translated as: Cautious, careful pondering. Developed by Barry Kauler on Puppy basis. Wary aims to be compatible with older hardware and provides different kernels to choose from. In addition, there is the variant Racy for more recent hardware. Support over a longer period is intended.
  • Precise Puppy 5.4.3 - Developed and coordinated by members of the Puppy community, it was released on 17 December, 2012. To Puppy base even binary packages from Ubuntu Lucid Lynx were integrated and allows access to the Ubuntu source packages.

In addition, there are so -called Puplets (unofficial versions) by members of the community. Influences between the different projects can be found in newer developments again.

System Requirements and Installation

The current (2012 ) versions of Puppy requires a minimum of 128 MB of memory to load the operating system fully and without swap partition into memory. Thus, the distribution of its various programs is executed at an appropriate pace. Recommended are now basically 256 MB RAM plus a swap partition of 512 MB ​​. If you want even on older hardware using a Puppy Linux with current programs, Puppy 2.14x is particularly suitable.

Install Puppy can be in several ways:

With Grub. (Recommended only in low RAM) Work surface and programs

As a window manager uses Puppy JWM (Joe 's Window Manager) and Openbox.

Puppy comprises despite the small size extensive facilities of free programs for many applications. Compact programs with low power requirements determine the selection. Codecs and browser plug -ins are integrated.

ROX is the default file manager. Other applications include the word processor AbiWord, Gnumeric as a spreadsheet as Sylpheed as e- mail program.

Not popular programs contained herein may be easily installed later. As a browser, Lucid Puppy offers a selection mask Firefox, SeaMonkey, Chrome and Opera. SeaMonkey is the browser suite in Wary.

Puppy Linux variants (derivatives)

" Puplets " are remastered by members of the Puppy Community and tailored Puppy versions for different purposes.

Examples

  • Saluki, with Xfce desktop environment based on Racy 5.2 and aims to newer PCs.
  • Browser Linux is mainly used for surfing and listening music.
  • Classic Pup 2.14X is a building on 2:14 version especially for older hardware, with many updates.
  • Wary NOP ( Nearly Office Pup ) used Xfce 4 window manager and Thunar as a file manager.
  • Macpup (based on Puppy 5 " Lucid Puppy " ) uses the Enlightenment E17 window manager.
  • Quirky_140_de includes Xfce and German localizations and is a successor of " Puppy 431 in German ."

Versions

Operation and Features

When you first start Puppy Linux, you can make various settings: language, keyboard layout, graphics settings, such as screen resolution and color depth.

After that, the user finds a desktop with the icons for the most important programs. Puppy Linux is similar to Microsoft Windows using the " start menu " (bottom left, see picture) served. Switching from Windows have to get used to it, that you can click on the default setting only once with the left mouse button on the icons. This can also be changed in the ROX File Manager. The appearance of the programs is strongly reminiscent of the programs for the GNOME desktop.

Exiting Puppy Linux has the option settings, documents and spreadsheets, emails, browser settings, etc. store. Puppy Linux sets to a, seen from Windows, single large file on a Windows FAT32 partition where everything is stored. As a storage medium, both the hard disk, a CD -RW or a memory card ( for example, a Secure Digital Memory Card with USB Card Reader or similar) are used. This is exactly the same environment is obtained at the next start again with all settings and files, as in the previous exit. The data is stored in a file pup_save.2fs (or pup_save.3fs ), which internally has a ext file system structure and is automatically detected according to when you start Puppy Linux and mounted in the Linux file system.

License GNU Lesser General Public License Chihuahua (dog) Plug-in (computing) ROX Desktop Webbrowser Enlightenment (software) May 15 2006 July 29 2007 October 4 May 5 October 6 May 24 September 18 October 19 2010 May 25 August 11 September 6 2011 April 3 August 17 October 24 November 30 August 13 2013 CD-RW
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