Small but Featureful: Puppy Linux Reviewed 41
norhtec writes "Puppy Linux is a small distribution that fits on a business card-size CD-ROM or on a USB thumb drive. Puppy allows users to write data back onto their CD-ROM or thumb drive and features a complete assortment of office applications."
floppy boot (Score:1)
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Re:floppy boot (Score:1)
Write to CD-ROM? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Write to CD-ROM? (Score:1)
Re:Write to CD-ROM? (Score:1)
Listen up, people: (Score:2, Funny)
Feature! (Score:1)
write data back onto their CD
Now that's a FEATURE I'd love to have in my knoppix!
Re:Feature! (Score:1)
Loopback on the unused portion of a *RW (Score:1)
Sounds cool, you should write a HOW-TO and put it somewhere.
Re:Loopback on the unused portion of a *RW (Score:2, Informative)
It's not too difficult. Here are the basic steps:
Tcl and Tk (Score:4, Interesting)
http://www.prosa.it/etlinux/papers/linuxandc.en.h
although of course that was aimed at much smaller targets.
"Business card" CDs (Score:2)
Re:"Business card" CDs (Score:2)
The pros:
The cons:
Overall, I vastly prefer the 3.5" CD size. 210MB is enough for many things, and they are extremely portable. In a case, the 3.5" CD
Direct Link (Score:3, Insightful)
So I figured I'd give you a shortcut straight to the home page [goosee.com]...
After digging around a bit... (Score:2)
"This is the coolest thing I've ever seen!"
Re:After reading your comment a bit... (Score:2)
Which brings us to the question, what are you doing here?
Re:After reading your comment a bit... (Score:1)
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Colleges won't like it. (Score:1)
Running unapproved software on college machines can get you into enough trouble. Running an unapproved OS (like Knoppix) outside of a sandbox environment (like VMWare) is gauranteed to get your network access terminated.
That said, I used to run a Debian installation on one of the machines in the computer lab before they locked down the VMWare settings. They didn't mind, so long as I was really careful. (It was very possible to take down the campus network...all you had to do
OT: your sig (Score:1)
Do I have the "freedom" to have multiple wives? Liberalism would say I do. "Leftists" would say I don't. Fortunately, what you've confused as "Leftists" are really just liberals.
In case you haven't noticed, true liberals have always stood up for the rights of *everyone*, not just those with whom they agree. If there's a question as to the extent of
Re:OT: your sig (Score:2)
I don't have anything against "liberals" aside from the fact that they have stolen a perfectly good adjective/noun to apply to their squeamish brand of nanny-state collectivism, and they tend to be exploited as "useful fools" by the true Leftists.
Hmm (Score:3, Interesting)
Never really considered doing *both* though. Other than thinking you'd be really screwed if it ever got lost (then again, how hard is it really to plug into a machine and home, dd if=/dev/myusbdrive of=/home/myuid/backup.todaysdate && tarthefile && bzipit && ftpitsomeplace ?
Makes backing up easier anyway.
While I'm on the topic, perhaps
Okay, enough ranting for me.
Re:Hmm (Score:2)
So far as the simple backup goes, you can skip 'tarthefile', as it's only one file anyway.
Also, I'm still trying to get down how to do filesystem backups vs block device backups. I'm relatively knew to the unix scene (new as in I've 'grown up' on modern unix-type OS's), but if you look at apps like CarbonCopyCloner for MacOS X, it does an elaborate copy operations of the files in the filesystem from one formatted filesystem to another, then 'blesses
Another small distro (Score:3, Informative)
60hz refresh rate (Score:1)
Re:60hz refresh rate (Score:3, Informative)
Puppy is great (Score:1)
Really impressive (Score:2, Informative)
Its friggin fast (as it loads completely into the RAM). I was able to connect to my LAN via DHCP, mozilla has flash support preconfigured. I was able to play real audio, mp3, avi, mpg out of the box (i just tried this distro yday, wmv and wma is not playing out of the box, need to check it
create a USB stick installer (Score:3, Insightful)
Please, instead of lots of DOS commands, create a little self-contained application (e.g., in FLTK) that pulls over all the necessary files, finds the memory stick, copies everything over, and makes the thing bootable.
That's particularly important given one of the likely user communities for these kinds of Linux distributions: people who want to start experimenting with Linux without devoting a whole machine to it.
Re:create a USB stick installer (Score:2)
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Puppy love (Score:4, Informative)
For one example, last week I had SBC-Yahoo! DSL service started. It took two phone calls to SBC help to install (under Windows 98SE) the CD-ROM programs SBC bundled with, including a user name change and downloading IE-6 (which I would never, ever use) and allowing it to become my default browser. When all was done, I was told I had to reset the modem to the new username/pwd combo, which I did, all the while wondering how my Puppy would withstand the changes.
The answer was: Windows should be so easy. All it took was to click on the Ethernet/Network Wizard and choose DHCP -- and I was connected to SBC-Yahoo! with no further work and no need to reconcile a username/pwd for SBC-Yahoo! DSL.
Everything works and works together. I can make a graphic in Sodipodi and print it on a dead tree, or incorporate it into a document page in Scribus for typesetting or in Mozilla Composer or Abiword for export as htm.
If I highlight a selection of part of a URL and paste it into Mozilla Composer, it comes out looking like a real html page with no further work on my part, just like the 35-meg Mozilla installations I am used to.
There is a small database and Gaby, a personal db. Spreadsheets. A unit conversion utility (one of my main needs) and a choice of calculators.
I am using puppy right now to write this.
Nothing beats its speed, either (Duron 750 w/640 Mb RAM). Mozilla opens on first boot in less than two seconds (timed with a stopwatch!)
And if you're interested in security, its linux nature, needlessness of a hard disk and ability to physically possess all your data and applications is reassuring.
Plus it comes with exactly the applications I have been using for years under Red Hat-6.2: gFTP, Sylpheed mail, ytree file manager (in Pup-get archives) Sodipodi, Mozilla, Scribus. And did I mention it's the fastest OS I've ever used (with the exception of DOS-5 on an early Pentium) and IT JUST WORKS?
reinventing the reinvented wheel (Score:1)
GreyCat, MuLinux, Xdenu, 2diskXwin, NucLinux, SmallLinux, LoopLinux, PocketLinux, tomsrtbt, Trinux, CrashRecovery, LIAP, Giotto, Coyote, RIP, Ariane, FDLinux, IBIBLIO, FLI4l, LRP, Floppyfw, FrazierWall, Floppix, Monkey Linux
Is it just me, or do a ton of people out there do things without checking to see if someon
I've been using this for a while. (Score:2)
I've had a great deal of variation in success in booting from the USB keychain, so it's not as useful as I hoped it would be. But I do keep a CD in my laptop case and use it for rescue and other tasks I'd have used Knoppix for before.