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| '''Puppy Linux''' is a very small, yet full featured. Puppy boots up to what feels and looks very familiar to Windows users. If you burn a distro and boot from the CD and then remove the CD, Puppy carries on working. Puppy boots into a 64MB ramdisk. Puppy runs from Ram with applications such as the ], Ted and a complete set of programs. Applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off: | |||
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| A final point is that Puppy is incredibly fully featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk, but applications were chosen that met various constraints. Size in particular. This means that Puppy has great GUI apps but some may not be as flashy as encountered elsewhere. Puppy goes for serviceability, simplicity and efficiency rather than bloat and eye-candy. | A final point is that Puppy is incredibly fully featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk, but applications were chosen that met various constraints. Size in particular. This means that Puppy has great GUI apps but some may not be as flashy as encountered elsewhere. Puppy goes for serviceability, simplicity and efficiency rather than bloat and eye-candy. | ||
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Puppy Linux is a very small, yet full featured. Puppy boots up to what feels and looks very familiar to Windows users. If you burn a distro and boot from the CD and then remove the CD, Puppy carries on working. Puppy boots into a 64MB ramdisk. Puppy runs from Ram with applications such as the Dillo Browser, Ted and a complete set of programs. Applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off:
- Flash card or any USB memory device (flash-Puppy)
- CDROM (live-Puppy)
- Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk (zippy-Puppy)
- Floppy disks (floppy-Puppy)
- Internal hard drive (hard-Puppy)
These options to create a Puppy version for hard disk, USB, Zip disk etc can be done from within Puppy.
A new version codenamed Hairy Nosed Wombat Linux is in preparation.
When Puppy boots, everything uncompresses into a RAM area - the "ramdisk". The PC needs to have at least 128M RAM (with no more than 8M shared video) for all of Puppy to load into a ramdisk.
Puppy will work on a PC with only 48M RAM, however not everything will fit in the ramdisk and part of the system has to be kept on the hard drive or in the worst case left on the CD -- Puppy analyses your PC at bootup and this all happens automatically.
Booting off a CDROM or hard drive takes about 25 seconds total from a CD.
A final point is that Puppy is incredibly fully featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk, but applications were chosen that met various constraints. Size in particular. This means that Puppy has great GUI apps but some may not be as flashy as encountered elsewhere. Puppy goes for serviceability, simplicity and efficiency rather than bloat and eye-candy.