Puppy Linux
A slightly modified Puppy desktop with Mozilla and Gaim open
Website	www.puppylinux.com
Company/ developer	Barry Kauler
OS family	Linux
Source model	Open source
Latest stable release	3.01 "Very Happy" / 2007-10-15
Kernel type	Monolithic
License	Various
Working state	Current

Puppy Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution that is very small and focuses on ease of use. The entire operating system and all the applications run from RAM, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system starts. Included are applications such as SeaMonkey, AbiWord, Sodipodi, Gnumeric, and Gxine/xine. The distribution was developed from scratch by Barry Kauler; it is not based on any other distribution. Mozilla was the official, public, original name of Mozilla Application Suite by the Mozilla Foundation, nowadays called SeaMonkey suite. ... Gaim is a popular multi-platform instant messaging client that supports many commonly used instant messaging protocols. ... A website (alternatively, web site or Web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos or other digital assets that is hosted on one or more web servers, usually accessible via the Internet. ... The term software company could be applied to: a) a company that produces software, distributes software from a third party, or provides services such as custom software development. ... For other uses, see Software developer (disambiguation). ... This article is about operating systems that use the Linux kernel. ... Open source refers to projects that are open to the public and which draw on other projects that are freely available to the general public. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... A kernel connects the application software to the hardware of a computer. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... Gnoppix 0. ... Ubuntu, a popular Linux Distribution A Linux distribution (also called GNU/Linux distribution and often simply distribution or distro) is a member of the Linux family of Unix-like computer operating systems. ... I love the Ease of getting into your mothers pants. ... Look up RAM, Ram, ram in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... An operating system (OS) is a software that manages computer resources and provides programmers with an interface used to access those resources. ... SeaMonkey is a free, open source, and cross-platform Internet suite that is the continuation of the former Mozilla Application Suite. ... AbiWord is a Free Software word processor licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... Sodipodi is a free software vector graphics editor released under the GNU GPL It is designed specifically around the SVG standard, using the file format (with some extensions to hold metadata) as its native storage format. ... Gnumeric is a free spreadsheet program that is part of the GNOME desktop. ... xine (officially pronounced [ksi:n], like the name Maxine without Ma[1]) is a multimedia playback engine for Unix-like operating systems released under the GNU General Public License. ...

The latest release is 3.01, released on 2007-10-15.^[1] Year 2007 (MMVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. ... is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

Features

Puppy can be useful for working on old computers, as an emergency rescue system, as a Linux demonstration system, or as a complete general purpose operating system. It can boot from:

• A USB flash drive/keydrive or any other bootable USB storage device (flash-Puppy)
• A CD-ROM (live-Puppy), with six flavours to choose from.
• A Zip drive or LS-120/240 SuperDisk (zippy-Puppy)
• An internal hard drive (hard-Puppy)
• A computer network (thin-Puppy)
• An emulator (emulated-puppy)
• A floppy boot disk that loads the rest of the operating system from a USB drive, CD-ROM, or internal hard drive

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GUI

Desktop with one of multiple integrated themes with XMMS, mtPaint and gxine running plus an opened text file under Puppy Linux 2.15 CE Viz (with default WM: IceWM)

Puppy comes with a choice of 2 graphical servers: X.org (full-featured) and Xvesa (lightweight). A wizard during the start-up process guides the user through setting up a graphical server appropriate for their video card & monitor. At the end of the wizard the user will be presented with a desktop and window manager; the default WM in most Puppy releases is JWM. The 2.15 Community Edition provides the IceWM manager by default. Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 154 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1024 × 768 pixel, file size: 154 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... The X.Org logo The X.Org Foundation is the consortium holding the stewardship for the development of the X Window System. ... A window manager is computer software that controls the placement and appearance of windows within a windowing system in a graphical user interface; they are typically associated with X Window (see X window manager), but alternative shells for Microsoft Windows have also emerged. ... JWM (Joes Window Manager) is a window manager for the X Window System. ... In Unix computing, IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System graphical infrastructure, written by Marko Maček. ...

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When the operating system boots, everything in the Puppy package uncompresses into a RAM area, the "ramdisk". The PC needs to have at least 128 MB of RAM (with no more than 8 MB shared video) for all of Puppy to load into the ramdisk, however it is possible for it to run on a PC with only about 48 MB of RAM because part of the system can be kept on the hard drive, or in the worst case, left on the CD. A ramdisk is a filesystem that resides in volatile, random access memory. ...

Puppy is fairly full-featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk; applications were chosen that met various constraints, size in particular. Because one of the aims of the distribution is to be extremely easy to set up, there are a number of wizards that take the user through the process of a range of common tasks. A wizard is an interactive computer program acting as an interface to lead a user through a complex task using dialog steps. ...

Package management

Puppy Linux comes with two package managers, PupGet and DotPup, for use when running it.

Puppy Unleashed is available for creating a custom live CD. It consists of the more than 500 packages that are put together to create Puppy.

Puppy Linux 2.10 used the T2 SDE build scripts to build the base binary packages. T2 is a flexible Open Source System Development Environment (SDE) that allows the automated creation of Operating System with bleeding edge technology. ...

History

SeaMonkey, AbiWord and MineSweeper running under Puppy Linux 2.13

Starting with version 3.00, Puppy Linux features Slackware 12 compatibility.^[2] This is accomplished by the inclusion of almost all the dependencies needed for the installation of Slackware packages. However, this does not mean that Puppy Linux is now a Slackware-based distribution.^[3] Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 1024 pixel, file size: 290 KB, MIME type: image/png) Applications: SeaMonkey, AbiWord and MineSweeper runnig under Puppy Linux 2. ... Image File history File links Size of this preview: 750 × 600 pixelsFull resolution (1280 × 1024 pixel, file size: 290 KB, MIME type: image/png) Applications: SeaMonkey, AbiWord and MineSweeper runnig under Puppy Linux 2. ... Slackware was one of the earliest Linux distributions, and is the oldest, and most UNIX-like, distribution still being maintained[1]. It was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. ... This page provides general information about notable Linux distributions in the form of a categorized list. ...

Puppy version 2.14 (86.5 MB) uses the Mozilla-based SeaMonkey as its Internet suite (primarily a web browser and e-mail client). It comes in different sized editions. Internet suite - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... An example of a Web browser (Mozilla Firefox) A web browser is a software application that enables a user to display and interact with text, images, videos, music and other information typically located on a Web page at a website on the World Wide Web or a local area network. ...

• The standard edition uses AbiWord as the word processor and is 68 MB; a live-CD ISO file with Mozilla Firefox is 52.4 MB; with the full Mozilla suite it is 55.3 MB; with Opera it is 49.6 MB.
• A 96.1 MB "Chubby Puppy" version includes the OpenOffice.org suite as well.
• A 39.9 MB "BareBones Puppy" version contains no GUI,
• and an 83 MB "zdrv" standard edition, which contains more kernel drivers and firmware.

Along with Morphix, Puppy Linux is one of the few Linux Live CD distributions able to save files to the Live CD itself (multisession), allowing users to carry data, and more importantly, added programs and customized settings, along with them in the CD. Puppy-multisession is 55.7 MB. AbiWord is a Free Software word processor licensed under the GNU General Public License. ... A word processor (also more formally known as a document preparation system) is a computer application used for the production (including composition, editing, formatting, and possibly printing) of any sort of viewable or printed material. ... This article is about a unit of data. ... Mozilla (a. ... Opera is a web browser and Internet suite developed by the Norwegian Opera Software company. ... OpenOffice. ... Barebone (Barebone Computers) is a half-assembled platform that consists of a case with a power supply, a mainboard preinstalled into the system case, and a cooling system. ... GUI redirects here. ... Morphix desktop Morphix is a modular Linux distribution, based on Knoppix (which is in turn based on Debian). ... Note: this article name (or a redirect to it) is a homophone with cession. ...

Puppy 1 series will run comfortably on very dated hardware. For newer systems, the USB keydrive version might be better (although if USB device booting is not directly supported in the BIOS, the Puppy floppy boot disk can be used to kick-start it). It is possible to run Puppy Linux with Windows 9x/Windows Me. It is also possible, if the BIOS does not support booting from USB drive, to boot from the CD and keep user state on a USB keydrive; this will be saved on shutdown and read from the USB device on bootup. For other uses, see Bios. ... Windows 9x is the family of Microsoft Windows operating systems that comprises the 32-bit, DOS-based Windows versions: Windows 95, Windows 98, and often also Windows Me. ... Windows Millennium Edition, or Windows Me (IPA pronunciation: [miː], [ɛm iː]), is a hybrid 16-bit/32-bit graphical operating system released on September 14, 2000 by Microsoft. ...

List of Puppy Linux Derivatives

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References

See also

• Mini Linux

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External links

• Official website
• Community website
• Official (?) Forum
• Puppy Linux at DistroWatch
• Puppy Linux Review
• Getting to know Puppy Linux
• An In-Depth Look at Puppy Linux
• One year with Puppy Linux - DistroWatch Featured Story
• Running Puppy Linux inside Mac OS X, - A tutorial on running Puppy Linux using Q to emulate it, before transferring it to a 256MB+ USB memory stick.
• ReviewLinux.Com: Puppy Meet My USB Key