User:Rockwell.M/Puppy Linux

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Puppy Linux
Puppy Linux 4.00 with applications running
DeveloperBarry Kauler
OS familyLinux
Working stateCurrent
Source modelOpen source
Latest release4.00 "Dingo" / May 4, 2008 (2008-05-04)
Marketing targetLive CD and aged systems
Package managerPetGet
Kernel typeMonolithic kernel (Linux)
Default
user interface		JWM
LicenseVarious
Official websitewww.puppylinux.com

Puppy Linux is a Live CD Linux distribution. Its primary aims are to be lightweight (generally under 100MB), and easy to use (especially for new linux users). It was designed and is primarily maintained by Barry Kauler, and has a fairly active forum and community surrounding it.

The latest release is 4.00, released on 2008-05-04.[1]

Features[edit]

Puppy can be booted from:

Installing a version of Puppy on a hard disk, USB disk, Zip disk, etc. can be done from live CD or another existing installation.

Puppy Linux is also designed to (where possible) copy all files required to run the system into the RAM. This allows the boot media to be removed, and the drive or port used for other purposes, as well as considerably speeding up the system.

One feature of Puppy Linux is the ability to run a normal working environment on a write-once CD. (It does not require a rewritable CD.) Puppy automatically detects changes in the file system and saves them incrementally on the CD. When the CD is full, users can easily switch to a new CD while carrying over all their files and desktop environment. Puppy

Puppy Linux also features a write-caching system designed to extend the life of USB flash drives that it runs from.

GUI[edit]

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.

Packages to install IceWM, Fluxbox and Enlightenment are also available via a link on the Puppy Linux Wiki.

Operation[edit]

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.

Puppy is fairly full-featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk; applications were chosen that met various constraints, size in particular. There are a number of wizards that take the user through the process of a range of common tasks, as well as custom made programs created by the Puppy community.

Package management and distribution management[edit]

Puppy Linux comes with a package manager called PetGet. These packages are similar to Slackware packages in that they are a GZipped TAR archive containing the package and install scripts. However, along with some structural differences, PET packages also support dependencies, menu entries and other metadata. .[2]

Another kind of packages, DotPups, were used in previous versions of the system and are still mostly compatible.

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

Puppy also comes with a remaster tool that takes a snapshot of the current system and creates a new live-CD from it.

Puppy Linux uses the T2 SDE build scripts to build the base binary packages.

History[edit]

Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux 3 features Slackware 12 compatibility.[3] 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.[4]

Puppy 4 is a partial redesign created after the developer felt that Puppy 3 was too bloated.[5] It is no longer specifically slackware compatible, but most packages should still work.

List of Puppy Linux derivatives[edit]

This is partially compiled list of the current derivatives in development according to List of Puppy Linux Derivatives Community Website and Ongoing Puplet Family Tree

Name Window Manager Description Size MB
NOP Xfce Based on 3.01. Uses Opera instead of Seamonkey and does not include Abiword by default. 120
Barebones None Puppy 1.0.3 for slow connections that uses the dillo browser (no Firefox, Opera or Mozilla) and notably does not include Abiword 40
BioPuppy JWM Puplet for Bio-informatics learners and beginners to Linux OS with pre-installed biology tools. BioPuppy site www.biopuppy.org 180
DCL Xfce Based on 3.01 with Xfce 4.4.2 for everyday user 173
Digipup JWM Derivative customized for Ham radio users 97
DragonPup Xfce Used Fatfree Puppy to created a stylish, Xfce-based puplet with Firefox, The GIMP, multimedia 108
EcoPup JWM? Beta with Firefox 2 and OpenOffice 2 zipped up (for use once installed) rather than preloaded 668
eBoxPup JWM? Alpha Puppy for the eBox 2300 with Opera 57
EduPup JWM? Puppy 2.11 with other kid's software such as: TuxType2, TuxMath, GcompriS (also with Italian sounds), SuperTux - and TuxPaint (with tuxpaint-ConfiG and TuxStamp). 166
Empty Crust JWM Very modular - Stripped away Puppy 45
eXpand Barbie JWM Puplet for women with Xfce, StumbleUpon and 60+ links to flash games online including Bubbles. 245
eXpand DOFUS JWM Puplet based around playing the MMORPG DOFUS. Includes many other programs as well for a complete web environment. Based on Puppy 2.14 and made by lvds. 263
Fat Free JWM 2.17 cutdown to add your own pets 51
Fire Hydrant JWM Firefox, flash, java, plus thunderbird, sunbird and lightning so you can get your mail and your calendar in one app. plus icewm, and 19 themes, a few new games in the firefox tool menu, xmms with a Sony skin, Limewire, shutterbug, Gimpshop, Yahoo messenger, aMSN messenger,etc a lot was added and no scripts removed. 192
Gamepup Xfce Very early alpha aimed at games 125
GrafPup Xfce Customized for graphic designers and other imaging professionals with current versions of Gimp, Cinepaint, Inkscape, and Scribus. Also has 397MB deluxe version 80
Hacao IceWM Hacao is Vietnamese. The project's purpose is a complete, yet lightweight operating system that can run on low-specification computers. The entire user interface of Hacao has been translated into Vietnamese. 80
Icepup JWM Minimalist puplet with wired and wireless network support. Firefox, Leafpad and VI Console Editor are the only applications present. Icepup website 60
KDEPuppy KDE Based on Puppy 1.07 and in alpha developmental stage 125
PuppyRus JWM Russian localized Puppy based v. 3.01 117

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kauler, Barry. "Puppy Dingo 4.00 released".
  2. ^ Kauler, Barry. "Puppy Package Management".
  3. ^ Kauler, Barry. "Puppy 3.00 Released (Updated to 3.01)".
  4. ^ Kauler, Barry. "Puppy Linux release notes v3.00".
  5. ^ Kauler, Barry. "Puppy Developer News".

See also[edit]

External links[edit]

Category:Live CD Category:USB-bootable Linux distributions Category:Light-weight Linux distributions

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