Review: Puppy Linux
Submitted by srlinuxx on Wed, 07/18/2007 - 10:05.
Puppy Linux is a light weight Linux distribution built from scratch and born in mid 2002. It’s creator, Barry Kauler, originally created Puppy Linux as a fun project to do in his spare time. But recent tension in the community and Barry’s “Benevolent Dictator” approach to licensing and managing the distribution, mixed with his somewhat laid back and hands off, or at times overly aggressive form of management, have spawned some heated controversy of late. But internal politics aside, let’s get a look at this light weight distribution and all that it has to offer the end user.
Puppy Linux comes as a light weight 90mb ISO that can be burned to a mini-cd (210mb cd) and boots into a simple to use live cd session. Bootup into the live cd is quick and painless. You’re only asked what your preferred screen resolution is, your preferred Xwindows engine, and your keyboard type. The choices in Xwindows engines are, Xorg or Xvessa.
Interesting review, v2.18 of puppy ?
Puppylinux.com is still struggling with v2.17 beta or alpha. which has some bugs, but you could be lucky and never encounter any bugs if you are using PentiumIII? It works with Barry's many collection of computers including PentiumIV(no AMD?).
Barry now has a small business of selling official copies for developers, so you might find a few bugs, like puzzles, for your own gratifications of being a Linux expert to fix them. Or Puppy master Barry will make you a Linux master of sorts.
It is, however, important to know, Barry uses ext3 as partition in windows partition(hdd installation); and other fs to run all the applications in the ext3 fs, And would not work well with other linux in the same physical partition, only good for windows dual boot.
Puppy with its quick version release is for people who has time for the Puppy way of building a Linux operating system; tiny applications, minimum codes that you can reprogram, to create a fan club to sell a few official disks. You will have fun at $10 each to meet the challenge of testing them every 6-8 week period(high on the DW ratings). Not quite Mandriva cookers, but it maybe more fun for newbies to become experts quickly.
Once, you understand the make up of Puppy, and help with its repository of PET and other applications, you would be a devoted fan, hooked in the Puppy system. A respectable free Linux business creation.