Puppy Linux 4.0 Review
Submitted by srlinuxx on Mon, 09/01/2008 - 04:19.
After my last review of Puppy Linux, I was very skeptical about the new release. But, I'll say right away that it has improved quite a bit.
From the "mount" icon on the desktop, I was very easily able to mount my USB drive. Even though this is automatic in other distributions, it's made very easy in Puppy, and I suppose the distro is lighter because it doesn't have an auto mount service running. One thing that Puppy needs to do is put an icon on the desktop once it's mounted. It took me a few minutes to figure out that you have to click on mount again, and click on the icon for your appropriate disk. It's a little redundant, if you ask me. I later found an option in the menu which will change this behaviour. If you go to "menu", "desktop", "hotpup desktop drive icons" it gives you the option to put an icon on the desktop when it mounts the drive. I still feel that icons should be put on the desktop by default.
Once I had my USB drive mounted, I was easily able to retrieve my WEP key from the text file which opened in the default text editor Geany.
Barry works on kernels ? Automount is in the apps ?
In the kernel, codes had to scan for USB hotplug. Barry just fix kernels for apps, once he tries the apps in his kernel symlinks and blacklists other symlinks.
Udev gets the drivers.
It can also send the mount command to the kernel or send the icon to the video layout engine on the desktop, without kernels ever scanning for hotplug events.
So, Puppy is still full of sweetspots; Puppy developers are trained to puzzle out the sweet spots? Reasons for loyal Puppy followers; same sweetspots are always present.
Me? I moved onto instant-on philosophy. Once, you stripped down to bare knuckles; hotplug event codes will do everything to the L2 cache in the cpu; once bios found the cpu? I love Debian philosophy of kernel independence(Apps go direct to L2 cache; cpu operates Linux kernels)?