are there any puppy linux users here?

[OBLAMA2009]

it is one of the most useful versions in my opinion since you dont need to load it onto a hard drive to try it out

 

[BlueAcolyte]

It's kinda limiting... The GUI is better and it comes with more nice stuff than DSL, but the save feature is bugged (will crash if you try to load a session for me).

Anyway, almost all linux distros have live CDs that allow you to try the distro before you install it.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
it is one of the most useful versions in my opinion since you dont need to load it onto a hard drive to try it out

If there is a LiveCD for a distro then it doesn't need to load to a HDD. This isn't unique to this distro that you are talking about.

-Kevin

 

[dennilfloss]

You should try TinyMe.

http://www.tinymelinux.com/doku.php

 

[Fallen Kell]

I like DSL to be honest for CD distros, (Damn Small Linux). It's only 50MB, and has just about everything you need for desktop use (and boots pretty darn fast, since it is only 50MB, it doesn't take too long...)

 

[OBLAMA2009]

what i meant was that it was designed to be run from memory so you dont need to load it onto a hard drive to find out how it will run at its best. other distros have live cd's but they arent very useable

 

[lxskllr]

Puppy's nice. I don't use it often, but it's my goto distro when I want something very light.

 

[SickBeast]

I like Puppy, but it's pretty limited.

I prefer Pendrivelinux.

I'm installing the Ubuntu 9.04 Alpha 6 onto my USB drive so I'll let you know how that pans out. On my hard drive it's awesome and it boots in 20 seconds flat.

 

[lakedude]

Huge Puppy fan here. Best distro ever IMHO. Puppy runs a newer kernel than DSL so Puppy works better with newer hardware. At under 100MB Puppy is hardly bloated. It is super fast since it is small and loads completely to RAM.

In what way do you find Puppy to be "limited"? Puppy has a package manager so adding new applications/features is really easy.

I'm sure Puppy is not for everyone but for me it RULZ!

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: lakedude
Huge Puppy fan here. Best distro ever IMHO. Puppy runs a newer kernel than DSL so Puppy works better with newer hardware. At under 100MB Puppy is hardly bloated. It is super fast since it is small and loads completely to RAM.

In what way do you find Puppy to be "limited"? Puppy has a package manager so adding new applications/features is really easy.

I'm sure Puppy is not for everyone but for me it RULZ!

I didn't like the fact that I was stuck with a cropped-down obsolete version of OpenOffice.

I didn't like the fact that I was stuck with .pup files for any of the programs, and that the selection was so limited compared to things like Ubuntu.

It's a cool little system for what it does. It's the most efficient OS I have used. I like the Mac "puplets". I just found Pendrivelinux to be overall better for what I needed it to do. I'm putting Ubuntu 9 on my USB key tonight so we'll see how that goes.

 

[SickBeast]

The USB installer on Ubuntu 9.04 appears to be broken, for those that are interested. It also does not work using Unetbootin.

 

[SickBeast]

I digress; the new Puppy called "Woof" allows you to use the Ubuntu repositories to install anything you want.

Puppy is now a serious OS to be reckoned with.

For whatever reason, Woof will not work on my computer. I just tried it on my parents' machine, and it looked pretty cool.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek

Originally posted by: OBLAMA2009
it is one of the most useful versions in my opinion since you dont need to load it onto a hard drive to try it out

If there is a LiveCD for a distro then it doesn't need to load to a HDD. This isn't unique to this distro that you are talking about.

-Kevin

Puppy is the only distro that allows you to actually install applications to the Live CD itself. You don't need to install it to the hard drive, ever, if you don't want to. You can even save the files you create while you're working. It saves a "pup save" file to the CD when you shut down.

 

[Nothinman]

Puppy is the only distro that allows you to actually install applications to the Live CD itself.

You can install stuff in the Ubuntu live CDs while they run. All of the changes written to the ramdisk are lost on reboot, but if I wanted a custom live CD I'd just make one myself.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Puppy is the only distro that allows you to actually install applications to the Live CD itself.

You can install stuff in the Ubuntu live CDs while they run. All of the changes written to the ramdisk are lost on reboot, but if I wanted a custom live CD I'd just make one myself.

Perhaps you're not following. You can use the Puppy CD as though it were a hard drive. Ubuntu cannot do this. The disc is already full at 697mb. With Puppy, the ISO is only 100mb, leaving you 600mb with which to install more programs and save all your documents. It's a pretty amazing feature IMO. I think Puppy is going to be one of the top distributions in the future.

 

[degibson]

Originally posted by: SickBeast

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Puppy is the only distro that allows you to actually install applications to the Live CD itself.

You can install stuff in the Ubuntu live CDs while they run. All of the changes written to the ramdisk are lost on reboot, but if I wanted a custom live CD I'd just make one myself.

Perhaps you're not following. You can use the Puppy CD as though it were a hard drive. Ubuntu cannot do this. The disc is already full at 697mb. With Puppy, the ISO is only 100mb, leaving you 600mb with which to install more programs and save all your documents. It's a pretty amazing feature IMO. I think Puppy is going to be one of the top distributions in the future.

I dunno -- I think CDs will go the way of the dodo rather soon.

 

[SickBeast]

Originally posted by: degibson
I dunno -- I think CDs will go the way of the dodo rather soon.

It's useful in a pinch.

Puppy has such diverse install options it's absolutely incredible. You can install it to a USB drive that's formatted in FAT32 containing a bunch of Windows files. You can put it on your hard drive. You can give it its own partition. It's pretty neat and very efficient.

I'm trying to install OpenOffice 3 onto Puppy right now. I already managed to get Opera 10 on there. I'm getting back into Puppy; it's a cool program.

 

[lakedude]

Originally posted by: SickBeast
I'm getting back into Puppy; it's a cool program.

It really is, and the price is about right too...

 

[HarryAngel]

Puppy rocks! light, fast and reliable

 

[GundamSonicZeroX]

I like Puppy Linux, but I can never get wireless internet working no matter how hard I try. I can get it working in XUbuntu though.

 

[DoubleHelix747]

noob to Linux here... will puppy be the most optimum distro for a circa 2000 laptop (P4 1.7GHz 256MB RAM) if all I wanted to do was (1) surfing - 90% of the time (2) occasionally work with OpenOffice (3) be able to read PDF files. I know it comes with Seamonkey, but can I run FireFox at an "acceptable" speed with puppy on this laptop? Is there a better distro that is more optimal for the laptop I have and the functionality I need? How about if I upgrade the RAM to 512MB for $25? TIA.

 

[lxskllr]

Puppy would probably be fastest. Xubuntu should also run well, especially if you go with 512mb. Xubuntu would feel more modern, and have more features.

 

[lakedude]

A new version of Puppy is out BTW...

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=05400

 

[lakedude]

Originally posted by: DoubleHelix747
noob to Linux here... will puppy be the most optimum distro for a circa 2000 laptop (P4 1.7GHz 256MB RAM) if all I wanted to do was (1) surfing - 90% of the time (2) occasionally work with OpenOffice (3) be able to read PDF files. I know it comes with Seamonkey, but can I run FireFox at an "acceptable" speed with puppy on this laptop? Is there a better distro that is more optimal for the laptop I have and the functionality I need? How about if I upgrade the RAM to 512MB for $25? TIA.

Puppy will work great even without the RAM upgrade.

Puppy definitely reads PDFs:

http://img228.imageshack.us/img228/2097/pdf.png

FireFox can definitely be easily added to Puppy:

http://img80.imageshack.us/img...ywithextrastuffzv5.png

I'm pretty sure adding Open Office would not be a problem but I've not done it myself.