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Puppy Linux works.

trawler69

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Wow finally found a Linux distro that is ridiculously easy to set up and use Puppy Linux It is less than 100MB will install itself on a USB stick. Runs completely from RAM so is very fast. Has a full range of applications. Supports wireless networking (OK it took 10 mins to get it to work but better than the hours it took with Ubuntu 7.04) Its really easy to use, gives full access to all your drives and folders. It boots from usb stick in 40 seconds (P4 2.4 GHz 500 M Ram) On my mates old laptop it boots in 25 secs from HD install (P3 600MHz 300ish M Ram)

If anyone is looking for a small fast easy to use Linux to play with I recommend this highly. Does anyone else have experience with it?
 
trawler69 said:
Wow finally found a Linux distro that is ridiculously easy to set up and use Puppy Linux It is less than 100MB will install itself on a USB stick. Runs completely from RAM so is very fast. Has a full range of applications. Supports wireless networking (OK it took 10 mins to get it to work but better than the hours it took with Ubuntu 7.04) Its really easy to use, gives full access to all your drives and folders. It boots from usb stick in 40 seconds (P4 2.4 GHz 500 M Ram) On my mates old laptop it boots in 25 secs from HD install (P3 600MHz 300ish M Ram)

If anyone is looking for a small fast easy to use Linux to play with I recommend this highly. Does anyone else have experience with it?
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Version 2.14 is great. It comes with an installation program and Grub, allowing a muliboot system. On an old laptop (pentium I 233-96 MB), I had a triple boot system with msdos622+wfw311/win98/puppy linux.
 
T-Rexx said:
Puppy Linux is great! It is astonishingly small and fast, and makes very old hardware look like some kind of powerful new computer. Despite it's diminutive size, it is fully multimedia-capable. It can play DVDs and media files.

Because of its small size, Puppy Linux is often embedded in small computing devices. It happens also to run well on the United Nation's OLPC.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDTLJYDHX3g
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:rotflmao: that video was so lame

but i will have to give it a try if you can run it from a usb drive
 
I am writing this from Firefox on Puppy. I am using Puppy 2.16 and it reads and writes to NTFS partitions. I have full access to my windows XP folder. I am running it from a 256 MB memory stick though I would recommend a bigger one. I even notice it is spell checking as I type. I am on a wireless network and can access files on other networked computers but am not sure how I did that.
 
I found that with the settings file and also all the bookmarks, temp internet files messenger logs extra stuff you download it gets quite full especially if you use it for saving stuff you are working on rather than use the hard disk I am usiing 233 of 256 MB. Incidentaly I put firefox on it which everything I read said was a bit of a fiddle with a terminal window or what ever they call it in Puppy. Instead I just downloaded it, unzipped it, found the launcher file, dragged it to the desktop, right clicked and selected choose icon, opend the downloaded icon folder found the Firefox icon and dragged it into the dialogue box and voila clicked (one click BTW) and it launched. Set up MSN and Yahpoo in Gaim worked straight away. Seriously this is ideal for old computers with limited resources. Vista or OS X it is not. I would rate it over win 98 for ease of learning and getting things to work. Of course software compatibility will always be a problem but for a day to day office workhorse I think it would be fine.

Even machines that can't boot off USB can use it off a memory stick using a boot floppy which it will create, that enables the usb ports to allow it to boot from the stick. As you may note I am quite excited by this. 3 computers on my home network are now using it. Only one problem with a ps2 mouse on an old laptop messes up after Puppy has been run. This comp has it installed to a hard drive partition, the touchpad still works fine.
 
This all sounds very interesting. :D

I'm off to download my very own Puppy right now. ..|
 
Just made a quick youtube of it booting off a pen drive, enabling wireless and navigating to jub in Firefox. Only downloaded yesterday and for such a small OS the ease with which it worked was amazing. I know I am sounding like a fucking evangelist but I don't intend to convert anyone just invite them to have a look and a play with another O/S with minimum hassle factor. Ubuntu was ok but no good for older computers, it needs 256 Meg ram to work and is also a bit slower than XP.

 
:lol: oh guys this is cool. see trawler that is exactly how i felt when i first tried knoppix 3.5 i think it was. I'll try puppy maybe...um i'm gone tomorrow and it's bed time now...um maybe on thursday or friday night. ;)
 
As Linux seems to be the topic of the day I thought I would bump this. Yesterday I installed Puppy on an ancient p3 machine with a bios that can't boot from usb. I installed it to a usb stick and used the included utility to make a boot floppy. It will now boot from the stick using the floppy to enable the usb. It will also work on a computer that can't boot from CD as well, I tested it by removing the cd drives from the startup order and the floppy booted the CD. My mate tried it on an antique laptop with 32 meg ram and a 133MHz processor. It ran but very slowly because of the memory.
 
Ah yes that was to get knoppix to run from a memory stick on an old computer I think. Puppy turned out to be better because of its support for wireless networking and its small size and the fact it runs purely from Ram if it is available.

One other thing I forgot to mention is that if you run it from a multi session cd it will save your settings back to the disk at the end of each session so that your hard drive is not required nor is a memory stick.
 
Brief update. Have solved the prob of wep encyption and having to enter password every time you boot. It is merely a matter of changing the prefix to your password in etc / wlan0 to s: to indicate that the password is ascii. I installed skype in a few seconds and it works all beit in a limited form in that it doesn't support sms messaging and video. Msn, Yahpoo, aim etc work fine with gaim. If you want to see what linux is about this is a fairly pain free introduction.
 
i'm downloading puppy now. hey trawler, could you tell me the name of the utility to run to make a boot floppy that enables the CD and/or USB drives?

thanks
 
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