Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is an evolutionary operating system, based onGNU Linux. It is a minimalist, JVM, Fvwm95 and IceWM based window managers, with a size of only 60 MB.

Puppy Linux's mission statement :

￭ Puppy will easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media. ￭ Booting from CD, Puppy will load totally into RAM so that the CD drive is then free for other purposes. ￭ Booting from CD, Puppy can save everything back to the CD, no need for a hard drive. ￭ Booting from USB, Puppy will greatly minimize writes, to extend the life of Flash devices indefinitely. ￭ Puppy will be extremely friendly for Linux newbies. ￭ Puppy will boot up and run extraordinarily fast. ￭ Puppy will have all the applications needed for daily use. ￭ Puppy will just work, no hassles. ￭ Puppy will breathe new life into old PCs

Let's have a look at the applications inside Puppy Linux:

Wordprocessing Abiword, imports & exports MS Word documents, embedded image editing

Instant messaging Gaim, supports IRC, ICQ, Jabber, MSN, Yahoo

Spreadsheet editor Gnumeric, imports & exports MS Excel

Vector image editing Sodipodi, Dia, Figurine

Audio Gxine to play local & streaming, Gplaycd, ripperX, Snack player, XS recorder

Conversion, printing, scanning GsView Postscript & PDF viewer, PDQ printing, etc

Window manager JWM, Fvwm95 & IceWM are packages

Web page editing Composer WYSIWYG editing, Bluefish code editing

Addressbook, Calendar Ical, Gaby, Agenda

File manager Rox-Filer, uXplor, MToolsFM, GTKSee

Outliner, organiser DidiWiki, (VYM, Tuxcards are packages)

Video Gxine to play DVDs, local & streaming Internet video

Package management PupGet, DotPup, point & click download and install lots of extra applications

Database Quisp SQL database & CGI

Personal accounting Xfinans personal accounting, Grisbi and Qhacc are packages

Web browser Mozilla, with Flash and Gxine multimedia plug-in

Desktop publishing Scribus, on CD or as a package

Bitmap image editing mtPaint, Xpaint & GIMP are packages

Games Gemgame, Bubbles, GTKfish, Rubix, tkMines

Network GKDial, Xeznet, Wvdial, Roaring Penguin, RDP, VNC, Superscan

Help Many megabytes of help pages in the Puppy CD

Not only that Puppy Linux can be installed anywhere you want, started from your hard drive, USB flash drive, zip disk, and also can be installed on the network or within an emulator, but Puppy Linux is also a Live CD, that loads in the RAM, and can be very fast and very easily used for any needs that you have.

Barry Kauler, Puppy Linux's creator, has named this distribution after his real dog, which name was Puppy.

Please enjoy the following screenshots we have made for this edition of Puppy Linux: