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Puppy Linux 4.0 released: Linux for your flash drive
by Brad Linder May 5th 2008 at 1:00PM
Puppy Linux is one of the most popular thumb drive Linux distributions. What that means is the entire operating system weighs in at less than 100MB, and can be run on any computer just by plugging in a USB flash drive. But unlike some thumb drive distros, Puppy Linux provides such a robust desktop experience that you could seriously make a case for running Puppy as your primary operating system, at least on older machines with slow processors and small hard drives.
Puppy Linux 4.0 Dingo is the latest version of Puppy, and it packs all the usual goodies like the SeaMonkey internet suite (which is a Mozilla product with a Firefox-like web browser), AbiWord word processor, and Gnumeric spreadsheet application. But there are also a bunch of improvements over Puppy 3, including:
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Support for scanners and digital cameras
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Audio recording, editing, and conversion software
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New GTK2 applications including ePDFView, Pschedule, Pcdripper, Pburn, and Pnethood
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Automatic selection of native screen resolutions for LCD monitors
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A new theme and background
Puppy 4.0 uses the same 2.6.21.7 kernel as Puppy 3, which was released 6 months ago. But there's an optional version of Puppy 4.0 that uses the 2.6.25 kernel for bleeding edge types. Some Puppy features have been reported not to work as well with the newer kernel.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
cubiclegangsta said 6:21AM on 5-06-2008
I am awaiting delivery of an ebay purchase:
(1) Thinkpad 570 Pentium II 366Mhz, 128ram and
(1) Thinkpad 570 Pentium III 450Mhz, 64ram
Cost: $27
Oh, yes, they will run Dingo. like a fox.
Priceless.
MuahahaAhAhAhAa, SUCK IT, VISTA!
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cubiclegangsta said 3:41AM on 5-06-2008
oh. and also.... FIRST! SUCK IT, WORLD!
bondjxz said 12:44PM on 5-06-2008
thanks
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Rex said 7:59AM on 5-12-2008
I have a question, DSL or puppy? i like DSL, but is puppy better? should i go through with the trouble of downloading it (i have dialup, thats why is just can't download both and check)? any recommendations?
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Rex said 5:31AM on 5-12-2008
psst, btw, forgot to add, i already have dsl 4.2.4 (took me three days)
Brad Linder said 8:00AM on 5-12-2008
That all depends on what you mean by "better." Both distros are lightweight and run great on slower hardware. Puppy is a bit more familiar for anyone who's used to Windows.
Mephi said 8:38PM on 5-19-2008
Beautiful !!!
I have played with Peanut Linux Before and wish there was a fresh distro with more features. I think I have found a solution in Dingo !!!
I had so many problems with spyware, malware and all kinds of wares. Finally found in Dingo a solution. No need for DeepFreeze.
Browsing is a breeze. There are some compatibility issues, of course and I cannot find all the applications I need, like a Music OCR Reader. But I have been told Wine is a possibility - That I will try. Muse Score is almost finished (0.9.2) and Resegarden is already there.
My wife complains that she cannot read the Protected pdf files from her e-learning university. So it is an issue I need to fix.
The Puppy community is great and usually is easy to get help fast. So that is real plus !!
I tried many bloated and small distros. I find Dingo a great option and with a lot of possibilities. ... it made me leave XP SP3 ...
Bye
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xavier said 6:36AM on 6-19-2008
hola disculpen podrian enviarme los pasos para instalar puppy linux y he entrado a la mayoria de los tutoriales de internet pero no sirven de nada ya que hago todo pero no me bootea(arranca) el pendrive no se que hacer ya llevo bastante tiempo tratando de bootear mi USB y no lo logro bueno yo tengo window xp una pentiun 4 un usb de 2.0 gb en verdad ya he revisado tooodos lo tutoriales pero ninguno me sirve espearre su respuesta porfa ayudeme que tengo que presentar como proyecto en mi u en verdad lo he intentado pero no sale…
De antemano gracias…
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xavier said 1:14AM on 6-19-2008
hola disculpen podrian enviarme los pasos para instalar puppy linux y he entrado a la mayoria de los tutoriales de internet pero no sirven de nada ya que hago todo pero no me bootea(arranca) el pendrive no se que hacer ya llevo bastante tiempo tratando de bootear mi USB y no lo logro bueno yo tengo window xp una pentiun 4 un usb de 2.0 gb en verdad ya he revisado tooodos lo tutoriales pero ninguno me sirve espearre su respuesta porfa ayudeme que tengo que presentar como proyecto en mi u en verdad lo he intentado pero no sale…
De antemano gracias…
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