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Macpup Opera adds a little sizzle to Puppy's minimalist core
by Lee Mathews Jun 19th 2009 at 4:00PM
When it comes to lightweight Linux distros, there are two key names people usually mention: Damn Small and Puppy. They're both great, but if you'd prefer a bit more polish on your desktop, the Macpup Opera remix might be just what you're looking for.
If you're an Opera fan and a Linux experimenter, this distro is a double win for you. As you'd guess from the full name, Opera (9.64) is baked in. SeaMonkey is also included, and other browsers are just a repository away. MacPup bundles additional programs for just about every common task, including apps like Transmission, Gnumeric, AbiWord, Gxine, and Xfburn.
Enlightenment e17 handles window management duties, so you can skin your desktop with any of the themes available at Get-E.org to customize your experience.
Since it's Puppy-based, you can roll-your-own distro using Remaster once you have things configured the way you want and burn your creation to a CD or write it to a USB flash drive.
Macpup runs beautifully on minimal hardware and it's an excellent distribution for older machines. Even in a VirtualBox VM running 384Mb memory, performance was solid - especially after installing to the virtual hard drive.
If you're an Opera fan and a Linux experimenter, this distro is a double win for you. As you'd guess from the full name, Opera (9.64) is baked in. SeaMonkey is also included, and other browsers are just a repository away. MacPup bundles additional programs for just about every common task, including apps like Transmission, Gnumeric, AbiWord, Gxine, and Xfburn.
Enlightenment e17 handles window management duties, so you can skin your desktop with any of the themes available at Get-E.org to customize your experience.
Since it's Puppy-based, you can roll-your-own distro using Remaster once you have things configured the way you want and burn your creation to a CD or write it to a USB flash drive.
Macpup runs beautifully on minimal hardware and it's an excellent distribution for older machines. Even in a VirtualBox VM running 384Mb memory, performance was solid - especially after installing to the virtual hard drive.
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Molly said 5:21PM on 6-19-2009
Desktop #3 had me sold!
Teletubbies' place :)
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jccalhoun said 5:22PM on 6-20-2009
I just downloaded this earlier today. Is Download Squad monitoring my online activities??? ;-)
Don't be concerned that it has "mac" in the title. It isn't for powerpc or anything. It does have a dock but it doesn't overly mimic osx unlike some other puppy "pupplets" that I tried.
I was using xubuntu on the locked down computer in my office at school and it was much faster than the nearly unusable xp on the computer but puppy linux is lots faster than xubuntu.
I only use this computer to listen to internet radio and video and minimal web browsing so I can't testify to how well it works for other tasks but for it seems to be a dream for web browsing and minimal web audio and video.
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