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Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD
qewl writes "Now there's a live CD that can actually save data back onto its own disk! How does it work? The PC boots with a multi-session CD inserted in the CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy Linux automatically knows which drive is the CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory are saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored!"
Well, my girlfriend DID say she wanted a puppy.
Early adopters of Puppy Linux have reported that they frequently need to take it out of the drive bay so it doesn't make a mess. Also, if they leave it alone for any legnth of time, it starts making whining noises and chewing up files.
"I'd rather be a lightning rod than a seismometer." -Ken Kesey
It's a real dog.
Yeah I guess it should be called:
Mutlisession CDR Bootable/Saveable Linux
Sometimes my arms bend back.
And if the recordable disk goes bad, you get the exact same feeling as when your new puppy craps on the carpet!
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Warm Puppy Linux?
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
yeah, but does it run lin...
oh, nevermind
IWARS.
People, in general, disappoint me. Politicians even more so.
Finally I can send a K-9 unit to the rescue. This is a whole new "pedigree" of software indeed.
Shush! 640MB should be enough for anyone!
Sometimes my arms bend back.
If Knoppix can compress ~2GB of software into a 650MB CD, think what we can do with 4.7GB of space...
hmm.. *scratching head* ~14.4GB?
or perhaps 2 chicks at the same time?
I predict this becoming big with the tinfoil-hat crowd -- they'll burn one session with music and keep it in their discman until they need it; then they've got their bootable Linux, and a way to get data out of a secure...
This is reading like the plot of Alias, isn't it?
Who cares. This is cool enough that I'm going to keep a copy in my backpack.
Whatever, 'winkydink'.
I'm pretty sure that burning a puppy is illegal in most states. And I'm pretty sure that's doubly true for re-buring. Remember, Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
Funny- it was I, the parent of your post, who submitted this article ;-)
(\_/)
(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
Could they have picked a gayer name?
No, they could not have. This name is more sexually attracted to other names of the same gender than any other name.
Stupid like a fox!
since you can only have 99 tracks the CD, wouldn't "Eleven Cats" would be a more fitting name? Or "99 bottles of Linux"?
Was that your grammar homework, or spelling homework?
Note to self: No more arguing with the faithful.
Yeah, but at least it's not named:
Extreme Multisession CDR Bootable/Saveable Linux XP 3000
-1 for "2" instead of "to".
-1 for no capitalization of "I".
-1 for no punctuation.
-1 for "know" instead of "now."
-1 for terrible joke.
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Wheel in the sky keeps on turnin'.
Is this Linux's answer to Microsoft's Clippy?
Or cowheart!
They don't come
when you call.
They don't chase
squirrels at all.
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Yeah, but does it run Windows?
If I had a million bucks I think I could arrange that
the distro is 50 megs, so you've got about 3 average porn downloads on there.
Snowden and Manning are heroes.
hmm.. *scratching head* ~14.4GB?
My modem ran at that speed years ago!