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Puppy Linux Lets You Run From, Save To The Same CD

Posted by timothy on from the dog-ate-my-homework-jokes dept.

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!"

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  1. Hmm..birthday present! by 7Ghent · · Score: 4, Funny

    Well, my girlfriend DID say she wanted a puppy.

    1. Re:Hmm..birthday present! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny
      PuppyLinux is not necessarily a good birthday present for your SO

      Wow. Thanks, Captain Obvious. You saved all two nerds with girlfriends from imminent failure.

  2. Re:Puppy linux? by snuf23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yeah I guess it should be called:

    Mutlisession CDR Bootable/Saveable Linux

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  3. yeah, but by carambola5 · · Score: 5, Funny

    yeah, but does it run lin...

    oh, nevermind

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  4. Re:hmmm by snuf23 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Shush! 640MB should be enough for anyone!

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  5. Re:Interesting, now for the next level... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

  6. Forensics? by Chrontius · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  7. Uhh... by inertia187 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  8. Re:Puppy linux? by AaronStJ · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  9. dogs & cats by brer_rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny

    since you can only have 99 tracks the CD, wouldn't "Eleven Cats" would be a more fitting name? Or "99 bottles of Linux"?

  10. Yup. by sootman · · Score: 4, Funny

    They don't come
    when you call.
    They don't chase
    squirrels at all.

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