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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. Puppy linux? by Anonymous+Crowhead · · Score: -1, Troll

    Could they have picked a gayer name? Seriously.

    1. Re:Puppy linux? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      My name's Puppy, you inthenthitive clod!

  2. Re:And its going to Everest! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So you are going for the mountain and you want a laptop to document and help you through the trip. All of your information will be on this laptop and possibly also used for some type of technical work during the voyage. You've got limited room for supplies and the trip will be rough. After carefully reviewing your options, you decide on a laptop with multiple spare batteries and Puppy Linux which is labeled by the author/maintainer as Multi-session live-CD version 1.0.0a is an alpha release and is "experimental".

    Looking at that alone, I can deduce that your other planning and risk assessment skills suck as well and you will probably not be coming back down the mountain alive or at least on your own feet.

    I could not find archtected at dictionary.com. Is that a misspelled word or do I have a conceptual error that makes my entire post look silly.