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Small but Featureful: Puppy Linux Reviewed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the bark-park dept.

norhtec writes "Puppy Linux is a small distribution that fits on a business card-size CD-ROM or on a USB thumb drive. Puppy allows users to write data back onto their CD-ROM or thumb drive and features a complete assortment of office applications."

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  1. Direct Link by Short+Circuit · · Score: 2, Insightful

    The post contains a link to an article, which contains a link to the Puppy Linux page on Distrowatch, which then contains a link to the Puppy Linux home page.

    So I figured I'd give you a shortcut straight to the home page...

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  2. create a USB stick installer by cahiha · · Score: 2, Insightful

    People invest so much time in figuring out how to run this sort of thing from a USB stick, and then they fail to make it trivial to install it on a stick.

    Please, instead of lots of DOS commands, create a little self-contained application (e.g., in FLTK) that pulls over all the necessary files, finds the memory stick, copies everything over, and makes the thing bootable.

    That's particularly important given one of the likely user communities for these kinds of Linux distributions: people who want to start experimenting with Linux without devoting a whole machine to it.