Anyone here using Puppy Linux?

[RoccoR5955]

Puppy Linux a very small distro that is just wonderful. At 101MB, it can be loaded on a micro CD, small flash drive, or hard drive. Whatever you have lying around will do as far as CPU, as long as it's at least a Pentium MMX with 64 MB of RAM. If you have 256MB of RAM, it will load EVERYTHING in RAM. This makes it lightning fast, even on old machines. It is quite customizable, and people are encouraged to customize it, and make their own distros derived from Puppy, called puplets.

Check it out at www.puppylinux.org

Give your old hardware a new life.

[RoyGBiv]

1. Installed it on an old laptop ...

Worked great.

In fact it was the only version I tried, including Damn Small Linux, that brought up a desktop on first boot.

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

2. I use it and I love it!

I had a spare Compaq P4 PC sitting around with Win XP Pro, I pulled the hard drive and installed Puppy on a Flash Drive.

USB Wireless Internet + USB 1 Gig Drive + LCD 15" Monitor = NICE

Every thing works great. I surf the net in the Dining room. I even found a Windows XP Theme!

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

3. Late to edit, but I just tried my Wireless Keyboard+Mouse combo...

it works !!!

Looks like I've got a media system to work with.

[struggle4progress]

4. Couldn't get Puppy to run off a flash on an old Dell XPS T450 with 128MB RAM, but it ran

fine off a CD burned from the iso on the same machine

[struggle4progress]

5. Can't get wifi on an Acer Aspire One with Puppy

[struggle4progress]

6. Weirdness: If I run Puppy in Sun's VirtualMachine off the Iso on an Acer One, wifi works -- but

if I use unetbootin to create a pendrive from the Iso and then boot directly from the pendrive, I have no luck with wifi

So it seems the Iso has the necessary files, but somehow unetbootin isn't creating a honest pendrive

[struggle4progress]

7. Well, here's a mystery: I can't get Puppy on the Acer One to find wifi from 3 different pendrives,

one constructed from a CD (burned from the iso using mac's burn in disk utility) using unetbootin
one constructed by unetbootin with direct download
and one constructed from Puppy's utility when Puppy is running from the above cd on mac

The network interfaces are simply not found, and none of the plausible drivers helps

BUT

if I run Puppy on the Acer inside Sun's VirtualMachine using the same iso allocating the minimal 256MB RAM for the virtual machine, Puppy has no difficulty at all finding network interfaces and I can easily connect and browse

[struggle4progress]

8. Just tried Puppy (running off CD) with an external modem using wvdial

on a decade-old machine. The GUI was clean and understandable, and Puppy had no obvious connection pronlem