Barry Kauler has announced the release of Puppy
Linux 5.4 "Slacko" edition, a small and lightweight distribution with
packages "borrowed" from the latest Slackware Linux release: "It's
out! Slacko is one of our flagship puppies, built with the latest Woof
from Slackware 14.0 binary packages. It is all-puppy right through, with
the advantage of binary compatibility with Slackware 14.0 and access to
the Slackware package repositories. Changes: significant improvements
in using the Aufs layered file system; improved automatic detection and
configuration of analog and 3G modems; Samba printing issues resolved;
the X.Org wizard has improved detection and configuration options; many
improvements and bug fixes for boot-up and shut-down scripts.
Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all.
Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all.
