10 reasons to love Puppy Linux

Following on from last week’s look at Puppy Linux, I thought that I’d go into a little more depth about this undeservedly underused operating system.

I’m grateful for all the comments on last week’s post (it seems that many other people are also passionate about Puppy Linux) and I am going to take them into account within this post.

I should start off by saying that I posted the wrong link last week…..

My link was to Puppy 5.0; there is a newer (and better) version (5.01) available at http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.0.1/lupu-501.iso (thanks; Joe Plaziak for that heads up!)

ICPUG suggested that I should be showing a link to….

http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/puppy-5.0.1 as this would show the distribution directory and allow you to download the MD5 file to be able to check the download.  As he said… “Nothing worse than having users say Puppy doesn’t work but in reality they got a bad download or burnt the CD incorrectly!”

Quite right too!

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And they call it Puppy Love…

In the beginning.  Part 1…

A couple of years ago, I was looking for an operating system for Chatwin and, after trying many others, came across Puppy Linux.

At first I thought that it was a joke, but then I investigated and found that that it wasn’t – far from it.

I’ll try to explain. Chatwin is a secondhand HP e-Vectra with a 600MHz processor and 256MB of RAM. She cost me all of 70 euros.

Nowadays, I wouldn’t be able to buy a machine with such a low spec but, if one did turn up in a yard sale, car boot sale or vide greniers (what we call a yard sale in France), I’d probably fork out 20 euros for one; 30 max!

In other words, she’s not a powerhouse. I bought her just so that I’d have another machine to do my writing on – a machine that didn’t have email and internet on, so I wouldn’t be distracted.

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Is Chrome the new Firefox?

A History Trip…. Can you remember way back in the depths of time when Firefox was version 1.5 and was really the only alternative to Internet Explorer apart from Opera (which would have been moving from the advert displaying version to the non-advert displaying version at around about that time if my memory is not misleading me) and Ubuntu hadn’t taken off and Netbooks didn’t exist unless, like me, you were sad enough to remember the Toshiba Libretto (great machine, by the way!)

I guess we’re talking about the back-end of 2005 because it was then that I was given an old laptop and my three years of not owning a PC came to an end.

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