Puppy Linux

[sargetech]

I love Ubuntu, I really mean that,,,,BUT
this morning I tried something That really blew my socks off!!!!
Puppy Linux!!!! I was bored one sunday morning and just wanted to
try another distro!!! I stumbled upon Puppy Linux...So I downloaded the iso. and
burned a live disk!!!! then changed my boot order to only boot from the cdrom drive ( for safety reasons) To my suprise it booted up very quickly and I was able to configure my ( microsoft mn720 wireless card withouth any trouble what so ever)
no hoops,no barrels,no nothing..... I could not believe my eyes!!! I was on the internet within 10 mins.... I did not have to go into the terminal once, everything was point and click easy!!!! ( MY FLOPPY DRIVE WORKED ALSO ) which I always had problems with ubuntu ( Dapper Dan).... all this running the live cd!!!! I was able to load the drivers for my wireless card Mn-720 from the floppy drive.... (using windows inf. for the microsoft card... WOW!!!!:) Then I tried a commercial dvd ( STARTREK NEMESIS ) totally expecting it not to play at all.....WRONG!!!! the DVD played instantly in gxine.....Without installing anything extra!!!! again WOW!!!! ok now let's try the internet again to see if any videos would play from my favorite news sites that use ( windows media,and flash player ) again expecting nothing to work)....again WRONG!!!!! videos played from all the sites I went to (flash,wmv) and quicktime all formats were handled by (gxine) without anything extra!!!!! It took me weeks to get all this stuff I mentioned above configured in Dapper Dan.....

This is the distro I will use for my grandkids computers that I'm currently building up from old equipment I have around my house!!!! (pentium 3 with 256mb ram 20 gig hard drive-32 mb riva TNT video card-4x burner and I'm throwing in a new DVD rom drive ) this Distro makes a good solid easy to configure system that is rock hard!!! and (kid proof) 5 year old grandaughter- 4 year old grandson!!!!!!!:popcorn:

please give me some feedback on this--- has anyone else discovered this
let me know!!!!! Oh yeah by the way, this post was sent from my system using the live cd only after 25 mins from first booting up the system with it..... no automatix,,no searching for restricted drivers,,,, no DVD play back nonsense!!! I think I'm having a dream and I haven't Woke up yet. It can't be this, easy but it is ( I just pinched myself ):lolflag:

[Pumalite]

Glad you discovered it. Puppy Linux has been known to be great for a long time.

[ieee488]

I have it running on a old Toshiba laptop that used to run Windows 98.

I had bought a 3Com NIC card, and it wouldn't work in Windows 98 on this laptop. Something with the proprietary Toshiba PCMCIA drivers or something, because the NIC card worked fine in my IBM Thinkpad 600.

Anway, NIC card works fine in Puppy Linux 2.17.

I tried Damn Small Linux on the Toshiba, but it would not install.

I highly recommend Puppy Linux for older PCs.

And make a donation. I did. :)

[meborc]

this should be moved to "another distro" subforum...

on topic: i like puppy... i like the concept of making a desktop from ground up (meaning the developers not being hung on gnome/kde/xfce/*box... puppy is different, if you know what i mean)... for low spec computers, puppy is the way to go... IF you get used to the rough graphics...

puppy has a nice community too... small, but loyal... just like puppyes should be :d

[sargetech]

Thanks,,Good point

[dptxp]

Puppy is great as a recovery tool too.
It is built from scratch, runs from RAM and is blazing fast.
Installing to HDD can be a pain, especially with other OS installed.

[n3tfury]

yeah, bit of a pain to install to HD. funny thing is - i found it faster live than installed. good recovery disk or when you're in a pinch. i just hate the whole "puppy" thing. gah.

[HermanAB]

I use Puppy almost every day. One of my laptops is a Windoze machine with an encrypted HDD, so I run Puppy off an encrypted memory stick when I need Linux.