![]() ![]() The weakest part of the distro is its installer which doesn’t have an automatic partitioner and instead fires up Gparted for you to manually partition the disk. The distro also bundles help documentation on several topics such as on working with Microsoft Office documents. It has two independent and very active forum boards, and loads of documentation on getting started. I’m also impressed by Puppy support infrastructure. There’s also RacyPuppy which uses a newer kernel. The WaryPuppy edition uses an older kernel and includes additional drivers to support peripherals like dial-up modems. The distro is available in different flavours. Using its custom apps, you can block website ads, grab podcasts, do internet telephony, burn optical media, and a lot more. It has graphics apps, productivity apps, apps to playback, edit and even create multimedia. The distro uses one of the lightest window managers (JWM) and though it might not be pretty to look at, it’ll turn that old lethargic work horse into a galloping steed.Īnother reason why I love Puppy is its collection of software and custom apps. My favourite distro for fusing life into any computer is Puppy Linux. The good thing about the Linux community is that there’s no dearth of projects that bring together the various light-weight apps and package them in a distribution that uses the meagre hardware resources judiciously. Then there are also those that still have truly ancient peripherals that are no longer supported by the latest Kernel releases, such as dial-up modems. ![]() Examples of these relatively recent “older” hardware would be single-core or dual-core AMD Athlons and Intel Pentiums. Newer resource hungry software levering on the pace of hardware developments is rendering even relatively newer hardware obsolete. ![]()
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