Comments on TECH SOURCE FROM BOHOL: Puppy Linux 4.0: Has it Learned New Tricks?

I have Puppy 4 on a P11 366 laptop, a Celeron 466 ...

2009-04-10T21:45:00.000+08:00

I have Puppy 4 on a P11 366 laptop, a Celeron 466 desktop, P4 2.6 desktop and boot the CD occasionally on other systems. It works on all of them. Awesome little distro. So many grown up features in such a tiny distro. Amazing!!!

I love the excellent hardware detection, and how easy it is to get wireless internet working with it, and the included package manager can add extra functionality. My main Linux PC has PCLOS Gnome, but for meagre equipment, Puppy is the best one. Smaller distros are too crippled compared. If it can't run Puppy, it's not worth running in the first place.

PUPPY IS GREAT FOR RESCUE CDMy friend laptop hard ...

2009-01-10T02:27:00.000+08:00

PUPPY IS GREAT FOR RESCUE CD
My friend laptop hard drive was broken and it was impossible to boot with XP installed and even with live CD: I tried Ubuntu 8.10 , Mandriva 2009, but they did not start at all. But with PUPPY it started and worked immediatly and very well. It is amazingly fast , the only bad thing is that daily user is logged as root.
Ahmed.

Puppy is a great rescue tool! And spectacular on ...

2008-06-16T11:13:00.000+08:00

Puppy is a great rescue tool! And spectacular on old hardware, but watch out for TinyME, which may be even better as a similar, lightweight distro.

(Anonymous is correct about the grammar, BTW, "has undergone" is correct)

Every PC user should keep a Puppy CD. Is is great ...

2008-05-16T02:50:00.000+08:00

Every PC user should keep a Puppy CD. Is is great to run and can rescue if you can not boot.
It also provides safe surfing.
Amazing, simply amazing.

Hmm..Are you sure that Puppy uses (and used) JWM w...

2008-05-16T02:09:00.000+08:00

Hmm..

Are you sure that Puppy uses (and used) JWM window manager?
I'm quite sure that it always used ICEWM.

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And the look is fine (incl. the wallpaper)! I never liked the dog thing!

Google "has underwent"It's widely used and accepte...

2008-05-15T11:38:00.000+08:00

Google "has underwent"

It's widely used and accepted.

This looks ideal for my recently-acquired ancient ...

2008-05-15T07:54:00.000+08:00

This looks ideal for my recently-acquired ancient laptop (Celeron 400, 192MB). I used an older Puppy a few years ago but had no real need for it on my desktop. I'm really looking forward to trying it out. :)

PS on a minor point: the previous anon commenter (not me!) is right about the English - it's "he undergoes", "he underwent" and "he has undergone". "Has underwent" is never right. So there. :P

undergo - underwent - underwentHe is to undergo ma...

2008-05-15T05:52:00.000+08:00

undergo - underwent - underwent

He is to undergo major surgery.
He underwent major surgery yesterday.
He has undergone major surgery.

HAS UNDERGONE is correct.

just my two cents.

I've just started to experiment it in a Pentium 10...

2008-05-15T02:55:00.000+08:00

I've just started to experiment it in a Pentium 100Mhz with 48 Mb Ram. It detected most hardware fine, but I have to tweek xorg-wizard in order to get the serial ttys0? (com1) mouse running. It was usable as a livecd but I have to install it and give a swap partition in order to run several aplications at once without running out of memory. Anyways...it amazed me how it runs on such system.

".... had underwent ..." might be a better constru...

2008-05-15T02:35:00.000+08:00

".... had underwent ..." might be a better construct, although I would prefer ".... had undergone ..."

Sorry, no...It undergoesIt underwentIt has undergo...

2008-05-15T01:58:00.000+08:00

Sorry, no...

It undergoes

It underwent

It has undergone

"underwent" is the past tense of "undergo""undergo...

2008-05-14T23:49:00.000+08:00

"underwent" is the past tense of "undergo"

"undergone" is the past participle.

"underwent" is correct!

"has underwent"??ouch!"has undergone"

2008-05-14T23:13:00.000+08:00

"has underwent"??

ouch!

"has undergone"

I had a WinXP that would no longer boot. I tried ...

2008-05-14T09:44:00.000+08:00

I had a WinXP that would no longer boot. I tried "System Rescue CD", "Ultimate Boot CD", and Mepis7.....none would work for me and I was ready to give up. The day before I had downloaded and installed Puppy4 on an old 533mhz eMachine and was impressed at what it could do for such a small system. So, decided to try it on the broken XP, and what do you know, it saw the drive, I mounted it, and there's the folders and files I needed to rescue !!!
AMAZING !!!

4.0 is indeed a huge step up for Puppy. I try just...

2008-05-14T00:19:00.000+08:00

4.0 is indeed a huge step up for Puppy.
I try just about every desktop distro which comes out, and this one has become the one I use for work day to day. It does everything I need to do, without excess bloat or long startup times. Makes my old 1ghz 256meg laptop fly.

"My old machine, 400ghz ..."400GHz - and that's yo...

2008-05-13T22:26:00.000+08:00

"My old machine, 400ghz ..."

400GHz - and that's your old machine;-) I am not surprised Puppy runs well...

I have been using Puppies since before 2.0 because...

2008-05-12T01:22:00.000+08:00

I have been using Puppies since before 2.0 because it's fast, it works, and it's versatile enough for all my needs. This one, 4.0, continues a history of steady improvement. My old machine, 400ghz and 192Ram, has more than enough juice for Puppy.

Flying puppy! Yesss indeed. I installed it on a US...

2008-05-11T12:44:00.000+08:00

Flying puppy! Yesss indeed. I installed it on a USB stick, which went fine. Firefox was easily downloaded and installed, but it took me 2 times a restart before it appeared in the MENU-list. I also installed OpenOffice, which runs fine and fast. I couldn't find Filezilla in the list, I consider it a detail.
The only drawback is CrossOver/WINE: things start and then disappear.

Great review! There are some things about Puppy 4 ...

2008-05-11T12:14:00.000+08:00

Great review! There are some things about Puppy 4 that I still need to learn how to do, as most Distros I've used use either .deb or .rpm based pkgs. But, Puppy 4 ran on an old Compaq with a Cyrix 233MHz CPU, and installed nicely to the same machine. I've always had problems installing to older machines, but Puppy 4 makes it a lot easier. Cheers!