It all started when I booted my laptop from a flash drive and got this wonderful PuppyRus-A system (PRA for short)! My delight knew no bounds - everything flies, the battery lasts 50% longer, there is everything you need to work, and all this is on a 200 Mb distribution! Having configured the system for myself, I recommended my friends to set themselves a PRA. After 3 days, I find out that out of 4 people no one has coped with this seemingly simple task! The problems were as follows

how to choose the required distribution

how to make a bootable flash drive

how to install a system and software on a flash drive

1. How to choose a distribution kit

2. How to make a bootable USB flash drive

To install PRA, you will need a 4-8 GB flash drive, more is unlikely to be needed. In order not to be confused with files, clear the flash drive from all contents, you can even format it. We only need a space equal to the size of the distribution image + 300-500 megabytes per file for saving settings - in total, about 1 GB on a flash drive will be used for PRA, the rest of the space can be used to store anything, i.e. the flash drive can be used for its intended purpose. File system on a fat32 or ntfs flash drive.

Choose a flash drive based on speed. This will shorten the loading and saving time of your future system! Use utilities to measure performance.

All work on the preparation of the flash drive will be done in Windows environment(on Linux it is also possible). We will need any program that allows us to reveal ISO image (7-zip, UltraISO, Total commander with plugins connected, etc.). We will take everything that we need inside the source or create it ourselves. Find the folder in the source win along this path: pra03-1503middle1.iso \ boot \ grub4dos \ install \ and rewrite it to the root of the flash drive. From the ISO root, we will rewrite the files on the flash drive grldr and menu.lst... The contents of the flash drive at this stage looks like this:

Now let's make the USB flash drive bootable. Need to work with administrator rights!!! Run the file on the USB flash drive /win/grubinst_gui.exe, select your USB flash drive in the upper window (do not confuse it with hdd and be guided by the size!)
UPD: If you want to speed up booting from a flash drive, then check the boxes "No backup MBR", "Disable PrevMBR" and enter 0 in the "Timeout" field

at the bottom we press Install and we get this window:

Problems sometimes arise in this place! In some cases wingrub exits with an error. But sooner or later we will be able to get the result, in the following ways (you can suggest your own methods):

read the error message, add the suggested key in the "Extra" window and try again

didn't work in Win7, but it turned out easily in WinXP

it turned out after formatting the flash drive with the utility HP USB Disk Storage Format(found in the vastness of the network)

it helped if you put a sign on the flash drive boot in a programme gparted v Ubuntu(select the section, control flags, check the box boot).

in the environment Win you can make the flash drive active with the built-in utility diskpart from the command line or external software. Such a flash drive in Windows(disk management) will show the partition sign " active". For some reason grub sometimes on some flash drives it does not. (google and find !!).

burn the iso-image to a CD, boot from it and, working in the system, create a bootable flash drive (start-system-frustrated installation).

take advantage UltraISO programs or Rufus, they can format and create bootable ISOs.

UPD: Sometimes you need to enter a key in the Extra –skip-mbr-test field.

It has been noticed that most often problems are with flash drives, on which the manufacturer pre-installs its software!

With the indicated methods, it was possible to make bootable 8 flash drives, which refused to become bootable the first time! By the way, everything that we did with a USB flash drive can be done with an SD card, but not every device supports booting from an SD card. If none of the available ways to make a bootable flash drive helped you, change the flash drive !!!.

And so, all the preparatory procedures are completed, we are trying to boot from the prepared flash drive by installing such an option in the bios of our device (for different devices there are different key combinations for entering bios, no one had any problems, look for help on the net). If, as a result of the first boot, you got on the screen a multi-colored menu with krakozyabram, placed in a frame, congratulations! You have succeeded, the last step remains! To make the menu readable, delete the folder on the flash drive win, write down the entire folder instead boot from the source (there are fonts and all that is needed), we are overloaded, AND !!! You can flip through the cool menu!

Worse, when you didn't see anything on the first boot. Do everything that is described above again, perhaps you made a mistake at some stage, or try replacing the flash drive. there are answers to many questions related to preparing a flash drive and booting the system.

3. Fill the software on the flash drive

This is the simplest thing to do. We delete from the flash drive everything that we have written on it and overwrite all the ISO contents there. That's all! Now the flash drive looks like this:

We boot, select the line "loading into RAM ... ..> 500 mb" from the menu and get a clean system !!! It remains only to customize it and save it. About this in the next step by step instructions -

https://youtu.be/WJ86H8qYFAE - Here is a video on how to install PuppyRus-A Linux (PRA) on a USB flash drive.

4.installation on HDD

Ballast can be installed on HDD as the main (only) operating system or in addition to the existing one, for example win7. Installing on a hard drive in both cases is no different from installing on a flash drive, you need to do the same steps

being in windows, unpack the iso contents to the root of the C: / drive, in this case all files and folders from the control gear and Win will be mixed, but this is a purely aesthetic inconvenience, it will not affect the operation of the system in any way, in this case you do not need to edit menu.lst

run the file /win/grubinst_gui.exe under account administrator (run as) and install the grub4dos bootloader to disk as described above

Now you can reboot. You will have access to the options for downloading PRA and Win. You can get to win from 2 places during the boot process. The first time by pressing the space bar in response to the bootloader message, the second time from the control gear boot menu by selecting the "boot from HDD" item.

If the control gear is installed as the only system and you do not have the opportunity to boot under win, then all installation procedures can be done by booting from the CD created from the control gear image, then select the installation and go through the steps, choosing the necessary items in the proposed menus.

https://youtu.be/3b-AL7w-mOY - here is a video on how to install PuppyRus-A Linux (PRA) on hdd.
- here detailed description another option, without installing a bootloader, with the ability to rollback.

I have a rather "old" computer: an ABIT ST6 motherboard; Celeron processor 1100 MHz, "overclocked" to 1463 MHz (FSB = 133 MHz); RAM 512 MB; NVIDIA graphics card GeForce FX5200 / 128M; additional controller USB 2.0 PCI GEMBIRD UPC-20-2P (since on motherboard USB ports 1.1); Network Card PCI Intel 100 Mb; HDD SAMSUNG 200 GB; CD / DVD drive Optiarc AD-5170A; floppy drive; Power supply unit DELTA ELECTRONICS DPS-300KBD. I will briefly describe the process of installing Puppy-420-ru version v6, in the frugal version, on this computer, maybe this will help someone starting to master Puppy Linux(when writing the article, the materials of the forum were used).

Previously, on a Windows PC and Internet access, we need to do the following: download the Puppy-420-ru ISO image, burn the CD in this way, thus obtaining a Live-CD, defragment the HDD on which we are going to install Puppy- 420-ru (this is for the case when this HDD has FAT or NTFS partitions, like mine), and also upload a small mkswap file (after loading, remove the txt extension from it).

In Setup Computer BIOS install boot from CD-ROM, boot from burned Live-CD. Since my HDD had one NTFS 200 GB partition, the disk needs to be prepared accordingly. I decided to simply "cut" from the existing partition - 9 GB for the partition with the system and 1 GB for the swap partition. To do this, go to "Menu" -> "System" -> "Gparted partition manager", mark our disk. Next, select our section, click "Resize or Move", and reduce the size of the NTFS partition by 10240 MB by entering this number in the window "Free space after (MB)", press Enter, then "Edit" -> "Apply All Operations", we wait. Now select the partition we created and not yet marked up and click "Create", select the "ext3" file system type, click the "+ Add" button, again "Edit" -> "Apply All Operations", we wait. We make this section bootable - right-click on it, select "Controlling flags" and put a tick on "boot".

After completing this operation, in the same way we "cut off" 1024 MB, but already from the created ext3-partition, and we get a 1 GB partition. Here's a small digression - in Puppy-420-ru there is a problem with the system utility mkswap, and first we need to solve it. Turn off GParted, go to "Files" (shortcut on the desktop), then go up one level, look for the / sbin folder, find the mkswap link file in it, delete it, and copy the mkswap file we downloaded earlier to / sbin. Expand GParted, select the 1 GB partition, click "Create", select the "linux-swap" file system type, click the "+ Add" button, then "Edit" -> "Apply All Operations", we are waiting, the swap section has been created.

Now you need to install the GRUB boot loader on your ext3 boot partition. Go in "Menu" -> "System" ->... Follow the prompts (simple -> standart -> enter your disk, for example, / dev / sda2 -> MBR -> enter / dev / sda), wait for the / boot folder to appear on the second partition. Next, you need to edit the GRUB boot menu. We go to the / boot / grub folder, find the menu.lst file, open it, delete everything that is there, and insert the following lines:

timeout 10
color light-gray / blue black / light-gray

title Puppy Linux 420 frugal
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
kernel / puppy-ru-420 / vmlinuz pmedia = atahd psubdir = puppy-ru-420 nosmp

title Puppy Linux 420 frugal
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
kernel / puppy-ru-420 / vmlinuz pfix = ram pmedia = atahd psubdir = puppy-ru-420 nosmp
initrd /puppy-ru-420/initrd.gz

title Puppy Linux 420 frugal
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
kernel / puppy-ru-420 / vmlinuz pfix = fsck pmedia = atahd psubdir = puppy-ru-420 nosmp
initrd /puppy-ru-420/initrd.gz

title Reboot
reboot

title Shutdown
halt

the first item is the usual boot of the system (it will happen automatically after 10 seconds), the second item is the boot with a parameter for checking and fixing errors in the file system, the fourth and fifth items are restarting and shutting down the computer, respectively. In principle, you can add as many items to this menu as you like, I chose only those that I really use.

Install Puppy-420-ru: create the / puppy-ru-420 folder on our second ext3-partition, and copy the initrd.gz, vmlinuz and pup_420-ru-42.sfs files from the Live-CD there, also create an empty folder in this folder ATAHD file. Everything, the system is installed, we reboot ( "Menu" -> "Shut down" -> "Computer Restart"), we refuse the offer to save the session in the file. We remove in Setup BIOS boot from CD-ROM, we boot from the HDD, after loading you can start to master the system, at the end of work, when you select in "Menu" -> "Turn off" shutting down the computer or restarting it, we agree to the proposals to create a save file (the so-called "saved files"), choose the proposed size of 512 MB, if this is not enough, then it can be easily increased in the future. Now we have the operating system Puppy-420-ru v6 installed in the frugal variant.

One of the options for installing Puppy-420-ru is described here, it is also quite possible to use and "Universal Puppy Installer" located in "Menu" -> "Settings"... For beginners, it's worth noting that "Universal Puppy Installer" does not install the GRUB bootloader, and after completing its work, you need to go to "Menu" -> "System" -> "Grub - Grub bootloader configuration" and install the bootloader, and then insert the necessary items into its menu (edit the file /boot/grub/menu.lst).

update: Small but important addition. In general, when installing Puppy Linux, it is not at all necessary to create a separate partition for it on the hard disk, you can install this system in a folder on the existing partition, and you only need to install and correctly configure the bootloader (GRUB, GRUB4DOS or some other). Creating a separate section is kind of a tradition, a classic method that I used when I talked about it in this article.

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Puppy Linux is a small distribution created by Barry Cowler. Its main task is to be similar in use to Windows, to contain all the necessary programs, but to be extremely small and simple. The distribution works great on both new and old hardware and is very fast.

Its peculiarity is that you can get a complete system simply by writing a small installation image to a USB flash drive and running it in LiveCD mode. If you think that this is also possible in other distributions, then no, there is an option to save the session, which allows you to save all the data with which you worked.

Also the distribution contains very a large number of utilities and tools for configuring the system, with which you can configure anything you want and very often you do not have to go into configuration files. The last release was in 2015 and it was Puppy Linux 6.3, codenamed Slacko, based on Slackware 14.1, but the distribution is still in development. In this tutorial, we will look at how to install Puppy Linux on your hard drive as a complete operating system.

System requirements

Requirements to hardware puppy linux is a little surprising. It looks like it can work on just about any hardware. The system needs 64 megabytes to start random access memory and a processor with a clock speed of 333MHz.

Step 1. Uploading the image

First thing we need to do is download the installation image. The most latest version available on the official website. But there are two versions available here, 6.0.5, based on Ubuntu 14.04 and 6.3, based on Slackware. We will install the latter.

Select the desired system architecture and download the image. The image weighs about 200 megabytes, so the download will be quick. Over time, there may be more Puppy Linux distributions. The point is that this distribution can be created on the basis of other distributions, and be compatible with their package base. Such distributions contain the same set of puppy utilities and they are all considered official. For example, Puppy Linux based on Ubuntu Xenial Xerus is currently in development.

Step 2. Burn the image to a USB flash drive

The developers advise using the dd utility to write to a USB flash drive. The terminal command in Linux will look like this:

dd if = ~ / slacko64.iso of = ~ / dev / sdb bs = 5M

Here / dev / sdb is the device name of your flash drive, you do not need to add any numbers there. In the operating room Windows system you can use the Windows version of this utility. Here the command will look like this:

dd if = slacko64.iso of = \\. \ f: bs = 5M

Here f: is the drive letter of your flash drive. Don't forget to run command line you need with administrator rights.

Step 3. BIOS setup

When the flash drive is written, restart your computer. During the BIOS splash screen, press F2, F8, Shift + F2 or Del, to open the setting. There go to the Boot tab and in the paragraph 1st Boot Device select your USB stick:

Step 4. Configuring the bootloader

At the first stage of loading the image, you can enter the kernel parameters, if there is nothing to change, just press Enter or wait:

Step 5. Boot LiveCD

Wait for the download to finish:

Step 6. System setup

Immediately after the start, such a system settings window will open, it is pointless to configure anything now, because after installation the settings will still fail:

So just close this window.

Step 7. Launching the installer

There is no installer shortcut, as we are used to, the installer is in the main menu, in the Setup section. The menu item is called universal.

Step 8. Selecting an installer

At this step, we can choose which installer to use, for a flash drive, for a flash drive with the f2fs file system or universal, we need a universal one:

Step 9. Selecting the device type

In this window, we have to select the type of device for installation. If installing to a hard drive, select Internal (IDE or SATA):

Step 10. Select a device

Select the device on which we will install the system:

Step 11. Prepare the partition

System installation is performed on one partition. If the selected device already has partitions, you can select one of them. Otherwise, click the button with the Gparted icon:

Step 12. Create the partition table

If your disk is not already mapped, open the Deices menu and click Create Partition Table:

Step 13. Creating a section

Create one new section of sufficient size. One or several gigabytes is enough for installation and full use of the entire system. You can use vfat, ntfs or ext4 and others compatible with Linux as the file system for the partition.

In the first case, you will not be able to install a complete system. The installer will create an empty file, make the desired file there file system and only then proceeds to the installation. But this option does not suit us, so we will use ext4.

Step 14. Apply changes

When finished, open the menu Edit and press Apply All Changes to save your changes.

Step 15. Boot flag

Check the box next to Boot and press Ok... Then Gparted can be closed.

Step 16. Select device # 2

Select the device again:

Step 17. Selecting a section

In the right upper corner select the newly created disk:

Step 18. Confirmation of the section

Confirm the installation on this particular section:

Step 19. Additional disk

if you have additional disk with puppy linux files, now you can connect it:

Step 20. Installation method

You have two installation options. Installing puppy linux as a file, recommended when installing on ntfs or vfat, as well as full installation (FULL). For this article, we will use a full installation:

Step 21. Last confirmation

Confirm that the system definitely needs to be installed on this disk:

Step 22 Installing Puppy Linux

Wait until the files are copied to the disk partition:

Step 23. Installing the bootloader

Select Yes if you want to install the bootloader. Grub4dos will be used as the bootloader:

Step 24. Configuring the bootloader

Select the partition on which the bootloader will be installed, and also install Extra options, if it's necessary:

Step 25. Kernel parameters

Enter additional kernel parameters, if necessary, here you can also choose the name of the menu item for windows:

Step 26. Confirming Boot Loader Installation

Confirm that the bootloader needs to be installed in the MBR. Now the installation of puppy linux is complete, you just need to restart your computer.

Step 27 Reboot

Reboot the system using the appropriate button on the panel:

Step 28. Starting the system

Select the first item in the bootloader menu and wait for the download to complete:

Step 29 setup menu

After starting the system, the menu will open again in front of us initial setup... Here you can configure your language, time zone, and many more system settings.

First select the language in which you want to use the system:

Then, in the box below, select your time zone:

Step 29. Localization

To localize the system, it is not enough just to select a language, you also need to install the package with translations through the package manager, so start Puppy Package Manager from the menu.

In the list of repositories, go to puppy-noarch, then search for langpack. When the packages are found, select the langpack_en package and double click on it, then click Do It in the upper corner to start the installation:

After the installation is complete, it will remain to reboot the system. Then everything will be in Russian.

conclusions

That's all, now you know how to install puppy linux on your hard drive and are a little familiar with the features of this distribution. As you can see, this is not an ordinary linux distribution, it can be run as in normal mode and with the help of the LiveCD, and in both cases you get a full-fledged operating system. If you still have questions, ask in the comments!

Video of the puppy linux installation process:

author Elena the beautiful asked a question in the section Other languages ​​and technologies

how to install linux puppy along with windows, provided that windows is already installed (so that when you turn on you can choose the OS and get the best answer

Answer from Gnome-forever [guru]
you can put puppy on a flash drive 256 MB is enough. ...
or grub to mbr install. ...

gnome-forever
Enlightened
(25348)
Olga, in principle, the manipulations are not difficult, but without such experience, you can get problems ..
It is important to write grub correctly, in the puppy partition, and then in mbr disk and you will have to edit menu.lst (manually register puppy and Windows)
The slightest error and Windows or puppy will not boot, although everything can be fixed with the Puppy LiveCD ...
In other more famous distributions - Ubuntu, Mandriva, OpenSUSE, etc.,
all this is done automatically.
There will be more time, we will chat in PM, do nothing for now, or try to stutter on a puppy flash drive, get a useful experience ..
In general, google and read here also
http://www.puppyrus.org/wiki/index.php?title=Установка_Puppy_Linux_РЅР°_flash-носитееРС

Answer from Silenser[guru]
Just allocate hard disk space for Linux and install it. The Linux bootloader will do everything by itself, it will register Windu in the download itself.

Out of hundreds of free Linux distributions, have you chosen yours?

List your needs. What will you use your Linux for? What features are important to you? How would you prioritize them? What features don't you care about?

Once you have compiled your custom list of needs, compare it to different Linux implementations. Linux is configurable and gives you full control (which you would expect from open source software) over yourself. So, in theory, you can create almost any Linux distribution according to your needs. But it probably makes more sense to choose the most suitable Linux distribution out of the hundreds available.

Puppy Linux is one of the twenty most popular Linux distributions worldwide (ranked by disrowatch.com). Puppy is made for those who want from Linux:

• Includes all applications required for daily use


• Works out of the box


• Easy to use and suitable for Linux newbies and newcomers from Windows to Linux


• Works great on limited hardware


• Works seamlessly on older computers, thin clients and diskless stations


• Installs and runs from any bootable device, including USB, hard drives, zip drives, LS 120/240 SuperDisks, CDs and DVDs as well as over the network

Unlike other distributions, Puppy is not based on any of them. It was created to meet the above goals.

Let's discuss the characteristics and, in summary, consider how it differs from other Linux distributions.

Fast and lightweight.

Puppy was specifically designed for limited hardware, including older computers, thin workstations, and diskless computers.

Puppy accomplishes this goal using several methods:

• The standard software included with Puppy covers all typical application needs with minimal resources.


• The minimum size of the operating system itself


• The whole system by default is fully loaded into memory and executed there


• Puppy loads and works with any available devices- your computer does not have to have special devices such as a hard disk or CD drive

As a result, you can take your old Pentium III, install Puppy on it and enjoy its excellent performance. Memory access is much faster than disk access. Just make sure your computer has enough memory to run Puppy from RAM.

To see how this works, read my earlier post about my experience installing Putty on a Pentium III 550MHz with 448MB of RAM. Driven by Putty, this century-old hardware tool runs typical applications as fast as the equivalent Celeron 2.6 GHz applications with a gigabyte of RAM running WindowsXP!

Puppy lets old computers breathe again new life and run on diskless computers and thin workstations.

Flexibility.

As with many distributions, you can get acquainted with Puppy using the "Live-CD" version and see how it will be compatible with your computer hardware. The Live-CD is a bootable CD that you can burn Puppy to after you've downloaded it from the Internet. You should use the "Create Bootable Disc" item in the menu of your CD / DVD burning program. (Options such as "data CD", "music or audio CD" and "video CD" do not allow you to create a bootable disc). The LiveCD version of Puppy of course also includes CD and DVD burning software. If you are on Windows and need a CD burning program, you can download free program ImgBurn to create boot disk with Puppy.

If you don’t want to install Puppy on your hard drive (or perhaps your machine doesn’t have hard disk), you should be able to run Puppy from the LiveCD. Whenever you want to finish working with Puppy, it will give you the option to save your personal preferences, configuration parameters, and any additional software you have added to base system, on any device that supports data recording. This, again, can be a USB stick, hard drive, and CD / DVD recordable disks.

If you start Puppy from the LiveCD, you will quickly find another advantage of starting a system loaded into memory. You can eject the CD and Puppy will continue its work. So, after downloading, you can listen to the new audio CD you bought today, or burn the data to a CD or DVD. Other Linux versions empty the CD drive after the applications have finished.

You can also use Puppy's unique ability to support multisession CD / DVDs. Any type of CD or DVD (or -) is supported, to which you can write your data as sessions using Puppy to continue writing the next time you use Puppy. Puppy includes a toolkit for burning multisession discs.

When installed on hard drives Puppy offers two alternatives: a full (or traditional) or "frugal disk" installation.

Peaceful coexistence with Windows.

Windows usually comes with many computers, so many users begin their computer experience through Windows. However, they soon discover that Windows has serious weak sides despite its lightness and convenience. The only great step in this case is the additional installation of Linux as a second operating system. In this case, when you start your computer, you get a unique opportunity to choose which system to work with - Linux or Windows.

The advantages of Puppy are also obvious in the fact that you can run it from a Live-CD or from a USB stick, without replacing your existing system on your hard drive.

When you exit Puppy, it asks you if you want to save your configuration and intermediate session data by selecting "save file" and specifying the path to a USB stick or recordable CD / DVD. you can write a file with settings to any Windows partition of your hard disk (Under Windows file Puppy's save will appear as a single large file in the root directory).

Another option for starting Puppy is to launch it from Windows. Just start Windows and unzip the Puppy file to install Puppy on Windows. Create a Puppy icon on your desktop by double clicking on which will launch Puppy. Exit Puppy and you will be back in Windows.

The GUI is launched using two graphical servers - Xorg and Xvesa. Their presence allows Puppy to provide video GUI support for the widest range of PCs.

Puppy's "helpers", which appear as interactive forms, are another ease-of-use feature that facilitates all aspects system installation and configuration.

What sets some of the most user-centric Linux distributions apart from others is their level of support. Puppy Linux was written and developed primarily by one person - Barry Kauler. Support is provided by the Puppy community, which consists of several active forums providing technical assistance and distribution advice. Puppy contains 3 MB of documentation. You can also view (s) extensive information on the system. An active community maintains Wiki, Wiki community news and IRC chat. Puppy has tutorials written in Flash and video tutorials. Also here you will find Puppy documentation in HTML and PDF formats... There is support for various languages ​​(not only English).

The abundance of Puppy documentation makes it on par with many redistributable Linux distributions.

Adding Applications.

After booting the system, choosing an installation type and saving options, and coexisting with Windows, a key aspect of being flexible with Puppy is how easy it is to access additional software and also install it.

Puppy also includes features that allow you to customize your system. Select "Remaster" from the menu to create your own customized bootable CD. Or use Puppy Unleashed to create a Live-CD of your chosen software from over 500 official packages.

What Puppy is not for.

I have touted the delights of Puppy and described its possibilities. This is Linux loved by users all over the world, and this is proven by the size of its community.

Still, sometimes you have to say that Puppy is not intended for something. This is not to say that Puppy cannot be used for any purpose. This suggests that they are not the main impetus in its development.

For starters, remember that Puppy Linux is a "little Linux". It is not required to include a large number of software libraries which "big Linux" like Fedora or RedHat contain, but you can easily turn it into one with the PETget package manager.

Puppy uses special methods to offer users applications for daily use.

Puppy is designed as a custom system. Of course, you can install it on servers, since it has all the possibilities for this, but the goal and main direction of the project is a PC user.

For example, Puppy users always log in with the user ID "root". Comparing this to other Linux systems that insist on using a different user ID from a security and multiuser perspective. The Puppy community agrees that running the system as "root" poses no security risk. Test my own systems running on Puppy and open to the world as ShieldsUp! and, on the other hand, invisible to the outside world, thanks to the configured firewall.

Finally, keep in mind that Puppy Linux is evolving rapidly and each version has more and more significant improvements. You can choose for yourself any version available on this moment on the releases page.

The Puppy community is constantly moving towards releasing new versions. Typical applications and tools change with each release. This may not suit those looking for a "frozen" system with minimal changes.

What's your verdict?

I've covered the features of Puppy Linux in this article to showcase its potential uses. But I missed one fact of life - Puppy Linux is just fun. Having a friendly interface, easy-to-use "helpers" and built-in how-to information, it still has the ability, with your help, to turn into a full-fledged system that can be used to solve serious problems. Puppy is an adorable system that has all the features that qualify it to participate in the evolving user community.

You can download and test Puppy Linux using its Live-CD version without making any changes to the existing partitions on your hard disk and without fear of what is already on the disk. third party system will be spoiled. This way you can ensure that Puppy Linux is fully compatible with your hardware and that it has video control capabilities, system devices and have the interface you want.

Visit the main Puppy Linux sites located and. Or download Puppy from here or from here. Many people try to buy Puppy, but "buy" is the wrong word, as Puppy is free and available. So let us just say that usually those who just meet Puppy want to take him to their home right away.

Screenshots of Puppy Linux: