Puppy Linux

Reader supplied reviews for Puppy Linux Average rating 7.6 from 63 review(s) Please selecting a rating in the range of 1-10. Please write at least a few sentences about the distribution while limiting your review to 4080 characters. What are your thoughts on Puppy Linux? Please include a few pros and a few cons, along with your overall impression of the operating system. Our FAQ page has tips on writing a good mini-review. Version: -- 22.129.58.07.56.3.26.05.75.6.15.55.45.2.85.1.15.0.14.34.2.14.1.24.003.012.17.12.021.0.9 Rating:    -- 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 out of 10 Your review (minimum 250 words): Past reviews - sort by: DateVotes Version: 6.0 Rating: 9 Date: 2024-08-05 Votes: 4 Puppy is my favorite O.S. ever, I have used 8 or 10 Linux flavors and Pup is my #1 because I use old laptops and Puppy flies on just about anything. Also, it is a great RESCUE O.S. and has saved me many times. I've been using Lubuntu lately and it failed me after an upgrade with a login issue - I will repair that stick - but I booted to a stick with Puppy Bookworm64 and was up and going right away. There are some great apps to add to base distro but it's full featured from base. Linux 6.1.76 is my current patch level on Bookworm64 Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 22.12 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-06-04 Votes: 5 Puppy S15 on an eeePC 701 4G S15 is THE Puppy for good old netbooks, or any pre-UEFI computers, toasters, etc. The recent Ubuntu based Puppies all seem to be based on UEFI, so are unlikely to boot on old MacHines. Actually, I have always found that the Slackware based Puppies work better. Puppy S15 is a frugal install only, as far as I can tell. But that's best for security, because you effectively run as root user. Step 1: Set up is easy: just a few windows to work through, to set the language/timezone/keyboard (make it as mad as you like, if you wish), format the drive with good old GParted (ext4 in my case), set the bootloader (Grub4DOS), and restart, having set a save file. Step 2: Reboot will lead you to a first launch window, where you will have to choose (again) the language/timezone/keyboard setup, and decide whether you want to encrypt you installation for security purposes. Again, set a save file. This is not even an inconvenience, if security is relevant to you. - If you are installing Puppy for the purpose (Porpoise) of selling or donating the toaster then Step 2 is not necessary, unless requested by the recipient. PRO: If what I have written makes sense, then Puppy can be made into a highly secure encrypted installation that works pretty much the same as running from a live persistent USB drive. I imagine that if Puppy is installed frugally alongside a regular (static) install, it will be just as secure. There is lots of valuable information and links on the Puppy Linux website. Although some people complain about the lack of a Puppy Linux manual; think about this: the Puppy Linux forum/community is a living manual, and when you are tuning your own Puppy you are creating your own manual, which you can give back. There's a big bowl of morsels to choose from: Puppies aren't spoon fed. CON: Puppy S15 doesn't bark. There's a little trumpet fanfare instead. - I recommend that every computer user try a Puppy. It will teach you a lot about computer security. Yes, there are a lot of very good and very secure live Linuxen, and any regular install can me made as secure as you like. But there is a particular sense of security that can be learned from using Puppy Linux, which is invaluable. And it's not a hard learning process. I can see why some people use Puppy Linux or Puppy derivatives as their main system. You really can keep your personal data separate from your operating system. Puppy makes this easier. Give it a try. - (P.S: Kudos to Barry Kauler for starting this off. Check out EasyOS for his more recent development) Was this review helpful? Yes No Version: 9.5 Rating: 10 Date: 2024-05-13 Votes: 1 Version Bookworm 10.0.6 also known as Debian Bookworm64 This is the most advanced in the puppyLinux distros... It is a complete distro with the following features: Firefox ESR a welcome move in their choice of browsers. Deadbeef audio player. A vast selection of media players: mpv, smplayer, celluloid, smtube....whew There is the legacy puppy applications and there are also the Synaptic Package applications in the Debian group. For monitors that don't have brightness controls there is a program that dims the light of your display. Once a live usb is booted into the computer, the usb can be removed and the program stays in RAM One feature I like with puppyLinux is that it can be set to turn off after a preselected time. RAM usage is minimal (200~500Mb) Built in neofetch gives computer info at a glance. All kinds of tools including three ways of internet connections. The help page is choc full of ways of getting things done using puppyLinux. PuppyLinux Bookworm 10.0.6 (aka Debian Bookworm64) is arguably the best distro made thus far. Even though it is a 762Mb iso image download it is easy to learn. Just remember to use the help page and it will become one of your goto distros. Was this review helpful? Yes No See all 63 reader reviews of Puppy Linux...