Puppy woof woof! (Portable Linux)
February 19, 2009 18 Comments
Importance of a portable operating system (OS) was come in to my mind a long time ago. As I am not a Window$ user anymore, I was trying to find some Linux portable distribution. My friends give me links to OS such as Damn small Linux, Nimblex and so on. But finally I found the best fit portable OS for me. It’s Puppy Linux.
Think how amazing if you could bring your own personalized OS to where ever you go with your pen drive, and boot it and work like root in every machine. If you need an OS like that Puppy is a best kind of it.
There are so many things to say about Puppy. Puppy has almost all the basic features we can expect from an OS. Browsing internet, graphics, spread sheet, multimedia and everything works perfectly in it. Most of the time puppy automatically detects your hardware tools. Like sound cards and graphic cards. Even latest HSDPA modems you can easily configure any thing plus great online support. You can just download and double click install apps on puppy. There are special software editions for puppy. Like FirePup (for firefox). So it’s so easy and so fast. Most important thing is it uses very less resources. Just around 90MB from your flash drive and very less memory from RAM. Puppy will run well on any old pc or a laptop finely.
There are so many customized puppy versions called Puplets .you can choose a Puplet exactly matching your requirements. (In apps and the outlook). I would say there is a Puplet for every one. Now I am using Boxpup. It is the most suitable puppy version for me. You can find the best puppy version for you in a huge collection of Puplets. So it’s always worth to try it. If you are new to Linux its good for do experiments because what ever you do is in your pen drive so you will loose nothing. You will just need a memory stick .there are so small Puplets even 60MB small. So don’t forget to give a try and explore the beauty of Linux.
Here is the links you will need
He conquers who conquers himself 
A brief but Very important & useful post 4 Linux beginners like me.
Good one, definitely.
Interesting post on Linux. congrats!
linux can change from a puppy to a WAN
hey buddy awesome article.Informative, wud be glad to have more stuff more often … keep up da good work.
macho, i really didn’t seriously consider uses of a portable OS (look at my previous comment) , which can save files on my drive and which is linux hence virus free! I heard it before but didn’t feel it until i saw your description (which 100% suits my campus)
puppy was a very good distro even when I first checked it few years back. Now I see that it has improved more over the past few years. Gotta give it a try as soon as I find some time 🙂
Dude, how did you add that calendar thing on top of your sidebar?
Please do tell!
😀
@sachintha
It’s coming with the Boxpup version. click the link i given as “Puplet” and get the exact version you need.
there are so many puplets with nice addons so you can choose what ever you need. 🙂
nice post. feel like giving it a try.
It saya:
You don’t have permission to access /downloads/puplets on this server.
@Sachintha seems to be the server is down. it was worked when i am posting the article anyway don’t worry you can get BoxPup from following links.
http://download.tuxfamily.org/nop/
ftp://ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/puppylinux/
good luck.
contact me if you need any support.
🙂
This one is very useful and interest .Explanation is brief but understandable. Now we have to know about How to workwith Linux environment, therefore you suport to us. Superbbbbbb.
puppylinux.org is up again
here is the link for Boxpup
http://www.puppylinux.org/downloads/puplets/boxpup
gr8 info.
good effort n keep it
I’d love try it wit my new pen
thnx 4 Felicia too
she’s bitter sweet though
Thanx bro i’ll read these and get a puppy probably after the mid term ex(s), thanx
Just passing by.Btw, you website have great content!
I’m currently using Puppy Linux on my old Celeron laptop and it FLIES compared to Windows XP. Honestly, never going back to windows.