Puppy Linux

This is a short note on Puppy Linux.

With 64 bit computers ruling the world, unless one has a 64 bit compatible Puppy image, one will find booting from a CD or USB impossible.

I am testing all my Puppy CDs and I will report here what is working and what is not.

Basically series 3 and 4 do not mount on 64 bit computers.

Out of Series 5 some boot.

Precise, Racy, Rocor and Slako and others do not.

Slako has a beautiful desktop.

Old Puppy images Emulate KDE, LXDE, GNOME and MATE desktops.

Some have their own desktops.

I have over 100 Puppy CDs and I am going to have several of my favourites, booting from USB.

New ones have bulky LibreOffice, especially, FATPup.

I want only AbiWord.

I believe in "small is beautifu*";philosophy and Puppy started like that before FATPup came into existence.

It actually started for accessing Internet on the go using a USB without any other utilities.
Basically a light weight browser and a XML reader.

Then the puppy grew to and dog.

I use Knoppix for big work with a persistent volume but I use Puppy for light weight jobs often not saving any additional files.

I have one USB right protected by me using a strange sh script which I have all forgotten now.

I cannot erase the USB and reuse it.

I do not think I used a root password.

I was trying to erase it and there was no way I could accomplish it.

Linux has a way of respecting ownership.

I have own to disown the files in it (mostly MultiSystem boot images)

USB are meant to be erasable and reusable.

Not in this particular USB that I have fiddled with

Same thing (basically a corrupted partition table) has happened to a 64 bit Micro SD.

Please do not by USBs with over 32 GB.
It is far better to have a bigger capacity SATA external disk.

I am just erasing all unnecessary files.

My PC has enough storage space.

When I was working I use to have portable rewritable CD/DVD since USB was known to carry Microsoft viruses.

I never had any problem with viruses.
I once erased my entire hard disk while booting TrueOS of BSD origin.
I had fallen sleep (I used to do this well past midnight) and after waiting a while it erased and installed TrieOS on my 120 SSD primary disk.

Fortunately all my data were in the secondary disk.

I have once erased an external SATA disk with data.

I always keep two copies of important data and some in DVDs and having started using Linux never lost a file.

I do not have a single Microsoft or Windows file.

I erased the last copy of Windows in my Laptop 5 years ago.

It has now two copies of Debian 10.