Monday, December 25, 2023

VanillaPup-64

 I have a very short comment on Vanilla Puppy Linux.

It has sacrificed the utility value of Linux for the glossy appearance.

That is a fundamental mistake.

It cannot configure the Wireless Internet.

Any Linux distribution that cannot configure Wireless Networking is not worth testing.

My advice for them is to work on the first 512MB of the distribution for basic utilities so that it can be booted from a 1GB stick (hard to find) and the rest can be downloaded from the home page of the distribution.

The glossy appearance can be worked out later.

It is like a chocolate, the basic ingredients are chocolates, sugar, milk and salt.

Rest is old wrapping outside.

Once the original Linux Chocolate is good, the taste and flavour can be added on (not padded on).

This is the problem with Apple Mac and Windows, they have one flavour and one is stuck with it.

Linux has more than 300 flavours (chocolate has over 330 chemical ingredients) and www,distrowatch.com highlight 100 of them.

FatDog-901 Version is Pretty Good

FatDog image is only 500MB and fits in a OLD 512MB USB stick BUT I prefer at least 4GB stick to install additional software.

After configuring the Wireless Internet, bit different from Easy OS by selecting the Panel Item in the bottom for the internet connection.

It has Ducky Duck Seamonkey browser but I installed both Chrome Browser and my favorite FireFox Browser.

Everything is breezy with FatDog.

FatDog control panel let you configure your system.

I did not try to configure since I am going to test another Puppy Derivative from the same USB stick.

I have only one Scan Disk USB stick for all these testing.