Puppy Linux Studio

Reproduction

Tuesday, October 5, 2010
 

Puppy Studio
Even though, I used PCLinux as my gold standard (it has some problem with its new partition tool-not recognizing some partition types) for live CDs for its versatility and the availability of many versions at disposal, the record for most number of CDs downloaded goes unquestionably to Puppy Linux (I have, more than 20).
Puppy Linux Studio is the latest I downloaded.
It has lite version which is 288MB.
The full version is 376 MB.

It is pretty good and has taken most of the useful packages from TeenPup and LeagcyPup.

Both over 650MB.

Puppy less than 200 is always in my front pocket even when I travel abroad.

I rarely carry a heavy Laptop.

 Even though I carry a flash drive (pen drive) I rarely use it for any problem solving.
Puppy is enough and it is amazing in doing simple and complex things.

Why carry a laptop when one can avoid it.

Before I buy something I load Puppy and see whether everything works before paying in foreign currency. If Puppy fails I do not buy that f0r sure however much the market hype.

As far as I am concerned I categorize (like any other Live) Live CDs based on Puppy MBs.
Is it less than 200 MB?
I love the ones below 200.

NimbleX is one of them. 

NimbleX has become bit fatter recently but still less than 500MB.

The next category is 200 to 500 MB (little less or more).
CRUX, Peppermint and many more out there now.
What annoys me is why try to compress into 700MB CD which is impossible unless one use compression used by Knoppix.

If it goes beyond 700 MB might as well double it to 1500 and go for a decent DVD like Mint rather than no man's land.
There is another problem with trying to compress into 700MB.
Unless one has 1GB RAM, live session is slow and painful.
Many people do not have more than 512MB RAM.
Many of the old machines can be revitalized with 500MB input.
I am glad to see Linux distributions are catering for these machines.

Having said that with or without your own machine all Puppies are adorable.

I will be with you on Pendrive Linux soon.