Puppy Linux 3.00 – bigger and better!
Posted in Product Review by admin on December 25th, 2007 With landfills teeming with superfluous computers, Puppy Linux is giving life to old and outdated hardware. When we see Puppy Linux from a compatibility viewpoint, it has elegant features that accrue resources without reducing the number of applications.
Linux developers have offered a viable solution through Puppy Linux and with the recent Puppy 3.00 release they have enhanced its features and efficacy. With Puppy 3.00, you can browse the Internet and also spreadsheets and reports can be easily done. You can also monitor firewalls and can organize network devices with Puppy 3.00. Every application available in Slackware 12’s repository could be installed with the help of Puppy 3.00.
Though Puppy 3.00 is filled with new exciting features, the major drawback is that during shutdown you will be given only one chance to save the files. If you imagine that the distro will save the whole thing on some partition and forget to mount it, then you will lose all the data when you shut down. With the file save wizard at shutdown, Puppy 3.00 can help its users to save the data even when it is not mounted.
On the other hand, Puppy Linux is an implausible distro as it can bring life to PC’s with less than 100MB ISO. Puppy 3.00 comes with an application for each task and you can do everything that you do with an advanced PC. Barry Kauler, Puppy’s main developer boasts that Puppy 3.00 has the capacity to install Slackware packages as it has all the basic libraries such as Glibc 2.5, GTK 2.10.13 and GCC 4.1.2 from Slackware 12. Puppy 3.00 also has newly rewritten custom boot, shutdown scripts and configuration for better performance.
