> "A little more detail - Puppy is a small distro that boots from CD (or
> USB or HDD or FDD or just about anything that you can persuade the
> computer to boot from). It loads entirely into RAM, clearing the
> originating CD for normal use. It aims to give you all the normal tools
> you want, in a small package - Abiword, Firefox, etc. It's very easy to
> roll your own puppy .iso, tweaked and augmented (or shrunk) to your
> hearts content. Downside: You need RAM. The entire OS and software
> loads into RAM. 128MB gives you everything. It is claimed that you can
> get away with any 586 and 32MB RAM with tweaking. Upside, it is quick.
> You can point it to a USB stick or local filesystem for persistent
> /home. Today was my first exposure to it, and I was impressed. "
>
> Say again, It loads entirely into RAM.
>
> >From the puppy site:
>
> "When Puppy boots, everything uncompresses into a RAM area that we call
> a "ramdisk". The live-CD will bootup on systems with only 32M RAM, but
> the more RAM you have the more Puppy is able to keep files permanently
> in ramdisk hence more speed. A PC with 128M RAM is the recommended
> minimum.
>
> Note that Puppy will automatically use a swap partition if it exists.
> When booting from a USB Flash device, Puppy tries to load all the Flash
> files into physical RAM, but if there is not enough RAM then Puppy is
> able to copy the excess to a swap partition if it exists. This
> eliminates writes to the Flash memory during a session, greatly
> extending its life span.
>
> You may need to have a swap partition to run Firefox on PCs with less
> than 64M RAM. Certainly, for a PC with only 32M RAM, a swap partition is
> necessary to run most of the large GUI applications."
>
> You don't need another partition for norrmal use on a system with 128M
> RAM. If you have less than 128M RAM you would be better off to have an
> existing swap partition.
>
> Just download the .iso, burn a cd and boot off it. and no, in response
> to your friday post, it won't eat your MBR.
>
>
> >
Have done Nick. Nice interface, less than 50mb download. Comes with
about all one need for a general purpose system. Firewall, but I'm
finding it easy to config to get my email working over network DSL.
Still, I have Ubuntu working nicely.
Linz
