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Linux Distribution: Puppy
Url: http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
These are extraordinary goals, yet Puppy achieves them all. Obviously, some objectives have qualifications, for example, to load totally into RAM the PC must have either 128M RAM or failing that a swap partition. Also, the "will just work, no hassles" obj |
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| Puppy Linux 2.16 is avilable now |
| Another wonderful new Puppy! There is a massive list of new features, which is incredible considering that we have only incremented the version number from 2.14 to 2.16 (with the 2.15 Community Edition in between). New features include the SFS Boot Manager, 'humongous initrd', print-to-PDF, flush-RAM-to-Flash, plus a host of new and updated applications developed especially for Puppy. Release notes: Puppy now has a GUI SFS Boot Manager to manage loading of SFS modules; dual support for both Unionfs and Aufs; true flushing of RAM to the 'pup_save' file when booted from Flash memory.... |
About Puppy Linux 2.16
Another wonderful new Puppy! The 'standard' release is puppy-2.16-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso live-CD and is 89.9MB. There is a massive list of new features, which is incredible considering that we have only incremented the version number from 2.14 to 2.16 (with the 2.15 Community Edition in between).
Some new releases
1. Puppy now has a GUI SFS Boot Manager to manage loading of "SFS" modules (these are "combo packs" of applications that you can load at bootup, or not, without actually installing them). An example is our "devx" module that adds everything needed for C/C++/FreeBasic programming and compiling. Another example is our OpenOffice SFS module -- when loaded, icons will automatically appear on the desktop and entries in the menu -- or not if not loaded. This is truly a lovely feature.
2. Dual support for both Unionfs and Aufs. Aufs has a number of technical advantages.
3. We now have true flushing of RAM to the "pup_save" file when booted from Flash memory. It is Aufs that has allowed this. In a nutshell, this feature means that you are less likely to run out of RAM space.
4. Jcoder24 has done something wonderful! He has created pdfprinter_pdq, which enhances the PDQ printing system with print-to-PDF-file. This has many uses, one of which is any application can now output a PDF file, another is that if you can't print from Puppy then you can create a PDF file and print elsewhere.
5. Dougal has greatly enhanced our "swiss army knife" Puppy Universal Installer.
6. Rarsa has upgraded his Mini-volume applet (the thing you see in the taskbar for controlling volume) to version 0.7.
7. Nathan has updated his Grafburn CD/DVD burner application to 0.10.1.
8. Dougal and Jesse have greatly enhanced our puppyserialdetect utility. Before it only detected serial modems and mice, now it detects USB and PS/2 mice and keyboards.
For Download
Click here to download: http://www.puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm |
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