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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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| Linux Release Details: |
| Puppy Linux 2.17 is available |
| Another wonderful new Puppy! The 'standard' release is puppy-2.17-seamonkey-fulldrivers.iso live-CD and is 82.6MB. There is one thing that stands out from reading the release notes, and that is the major advances with hardware support -- which astounds even me, considering that version 2.16 was released barely 2 months ago. Yes, everything listed below is in that 82.6MB! |
Important News
1. Enhanced dialup: Puppy now has enhanced support for those who have to access the Internet by dialup. Automatic detection and setup of serial and many soft-modems -- quite amazing if you happen to have a compatible soft-modem! Read more Read more
2. For dialup, there is a new GUI application called PupDial. PupDial is integrated with the new auto-detection to provide extremely simple Internet connection. Read more Read more
3. Enhanced printing: Finally, Puppy has CUPS! This includes the complete Gutenprint 5.0.0 package so Puppy supports over 500 printers out-of-the-box. Extra Hewlett Packard drivers are available as a PET package. Read more
4. Print-to-PDF: This is out-of-the-box setup for CUPS, with the 'CUPS-PDF printer' ready to go. Read more
5. MMC and SD cards: These are now fully automatically supported. You should not have to setup anything. Read more
6. Boot configuration: The BootManager was introduced in Puppy 2.16 to manage loading of SFS files (application combo-packs). My intention was that the BootManager would be a one-stop-shop for configuring all aspects of bootup, and I have now taken the next step and added management of modules. Read more
7. Mount image files: One-click mounting of .2fs (a file with ext2 f.s. inside), .3fs (ext3), .sfs (squashfs) and .iso (CD image) files. Read more
8. Hardware information: PupScan is my GUI application to view PCI and modules information. USB information is now added. Read more
9. Pmount is a drive mounter. It has been totally revamped for 2.17. As well as an improved display and bugfixes it is also now much faster. Underlying scripts test-eide, test-scsi, probepart and probedisk totally rewritten.
10.Boot from USB CD/DVD drive: the live-CD will now boot from this, as well as the usual internal CD/DVD drive.
11.Boot from floppy disk: Puppy has this for a long time, now WakePup2 (floppy image file) has been greatly enhanced. Read more
12.ePDFView PDF viewer. This is great, replaces Gsview. Read more
13.Notecase outliner. I am waxing poetic about this one. Version 0.5.8 has everything I dreamed of in a note-manager/outliner. Read more
14.Xfdiff, frontend for 'diff' and 'patch'. This is very nice, and replaces TkDiff. Read more
15.The default finance manager application is now Grisbi (v0.5.9). Read more
16.We have removed Dillo in favour of Gtkmoz for our internal HTML viewer. Read more Read more
17.The following packages have been upgraded: RutilT v0.15, Pfind v2.2 (more), Pbackup v2.4.4 (more, more), Geany 20070626 (now has FreeBasic highlighting) (more), WakePup2, ROX-Filer v2.6.1 (more), puppyserialdetect v1.1g (more), xkbconfigmanager v1.1 (Dougal), puppybasic v 2.5b (MU).
18.The Linux kernel has been upgraded to version 2.6.21.5. Read more
19.Lots of bugfixes (of course).
For Download
Click here to download: http://www.puppyos.com/download/downpage.htm |
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