You have the mtPaintįor image editing, AbiWord for word processing, and OSMO, a personal organizer. One of the mind-boggling facts about Puppy is that uses some sort of a black hole filesystem to store all thoseĪpplications, because it seems almost surreal that such a tiny distro could contain so many goodies. Here's aīrief overview of just a fraction of programs you may want to use. Let's begin modestly.

Here's SeaMonkey, playing my Ubuntu Compiz video, Oh, you got some songs in a proprietary format? Not to worry.

You know those big shiny distros that seem to point you to Adobe website for a download? Well, Puppy is notĪmong them. USB drive, which Puppy happily recognized and mounted. To save the screenshots from this session, I used a FAT32-formatted Likewise, notice the USB thumb drive icon. So I clicked Connect to get onto my network, provided the password - and that's it!įurthermore, please note that the Windows partition ( sda1) is not mounted byĭefault, for safety reasons, although if you do click on the icon, it will be mounted - and writable. Three networks popped up, one with WEP and two more with no encryption. Apparently, theyĭid not bother to read my Router security article. One way of trying toĬonfigure the wireless network is by using the Network Wizard.īut there's an even simpler way: the Pwireless wizard!Īs you can see, there are still people who use the default SSID and no encryption whatsoever. To this end, I booted Puppy on a ThinkPad T43 laptop. What can a distro that takes less than 100MB of memory in RAM offer, o ye of little faith may be pondering. Those shiny buttons and scroll thingies working right out of the box. Several, I found them all to work well, without any glitches. Puppy gave me the choice to switch between a large number of resolution and color depth options.

You don't feel the fact Puppy is running as a live CD. The best part is that everything runs quicklyĪnd smoothly - even faster than some installed distros. You will notice the desktop is more refined than in version 2.1. After a few simple prompts for your keyboard and the graphics driver, the choice between the more modern XorgĪnd the older Xvesa, you'll reach a new, fresh, aesthetically pleasing desktop.

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