Puppy Linux: Lots of Screenshots from LinuxDynasty!
April 2, 2009 by Clair Ching
Filed under Geeky Fun
Ever heard of Puppy Linux but you’re wondering if it’s worth giving a try? I think that screenshots will give you a better idea of what it looks like and if it might be something you could consider trying.
Puppy Linux is small, just like Damn Small Linux. One of the nice things about this distro is this:
One of its goals is to let users boot from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
Puppy Linux logo
Isn’t that great or what? I’ve never tried Puppy Linux before but after checking out a lot of screenshots over at LinuxDynasty.org, I wonder if I should try it myself of the window manager at the very least. Joe Window Manager looks clean and if it’s used on a distro like Puppy Linux, then it must have minimal demands on computer hardware. It probably is useful for my older computer at home.
If you’re a bit convinced with the screenshots already then it’s time to download Puppy Linux and have some fun. 
Puppy is my liveCD distribution of choice. It boots on almost anything, has a nice UI, and has the ability to save settings. Because it loads completely into RAM, a friend and I were able to boot into Puppy Linux on every computer in our school’s physics lab for April Fool’s Day yesterday, with no permanent effects and using only a few CDs. One of my favorite pranks of all time.
Wow that’s so cool! Haha. What kind of prank did you pull?
I had a coworker who loved the tech stuff and insisted that community property, such as the scanner, be kept at his station.
One day I happened to have an old 13″ green screen in my car and switched it for this guy’s 17″ color monitor. The rest of the group played along like everything was normal and we didn’t know what his complaint was. I *barely* managed to dial the IT chief faster than he did and let the IT guy in on the secret. He promply came over and acted like he couldn’t understand the problem either. The IT guy later told me that if I’d let him know with enough time, he’d have installed the appropriate drivers so the guy could actually use the screen.
If Puppy Linux had been available, oh, the fun we would have had…
Maybe next time
It will always probably be handy to have Puppy Linux for times like that.