If you didn't tried Puppy Linux - one of the smallest Linux, core's yet-remember, you have only one life, try Puppy today itself. Puppy Linux - the name is not much inspiring for geeks, but I found it is the most stable and useful OS in the pocket Linux category.
It has the following advantages over other less-sized Linux operating systems.
It has the following advantages over other less-sized Linux operating systems.- Small sized. Ranges between 80MB to 150MB
- Install anywhere - HDD, USB Pen drive, biz. card sized CDs. (You can use ordinary CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs - but it is too big for puppy.)
- Easy to use.
- Official website offers boot time of less than 1 minute. But it is typically less than 15s in my Intel P4 with 2GB RAM.
- Puppy is beautiful than any other pocket OS.
- Smart and crash free. I used more than 10 Linux flavors. Everything crashed, but I haven't experienced Puppy's crash.
- Puppy sessions are saved in *.sfs file. It can be placed everywhere. Puppy search for it at boot time to recover the previous session. There are a number of fundamental advantages for that. I found many of my friend's computers not supporting USB boot. Of course they can boot from a CD-RW but it is not writable. Puppy offers several ways to overcome it. One is that, it can write previous sessions in CD as a multi session write. But it can be used until CD size limits. Another way is to write *.sfs file in HDD (for home usage) or USB pendrive ( for portability) and puppy kernel file in a a CD. So CD can be booted easily and can save sessions.
- You can resize puppy save session file while running.
- Comes with almost all drivers.
- A wide variety of Puppy flavors are officially and unofficially available. These flavors are called 'Pupplets'. Pupplets are intended for a particular task - ie, it supports a task greatly. There are pupplets for painters, gamers, processionals, children, students and so on.
- Brief and understanding tutorials, quick replying forums, community etc.
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