[ Thanks to An Anonymous Reader for
this link. ]
“Puppy Linux is a lightweight live Linux distribution that you
can boot and run from a CD, USB stick, or DVD. One of its features
is the ability to create specialized ‘pups’–new versions of Puppy
Linux geared toward a specific purpose. Digipup is one such
example, with a focus on amateur radio. I spun it up, and found
Digipup to be a great way to check out amateur radio utilities for
Linux.“My test machine was an Acer AST-180 with a dual-core Athlon
4000 and a gigabyte of DRAM. When booting, I was offered a choice
of video servers: X.org or the smaller, less advanced, but more
nimble, xvesa. X.org simplified my choice by refusing to load, so I
chose xvesa instead. It performed well; I was surprised at the
speed of the GUI. Slow speed is the curse of all live versions of
Linux, but Digipup almost made me forget that I was booting from a
CD…”