Puppy Linux 4.3 Review | Linux Today

Puppy Linux 4.3 Review

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 22, 2009

[ Thanks to Jim
Lynch
for this link. ]

“Puppy Linux is one of the better known distributions
when it comes to Linux portability. Puppy has been around for a
long time and version 4.3 was recently released. Compared to some
of the desktop distributions, Puppy is incredibly lightweight and
weighs in at a tiny 105MB when you go to download it. Yep,
that’s it. 105MB.

“But don’t let the file size of the Puppy Linux download
fool you. There’s a lot of value packed into Puppy Linux as
you’ll find out in this review.

“What’s New In This Release

“There’s quite a bit of new stuff in this version of Puppy
Linux including a new system for building Puppy called Woof and a
new package manager called, appropriately enough, Puppy Package
Manager.”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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