“The main attractions of Puppy Linux are its small size and
suitability for live CD or USB stick booting – both great
qualities for a netbook distro. In fact, it even runs well from a
USB stick, so if you don’t want to change distros permanently, you
can keep it around for occasional use.“Pupeee is the Eee PC-specific version of the distro, which
should also be suitable for other netbooks. However, Pupeee won’t
work on the Eee PC 901, so try its parent distro, Puppy, if you
have a 901. With Pupeee taking up a svelte 131MB, and regular Puppy
consuming even less space, this means that you can make the best
possible use of the small storage space of your netbook.“Another advantage is the distro’s ability to run entirely from
RAM, reducing the number of writes required to your solidstate
drive and hence extending its life. Yet despite taking up so little
room, Pupeee has plenty of software available by default and a
clearly organised menu to find it all. The desktop is pretty plain,
but on a small screen that works well.”
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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