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Review: PUD GNU/Linux 0.4.7

[ Thanks to Oli
for this link. ]

“PUD is a Chinese distro based on Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) and the
2.6.20 kernel. They’ve patched in several filesystems and through
using SquashFS for the loader filesystem, the ISO is a mere
193megs.

“I was going to do the full test of PUD on my ancient laptop
(PIII 1gHz, 256megs of ram) but there was one problem: WiFi
drivers. The PCMCIA card that does this is supported natively in
Ubuntu–since 6.10–but try as I might, nothing could get a
response out of it in. So to cut a long story short, I’ve been
testing this on a 3gHz P4 with 768 megs of RAM…”

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