Performance PC: Puppy Linux 2.14: This Hound Has Teeth

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 5, 2007

“Though worthy Linux distributions from Ubuntu and SUSE run very
well, they are also rather large collections (though certainly not
as bloated as Windows is!) and this has led to the creation of some
smaller incarnations like Damn Small Linux and Feather Linux. The
best of these lite Linux versions, though, has got to be Puppy
Linux, which, in its 2.14 version, shows that it can run very
comfortably with the big hounds.

“Put together from scratch by Australian Barry Kauler, Puppy
Linux is an extraordinary development, being a first-class OS than
can load itself into and run completely from as little as 128 MB of
RAM…”

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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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