10 Facts About Puppy Linux

Puppy Linux is an operating system and family of light-weight Linux distributions that focus on ease of use and minimal memory footprint.

Puppy Linux started as Vector Linux based until it became a fully independent distribution.

Puppy Linux 5 came with a stripped down version of the Midori browser to be used for reading help files and a choice of web browsers to be installed, including Chromium, Firefox, SeaMonkey Internet Suite, Iron and Opera.

Also, at this release, Puppy Linux has dropped support for 32-bit computers, due to Ubuntu dropping 32-bit support at this release as well.

Puppy Linux is a complete operating system bundled with a collection of applications suited to general use tasks.

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Puppy Linux is fairly full-featured for a system that runs entirely in a ramdisk, when booted as Live system or from a 'frugal' installation.

On earlier releases of Puppy Linux, Puppy Unleashed was used to create Puppy ISO images.

Puppy Linux comes with a remastering tool that takes a "snapshot" of the current system and lets the user create a live CD from it, and an additional remastering tool that is able to remove installed components.

Puppy Linux uses the T2 SDE build scripts to build the base binary packages.

Puppy Linux praised its simplicity, flexibility and clear explanations, while noting the limitations of running as root.