| Puppy Linux adds Opera, drops SeaMonkey |
Jun. 09, 2006
The Puppy Linux project team, which debuted its v2.0 on June 1, has released a followup version that replaces Mozilla's SeaMonkey suite of web applications with Opera 9.0 Beta 2, founder and chief evangelist Barry Kauler said June 8 in his weblog.
Other changes made in the latest version, as listed by Kauler, include: - release notes of version 2.00 "standard" (SeaMonkey) Puppy also apply
- Amaya 8.8.51 WYSIWYG HTML editor replaces SeaMonkey Composer
- Gaim has been removed (Opera has an IRC chat client)
"This is still version 2.00," the Australia-based Kauler writes. "Fixes ... are not in it. But the Modem Wizard fix did get in.
"This release will load totally into RAM, freeing up the CD drive, but loading and running of Opera is a bit sluggish. The problem is that there is not quite enough free RAM and the kernel has to do a lot of juggling, which slows things down. What would improve speed is a swap file, which is what I might do for 2.01. At 70.1M, this is not the slimmer Opera-Puppy I was earlier contemplating," Kauler said.
To read about all the other new and standard features of peppy Puppy Linux v2.0, see this DesktopLinux.com article from June 1.
You can download the free 70 MB iso image file here (.iso download).
Screenshots can be viewed via OSDir.com here.
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