| Puppy Linux's latest trick: v1.0.8 |
Feb. 22, 2006
 Puppy Linux founder and chief developer Barry Kauler Wednesday released version 1.0.8 of the Puppy Linux mini distribution. The live-CD iso file, named puppy-1.0.8-mozilla.iso, weighs in at 61.5 MB. Also available is a multisession iso called puppy-multisession-1.0.8-mozilla.iso.
Puppy's claim to fame is that it has a small footprint yet is full-featured, including all sorts of configuration and application installation wizards. Puppy boots into a 64MB ramdisk and the whole OS is small enough to run directly from system RAM. The result is that all applications start quickly and respond to user input instantly. Another advantage is that Puppy can often be a great choice for old, under-powered hardware.
"The biggest news item [in the new release] is the move from OSS to ALSA sound," Kauler wrote in the changelog. "A modified version of the alsaconf script is used to auto-configure the sound at bootup. We had some issues in prior versions due to ongoing limitations in sound support with some hardware."
Other key enhancements incorporated into the latest live-CD file include:- JWM is upgraded to version 1.4. Among the many improvements is the ability to swallow applications into the taskbar (the Blinky taskbar network monitor is an example)
- A 2.4.27 Linux kernel
- Mozilla 1.8b1
- KDE base 3.4.2
- GIMP 2.0.6
- Abiword 2.4.1
Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive, Kauler said. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-R/DVD-R to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all!
Puppy Linux can be downloaded free of charge from the distribution's website.
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