| Puppy Linux 2.10 alpha emerges |
Aug. 28, 2006
 A new development build of the Puppy Linux live CD was released Aug. 28 for testing, founder and maintainer Barry Kauler announced on the project website. Puppy Linux v2.10 alpha uses the JWM desktop environment and is based on a 2.6.16.7 kernel.
"Puppy version 2.10 Alpha ... is basically what version 2.10 will be, with bug fixes and some packages upgraded,"Kauler said in the release announcement. "For example, I expect JWM will be upgraded from 1.7 to 1.8 for the beta release. The kernel is 2.6.16.7, same as Pup 2.02, and will remain that for the 2.10 final."
Key features include:- Abiword 2.4.1 text editor
- Firefox 1.0 browser
- GIMP 2.0.6 graphics editor
- Mozilla 1.8b1
- OpenOffice.org 1.1.4
"Seamonkey is now v1.0.4 and is using a different 'home' directory, so you lose your old bookmarks, history, mail, etc.," Kauler said. "The old stuff will still be there, and if anyone wants to look into how to copy across any old stuff to the new directory, please do!"
Puppy Linux is extraordinarily small, yet full featured. It boots into a 64MB ramdisk and runs in RAM. Unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in its entirety loads into RAM. This means that all applications start quickly and respond to user input instantly.
Puppy Linux also has the ability to boot from a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive.
More information can be found in the 2.10 alpha release announcement.
You can download the 64MB iso here.
Screen shots, from OSDir.com, can be found here.
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