Comments on: Precise Puppy 5.7.1 review – a small and swift linux distro

By: Stone Forest

Stone Forest — Fri, 14 Mar 2014 21:26:00 +0000

I’ve just tried a fresh install of 5.7.1, but it is impossible to upgrade it. Therefore it is useless as anything but a static cd. It may be useful for data recovery, or for anonyous web browsing if you have a spare half hour to set it up every time, but having used Puppy before as an installed system that worked very well, I find this very disappointing, and cannot recommend it to anyone.

By: erjan

erjan — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 21:11:00 +0000

thanks for the review…im having difficuty logging in to my administrator account error for logging in i use puppy linux as a tool for retrieving my data but some videos and pictures are not copied correctly when i run it on a normal windows is there any software that i can use to retrieve my files?

By: free

free — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 16:32:00 +0000

I dont understand you free memory display ? It says used 998Mb, so it uses that ?

By: warp

warp — Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:43:00 +0000

In reply to arindam sen. The "funny" look is just the BEOS/Haiku theme

By: gyffes

gyffes — Sat, 17 Aug 2013 03:22:00 +0000

A) if you prefer slax, try the Slackware-infused Puppy variant.

B) puppy rocks as a system rescue disk, allowing me to boot dying or infected winboxes and save data to other disks.

Wish you’d mentioned the persistent data aspect, as well: with a password you can protect your settings and data so changes, updates, data, network passwords, etc all are securely preserved between boots. Puppy sits on a USB flash drive on my keychain and provides me full computing to go, without leaving a trace behind on any borrowed machine.

Also want to give a shoutout to the wifi manager, which does a truly awesome job connecting a variety of win boxes to the hotspots of the world without having the specific drivers on hand. Find myself wishing for that manager when configuring a new dell or Lenovo and I can’t get online to get the drivers to allow me to get online!

By: arindam sen

arindam sen — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 17:12:00 +0000

Thanks for the review! Though I am not a fan of JWM and prefer openbox DE for machines with limited specs, but I found Puppy precise a really good distro. On my benchmark, it consumed about 90 MB RAM which is a bit higher than Openbox distros like manjaro, crunchbang or archbang but lower than LXDE or XFCE. On the funny theme that the developers chose, it can be customized to look a lot more professional. One of the biggest advantages of using Puppy (with hard drive installation) is that it is not a bloat and takes the least space (in frugal installation) of all the OS that I have used. Functionalities provided by Puppy may not be like a full fledged distro but it is closest to it. And yes, even I found that some of the applications that I downloaded from Ubuntu precise repositories didn’t have their dependencies resolved and never worked for me. Otherwise, it is quite a handy distro to have especially if you have some PII/PIII/P4 desktops/laptops lying around which you want to leverage as a server or for net browsing. Further, other lightweight distros like DSL are not that supported like Puppy (DSL released an update last year after a long gap, possibly 4 years), Knoppix is good but can’t install and for me, Slitaz (though well supported – 3/4 updates per year) never worked. But, Puppy always worked for me on whatever machines I tried – even in the really modern ones as well. Hence, I find Puppy really good. Also, one can install e17 desktop in Puppy and make it look even cooler (like in MacPup).

Regads,
Arindam