![]() When you exit Puppy Linux, the OS and all of your files go back into your pocket. This brings your own desktop to any computer you encounter. You store the entire OS with your personalized settings and files on a USB or CD drive. This distro can easily become your computing best friend.īesides its speed and performance, the chief advantage to using Puppy Linux is its portability. This is a lightweight stacking window manager for the X Window System. To the contrary, Precise Puppy is a mature hound dog that puts you in full control of your computing environment with a pleasant graphical user interface based on the JWM (Joe’s Window Manager) desktop manager. That does not mean Puppy Linux gives you a boring, adolescent desktop. It is a fully functional Linux OS that puts its power and effectiveness in performance, rather than gobbling up resources with excessive eye candy. This latest release makes Puppy Linux better than ever. Head developer Barry Kauler released version 5.4.3, aka Precise Puppy, in Oct. The credit for that is its design to run in RAM rather than pull its code from slower physical or optical drives. No matter how entrenched I become with any flavor of Ubuntu - sans the Unity desktop - or Linux Mint’s Cinnamon and KDE desktops, nothing can beat the speed, convenience and reliability of Puppy Linux on a stick.īoot it directly from a hard drive or from an external drive either method is fast and convenient with no dual boot menus required. Puppy Linux is a distro I keep coming back to.
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