bullsmind.com » linux distro web http://www.bullsmind.com Changing the world, one step at a time. International culture and technology Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:12:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Puppy Linux http://www.bullsmind.com/linux/puppy-linux/ http://www.bullsmind.com/linux/puppy-linux/#comments Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:21:06 +0000 David Grajal http://www.bullsmind.com/linux/puppy-linux/ I was searching a long time for a small, but complete and easy to use operative system to carry on an USB flash drive. Yesterday I tested puppy linux. Puppy is one of the hundreds of different minidistros but this flavour has something special. It’s frightening fast! The secret of the speed of puppy linux is that is a really small distro (60Mb) and it’s completely loaded to RAM when the system starts.

The result is that when the desktop finish loading, the applications open instantly. I’ve never used a desktop as responsible as puppy linux. It remembers me when I tested BeOS. ¿Circa 2001? Anyway, seems like an eternity from now. It’s really easy to use and I think is a good software for schools, because they will be able to recycle old computers and because is super simple and it just works!

It’s a really cool and useful operative system. For normal people is not only as a curiosity, it’s a tool easy to use and with all the software they can need. For the techies is interesting because it’s small and fast and has details as coming with strong encryption by default. Besides, as my main tool is the browser, this distro has basically 90% of the software I need using only 60MB.

The only thing I dislike is the website. It’s retro but I don’t think that on purpose.
Appear to be designed by and engineer! :-)

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