This tutorial is for those who use Ubuntu, Debian or a derivative of Debian Linux and have downloaded a .deb package that they want to install. Typically you can use synaptic, apt-get or aptitude. However, if the package is not available via the repositories you may need to download and install them yourself.
Release Versions. Puppy 0 is the initial release of Puppy Linux. It has no unionfs, extreme minimal persistence support, and has no package manager or ability to install applications. Puppy 1 series will run comfortably on very dated hardware, such as a Pentium computer with at least 32 MB RAM. Knoppix is a Debian-based Operating System designed for running directly from a USB drive and/or CD/DVD thereby successfully placing a Live Linux Filesystem on CD. Knoppix was first released 18 years ago as one of the first LiveCD distributions and has been in active development ever since and giving rise to similar initiatives such as DSL.
How to manually install .deb packages:
Note: This process only installs the downloaded .deb package. If the package has dependencies, you may need to install them as well.
Download your chosen .deb package via wget or another method
From the terminal type sudo dpkg -i packagename.deb (replacing packagename with the name of the package)
Troubleshooting .deb dependencies:
If you receive an error like the following: packagename depends on otherprogram (>= 1:0.0.0); however: Package otherprogram is not installed
You'll most likely need to install the otherprogram(s) before you can continue to install your .deb package by typing apt-get install otherprogram (replace otherprogram with the program name)
How to install deb packages published under Using and Configuring Linux
Xenialpup64 is built from a 'Puppy builder' system named Woof-CE (woof-CE at GitHub), which can build a Puppy Linux distribution from the binary packages of any other distro. There are many 'puppies' built with Woof, including TahrPup, Precise*, Wary*, Racy*, and Slacko. Each 'Puppy distro' built by Woof-CE is a distinctive distribution in its own right, with unique features. You choose a puppy based on your particular needs, be it specific hardware, software, or access to and compatibility with the package repositories of a particular major distro.
Since November 2013 Puppies are built with woof-CE. There are no release notes for woof-CE at this stage however anyone is free to browse the commits and offer code in the form of a 'pull request'. The following is left here for historical purposes and still has much relevance.
Woof-CE commit log
You can view the full commit log of woof-CE 'Testing' branch at the following link: Testing Branch.
The most significant recent changes in woof-CE include:
Fully rewritten 'init' script for the initrd.gz
New facility to include special system A, Y and F drive sfs (squash file system) files that take precedence over the main sfs.
A new kernel update mechanism that provides even greater hardware compatibility.
Puppy package manager redesign with improved ease and functionality.
New user interface and UI configuration tools
Additions, updates and bugfixes in dozens of puppy-specific applications and tools
Inclusion of base packages into the woof structure
Xenialpup64 7.5 - released November 2017
The Puppylinux Team is proud to release Puppylinux 7.5, aka, Xenialpup64 7.5!
Xenialpup64 is built from 64bit Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xeruspackages, has binary compatibility with Ubuntu 16.04 and access to the Ubuntu package repositories. Puppylinux is small, runs in ram, is lightning fast, very versatile and good fun!Has everything a novice will need while allowing full control to the experienced user.
Features include:
Kernel 4.9.58.
Ability to boot on both BIOS and UEFI enabled computers.
Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
ROX file manager.
Easy kernel switching.
Palemoon browser.
MPV media player & Deadbeef audio player.
Abiword word processor & Gnumeric spreadsheet editor.
Mtpaint & Inkscape lite drawing applications.
Quickpet : a utility to easily install to the most popular additional applications, OS updates & bugfixes.
Samba file sharing & cups printing.
Lots of in house puppy-specific applications such as Pburn, Uextract, Packit, Change_kernels, JWMdesk, YASSM, Pclock, SimpleGTKradio.
Plus many other updated programs and improvements.
Minimum System Requirements: 64bit 1000MHz CPU 768MB RAM Recommended: 1600MHz 1gb RAM Puppylinux boots from cd, usb, sdcard or network access. A Hard Drive is not required! It can be installed frugally on the HD, USB or a writable CD/DVD, but also as a conventional “full install” Xenialpup is a true community edition 'CE', with contributions from many within the Puppylinux community.
Please visit the xenialpup64 forum page for help & information Here
Previous Woof-CE Releases
Slacko Puppy 6.3.2 - released June 2016
Slacko Puppy 6.3.2
23rd June 2016
The next stable release of Slacko Puppy Linux is out!
Slacko Puppy is built from Slackware-14.1 binary TXZpackages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the Slackware and Salix repositories. More comprehensiverelease notes and documentation of known issues are available.
Features include:
Latest bugfixes from upstream Slackware64 - 14.1
NEW - 64 bit EUFI boot capability! It is designed to boot on any x86 computer but will only boot UEFI 64 bit computers (rare anyway)
New kernels following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 3.14.55
New 'change_kernels' script to easily change kernels
Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new PTheme, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
Updated Firefox ESR
Improvements to the graphical firewall program
Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
evince pdf viewer
Many other updated programs.
As mentioned above, Slacko 6.3.2 is shipped with kernel 3.14.55 but 3.18.22 and 4.1.11 are available from the repository and easily changed using the change_kernels script.Find more information at the Slacko download pageincluding a brief guide to which version is right for you.
Slacko 6.3.0 - released November 2015
16th November, 2015
The next stable release of Slacko Puppy Linux is out!
Slacko Puppy is built from Slackware-14.1 binary TXZpackages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the Slackware and Salix repositories. More comprehensiverelease notes and documentation of known issues are available.
Features include:
Updated 'First Run' GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
New kernels following LTS branches of 3 series built with f2fs support and 4 series kernels. The shipped kernel is 3.14.55
New 'change_kernels' script to easily change kernels
Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
Latest Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
Updated Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM, including the new PTheme, a global theme manager for JWM and ROX desktop
Updated Firefox and Abiword
new graphical firewall program
Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
replaced epdfview with evince pdf viewer
Many other updated programs.
Tahr Pup 6.0.0 - released October 2014
Tahrpup 6.0 CE
9th March, 2014
Tahrpup is out!
Tahrpup is built from Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahrpackages, has binary compatibility with Ubuntu 14.04 and access to the Ubuntu package repositories.
Tahrpup is built from the woof-CE build system, forked from Barry Kauler's Wooflate last year after he announced his reirement from Puppy development.
It is built from the latest testing branch and incorporates all the latest woof-CE features,and is released as a choice or PAE and noPAE isos, with the option to switch kernels.
These include:
GUI bugfixes and visual enhancements.
Save to folder.
New kernels which are now easily swappable.
Quickpet
VLC as default media player.
Updated Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM.
Many other updated programs.
Please visit the Tahrpup forum page for more information Here
Slacko Pup 5.7.0 - released March 2014
Slacko Puppy 5.7
9th March, 2014
A new release of Slacko Puppy Linux is out!
Slacko Puppy is built from Slackware-14.0 binary TXZpackages, hence has binary compatibility with Slackware and access to the Slackware, Salix and Slacky package repositories. More comprehensiverelease notes and documentation of known issues are available.
Slacko 5.7 is the first Puppy built from the woof-CE build system, forked from Barry Kauler's Wooflate last year after he announced his reirement from Puppy development.
It is the natural progression of Slacko 5.6 with the added features introduced to woof-CE.
These include:
New 'First Run' GUI with bugfixes and visual enhancements.
Improvements to the 'Welcome' screen.
New kernels following LTS branches and either patched or already built with f2fs support. 3.4.82 is built as non PAE and 3.10.32 is built with PAE support.
Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
Proprietary video driver upgrades available for Nvidia and AMD/ATI graphics for new and legacy cards.
Ffmpeg-2.0 and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
Updated Joe's Window Manager (JWM).
Visual and bugfix improvements to the tools to configure JWM.
Many other updated programs.
As mentioned above, Slacko 5.7 is available with a choice of LTS kernels; 3.4.82 and 3.10.32.Find more information at the Slacko download pageincluding a brief guide to which kernel is right for you.
Legacy woof releases
Woof release notes
Woof is the substratum of all puppies built from Woof, so these notes are common to all. To see the complete history of Woof, go to my blog: http://bkhome.org/blog/?viewCat=Woof Since the commencement of the Woof project in November 2008 there has been rapid development, too much to list on this summary page. However, here are highlights:
Since the release of Puppy 4.3.1 (2009-10-17) up to the release of Quirky 1.0 (2010-05-05), in no particular order:
Significant improvements in using the Aufs layered filesystem 12
Improved automatic detection & configuration of analog & 3G modems 12345
Samba printing issues resolved 1
The Xorg Wizard has improved detection and configurability options 1234567
Many improvements & bugfixes for bootup & shutdown scripts 12345678910
Simple Network Setup (SNS), very simple wired and wireless setup 12345
Recovery after improper shutdown (such as power failure) 12
Single location for GPL licenses 1
Integrated handling of all the network setup tools 123
New small GUI utilities 12
PET package creation tools, package management, improved 12
Some system utility scripts are improved 1234567891011
System services can now be enabled or disabled 1
Improved hardware detection and localisation in the initramfs 1234
Woof hosted on Bones version management system 12
Major enhancements to the Woof build scripts, new GUI 123
New Woof logo 1
At the date of release of Quirky 1.1 (2010-05-15):
Puppy Package Manager can now list all packages in a repository 1
Simple Network Setup has improved surety of connection 1
CUPS printing with Samba now works properly 1
First-boot welcome page now starts quickly in low-resource PCs 1
At the release of Quirky 1.2 (2010-06-05):
Gtkdialog-splash is a great replacement for yaf-splash 1
Bug fixes 1234
Database of files builtin to the SFS read-only filesystem1
For the first time, now supports hardware clock set to localtime or UTC 1
Improvements to detection and dialing, analog and 3G modems 1
Widescreen support for Intel GMA3150 1
Tweaks to CPU frequency scaling, trying on-demand as default1
At the date of release of Quirky 1.3 (2010-09-22):
Extended help at bootup 1
Rationalised Puppy filenames and streamlined find at bootup 123456
New 'findpkgs' script to find pkgs to use in build 1234
Woof improvements for Slacko (Slackware-based) build 1234
Unique hostname on network 1
At the release date of Wary 5.2 (2011-10-15):
Bugs fixed 123456
'pupdialog' drop-in replacement for 'dialog' when X running 12
PupCamera: automatic digital camera recognition 12
Woof general improvements/rationalizations 1234
X GUI shutdown, even internationalized 123
Support for JWM menu icon 1
At the release date of Wary 5.2.2 (2011-11-17):
Semi-automated Flashplayer download fixed 1
Saving session as an encrypted file was partly broken 1
Tweaks, improvements, fixes 123456789
X GUI Quick Setup, fast configuration at first boot 123456
At the release date of Wary 5.3 (2012-4-7):
There has been a massive restructuring to support internationalization. Puppy can now be very easily changed to operate in any language, right from early bootup. At the heart is an easy-to-use GUI named 'MoManager' that makes translation to any language very easy 1234567891011121314151617181920212223
Translation is achieved by a one-stop-shop 'langpack' for each language -- so far we have de, fr, pl, ru, es 12345
A huge number of important bugfixes and improvements 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940414243
New 'pupmessage', simple replacement for xmessage 1
The 'underdog' has made a comeback 1
Non-root user 'fido' still not ready for regular use, but some progress 1
Woof2 supports multi-architecture, and hosted online in a Fossil repository 12
At the release date of Precise 5.4 (2012-10-23):
'Firmware tarballs' redesign 123456
Package management related improvements 1234567891011121314 1516171819
Internationalization improvements 1234567
Various system fixes and hacks 12345678910111213141516171819
Driver loading and event management 123
Improved menu layout and management 12
Woof online repository 12
Full installation, f.s. check at bootup 12
Support for ARM boards 123456789101112131415
One-click editing of initrd.gz 1
At the release date of Precise 5.4.1 (2012-11-10):
Various system fixes and tweaks 1234567
Saving to entire partition, shutdown/reboot failures 1
PET repository path problem 12
devx-only-installed-packages extracted from woof-installed-packages 1
At the release date of Precise 5.4.2 (2012-11-30):
Syncing local package database with online deb repos now fast 12
Improved menu categorization 123
Various improvements and bug fixes 123456
New 'cmptree' script 1
PPM: automatic online check for a Service Pack 1
Rewritten 'report-video' script 1
At the release of Precise 5.4.3 (2012-12-18):
Various improvements and bug fixes 12
At the release date of Wary and Racy 5.5 (2013-03-03):
A gadzillion fixes and improvements 1234567891011121314151617 181920212223242526272829303132333435
Improved Multiple Sound Card Wizard 1
Trash applet fixed 1
Puppy Universal dd (Pudd) improved 1
Full support for udf filesystem 12
New top-level /run directory 1
Preliminary support for f2fs (Flash Friendly File System) 12345
Infrastructure to support Frisbee network manager 1
Major overhaul finding categories of packages 1
At the release date of Precise 5.6 (2013-05-21)
More Woof scripts internationalized, new language translations 12345
Improved MoManager GUI translation manager (see here) 12
Many Woof scripts/infrastructure improved/fixed 1234567891011121314 151617
New Xorg Video Wizard and forced-reboot recovery 123456
New legacy-GRUB manager, replacing old Kent Robotti script 1
Improvements for the Puppy Package Manager (PPM, see here) 1234
Woof infrastructure improved support for Frisbee (wireless manager) 1
Support for kmod (replaces module-init-tools) 1
Matching GTK2, GTK3 and Qt4 themes 12
New default Xft.dpi is 96 (all earlier pups are 78) 1
Faster conversion Debian/Ubuntu pkg db to Puppy db format 1
At the release date of Precise 5.7 (2013-07-29):
A significant development has been to redesign the pup_event_frontend_d daemon from a single script, to a modular format with a small compiled daemon 12
Support for running Internet applications as user 'spot'. The original LoginManager has now become the Login and Security Manager 12
QuickSetup now displays extra network configuration options 1
A new IPC (InterProcess Communication) system based on inotify 12
A long-time problem we had with overlapping desktop drive icons fixed 1
Many more bug fixes and improvements 123456789101112
Please note that some puppies that are not built from thelatest version of Woof, or remasters of an earlier release of Puppy,may not have all of the above features.
Precise Puppy 5.4
Precise Puppy is built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04.1+ binary DEB packages, hence has binary compatibility with Ubuntu and access to the vast Ubuntu package repository. Couple that with Puppy's tiny size, speed and ease-of-use, and this is one incredible pup!
This is the very first release of Precise Puppy. It is assigned version 5.4 to indicate it's position relative to the other puppies, such as Wary 5.3 and Slacko 5.3.3 (5.4 coming soon).
A lot of work has happened at the 'Woof-level' since the release of Wary 5.3 in April 2012 -- of particular importance to Precise are the many enhancements to the Puppy Package Manager (PPM). The following are Release Notes at the 'Precise-level'.
New audio/video and snapshot apps and capability 123
New and updated utilities and apps 123456789101112131415
New analog (dialup) modem drivers 12345
System-level and management refinements 12 3 4
Commercial X.org video drivers 12
Internationalization improvements 1234567
3.2.29 kernel, SMP, PAE, i686 1
PAE Kernel
The 3.2.29 kernel in Precise Puppy is configured with PAE, which means that the CPU must be PAE-capable. Precise also requires a Intel i686 or later CPU. Some CPUs in the early days of the i686 architecture are none-PAE, a very small percentage of the overall number of i686+ computers currently in use. If you happen to have one of those none-PAE CPUs, please use Wary Puppy, or monitor the Puppy Forum as it is likely the 'Puppy community' will build a Precise Puppy with a none-PAE kernel (I will also announce it on my blog). Note: 'PAE' enables the kernel to support a computer with more than 4GB of RAM.
Theme
Precise 5.4 has been built with the 'stark-blueish' GTK theme, 'stark-blueish' JWM theme, 'Neon' desk icons and 'precise-futwerk-1b.jpg' wallpaper. I would like to thank vicmz for composing the Neon PET and futwerk for creating the nice wallpaper. Note, if you are curious how themes are created for Puppy, read the Themes Intro. page. Note 2, lots of themes are available for installation in the 'noarch' repository in the PPM.
PPM
I mentioned above that the Puppy Package Manager has undergone a lot of development. If you are new to Puppy and want to get a quick overview of the PPM, read the Puppy Package Manager page. That page was last updated in 2009, however the principles are still the same (I intend to update it soon). In the Woof Release Notes above, you can follow the links to find out about the myriad improvements made to the PPM. There is also an on-line Help page for the PPM. We are still refining the PPM to work flawlessly with the Ubuntu repositories -- updates on this will be posted to my blog.
Precise Puppy 5.4.1
This is a bug-fix release of 5.4. Yes, we did find some significant bugs and shortcomings, and fixed them! There is one significant fix at the 'Woof-level', that broke shutdown and reboot when the session is saved to the entire partition. Quite a few fixes at the 'Precise-level': Some of them are just annoying, such as ePDFview rendering wrong colours. Or, somewhat more than just annoying, such as missing firmware that caused some wireless drivers to fail. Precise-level Release Notes, in no particular order:
PDF Viewer (ePDFview) wrong colours fixed. 1
Samba share mounting/management improved 12
Wireless drivers and firmware 123
Application/utility updates 12345
Glib/gio module-loading bug 1
New blog Note that my blog, at http://bkhome.org/blog, has been archived, now read-only. A new blog has commenced at http://bkhome.org/blog2. PAE kernel For those with Pentium-M CPUs that do not support PAE (see comment above), I did release a build of Precise 5.4 with a kernel configured for non-PAE-capable Pentium CPUs. I will shortly do the same for 5.4.1 -- please monitor my blog for the announcement. Theme Note that the theming is the same as 5.4, except that the GTK theme has been changed to 'flat grey rounded' -- due to text highlighting problems experienced by some users with the 'stark-blueish' theme.
Precise Puppy 5.4.2
This is a bug-fix-of-a-bug-fix release! Although, there are some significant advancements at the Woof-level, see above. At the Precise-level:
Ubuntu 'dvdauthor' pkg broken, using pkg from Slacko 1
Precise Puppy 5.4.3
A few more bugs found and fixed. Minor improvements at the Woof-level, see above. At the Precise-level:
Some needed libraries and utilities were missing. ROX-Filer, Pdvdrsab fixed 1
Precise Puppy 5.5
The very first Precise Puppy was version 5.4, on 23 October 2012, built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin 12.04.1 binary DEBs. Since then we have had bug-fix and minor upgrades, versions 5.4.1, 5.4.2 and 5.4.3, the latter released 17 December 2012. Well time marches on, and Ubuntu have released their second build of Precise Pangolin, 12.04.2. Precise Puppy 5.5 is built from 12.04.2+ DEBs, but of course it is extremely important to understand with Puppy Linux that our use of the binary packages of another distro is only a convenience for us, to obtain binary compatibility, hence compatibility with that distros package repositories -- in all other respects, from the lowest levels of the infrastructure upward, Puppy is unique. There have been many bug-fixes and improvements at the Woof-level since Precise 5.4.3 was released, plus many package fixes and upgrades. Enough to warrant the number jump to 5.5. Please read the Woof release notes above, plus 'Precise-level' release notes here (in no particular order):
'In house' package fixes and upgrades 12345678910111213141516 17181920
losetup encryption fixed 1
Package dependencies bugs fixed 1
New: Frisbee network manager 123456
Mixer GUI for Pmusic 1
Play with Ubuntu Phone Qt-XML in Precise Puppy 1
Theme I have chosen a similar theme to the recently-released Wary and Racy 5.5. The PET packages used are 'desk_icon_theme_lagabluenight' (desktop icons), 'gtk_theme_flatbluecontrast' (gtk), 'jwm_theme_deepbluebold' (JWM window manager), and for the background wallpaper I used Puppy Forum member futwerk's excellent 'precise-darkblue-logoorange.jpg' (name changed from futwerk's original). Upup Precise The kernel remains at 3.2.29, although there are later in the 3.2.x series. I decided to stay at that version for now, due to the number of third-party kernel drivers compiled for it. The kernel is PAE-enabled, which means that there are some early i686-class CPUs that will not boot -- this time I have not provided a non-PAE build of Precise Puppy -- instead, our Puppy enthusiast 'pemasu' has been building variants of Precise Puppy with recent kernels (3.7, 3.8) and non-PAE. Pemasu has named his pups 'Upup Precise', to distinguish from my Precise Puppy. Please go to the Puppy Forum for announcements about Upup Precise. Here is one of the relevant Forum threads: http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=83699 ...though, I recommend monitoring the 'Puppy derivatives' section of the Forum for later announcements -- in fact you will find a lot of interesting announcements there, just one example is gray's 'Nearly Office Pup', based on Precise Puppy.
Precise Puppy 5.6
it is good to read the above Release Notes for earlier Precise puppies, to get an idea of the evolution. Relative to 5.5, this latest pup brings some exciting new features, including a new Xorg Video Wizard (with forced-reboot recovery mechanism), new non-PAE 3.2.44 kernel with lots of analog modem drivers (making this an excellent pup for those still on dialup Internet), many more applications internationalized, many applications upgraded, lots of bug fixes, and so on! Plus, a huge number of fixes and improvements at the infrastructure/system level (see last batch of Woof release-notes above). In all, a great new edition of the Precise series. Release Notes, in no particular order:
More apps internationalized 1234
Many system and small apps improved/fixed 1234567
New SFSs (app combo-packs, see here) 1
BaCon BASIC compiler upgraded (see intro page here) 1
Big apps compiled especially for Precise Puppy 12
Improved Frisbee wireless manager 1
New 3.2.44 kernel, non-PAE, i586, SMP 1234
Improved support for f2fs (Flash Friendly File System) 12
Disregard earlier notes about PAE and non-PAE kernels. This time there is only the one kernel, configured as non-PAE. This means that the kernel cannot recognise if your PC has more than 4GB of RAM -- it will still work, just won't use that extra RAM.
Precise Puppy 5.6.1
This is a bug-fix release of Precise 5.6. Various little things fixed, nothing major. Rerwin added drivers for agrsm and hcf analog modems, rounding out Internet dialup (the old kind) modem support to be almost as good as Wary Puppy (our retro pup for old computers).
Precise Puppy 5.7
Another pup in the Precise series! This pup comes in two flavours, one for older hardware and/or those on dialup Internet, the other for those with relatively modern hardware. The 'retro flavour' is an upgrade path for those who have used our Wary Puppy, that targeted older PCs and analog modem dialup -- unlike most other Linux distributions, it continues to support a wide range of analog 'winmodems'. It also has two web browsers, SeaMonkey and Opera, the latter preferred for PCs with less than 256MB RAM. The 'modern flavour' only has one browser, SeaMonkey, and forgoes most of the analog modem and true-SCSI drivers, and is the choice that will suit most people (see below*). You also get the benefit of a much smaller download. As usual, there have been lots of changes since Precise version 5.6.1 was released, bug-fixes, as well as improvements at the 'Woof level' and 'Precise level' -- read release notes for the former above, and the latter below:
The 'retro flavour' has analog modem drivers for agrsm, dgcmodem, ess, conexant hcf/hsf, Intel 536/537, lucent, pctel, smartlink, and more. Also drivers for true-SCSI hard-drives and cd-drives. The .sfs (squashfs) file inside the live-CD is gzipped (rather than xz'ed), which improves speed but does make the .iso file bigger 1
Many libraries, utilities, and applications upgraded 123456789
PeasyGlue is a new application for joining images together 1
Pidgin debuts as our multi-protocol chat client 1
Retro flavour: Kernel 3.2.48 with many 3rd party drivers and f2fs patch 1
Modern flavour: Kernel 3.9.11, PAE, i686
Miscellaneous fixes and tweaks 123
*Retro versus Modern If you still connect to the Internet by analog modem dialup, you will need to use the Retro flavour if you have one of those winmodems (modems designed for MS Windows). However, there is support from some winmodems in the Modern flavour. Also, true-hardware modems will work in either flavour. If you have an ancient true-SCSI hard drive or CD drive, you will need the Retro flavour. The Retro 3.2.48 kernel is configured for a minimum i486 CPU, no PAE support (so will not recognise more than 4GB RAM), supports the old ISA and EISA cards, and true-SCSI drives. The Modern-flavour 3.9.11 kernel requires a i686 CPU minimum (which is the vast majority), will recognise more than 4GB RAM, will not work with ISA/EISA. Apart from the above considerations, a slow and/or RAM-limited PC will perform better with the Retro. Very roughly, if your PC has a i686 (or better) class of PC with at least 512MB RAM, choose the Modern flavour. Theme I put together a very interesting theme for this pup. The desktop icons are Haikupup, the wallpaper is precise-speckledblue-futwerk.jpg (created by futwerk), the JWM window manager theme is Bluesky (based on the original Bluesky by Tman), GTK theme is Glass_Sky (based on the original by Trio), and ROX-Filer is modified from the default by DejaVu Sans-11 text on the desktop, with white foreground.
Precise Puppy 5.7.1
This is a bug-fix for release for Precise 5.7. If you have 5.7 and any of these affect you, then please upgrade:
The desktop drive icon for an external USB optical media did not appear.
Non-US keyboard layout was not working properly (at bootup was US layout).
Pidgin: could not login to Facebook and Gmail.
Gnome-Mplayer: playing DVD videos needed fiddling with Preferences.
A syntax error in /root/.Xdefaults.
Lots of puppies...
Spup (Slacko)
'Spup' is our generic name for puppies built with Slackware binary packages. The foremost right now is 'Slacko', currently one of our official flagship puppies.
Upup (Precise)
'Upup' is our generic name for puppies built with Ubuntu packages. Our latest is Precise Puppy, built from Ubuntu Precise Pangolin binary packages. Whatyou get is a very small distro (the live-CD is about 150MB) yet withjust about every application you would need and the speed andease-of-use that Puppy is famous for. All of the advantages of Puppy,plus binary compatibility with Ubuntu .deb packages -- Puppy's ownPuppy Package Manager will install any packages from the vast Ubunturepositories!
Wary
Waryis intended to be state-of-the-art, built with the latest Woof andrecent packages, except for some rollbacks where newer packages areconsidered less than satisfactory. Currently, Wary uses Xorg 7.3, which may be a better choice for older video hardware. Wary is built with kernel 2.6.32.x, to suit older hardware. Also, we have a large collection of drivers for oldanalog modems (we are unable to compile manyofthese drivers with later kernels). Wary intro. page: http://bkhome.org/wary/
So many more puppies!
It is so easy to create a custom Puppy, either by using Woof orremastering the live-CD (there is an super-easy remaster program in theSetup menu), and this has resulted in a huge choice of custom puppies.The main problem is finding out just what is available. A good startingpoint is the Community News page: http://puppylinux.org/news/
Download!
There are mirrors of Puppy, that you will find considerably faster than the ibiblio.org host site (which is very slow). Please go to my download page that has links to many mirrors: http://puppylinux.com/download/ This page (c) copyright Barry Kauler, May 2013