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Puppy Linux
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Key facts
- Developer
- Barry Kauler (original), Larry Short, Mick Amadio and Puppy community (current)
- Os family
- Unix-like ( Linux kernel )
- Working state
- Current
- Source model
- Primarily open source
- Initial release
- 0.1 / 19 June 2003 ; 22 years ago ( 2003-06-19 )
- Marketing target
- Live CD, Netbooks, older systems and general use
- Package manager
- Puppy Package Manager
- Supported platforms
- x86 , x86-64 , ARM
- Kernel type
- Linux
- Default user interface
- JWM / IceWM + ROX Desktop
- License
- GNU GPL and various others
- Official website
- puppylinux-woof-ce .github .io
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Puppy Linux is a family of light-weight Linux distributions that focus on ease of use and minimal memory footprint. The entire system can be run from random-access memory (RAM) with current versions generally taking up about 600 MB (64-bit), 300 MB (32-bit), allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has started. Applications such as AbiWord, Gnumeric and MPlayer are included, along with a choice of lightweight web browsers and a utility for downloading other packages. The distribution was originally developed by Barry Kauler and other members of the community, until Kauler retired in 2013. The tool Woof can build a Puppy Linux distribution from the binary packages of other Linux distributions.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Puppy Linux” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.