Go Puppy!

May 25th, 2005 | No Comments

Regular readers will notice that I’ve added a Get Puppy logo in the sidebar. That’s because I think Puppy is the best "small" operating system out there.

Most people only need a computer to browse the web, write letters and access email. Puppy does all that and more from a 60MB install disk and takes up 256MB on a hard drive.

It now has new features to easily install extra programs and themes.

To support Puppy I’ve established a marketing web site called Puppy Power. I welcome people to try the distro and leave their comments. The main Puppy forum is the place to go for technical support.

Puppy runs from RAM, which makes it much faster than Knoppix and its clones, and doesn’t interfere at all with your hard drive partitions. It’s ideal for a Windows user wanting to test Linux without the risk of dual boot.

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