Post by mikkh on May 15, 2012 20:52:45 GMT
Based on the popular Puppy Linux, 'fatdog' adds 64 bit compatibility to those with buckets of RAM not seen by the 32 bit version.
I've always liked Puppy, so I checked this out to see if it offered anything new
distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/web/
Apart from being recompiled into 64 bit, it differs from 'normal' Puppy in several ways and includes a lot of things not usually included and some very nice touches that shows it's been a true labour of love and very well thought out. Puppy differs from most live CD's in that it's meant to run from CD all the time and can even be run with no hard drive at all, which is handy for testing PC's and a real life saver if your hard drive decides to fail and you want to go online.
Most people do use a hard drive with it though or you could just use a USB flash/thumb/pen drive too. If you use it regularly and I've been using it exclusively for three days now, you need to save your favourites etc and Puppy adds a small personal save file to a suitable device when it shuts down or reboots. Normally in other Puppy variants this is restricted to a few GB's and can be limiting if you want to do a large download. FatDog gets round that problem by creating a download folder that doesn't interfere with your personal storage, so theoretically will never run out of room.
It comes with Firefox and Flash and automatically found my cable connection, so I was online within seconds - and more importantly to me, it can play my online games without any need for the Nvidia driver installation, which I normally have to do myself on most Linux's
For me it's the perfect one to use, boots quickly, shuts down rapidly, has all the software I need already installed - and it's not Windows! So no overbloat of security software killing the machine and not doing that good a job anyway.
Good doggy, nice doggy !
I've always liked Puppy, so I checked this out to see if it offered anything new
distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/fatdog/web/
Apart from being recompiled into 64 bit, it differs from 'normal' Puppy in several ways and includes a lot of things not usually included and some very nice touches that shows it's been a true labour of love and very well thought out. Puppy differs from most live CD's in that it's meant to run from CD all the time and can even be run with no hard drive at all, which is handy for testing PC's and a real life saver if your hard drive decides to fail and you want to go online.
Most people do use a hard drive with it though or you could just use a USB flash/thumb/pen drive too. If you use it regularly and I've been using it exclusively for three days now, you need to save your favourites etc and Puppy adds a small personal save file to a suitable device when it shuts down or reboots. Normally in other Puppy variants this is restricted to a few GB's and can be limiting if you want to do a large download. FatDog gets round that problem by creating a download folder that doesn't interfere with your personal storage, so theoretically will never run out of room.
It comes with Firefox and Flash and automatically found my cable connection, so I was online within seconds - and more importantly to me, it can play my online games without any need for the Nvidia driver installation, which I normally have to do myself on most Linux's
For me it's the perfect one to use, boots quickly, shuts down rapidly, has all the software I need already installed - and it's not Windows! So no overbloat of security software killing the machine and not doing that good a job anyway.
Good doggy, nice doggy !