new member just learning

telltom · 05-21-2010, 05:51 AM

Hi folks,
I just came across this wonderful operating system called Puppy. I have two hard drives and had Ubuntu 9.10 on one and Windows XP on the other. I decided to delete Ubuntu (i have a backup drive) and try Puppy. It's so fast that i'm a fan. I'm gonna try to use nothing else so i learn all the ins and outs. thanks for welcoming me here. I don't have alot of computer skills in Linux, but i love learning. I'll be reading many posts to familiarize myself with everything. I'm running the new version Puppy 5.0

Larry Webb · 05-21-2010, 06:14 AM

Hi and welcome to LQ, that is what makes it great is linux comes in many different flavors. If you like small and fast you might try Tiny Me also.

mimosa · 05-21-2010, 05:46 PM

... and Knoppix is good. Puppy 4.3.1 was the only Puppy that connected to my Wireless, and it's great. Plenty of room to have a more "portly" distro on the hard drive as well.

Good luck!

vigi · 05-21-2010, 06:14 PM

puppy is an excellent usb portable and utility distro; I am a novice - not a programmer and cannot understand or fully appreciate how the designer can fit so much into <150MB when MSVista needs 25GB ? Puppy has worked on every computer I have plugged it into. How can such a small system have a kernel that is versatile enough and, or even have the space for enough drivers?