Puppy Linux (which is 17th on distrowatch.com’s page hit ranking) has reached version 3.
Puppy is different to other Linux distributions in that it is extraordinarily small, yet quite full featured. Puppy boots into a 64MB ramdisk and unlike other live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, Puppy in its entirety loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly.
Version 3 comes in 2 variations ‘puppy-3.00-seamonkey.iso’ which is 97.6MB and also a “retro” live-CD, ‘puppy-3.00retro-k2.6.18.1-seamonkey.iso’ that is the same except uses an older kernel — it is also smaller, at 93.8MB.
Find more here and don’t forget the release notes.
A really good distro. Yesterday i tries it in a new notebook and it recognized everything out of the box, even the wi-fi (that caused me A LOT of trouble in win XP). It’s very fast and full of features. Unfortunately it has to be used only as root. (Thet means it’s easyer to use for windows users, but i just don’t feel it right…).
I love pl3, this is my first introduction to linux and I am hooked.