Puppy Linux 5.5

Puppy Linux is yet another Linux distribution. What's different here is that Puppy is extraordinarily small, yet quite full-featured. Puppy boots into a ramdisk and, unlike live CD distributions that have to keep pulling stuff off the CD, it loads into RAM. This means that all applications start in the blink of an eye and respond to user input instantly. Puppy Linux has the ability to boot off a flash card or any USB memory device, CDROM, Zip disk or LS/120/240 Superdisk, floppy disks, internal hard drive. It can even use a multisession formatted CD-RW/DVD-RW to save everything back to the CD/DVD with no hard drive required at all.

Puppy's goals

• Easily install to USB, Zip or hard drive media.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), the CD drive is then free for other purposes.
• Booting from CD (or DVD), save everything back to the CD.
• Booting from USB Flash drive, minimise writes to extend life indefinitely.
• Extremely friendly for Linux newbies.
• Boot up and run extraordinarily fast.
• Have all the applications needed for daily use.
• Will just work, no hassles.
• Will breathe new life into old PCs
• Load and run totally in RAM for diskless thin stations