![]() ![]() The process included answering a few questions about keyboard and video, after which the desktop showed a nice ocean/mountain scene wallpaper. On my Dell Latitude C600 laptop, which is equipped with an 850MHz Pentium III and 384MB RAM, booting live from the CD took about two minutes. And you can save all your work (including files and configuration and desktop settings) to a pup_save file (see below for more information). ![]() When running live, Puppy won’t disturb anything on the hard drive, and all your files are still accessible. Puppy Linux has always been a live CD, which means you can boot and run Puppy from any computer, even if you already have another operating system installed. New features for Puppy 4.00 include scanner and digital camera support via SANE and Gtkam, respectively. As such, the developers have been able to migrate and upgrade Puppy to a host of new GTK+ 2 replacement applications, such as Osmo personal organiser, ePDFView PDF Viewer, Homebank personal finance manager, Pidgin chat client, Fotox image viewer (now renamed Fotoxx), and mhWaveEdit audio editor, among others. To maintain a consistent user interface, Puppy 4.00 has abandoned GTK+ 1 and Tcl/Tk, and is now a totally GTK+ 2 based system. Yet despite its small size - the ISO file is a meager 87.1MB - Puppy has an abundance of applications, with more than enough for an average user. To help reduce size and include more functionality over the previous binary-package-based Puppy 3.01, Puppy 4.00 has been compiled from a Slackware 12-based source. With the recent release of Puppy Linux 4.00, developer Barry Kauler and his team have provided a lightweight but functional Linux operating system.
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