Slacko64 Puppy 7.0 released: small Linux distribution
Puppy Linux is a very small Linux distribution, and the whole system runs in memory, lightning-fast, very flexible, and fun! It has everything a novice needs while allowing experienced users full control over it.
Feature
- Ready to use → all tools for common daily computing usage already included.
- Ease of use → grandpa-friendly certified ™
- Relatively small size → 300 MB or less.
- Fast and versatile.
- Customisable within minutes → remasters.
- Different flavours → optimised to support older computers, newer computers.
- Variety → hundreds of derivatives (“puplets”), one of which will surely meet your needs.
Slacko64 Puppy 7.0 releases.
Changelog
Features include:
- Latest bugfixes from upstream Slackware54 – 14.2
- NEW – 64 bit and 32 bit EUFI boot capability! It is designed to boot on any x86 computer
- NEW – FrugalPup installer to install Puppy to UEFI and BIOS computers, 32 or 64 bit either to hard drive, USB or SD/MMC devices See (FrugalPup page)
- Ability to boot from ISO files from hard drive or USB device using Super Grub2 or you can prepare a grub2 entry manually.
- New kernels following LTS branches of 4 series built with f2fs support and builtin mmc/sd drivers so you can boot from Secure Digital cards and emmc drives. There are extra kernels in the repository.
- New and improved “change_kernels” script to easily change kernels
- Experimental support for UEFI tools, efivarfs, efivar, mokutil, sbsigntool (use at own risk – RTFM)
- Many Icon and Graphical User Interface improvements throughout the system.
- Ffmpeg and supporting programs including Pmusic and Mplayer.
- Joe’s Window Manager 2.3.6 (JWM).
- fully compatible and interchangeable A drive and Y drive support. These are system ‘sfs’ files that can override the main sfs.
- Updated Firefox ESR browsers
- Browser installers to install Chrome, Opera, Vivaldi and Brave (64 bit) and at least Vivaldi for 32 bit. Seamonkey is available in the Slackware repo (32 and 64).
- Improvements to the graphical firewall program
- Samba, used to share files with Windows, is shipped by default
- evince pdf viewer
- Many other updated programs.
Bugfixes:
