Slacko64 Puppy 7.0 released: small Linux distribution

by ddos · May 5, 2019

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.

Puppy Linux

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:

ROX-Filer “proc” bug – (fix)

Long standing geany “execute” bug

Xdialog 3rd button feature

gtkdialog “vte” bug – (fix)

Many small bugfixes at OS and woof level.