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

1. Ready to use → all tools for common daily computing usage already included.
2. Ease of use → grandpa-friendly certified ™
3. Relatively small size → 300 MB or less.
4. Fast and versatile.
5. Customisable within minutes → remasters.
6. Different flavours → optimised to support older computers, newer computers.
7. 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.

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