Puppy
Linux是另外一种Linux发行。它的不同之处在于，Puppy是格外的小，然而又充满了特性。Puppy能从64M的存储设备启动，并且，整套系统
都能在内存中运行。有很多自启动运行光盘的Linux发行，它们需要不停地从光盘读取数据才能运行，Puppy与它们不一样，Puppy整个装载在内存
中。这意味着，所有的应用程序一眨眼的功夫就能启动，并且立即对用户的输入作出响应。Puppy
Linux能从flash卡或者是任何的USB存储设备启动（这是flash-Puppy），或者光盘（这是live-Puppy），或者Zip
disk及LS/120/240
Superdisk（这是zippy-Puppy），或者软盘（这是floppy-Puppy），或者硬盘（这是hard-Puppy）。它甚至可以使用
一张多区段烧录的CD-R/DVD-R以将所有内容保存回CD/DVD中。
Barry Kauler has announced the release of Puppy Linux 5.1.2 "Wary" edition, a lightweight distribution specifically designed for running on old and low-resource hardware: "I
was thinking of this release as a bug-fix release of 5.1.1, but when I
started to tally the changes, I realised that there are a lot and
probably I should have bumped the version to 5.2! Wary 5.1.2 is the
latest of the Wary series of Puppy Linux that focuses on supporting
older hardware. The emphasis is on incremental improvements and bug
fixes rather than quantum changes, and 5.1.2 has many bug fixes,
improvements and upgrades relative to 5.1.1, many more than you might
expect from a sub-minor version increment. Built from the latest Woof,
there are major improvements with hardware detection, some new helpful
system-level GUIs, and 'fido' non-root user account is introduced (for
experimenters only at this stage)." Read the release announcement and the release notes for further details. Download: wary-5.1.2.iso (120MB, MD5).
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