Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

Thanks dancytron, those forum links are helpful.

@Bigpup no everything is linux.

Anyway, I made a fat32 partition in GParted, gave it the esp and boot flags, and made a second ext4 partition for puppy. Then I opened frugalpup and clicked the "puppy" button and followed the prompts to locate the ...

Hi Clarity.

I unfortunately don't know what you're asking. I have a fossa64 puppy ISO which I am trying to install in a UEFI VM. I have a laptop with UEFI that I want to try Puppy on, assuming Puppy works in the VM. The laptop has limited resources so I want to use a frugal install.

I'm trying to ...

...have learned a lot from the forum's members and now being able to build a system for my own needs within one day.


That sounds nice. Maybe one day I'll get to that point and I'll just make my own gnome puppy.

But at the moment, I'm using this computer for school. Google Drive integration ...

Ok, I just tried it. I couldn't get gnome to work no matter what I did. Kind of what I expected.

I realize Fossa is still a release candidate though, so I'll wait for it to be released and then maybe I'll ask about it. So far, puppy seems really fast, but changing the DE is difficult and aside from ...

OK thanks everyone, that was really helpful. It sounds like I just need to try it out. I haven't heard of any other linux distro that operates this way (where users can make hundreds of remasters with different repos or other customizations) so puppy seems very interesting.

using packages from a ...

Thanks everyone! I'm getting a little confused though on how puppy is related to Ubuntu...

Puppy is based on Ubuntu, right? I tried googling for differences between Ubuntu and puppy, and I found this thread on the old forum (archive.org) which says they're completely different. What's going on ...

Hi everyone!

I have a fanless AMD Excavator v2 laptop. Needless to say, it is a weird machine. Right now I'm running Ubuntu 20.04, which works really well until it runs out of RAM (4GB). Also, whenever I run more than one program it chokes because it sucks at multithreading. I've considered ...