Puppy Rocks!
I'm typing this entry running Puppy Linux on my normally Windows XP laptop. I burned a CD, booted from it, discovered how to make my home directory live in a file on my Windows NTFS partition, loaded Emacs into Puppy, and spent a long time figuring out how to get and install the driver for my wireless network card (ipw2200, the Intel Pro-Wireless 2200BG). But it's working. Still have to automate the driver startup...
Puppy Linux is FAST!!! Let me say that again. Puppy Linux is FAST!!! Just about everything pops onto the screen instantly when you click its icon or select it from a menu. The built-in Xine music player handles ogg, mp3, and even Apple's m4a format. You can get a wide range of pre-built packages for it, including compiler tools, Open Office, Apache, Java, and, of course, Emacs.
And, it's bloody FAST!!!
Not only that. It's small. A 60 meg ISO file. It'll fit easily in a USB key drive. Or a small CD-ROM. Or you can install it on a hard drive and bloat it up.
Did I say it's FAST!!! Thought so.
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