Murga's Mean Pup
First tonight, I got the Xandros desktop 4 DVD on the May 2007 issue of Linux Magazine. I have used Xandros before and really liked it so I had to install this to see how the latest one was. Awesome as usual - no problems at all - highly recommended distro. But now for my main focus. Puppy Linux - this is my latest obsession. I have been downloading all kinds of versions of Puppy Linux, so far, Puppy 2.16 is the only one that has given me any problems - after booting with 2.16 I had no GUI it would start to load X Windows and then just blank out and go back to the shell. Right now though, I am in Mean Pup - 1.0.5 Mozilla.iso - this one is nice - I like the different default orange color scheme and the desktop is sweet also. Even the boot screen had some nice colors and graphics to it. I was glad on this one that the video display tool came up right away - some of the versions don't do that - it makes it really easy to switch immediately to my proper display settings. I did have to dig through the start menu to get my ethernet config tool - I prefer that to be right on the desktop for convenience to me. I like the default Mozilla web browser theme as well. I am a huge fan of Puppy Linux. I wrote a small tutorial on Puppy Linux 2.12 you can find it on www.anixas.com on my links page if you have any interest.
