I've heard about Puppy Linux in the past, but never really took the time to check it out. I don't know what prompted me to look into light-weight & small distros this evening but that is what I did. I currently have it running on my IBM laptop, which is older but has a ton of RAM and the performance of this distro is awesome. It did take me a few minutes to setup the wireless networking, but I was impressed w/ the way Puppy Linux kind of walks you through it. Definitely not for the novice computer user. My wife wouldn't have been able to set it up. Unlike other live distros, this one will allow you to save your settings/files to either hard drive, cd-rom or USB/flash drive upon exit. So even though you are using a live distro it will be like you have a portable computer in your pocket. Just find any computer with either CD-ROM drive or USB port and it might as well be yours.
Even my wife thinks this distro is cute, it barks at you when you initially boot it up. I just might get her to switch to Linux after all.
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