Linked by David Adams on Wed 9th Mar 2005 16:47 UTC, submitted by Barry Kauler
As far as I am aware, this is a world first, a live-CD that saves back to the CD at the end of the session. So how does it work? "Boot the PC with the multi-session CD inserted in the CD-burner drive -- thus, Puppy automatically knows which drive is the CD-burner, in case you have more than one CD/DVD drive. Then you use Puppy in the normal way. At shutdown, all the changed files in your home directory are saved back to CD. That's it. Next time you boot, all the personal files are restored."
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I downloaded this Puppy 1.0.0a yesterday to explore this new trick. However I'm just as impressed with it as a regular live CD because this 55MB Puppy has a suprisingly large selection of general apps. It compares well with DSL on my old P200 box, but on my main PC, it compares well with the 200MB mini distros BeatrIX or SLAX that I also like.
Puppy uses the Fvwm95 desktop, the start menu is clean, with some 70 odd apps and 50 odd tools & wizards. The apps look consistent and overall it appears very neat.
Later I hope its possible to add/remove apps with Pup-get and re-master a new 55MB'sh image. It would be nice to add XMMS and say a small spreadsheet such as Siag.
It was a worthwhile download even on dial-up.