I was going to have a look at these two later today. Just wondering has anyone compared them and if so perhaps you'd be kind enough to give some feedback.
james
On 13 Feb 2008, at 10:05 am, member jessejazza wrote:
I was going to have a look at these two later today. Just wondering has anyone compared them and if so perhaps you'd be kind enough to give some feedback.
Since no one has replied, I found this on google, which you may or may not have seen:
http://junauza.blogspot.com/2007/10/battle-of-minis-dsl-vs-puppy- linux.html
I've tried both and generally found DSL to be meaner and leaner then Puppy. Puppy does have a good range of software in its live CD from what I can remember but DSL beat it on its ability to recognise hardware and boot into much more minimalist environments (it will run on really old machines). I keep a copy of the credit card version because it's excellent for exploring and diagnosing machines that aren't working properly but will still boot a small system form CD.
Regards
Mark
member jessejazza wrote:
I was going to have a look at these two later today. Just wondering has anyone compared them and if so perhaps you'd be kind enough to give some feedback.
james
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On Wed, 2008-02-13 at 18:19 +0000, Mark Reid wrote:
I've tried both and generally found DSL to be meaner and leaner then Puppy. Puppy does have a good range of software in its live CD from what I can remember but DSL beat it on its ability to recognise hardware and boot into much more minimalist environments (it will run on really old machines). I keep a copy of the credit card version because it's excellent for exploring and diagnosing machines that aren't working properly but will still boot a small system form CD.
I keep a copy of DSL on a usb stick set up to boot in a standalone copy of qemu. This has configuration for the office VPN plus my mail settings and some keys to access various systems etc. One click of a batch file for windows or a shell script for linux systems has a virtual machine running without me having to mess about reconfiguring a clients machine for my needs, or working out how to perform the magic to get USB boot working on some machines. Less useful for fixing broken machines but a handy way of having a familiar desktop with me for use on working ones.
For CD boot of broken systems I still tend to veer towards knoppix
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