Puppy Linux Unleashed

This is a "press release", except that there is a very interesting
news/story aspect to it.

I've just released Puppy Linux version 0.9.9, and the first official
release of Puppy Unleashed.

Puppy is a tiny distro, kind of like Damn Small, but better (see the
Puppy FAQ: http://www.goosee.com/puppy/faq.htm ).

Puppy has EVERY application and utility needed by most users yet is
still only around 50M. Puppy loads totally into ramdisk at bootup,
for excellent speed and freeing up the CD drive. Booting off a USB-stick,
there are no writes to the stick during a session, greatly extending
its lifespan.

If Puppy does not have the application you need, now there is a very
simple solution: use Puppy Unleashed to create your own custom
live-CD or USB-stick with exactly the apps you need. Even get Puppy
smaller if you want, like 35M or less. Unleashed currently has about
260 packages, and our Puppy enthusiasts are preparing more.
The build script is highly intelligent, with dependency checking and
automatic generation of menus for the window managers.

Puppy is still relatively unknown, but those who have made the
discovery are very enthusiastic -- go to the Discussion Forum to read
the praise -- it's almost embarassing.

Puppy is targetting refugees from Windows, and the look-and-feel
is very Windows-9x-ish. Puppy is non-commercial, open-source, but I don't
mind putting in some free closed source, like the Macromedia Flash player and
Planmaker Free Edition (spreadsheet).

If you have read this far, you'll be thinking, yet another small Linux
distro -- ho hum -- but I'm quite serious that absolutely everything a
user could want is squeezed into 50-55M. I achieved this by creating Puppy
file-by-file and Puppy is not based on any other distro. On top of that
Puppy has heaps of HTML docs included in the 50M and is incredibly easy
to use -- that is, small in this case does not mean spartan and suited
only to Linux geeks -- Linux newbies are finding Puppy to be the easiest
and most productive way to get into Linux.

Puppy's home page:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy
News page:
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/news.htm
Download page:
http://www.goosee.com/download/downpage.htm

Regards,
Barry Kauler
(developer of Puppy)