NOP (No Office Pup) - produced by gray featuring the removal of office apps and the addition of the XFCE Desktop Environment.Ģ14X - an extension to the famous Puppy 2.1.4 with upgraded glibc, kernel and other updated software. First developed by tazoc and later taken up by Dry Falls. LightHouse Pup - a comprehensive puplet designed to be extended with specialised sfs packages for KDE, XFCE and other large programs. jemima is also famous for the puppeee and fluppy puplets - hardware specific puplets targeting the Asus EEE pc. Saluki - this one is by jemima and its standout feature is the XFCE desktop environment and “under the hood” innovations such as an ‘a-drive’ sfs which gets loaded at first boot. Its main feature is that it uses the Enlightenment Desktop Environment. Macpup - a puplet by runtt21 which takes its design inspiration from Mac OSX™. Here are some of the more notable puplets, in no particular order: They are as much a member of Puppy Linux family as the official releases themselves. Usually (but not always) made as a remaster, they fill the niche of almost every need.
In addition to the “official” puppies, there are also a multitude of unofficial Puppies, built by Puppy enthusiasts. Quirky - an experimental release of Puppy, which later was forked and made into its own distribution, independent of Puppy Linux. Racy and Wary - the traditional self-compiled T2-based Puppy. Originally it was built from Slackware 13.37 current version is uses Slackawre 14.1 as its base.
The current version is Tahrpup, which is based on Ubuntu Trusty Tahr. Lucid Puppy - a Puppy based on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
Until that time, Puppy Linux is a traditional, single distribution like others.īy the completion of 4.x series at version 4.3, however, there was an explosion and Puppy Linux become a family of distributions with multiple official Puppies at the same time.Īt the end of Puppy Linux 4.3, Puppy Linux was split into multiple distributions (but still sharing the same principles, built using the same set of tools, and provide consistent features between all of them). The reality is nothing like that, though … Below is a simplified diagram that shows Puppy Linux distributions, spread over time.Īs you can see, everything is relatively calm and ordered until Woof was introduced at Series 4.x. If you come to this after reading Puppy Linux history, you are forgiven if you think that Puppy Linux as a nice, linear progression from Series 0.x to Series 6.x.
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