Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise" released

http://distrowatch.com/?newsid=07515

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NutFVK-zYGo

 

Puppy "Precise" is based on Ubuntu 12.04 Pangolin Precise LTS and is fully compatible with Ubuntu repositories.

 

Fully compatible as in "You can apt-get stuff like on a normal Ubuntu install?" Or as in "You can access the Ubuntu repos with Puppy's package manager, and it might work or it might not?"

 

You can enable Ubuntu and third party repositories and install from them in Puppy. They are fully compatible like you would have in Ubuntu.

 

Not what I meant. Last Ubuntu-based version of Puppy did not have apt-get; and while Pupget or whatever it was called could install software from the Ubuntu repos, as far as I could tell it could not update the software, which seemed to lead to problems in some cases. Furthermore, doing a "full" install ended in an unpleasant message to the effect that I must immediately reinstall a lengthy list of packages after rebooting.

I'm wondering if (and hoping that) the situation has improved since then. I love the concept of a distro that can run on almost anything, even if I don't care for the childish dog affectations. But what I saw of "Lucid Puppy" was pretty much a jumbled mess.

 

Just 158 MB!
Ideal for Banking!

 

I installed Puppy Linux 5.4 "Precise" on my bootable USB Flash Drive (made with YUMI) and it works great.