A Pizza Poochie's Puppy Pages

I am writing this entry from a boot to Lighthouse Puppy on a borrowed 3 GHz P4 computer with my save file on a pen drive. Lighthouse Pup has a browser toolbar from AccuWeather.com that I like when weather conditions are going to affect my planning.

Lighthouse Pup runs great on my old 550Mhz Micron P3 with 256M of RAM. It has a nice balance of apps for media, general websurfing and coding web pages for sites or to compile into ebooks. It runs the Micron as well as - or better - than the old Win98(tm) OS that it used to boot into without ever fragmenting the file system.

I still run the old version (LighthousePup 2.15 SeaMonkey) with IceWM and JWM since version 3.01a4 "is based on Puppy 3.01 and features Kirk's minimal KDE 3.5.7 SFS integrated into the base system as well as IceWM, GIMP 2.4.3, FireFox2.0.0.11, JAVA, Thunderbird, XINE, XMMS and K3b 1.03 with nearly all plugins, plus full graphics accelleration DRI and OPENGL modules". And it weighs in at a 278M iso image. (Version 2.15 is only 182M, which works better for systems only having 256M of system RAM).

The KDE desktop is a tad heavy for my old Micron which usually runs Puppy and Pizza Pup, so there's a caveat for ya, but it is nice on systems with more resources - Sys RAM, dedicated swap partition, and/or heavier CPU.

For those who need the beef in apps there is a 376M version that "includes OpenOffice2.2.0.sfs as a separate SFS file within the ISO for the convenience of one download, without performance hit of building the additional 98M into the core".

So for systems with 512M and a USB hub you can run Open Office on a machine that has no hard drive. My old Micron boots to Win9X(tm) to play old games and I don't take it online - I use Puppy for that and don't mount the drives much because it has an old 250M Zip drive it can share with Win9X(tm) as well as the ubiquitous USB pen drives.

A worthy distribution in all its versions Lighthouse Puppy is a friendly puppie to have around.