Revision [16751]
This is an old revision of PuppyVersion made by darkcity on 2011-07-15 06:01:47.
Puppy Versions
Forthcoming
| Name | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|
| Puppy53 Puppy 5.3 - Spot | What I envision is a stable puppy based on the latest Slackware-13.37 optimised for size and speed which can run on an old clunker (say a p3 600, 256 RAM) and the latest 64 bit arch machines, while supporting a wide range of internal and peripheral hardware | link |
| Puppy6 Puppy6 Saluki | Compile from scratch for maximum speed and performance. Create a new build system that supports multiple platforms, with a user friendly package manager, and a well stocked repository | blog |
Active/Unknown
| Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AttackPup | LightHousePuppy LightHouse Pup 4.43 | - | - | - | Puppy with BackTrack features for PenetrationTesting penetration testing | Attackpup |
| ClusterPup | - | - | - | - | Creating a Puppy supercomputer, simplifies setting of MpichCluster mpich cluster | link |
| DPup477 | - | 2.6.27.4 | - | - | Dpup based on Debian Lenny repositories, also using a large portion of Debian Sid. RETRO version. | dpup.org |
| DPup482 | - | 2.6.30.5 | - | - | Dpup based on Debian Lenny repositories, also using a large portion of Debian Sid. MAIN version. | dpup.org |
| DPup485 | - | - | 171 MB | - | updated some libs and gtk to be more compatible with newer application versions | link |
| InsidiousPuppy InsidiousPuppy001 | - | 2.6.32.26 | - | - | Its key features are high Debian and Lucid Puppy compatibility, a good selection of applications (through Debian's repositories), an excellent multimedia stack and good hardware support. | link |
| LightHousePuppy LightHouse Puppy 5.03 G | - | - | - | iceWM, JWM, lxde, openbox | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. | http://www.lhpup.org/ |
| LightHousePuppy LightHouse 64bit Puppy 5.11 A | - | - | - | - | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. 64bit Version | http://www.lhpup.org/ |
| Puppy525 | - | - | 132MB | - | Latest official release of Version 5 | link |
| SPup100 | - | - | - | - | Slackware base compile | link |
| Quirky13 | - | 2.6.33.2 | 111MB | - | Barrys latest cutting edge Puppy | Quirky 1.3 |
| ThinkLinux | Quirky Quirky 1.2 | - | - | JWM | - | Think Linux |
| Wary09 | - | 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.30.5 | 111.6MB | - | - | Puppy Wary 0.9 |
| Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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Superseded
| Name | Superseded by | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy52 Puppy 5.2 | Puppy525 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Squeeze Puppy Squeeze | InsidiousPuppy InsidiousPuppy001 | - | - | - | - | - | link |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
Version Links
Puppeee designed by Jemimah for Asus Eee PC netbooks
Puppy Arcade Game on
TXZ_pup Compatible with Slackware binaries
XOpup-1.0 for OLPC project
WatchDog Watchdog video surveillance systems
Twinkle for retired Time Travelers
pUPnGO Command line only
Classic Pup 2.14X Updated 2 series
Quickset based on Lucid
Lucid Flux Flux WM version
French Puppy Linux: Toutou Linux
Vietnamese Puppy Linux: Hacao Linux
More Versions
| Name | Window Manager | Description | Size | Download |
| Barebones | FVWM | Puppy 1.0.3 for slow connections that uses the dillo browser (no Firefox, Opera or Mozilla) and notably does not include Abiword | 40Mb | HTTP |
| Breeezy | JWM | by Raffy for the ASUS Eee PC (also available as live CD of 80 MB for other machines) | 65 Mb | HTTP |
| BuddaPup | Enlightenment | Description | ?Mb | HTTP |
| DCL | Xfce | Latest version, 2008 is based on Puppy 3.01 with the latest Xfce, meant to merge Xfce and Puppy. | 173 Mb | HTTP |
| Digipup | JWM? | Puppy for Ham radio. Also known as EMCPup | 97Mb | HTTP |
 Dragon Puppy | Xfce | Used Fatfree Puppy to created a stylish, Xfce-based puplet with Firefox, The GIMP, multimedia | 108Mb | HTTP |
| EcoPup | JWM? | Beta with Firefox 2 and OpenOffice 2 zipped up (for use once installed) rather than preloaded | 668Mb | HTTP Metalink |
| eBoxPup | JWM? | Alpha Puppy for the eBox 2300 with Opera. | 57Mb? | HTTP |
| EduPup | JWM? | Puppy 2.11 with other kid's software such as: TuxType2, TuxMath, GcompriS (also with italian sounds), SuperTux, and TuxPaint (with tuxpaint-ConfiG and TuxStamp). | 166Mb? | HTTP |
| Empty Crust | JWM | Stripped down Puppy | 45Mb | FTP |
 eXpand Barbie | JWM | Puplet for women with Xfce, StumbleUpon and 60+ links to flash games online including Bubbles. | 245Mb | HTTP |
| eXpand DOFUS | JWM | Puplet based around playing the MMORPG DOFUS. Includes many other programs as well for a complete web environment. Based on Puppy 2.14 and made by lvds. | 263Mb | HTTP |
| Fat Free | JWM | 2.17 cutdown to add your own pets | 51Mb | HTTP |
 Fire Hydrant | JWM | Firefox, flash, java, plus thunderbird, sunbird and lightning so you can get your mail and your calendar in one app. plus icewm, and 19 themes, a few new games in the firefox tool menu, xmms with a sony skin, Limewire, shutterbug, Gimpshop, Yahoo messenger, aMSN messenger,etc a lot was added and no scripts removed. | 192Mb | HTTP Torrent |
| Flightpup | JWM | based on Fat Free with FlightGear open source flight simulator and wNOP | 288Mb | HTTP |
| Gamepup | Xfce | alpha | 125Mb | HTTP Metalink |
 Grafpup 2 | JWM? | Customized for graphic designers and other imaging professionals with current versions of Gimp, Cinepaint, Inkscape, and Scribus. Also has 397MB deluxe version | 80Mb | HTTP |
| Hacao | IceWM | Hacao is Vietnamese. The project's purpose is a complete, yet lightweight operating system that can run on low-specification computers. The entire user interface of Hacao has been translated into Vietnamese. | 282Mb | Torrent Metalink HTTP |
| Icepup | JWM | Firefox puplet with wired and wireless support. Leafpad and VI Console Editor are the only applications present (formerly known as Foxpup and Litepup). | <60Mb | HTTP MD5 |
| Hurt Me Plenty | JWM | with Quake demo | ?Mb | HTTP MD5 |
| KDEPuppy | KDE | Based on Puppy 1.07 and in alpha developmental stage | 125M | HTTP FTP Torrent |
| LighthousePup | IceWM JWM | Lighthouse215SeaM analog clock, graphic system monitors, MPlayer, GQView, StreamTuner, enhanced context menus desktop icons themes cursors terminal CL prompt, SFS Editor. Available Mariner SFS expansion pack with OpenOffice, FireFox, Opera, Java. Also K3b CD/DVD Burner, GIMP, Graphics SFS | 182M | HTTP |
 Macpup | Enlightenment e17 | A beautiful remaster of Puppy Linux Macpup Opera 2.0 is the latest and is based on puppylinux 4.3.1 (k2.6.30.5) .O2 has all the apps from 4.3.1 plus Opera 10.10 and Gimp 2.6.3 .O2 also Has Dbus 1.2.16 . The Enlightenment e17 window manager version .061 was also compiled and installed from source. You can also use jwm. Use the exit menu to change window managers , In e17 that is the exit icon on the desktop. | ?Mb | HTTP |
| Mean Puppy | JWM? | Opera based (by John Murga) | 50Mb | HTTP |
| MicroMuppy | Xvesa | Created by Mark Ulrich. Regular Muppy is very modular, that is why it is so large. MicroMuppy isn't. | 12Mb | HTTP |
| Minipup | JWM | Puplet for diskless PC (miniPC) by Raffy Mananghaya; includes Firefox 1.5+, Mplayer and desktop publishing tools like GIMP and Scribus. | 85 Mb | HTTP |
| MinipupOffice | JWM | Puplet for diskless PC (miniPC) by Raffy Mananghaya; includes Opera 9.02 and OpenOffice 1.1.4. | 92 Mb | HTTP |
 Minisys | KDE | Codename Muppy 008. Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
| Muppy 007 | KDE | Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
| Muppy 006 | KDE | Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
| myPup | JWM | Alpha Web 2.0 Puppy based on 2.16 | 88Mb | HTTP |
| NaNoWriMo | JWM? | aimed at writers. Based on Puppy Linux 1.0.3. by Mathias De Mare | ?Mb | HTTP |
| NOP (NearlyOffice) | Xfce | Xfce desktop environment, XSane, Blender, Opera and more, by an aerospace engineer. Prepared for OpenOffice.org. | 90Mb | HTTP Metalink BitTorrent |
| Onebone* | None | With ELinks, YTree and Midnight Commander | 28Mb | HTTP FTP |
| Optimised | Window Manager | by Kenny. Default browser is Firefox (an Opera installer exists) with plugins. Optimised has Grip, Audacity, Mplayer, Gnumeric, Abiword, gtKam and XFMedia | 98Mb | HTTP |
| pcPuppyOS | IceWM | Includes OxygenOffice, Citrix client, Limewire, Skype and WINE | ~600Mb | HTTP |
| Picopup | None | tiny | 8Mb | HTTP |
| Pizzapup 1 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | HTTP |
| Pizzapup 2 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | |
| Pizzapup 3 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | FTP |
 Phoenix | IceWM | Alpha. also known as 3.03CE. Derived from 2.14R. Resulted from the Talking Stick Project. | ??Mb | HTTP FTP |
 Pupeee | IceWM | Based on Puppy 3.01 by Dan Van Wormer for the ASUS Eee PC. | 110Mb | HTTP |
 Pupeez | IceWM | "Simple, Elegant and Fast" Pupeez is aimed to users who just want a internet / media / photo PC. There is one application per task. Pupeez is aimed at 'technophobes', parents and grand parents. Pupeez is desgined to run on a computer with minimum 128Mb RAM. | 77Mb | HTTP |
| Puppy 214R | Window Manager | Puppy 2.14 remaster with earlier kernel | 69Mb | HTTP |
| Puppy 216CE | Window Manager | Puppy 2.16 remaster also known as evergreen | ?Mb | HTTP |
| Pup4Dos | JWM | For running Puppy in DOS | ?Mb | HTTP |
| PupWin98 | JWM | Puppy version 1.0.7 with Mozilla, for running outside Windows, starting from MS-DOS launched by an icon on your Windows98 desktop | 61Mb | HTTP |
| PupWinQE | JWM | Nickname Winky, QEMU version 0.8.2 pieces to run Puppy in Windows XP, needs an ISO, coded for puppy-2.11-seamonkey.iso | 779KB | HTTP |
| Regression | Window Manager | Puppy 2.02 remaster with earlier kernel + Firefox +MPlayer +Sylpheed To make continued use of Mark's 3D-DRI graphics driver wizard and my wifi drivers | ?Mb | HTTP |
 Revpup | Xfce | Description | ?Mb | HTTP |
 Rudy | JWM | (not-so-minimalist puplet) has OpenOffice.org, Firefox, R with docs, rplot, stats4u (win), easychem, gimp, xsane, xnview, acrobat reader, pdftk with gui, freemind, tiddlywiki, skype, xtensoftphone, streamtuner, xmms, k3b, k9copy, xgammon, xaos, a bunch of rescue utilities, qemu plus kqemu and gui, wine, dosbox, cups, jwm plus icewm. | 550Mb | HTTP |
| SafePup | JWM | Light puplet based on Puppy 2.13 and barelypup by Raffy Mananghaya for safe web browsing in WinXP PCs; also suitable for PCs with no hard disk. | < 60 Mb (+zdrv=16MB) | HTTP |
| Simplepup | Xfce | stripped down (based on Empty Crust 1.0.7), XFCE window manager, Firefox 1.5.0.1 (with flash and gxine plugins), Thunderbird 1.5, Abiword 2.4.1, Perl 5.8 (use ndiswrapper right away for wireless cards), Graveman 0.3.8 (and upgraded burniso2cd), Gxine 0.4.6 (with added codecs), Mtpaint 2.10, GQview 2.0.1 | ?Mb | HTTP FTP |
| Speakpup | ? | Speech Server: FreeTTS, Screen Reader: YASR, Text Editor: MP, Internet Browser:Elinks, IRC Chat:Irssi, File Manager:Ytree, Audio:MPG321,Soft Brailler:Brltty | ?Mb | HTTP |
 TEENpup 1 | JWM | a good collection of applications in one handy CD and brightened up with a bit of eye candy. Created by John Biles, TEENpup is based on Puppy 2.14 | 404MB | HTTP |
 TEENpup 2 | JWM | a good collection of applications in one handy CD and brightened up with a bit of eye candy. Created by John Biles, TEENpup is based on Puppy 2.14 | 404MB | HTTP |
| Transitions | JWM | built on Fat Free 301, + IceWM, LookXP, TrueVista themes, FireFox+Flash+Java, Dillo is default HTML. OpenOffice 2.2. GIMP. Xara Xtreme. MTPaint 3.1. Gaim 1.5. MPlayer, XMMS | 269Mb | HTTP FTP Torrent |
| Tmxxine Prism | IceWM | Open Source Time Travel official distro, contains top programs, from Open Office to Komposer, Firefox, EzPup enhancements, Gimp, Xara - 144MB version also available | 333Mb | HTTP |
| Tmxxine Vision | IceWM | Open Source Time Travel official distro, contains top programs, from Open Office to Komposer, Firefox, EzPup enhancements, Gimp, Xara - 144MB version also available | 333Mb | HTTP |
| Wolf Pup | JWM | Wolf Pup is a barebone distribution that has been setup with only the bare essentials needed for the CD to work. Users will find the convenience out for themselves when they start adding and removing the packages they like to use as they grow accustomed to the Package manager. | 68Mb | HTTP |
| wNOP | Xfce | Wobbly NOP with Xfce and Compiz Fusion | ?Mb | HTTP |
| XPuppyPro | JWM? | looks like Windows XP | 77Mb | HTTP |
Find out about version information
Information about the version of Puppy is stored at /etc/DISTRO_SPECSYou can see this file by going to a TerminalEmulator terminal emulator and typing in the following code (ensure letter cases are copied exactly)-
cat /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
Related Pages
Linux Wikia - Puppy pagePuppyLinuxNews - release news
PuppyLinuxNews - derivative release news
List of derivative versions on wikibooks
Information about versioning system
How Puppy2 Works
Release archive (in German)
