Revision [17424]
This is an old revision of PuppyVersion made by darkcity on 2011-08-12 05:09:59.
Puppy Versions List
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 |
Official
| Name | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy431 Puppy 4.31 | 2.6.30.5, 2.6.25.16 or 2.6.21.7 | 104.9MB | JWM | Official release, works well on a wide range of computers | link |
| Puppy525 Puppy 5.25 | 2.6.38.4 | 132MB | JWM | Latest official release of Version 5 (ubuntu based) | link |
| Puppy526 Puppy 5.26 | - | 127.4MB | Openbox, JWM | Official bugfix and update of 5.25 (Ubuntu based) | downloadforum |
| Puppy526 Puppy 5.28 | - | - | Openbox, JWM | Official bugfix and update of 5.25 (Ubuntu based) | downloadforum |
| QuirkyIndex Quirky 1.3 | 2.6.33.2 | 111MB | - | Barrys latest cutting edge Puppy | release |
| QuirkyIndex Quirky 1.4 | 2.6.31.14 | 123.7MB | - | Cutting edge Puppy using Xorg 7.3 and older kernel | release |
| Wary Wary512 | - | 119.9MB | JWM | Good support for older hardware, release emphasis on incremental improvements. | release |
| - | - | - | - |
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 |
| BrowserLinux BrowserLinux401 | Puppy51 | - | 90MB | - | BrowserLinux is a fast and small for surfing the web. | link |
| 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 |
| FatDog64 Fatdog64-520 | - | - | 184MB | - | Fatdog is an all 64bit version of Linux built from source packages using T2 and using Puppy Linux scripts and structure. | link |
| FatFree | Puppy2 Puppy 2.17 | - | 51MB | JWM | 2.17 cutdown to add your own pets | forum |
| Fluppy Fluppy 013 | Puppeee | 2.6.35.7 | 150MB | IceWM, FLWM, OpenBox | This is Puppeee with Eee-specific functionality removed and a full size kernel and a full Xorg with DRI, Mesa, and Nouveau. | Puppeee |
| 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 |
| LegacyOS Legacy OS 2 | - | - | - | IceWM | Designed specifically for older PCs - saving hardware which would be landfilled. | forum |
| LightHousePuppy LightHouse Puppy 5.03 G | - | - | - | iceWM, JWM, lxde, openbox | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. | homepage |
| LightHousePuppy LightHouse 64bit Puppy 5.11 A | - | - | - | - | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. 64bit Version | homepage |
| Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
| MacPup Mac Pup 520 | Puppy52 | - | 174MB | Enlightenment Enlightenment E17 | All the apps from Puppy 5 with the Enlightenment E17 window manager | homepage |
| MacPup Mac Pup 525 | Puppy525 | - | 155 MB | Enlightenment Enlightenment E17 | All the apps from Puppy 5 with the Enlightenment E17 window manager | homepage |
| MijnPup52 | Puppy52 | - | 279MB | - | MijnPup is a fast remastered Puppy including LibreOffice and FireFox. | link |
| NOP NOP4.31 | Puppy431 | - | - | - | Nearly Office Puppy, GNU office apps remove, ready for OpenOffice to be added | - |
| Puppeee Puppeee 4.3X | Puppy431 Puppy 4.3.1 | - | 129MB | IceWM, FLWM, OpenBox | Puppeee is an ultralight, user-friendly Linux distribution for the EeePC | Puppeee |
| PuppeeeArcade Puppeee Arcade 10 | Puppeee Puppeee 4.3X | - | - | - | A Eee PC distro with the fast FireDog browser suite, easier save-file management, 3D acceleration enabled as standard, great gaming options. | link |
| Puppy525Retro | Puppy525 | 2.6.30.5 | 130B | JWM | Rebuilding of 525 with the kernel and drivers from the reliable Puppy 4.31. | link |
| PuppyArcade Puppy Arcade 10 | - | - | - | - | Features lots of emulators, a BIOS installer and frontend downloaders and a cabinet-friendly, multi-emulator rom-loader, supports fullscreen and joypad navigation. | link |
| SlimPup SlimPup 3.1 | Puppy525 | 2.6.33.2 | - | OpenBox | Looks like Crunchbang, but more lightweight since it's Puppy. Eliminates cluttered menus by having a more concise menu. | homepage download |
| SpeakPup SpeakPup V0.05 | Puppy2 Puppy 2.17 | - | 90.3 MB | - | Customised for blind people featuring screen reader, speech server and soft brailler | blog forum |
| SPup100 | - | - | - | - | Slackware base compile | link |
| SuliPuppy SuliPuppyEN | Browserlinux | - | 124 MB | JWM | Education programs, english , author kros54 | download forum |
| ThinkLinux | Quirky Quirky 1.2 | - | - | JWM | - | Think Linux |
| TXZPup TXZpup 4.5 | - | 2.6.27.7 | 117MB | - | Compatible with Slackware binaries , built using standard linux tools, TXZ package management. | TXZpup |
| Wary5x | Puppy431 | 2.6.30.5 | 107MB | JWM | wary 5.1.1 retro with 217/431 base. | link |
| WaryWatcher Wary Watcher 511 | Wary Wary511 | - | 191MB | - | Video surveillance systems | forum |
| XOPup XOPup 2.2.RC | Puppy5Index Puppy 5.11 | 2.6.35 or 2.6.31 | 115.6MB | - | Supports the One Laptop Per Child hardware. | announcement |
| XpLike Xp-like _Puppy_ENG | Puppy431 | - | 146 MB | IceWM | author skami s-kami | download |
| Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
| - | - | - | - | - |
Hungarian Derivatives
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Superseded
| Name | Superseded by | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puppy52 Puppy 5.2 | Puppy525 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puppy511 Puppy 5.1.1 | Puppy52 | - | - | - | - | Common version of Puppy 5 | - |
| Squeeze Puppy Squeeze | InsidiousPuppy InsidiousPuppy001 | - | - | - | - | - | link |
| TeenPup | LegacyOS Legacy OS 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Wary Wary09 | Wary Wary 5.0 | - | 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.30.5 | 111.6MB | - | Excellent support for older hardware | release |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
Unmaintained
| Name | Similar Puplet | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GrafPup GrafPup201 alpha1 | - | - | - | 80MB or 397MB | - | Customized for graphic designers and other imaging professionals with current versions of Gimp, Cinepaint, Inkscape, and Scribus. | link |
| JustinBieberLinux | SlimPup | SlimPup | 2.6.33.2 | - | 135.8MB | Justin-Bieber themed linux... It's a joke. | homepage download |
| PuppyStudio PuppyStudio 3.3 | - | Puppy5Index Puppy5 | - | - | - | Puppy modified for recording sound and multimedia | Puppy Studio |
| WatchDog Watchdog | WaryWatcher Wary Watcher 511 | - | - | - | - | video surveillance systems | - |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
Version Links
If you are short on time just add a link to Puppy Version not listed. If you have time please update the appropriate table/s above. Any help shifting links to the tables appreciated.
SevenPuppy Hungarian derivative of Puppy Linux
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
This is the old table. Any help shifting Puppy Versions listed below the to tables above appreciated (screenshots now go on separate page).
 | The information on this page may be out of date. Any help updating appreciated, more info on the WikiIndex Wiki Index page. |
| 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 |
 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 | |
| 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 |
 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 |
| 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 |
Screens
Puppeee (fullsize)
TeenPup (fullsize)
TeenPup 2 (fullsize)
GrafPup (fullsize)
for more see Screenshots
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)
