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See: Official Pup build recipes at Woof-CE on GITHUB

Name	Description	More Info
FossaPup64	UbuntuLTS20.04 compatible Official Pup (64bit)	Fossapup64 Forum Page
BionicPup32	UbuntuLTS18.04 compatible Official Pup (32bit)	BionicPup32 Forum Page
BionicPup64	UbuntuLTS18.04 compatible Official Pup (64bit)	Bionicpup64 Forum Page
XenialPup	UbuntuLTS16.04 compatible Official Pup (32bit)	Xenialpup Forum Page
XenialPup64	UbuntuLTS16.04 compatible Official Pup (64bit)	Xenialpup64 Forum Page
Tahrpup	UbuntuLTS14.04 compatible Official Pup (32bit)	Tahrpup Forum Page
Tahrpup64	UbuntuLTS14.04 compatible Official Pup (64bit)	Tahrpup64 Forum Page
ScPup	SlackwareCurrent compatible Pup (32 & 64bit)	ScPup Forum Page
Slacko14.2	Slackware14.2 compatible Pup (32 & 64bit)	Slacko14.2 Forum Page
Slacko14.1	Slackware14.1 compatible Official Pup (32 & 64bit)	Slacko Website
LxPupSc	SlackwareCurrent Pup with LXDE (32 & 64bit)	LxPupSc Forum Page
FocalPup32	UbuntuLTS20.04+Debian Pup (UPupFF+D) (32 bit)	FocalPup32 Forum Page
DPupStretch	DebianStretch compatible Pup (32bit)	DPupStretch Forum Page

Download Sites

All the “official” Puppies since version 2 are hosted at Ibiblio.

Ibiblio also hosts the puppy specific packages (pet) used to build puppies as well as squashfs files (sfs) with kernels, kernel sources, large applications and application frameworks.

The Ibiblio puppylinux directory is mirrored by several sites world-wide.

The NLUUG and the UoC mirrors in Europe and the AARNET and the Internode mirrors in Australia are known to update regularly and are usually faster than Ibiblio.

Mirrors may take up to a day to incorporate changes in Ibiblio.

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Puppy Linux is a unique family of Linux distributions meant for the home-user computers. It was originally created by Barry Kauler in 2003.

Puppy Linux advantage

1. Ready to use → all tools for common daily computing usage already included.
2. Ease of use → grandpa-friendly certified ™
3. Relatively small size → 300 MB or less.
4. Fast and versatile.
5. Customisable within minutes → remasters.
6. Different flavours → optimised to support older computers, newer computers.
7. Variety → hundreds of derivatives (“puplets”), one of which will surely meet your needs.

If one of these things interest you, read on.

Yes, but what does it look and feel like?

First thing first

Puppy Linux is not a single Linux distribution like Debian. Puppy Linux is also not a Linux distribution with multiple flavours, like Ubuntu (with its variants of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, etc) though it also comes in flavours.

Puppy Linux is a collection of multiple Linux distributions, built on the same shared principles, built using the same set of tools, built on top of a unique set of puppy specific applications and configurations and generally speaking provide consistent behaviours and features, no matter which flavours you choose.

There are generally three broad categories of Puppy Linux distributions:

official Puppy Linux distributions → maintained by Puppy Linux team, usually targeted for general purpose, and generally built using Puppy Linux system builder (called Woof-CE).

woof-built Puppy Linux distributions → developed to suit specific needs and appearances, also targeted for general purpose, and built using Puppy Linux system builder (called Woof-CE) with some additional or modified packages.

unofficial derivatives (“puplets”) → are usually remasters (or remasters of remasters), made and maintained by Puppy Linux enthusiasts, usually targeted for specific purposes.

Why not try it? Download now! (Official distributions)

Get the ISO, burn it to a CD/DVD using your favorite CD/DVD burner, or flash it using dd (Windows version) to your USB flash drive, or visit our download page for more comprehensive information.

Compatibility *	Architecture	Latest Version	Download link
Ubuntu Focal 64	x86_64 64-bit	FossaPup64 9.5	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Raspbian Buster	armhf 32-bit	Raspup 8.2.1	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Bionic	x86 32-bit	BionicPup32 8.0	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Bionic 64	x86_64 64-bit	BionicPup64 8.0	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Xenial	x86 32-bit	XenialPup 7.5	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Xenial 64	x86_64 64-bit	XenialPup64 7.5	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Slackware 14.2	x86 32-bit	Slacko Puppy 7.0	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Slackware64 14.2	x86_64 64-bit	Slacko64 Puppy 7.0	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Slackware 14.1	x86 32-bit	Slacko Puppy 6.3.2	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Slackware64 14.1	x86_64 64-bit	Slacko64 Puppy 6.3.2	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Trusty	x86 32-bit	Tahrpup 6.0.5	Main — Mirror — Checksum
Ubuntu Trusty 64	x86_64 64-bit	Tahrpup64 6.0.5	Main — Mirror — Checksum

* Compatibility: A Puppylinux distribution can also be built and assembled using packages and components from another Linux distribution called in Puppy the “binary compatible” distribution. The choice of a binary compatible distribution determines the availability of additional packages, among other things.

Questions?

It has been said that the best experience of Puppy Linux is not from the software itself, but from the community that gathers around it. Whatever you have in mind — praises, curses, questions, suggestions, or just plain chit-chat, we welcome you to join us at Puppy Linux Discussion Forum or just check the discussions for the latest puppylinux woof builds.

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Q: What is an official Puppy Linux distribution?
A: It must meet two conditions. 1) It must be built using Woof-CE and its build “recipe” should be in woof-distro. 2) It must be endorsed as “official” by the Puppy Master.

Q: What is the latest version of official Puppy Linux?
A: Check the homepage of this site. If need be, press Ctrl-F5 to force it to refresh the page.

Q: Is Puppy really a multiple distributions that live under the same name? What makes them Puppy?
A: Yes. All of them are built using Woof-CE that tailors packages regardless of source, to the puppy needs and principles. They also share a common set of puppy-specific utilities, applications and settings that gives them comparable functionality regardless of binary compatibility. The famous puppy OOB functionality, ease of use, efficiency and speed.

Q: This is silly, a family of distributions? How do I know which Puppy I should use?
A: Please feel free to try whichever flavour that entices you first. If you don’t like it, you can try another one. If you still don’t like it, try one of the CE versions, or try the puplets.

Q: Come on! I’m not your beta tester. Tell me where to start at least.
A: Start with the latest Puppy. It likely has more features and less problems. If you want the widest possible selection of applications use the latest puppy that is binary-compatible with a well stock distro (usually Ubuntu or Debian). If you are the DIY type use the latest puppy build exclusively from self-compiled packages (usually T2 or LFS). For something in between use the latest puppy that is compatible with a “good old” distro (usually Slackware).

Q: Puppy Linux earlier than 6.x was not build from Woof-CE (Woof-CE didn’t exist then). So are they really official Puppies?
A: Yes, obviously. All puppies from 0.x to 5.x are Puppies if they are either made by Barry, endorsed by Barry, or built from Woof. But going forward, only those created from Woof-CE is considered as Puppy.

Q: Is my remaster considered a Puppy? It is not built from Woof-CE
A: Yes. As long as the base you use for remaster is a Puppy, then the remaster itself is considered a Puppy. It is not an official Puppy, though.

Remasters

Q: What is a remaster?
A: A remaster is Puppy Linux ISO that is built from an original ISO with changes applied, usually to add/remove some applications and preset some configurations. More extensive remasters exists that also changes/improves upon the base behaviour of Puppy itself.

Q: Am I allowed to distribute my remasters?
A: Not only allowed, you are encouraged to!

About other Puppy Linux-like distributions

Q: Is DebianDog considered as Puppy Linux?
A: No. The maintainer itself has said so. Further more it is not built from Woof-CE. But it seeks to emulate most if not all of Puppy Linux features and behaviours; that if you are familiar with Puppy you would be right at home about it.

Q: If DebianDog is not Puppy, why do you support them, or even mention them here?
A: DebianDog is considerd as a member of Puppy Linux family of operating systems.

Q: Is Quirky Linux considered as Puppy Linux? It is also made by Barry.
A: No, Barry himself has stated multiple times that Quirky is not Puppy. Just like DebianDog, Quirky is a member of Puppy Linux family.

Q: Is Fatdog64 considered as Puppy Linux?
A: No. It was originally forked from Puppy Linux 4.0, but it has since took a different path (of doing the same thing). Like DebianDog and Quirky, however, it is considered as part of Puppy Linux family.

About Puppy Linux Team

Q: First you say Puppy Linux Team has no organisation. Then you talk about stewards. Isn’t that an oxymoron?
A: First, oxymoron is about a word, not an idea. Secondly, “lack of organisation” and “presence of stewards” is not as contradicting as you think.

Q: Seriously, who is in charge of Puppy Linux? Aren’t the Woof-CE stewards the people behind it?
A: Consider these Woof-CE stewards as gatekeepers. They filter what goes into Woof-CE, and thus Puppy Linux. They don’t, as a rule, make modifications to Woof-CE themselves; they wait for the Puppy Linux Team (that’s you!) to submit patches and pull requests and only then they act on it.

There are direct committers to Woof-CE but usually these people don’t play the role of gatekeepers / stewards. They are simply people that the stewards have trusted enough to give them push access.

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The fact is that you do not need to install Puppy Linux at all! You can simply download and burn it to an optical disc (CD, DVD, CD±RW, DVD±RW) or dd it to an USB drive and boot it live.

Burning an Optical disc or preparing a USB Drive

Optical

In any Linux, once you have downloaded the ISO image and verified its authenticity by checking its md5sum you can burn it to a DVD or a CD using any Linux optical burning tool. Just make sure you burn it as an image and not data otherwise it will not be bootable.

In Windows we recommend Imageburn (direct link to download) to burn the image to a CD or DVD.

All Linux versions come with a tool name dd. Our ISO images since 2013 come as iso hybrid images so they can be transferred directly to the USB drive using dd. Don’t attempt this with older puppy versions unless you know what you are doing. Here is a simple tutorial on using dd to make a bootable USB drive. Be very careful with your target drive name!

There is a Windows version of dd available on this site.

There is also a graphical tool for Windows called Win32 Disk Imager. A download is available from this page.

Booting

Depending on whether you have optical or USB media you may have to go into your computer’s BIOS Setup program to adjust the boot order of devices. You want to give your optical or USB ports priority over the harddrive.

Once you have your boot media and computer set up just insert the boot media and switch on your computer. You will see a couple of text screens go past and hopefully you will boot to a shiny new desktop with a quick setup screen followed by a welcome screen.

When you are finished you can decide to save the session or not! Not saving the session does not leave a trace of the operating system as Puppy runs entirely in RAM and as soon as the computer is powered off the RAM is flushed. This is ideal from a security perspective for internet banking or other sensitive financial transactions performed over the internet.

Saving the session can be achieved in a number of ways:

You can save the session to a harddrive or an USB drive in a vfat, ntfs or linux [1] partition. This will save all your settings to what is known as a pupsave [2] file or folder. When you boot off the same media next time the pupsave will be found and all your files and settings will be as you left them.

If you booted off of optical media you can save the session and all settings back to that same optical disc.

So you want to install Puppy

Naturally you can actually install Puppy if you wish. Once you boot Puppy and are happy with what you see it is time to open the Puppy Installer from Setup in the main menu. There are 3 main types of install; frugal, USB and traditional full install.

1. Frugal install (Recommended)

This type of install copies the main puppy files from the boot media (either optical or USB) to your harddrive. Firstly, you are presented with some information about your system and what partitions you have available. If you don’t have a suitable partition then you can use the included graphical partition manager GParted to shrink and move partitions as necessary to created a partition for your installation. Once this is done you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen partition. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system.

This will be a pristine system that requires you to save your session at shut down if you want to keep your settings. Once saving the session is complete, a pupsave file or folder is created. On you next boot your files and settings will be exactly as you left them at last shutdown.

2. USB Install (Recommended)

This type of install copies the main puppy files from the boot media (either optical or USB) to your chosen USB drive. Firstly, you should insert the USB drive that you want to use for installation. Again using the graphical partition manager GParted you need to make sure that there is a suitable partition on the USB drive. This can be formatted to fat32 Windows™ style filesystem (good for portability if you want to use the drive as storage to be used between Linux and Windows™) or one of the supported Linux filesystems. (Note: not all Puppies support the f2fs filesystem. The installer is intelligent enough to know this.) Again, you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are copied to a folder in your chosen USB drive. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system. This can be booted on any computer you like! This is also a type of frugal installation.

Again, this will be a pristine system that requires you to save your session at shut down if you want to keep your settings. Once saving the session is complete, a pupsave file or folder is created. On you next boot your files and settings will be exactly as you left them at last shutdown.

3. Full Install

This is a traditonal Linux install to its own dedicated partition. If you don’t have a suitable partition then you can use the included graphical partition manager GParted to shrink and move partitions as necessary to created a partition for your installation. You must use a Linux filesystem. Once this is done you are prompted for the location of your boot media files (either an iso image, optical media or just the files themselves) and once confirmed these are expanded in your chosen partition. A bootloader is then installed and once finished you can reboot into your new system.

Once booted this will act like any other Linux installation.

Using Puppy

Puppy is famous for its ease of use. The desktop layout is traditional with a task bar at the bottom (or top) and icons on the desktop. Anyone coming from Windows™, Mac OSX™ or another Linux such as Ubuntu, Fedora or Arch will have little issue getting used to it. The interface is a typical WIMP style (Windows, Icons, Menus and a Pointing device).

While puppy comes with almost everything you need to write, calculate, enjoy videos and music, create artwork, work with your digital camera, and more there invariably comes a time when you need an an extra piece of software. Extra software comes in the form of pet packages which can be installed through the Puppy Package Manager or by downloading from a trusted source and simply clicking on the package. Puppy also has the capability of installing deb, rpm and tgz/txz packages from Debian family, Red Hat family and Slackware family of Linux operating systems.

The way Puppy is designed, if you use a frugal type install, software can be installed as an sfs (Squash File System) package. This is the preferred method to install very large packages such as LibreOffice. In fact the Puppy development environment, including the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and development libraries and headers, is shipped as an sfs; a separate download to the main ISO image. There is a tool call SFS Load which makes installing these packages a one step process. The sfs packages do not work on a full install.

Once you have been using Puppy for a little while you may want to try a remaster (see FAQ). This saves the state of your current installed system (minus some the personal stuff) to a burnable ISO image. This enables you to have your system setup and ready to go if you have several computers or you can share your remaster as a puplet with the community.

However you decide to install (or not) Puppy Linux, we hope you enjoy using it for years to come!

Notes

While we recommend frugal or USB installations the choice is entirely yours.

[1] Some common Linux filesystems that Puppy supports are ext2, ext3, ext4, f2fs. Windows™ filesystems supported are fat16, fat32 and ntfs.

[2] A pupsave file is a file that contains a linux filesystem. It can be stored on any supported partition. It is a fixed size and can be as small as 32MB and as large as 4GB (on fat32) and even larger on other filesystems. The pupsave file can be enlarged later on, but the challenge is to keep your system trim and clean by regularly deleting browser cache, cleaning up any stray files and storing other stuff outside the save file.

A pupsave folder can only be created on a linux filesystem. This allows you to store as much as your partition can hold.

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