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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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Welcome to the Slacko Homepage

The latest version of Slacko Puppy Linux has been released! Release Notes

Official Announcement for Slacko and Slacko64

Current versions: slacko-6.3.2 and slacko64-6.3.2

Looking for the slacko 7.0 website? Click or tap here

Download

About Slacko

Slacko Puppy Linux is an operating system for your computer.

An operating system is the base software in your computer which is responsible for booting your computer and managing all the resources including, but not limited to, the hardware and peripherals, memory and programs. Microsoft™ Windows, Apple™ Mac OSX and Ubuntu™ Linux™ are examples of operating systems.

Slacko Puppy is built from the Woof-CE build system originally developed by Barry Kauler, the creator of Puppy Linux, now maintained by a community team. It is compatible with the binary packages of Slackware 14.1. This is the last release in the current series. It features the recent 3 (LTS) and 4 series kernels and comes in i686 (32 bit) «slacko» and x86_64 (64 bit) «slacko64» versions.

Slacko boots straight to a usable desktop and incorporates an improved firstrun wizard which allows you to set your locale for language, timezone, keyboard and display then goes straight into a connection wizard to get you online via your choice of connection type. Slacko supports many wired and wireless network connections, dialup with externel modems, cell phones and 3G modems.

The latest Firefox-38 ESR browser is included for a full featured browsing experience. Adobe Flash Player is downloadable with the GetFlash tool, available from Menu > Internet. If you don’t like Firefox there is a choice of other browsers from the Puppy Package Manager. Once you have saved a Puppy session, you have the choice to download the «devx», which is the Puppy compiling environment comprising of gcc, the GNU C compiler, and all development libraries for included programs. The full kernel source is also available from the SFS downloading tool in case you need to compile a particular kernel module.

Once you have finished a Puppy session you can save it or not. Saving can be done to a variety of media, the choice is yours. It is all taken care of at power down. You can install Puppy so you can boot off your hard drive, CD/DVD drive, USB drive or you can even boot over the LAN network with some extra packages.

There is a huge variety of PET (Puppy Extra Treats) packages in the Puppy Package Manager to cover almost any need, There are also several SFS packages for very large programs whch are easy to install with a special tool which takes care of installing them.

Puppy uses JWM as it’s window manager, an extremely lightweight tool and combined with ROX Filer makes for a snappy and extensible desktop. You can easily change themes and wallpapers and there are several gtk themes, JWM themes, Icon themes and wallpapers included.

Slacko Theming

You can change anything you want! There are several wallpapers and themes included or you can download other themes from the Puppy Package Manager. Our new app pTheme makes theme changing a breeze! Look for it in the menu. Plenty of options !

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Quick Reference

• Woof-CE — woof now at GitHub
• Woof-CE mailing list — at Nabble
• Forum
• Blog — micko’s blog
• Barry’s Blog — Barry Kauler’s blog — the original creator of Puppy Linux
• Puppy Linux — Official Puppy Linux web site

Slacko Puppy Linux
Is a community project made by volunteers.

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Download Page

The latest version of Slacko Puppy Linux has been released! Release Notes

Current version: slacko-6.3.2 and slacko64-6.3.2

Looking for the slacko 7.0 website? Click or tap here

These are the current Live links from which you can get Slacko. There is a choice of 2 iso images as well as an optional development sfs file image that contains compilers and development headers. Kernel sources (and devx) are separate and available in the SFS Manager. Please read the release notes before downloading.

Direct Download links from Ibiblio repository

Slacko 6.3.2 (32 bit — 210 MiB)

Slacko64 6.3.2 (64 bit 238 MiB)

List of Mirrors

Mirrors

These are the Puppy mirrors from which you can get Slacko.

Which file to download?

In the «List of Mirrors» above choose a location that is reasonably close to your geographical location. On clicking one of those links you are presented with a number of files. Puppy is distributed in ISO image format represented by the .iso file extension. That is, it’s an image of a CDROM which can be burnt to CD or DVD. There are 2 files that have that extension. Click one and your browser will offer to download. Save it to a location on your hard drive.
There are 2 other important files for new users to consider. These are the .md5.txt files which open in the browser revealing a long string of code. This is the «checksum» which is a digital signature. When you download the file and it is complete it is recommended to test the checksum. In Linux this is done by the commandline with the command md5sum.

which is exactly what the slacko-6.3.2-uefi.iso.md5.txt file contains. If there is not a match you will need to redownload the iso file. Be sure you have the correct md5.txt for your particular iso file. There are 3rd party tools available for Windows that perform the same action in a GUI. I recommend WinMD5free, which is of course freeware.

Once you have the iso image you can either burn it to a CD/DVD or transfer it to an USB stick so that you can boot your computer. In Linux any of the many CD/DVD burning tools will do but make sure you burn it as an image.. not data! For windows we recommend Imageburn (direct link). To transfer to a USB stick you need to use the Linux dd utility. Please search the web and read the manual for dd as if it is used carelessly, data loss can occur.

Slacko Theming

You can change anything you want! There are several wallpapers and themes included or you can download other themes from the Puppy Package Manager. Our new app pTheme makes theme changing a breeze! Look for it in the menu. Plenty of options !

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Quick Reference

• Woof-CE — woof now at GitHub
• Woof-CE mailing list — at Nabble
• Forum
• Blog — micko’s blog
• Barry’s Blog — Barry Kauler’s blog — the original creator of Puppy Linux
• Puppy Linux — Official Puppy Linux web site

Slacko Puppy Linux
Is a community project made by volunteers.

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Puppy Linux was originally created by Barry Kauler in 2003, as a smaller, leaner version of Vector Linux.

From the beginning, the idea was to make a small, lean, yet complete edition of Linux distribution that was useful from the get-go: the downloaded ISO contains all the standard applications to handle usual computing needs: word processor, spreadsheet, and web browser.

Another central idea that the OS would work off as a Live-CD, but with support for “persistence” — that is, keep data between reboot sessions. This way, the Live-CD can be used as if it is a fully installed operating system. However, if user data is corrupted in any way, in a flick of a switch the persistence can be turned off and Puppy would boot in its pristine, Live-CD state.

Size has always been a major consideration. Linux of these early days did not have good hardware support, thus Linux machines tend to be older and more obsolete computers with older CPUs and little RAM and storage. Also, broadband internet was not popular yet back then — many users were still on dial-up which limited the download speed to 38Kbps. So conscious decision were made to choose software components which provides the maximum functionality at a given size; e.g. the choice of ROX Filer as the file manager (which has stuck until today).

The very beginning — Series 0.x

The first few releases were marked as 0.x versions, the last being version 0.9. These early releases didn’t use unionfs, thus the persistence support was minimal; and only a few directories can keep user changes.

Packages in Puppy Linux of this version was taken from Vector Linux as well as self-compiled.

Series 1.x

Series 1.x included major changes; the most obvious one being its use of unionfs. This means entire Linux filesystem root can now be persisted.

Another major change was the UI make-up, this version started to use GTK as its widget toolkit, replacing the original Xlib toolkit used in version 0.x.

This version also introduced the ever popular “Remaster” option which enables anyone to make customise their Puppy installation by adding / removing packages and configuring their system; and then make a new Puppy ISO which contains all these changes.

Series 2.x

Series 2.x was a breakthrough in many ways.

It saw the update of GTK from GTK1 to GTK2, as well as support for more persistence modes — not only Puppy was able to keep its session in a harddisk, but also in USB flash drive, and even in it is own CD (if the CD is a CD-R or CD-RW).

With the Linux kernel supporting better hardware support around the time of 2.x release, Puppy was able to run on newer machines with complete support for networking, wifi, USB, sound, and video — making it the idea work-and-entertainment Linux distro.

It also introduced the first version of Puppy whose packages were built independently using T2 build system.

It also introduced “Puppy Unleashed” build system, a tool for advanced users to build their own customised Puppy from scratch.

Series 2.x was very popular, and it was longest-running series ever. The last version was 2.14, and that branch was kept alive and upgraded by dedicated enthusiast forum members even until today.

Series 3.x

Series 3.x is a short-lived branch. It was the first experiment of basing off Puppy from other distributions — in this case, Slackware.

While some people stood by this series, many felt that in many ways this was too experimental. The usage of a big-distro packages (Slackware) made it consume more memory than earlier Puppies, as well as made it slower.

The latest version of this series was 3.0.1.

Series 4.x

In this series, Puppy went back to its roots and used its own self-compiled packages from T2, which made it lean and fast again.

In addition, this version introduced the “Woof” build system. The difference between “Woof” and “Puppy Unleashed” is that while “Puppy Unleashed” used pre-packaged Puppy packages, the “Woof” build system is able to build a Puppy directly from completely foreign distro packages.

While the official Puppy distributions in the 4.x series were all based on T2 builds, Woof support’s for other distro resulted in an explosion of community-initiated puplets based on them:

• Upup — a Woof-built puplet based on Ubuntu
• Dpup — a Woof-built puplet based on Debian
• Spup — a Woof-built puplet based on Slackware
• Apup — a Woof-built puplet based on Arch Linux

This version also introduced the release of “Quirky” — which was meant as a special release of Puppy Linux that contains experimental features. The idea being, once those features matured (and considered useful by the community), they would be integrated back to the mainstream release.

It is also in this version Barry indicated that he would step down from his role as Puppy benevolent dictator and would focus instead on maintaining “Woof”; hoping that the community would take the baton and do the Puppy-building themselves.

The latest version of 4.x was 4.3.1.

Just like Series 2.x, there where community members who hold steadfastly to this series and keep maintaining it beyond long after Barry was finished with it, until today.

Version 5.x

This version saw the first official Puppy Linux distro (“official” as in being endorsed by Barry) which was not released by Barry. It also marked the first time that there are four concurrent official Puppy releases.

Lucid Puppy

The first official Puppy Linux of Series 5.x grew up from Upup — a Woof-built Puppy from Ubuntu packages. It was called Luci during its development and proclaimed as Lucid Puppy (aka Lupu) upon release. It was developed and maintained by Larry Short (aka playdayz).

Lupu proved to be very popular. It was the first good-looking Puppy, it was the first Puppy which had great focus on user-friendliness (“Linux distro for Windows refugee” was first coined during Series 5.x), it was the first non-CE release that was built from community feedback, and it had the backings of immense number of Ubuntu packages, many of them directly installable and usable from its package manager.

Lupu was and is very popular and different forks are still maintained by different people until today, after Larry stepped down and ended his support. It is still popular even after Ubuntu itself discontinued support for Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, the distro on which Lupu was based.

Wary Puppy

The second official Puppy is from Barry himself, and not as popular as the Lupu or Slacko: Wary Puppy.

Wary Puppy was offered as a direct upgrade to Puppy Linux 4.3.1 and was targeted for older computers with milder requirements compared to Lupu or Slacko. It also featured older kernels with support for older and obsolete hardware, like analog dial-up modems which are no longer supported by newer kernels. Wary Puppy intended to keep these older computers functional and useful.

Wary Puppy was built from self-compiled T2 packages; it was offered for those who considered that Lupu/Slacko was too heavy for their machines.

Slacko Puppy

The third official Puppy Linux of Series 5.x is Slacko Puppy, aka Puppy Linux Slacko, which grew out of Slackpup — a Woof-built Puppy from Slackware packages. It was called Slacko during development and the name stuck for its released name as well. It was developed and maintained by Mick Amadio (aka 01micko).

Like Lupu, Slacko was also very popular due to its friendliness and incorporating a lot of community feedback, just like Lupu. It went through a few releases on its own, the latest being Slacko 5.7; which still has its fan base till today.

These two releases marked the beginning of Puppy support for more modern hardware. They both have higher requirements than Puppies of the past but they offer much better experience on those whose hardware can support them.

Racy Puppy

The fourth official puppy in the 5 series was another by Barry; Racy Puppy. He billed it as “Wary on steroids” and featured a PAE kernel and a later version of Xorg.

Racy Puppy was like Wary but is targeted for newer computers, and is offered as a utilitarian Puppy with lesser bells and whistles than either Lupu or Slacko (traditionally, all prior Puppies were like this).

Racy Puppy was built from self-compiled T2 packages; which were the same core packages that were used to build Wary Puppy.

Precise Puppy

Precise Puppy was the fifth to be released in the 5 series again by Barry. This was built with Ubuntu binary compatibility from Precise Pangolin packages and was typical of Barry’s pups with less bells and whistles but still required a slightly more modern machine than Wary’s target.

Barry promoted Precise as an “LTS” release much like Ubuntu Precise Pangolin. Updates were released for almost a year making it very well supported.

It proved to be the most popular of Barry’s offerings in the 5 series and still has its fan base today.

Series 6.x

Series 6.x Puppy is a fully community effort.

Barry stepped down from Puppy and Woof effort, leaving everything to the stewards of the community to continue development of everything Puppy-related. From then on, the Puppy Linux Team is in-charge to keep Puppy moving forward.

The Woof build system is renamed as “Woof-CE” (Woof Community Edition) to further reflect its status that it now accepts community contributions. The first release of Puppy Linux built on Woof-CE marked the beginning of Series 6.x Puppy.

As of this date, there are two Series 6.x puppies.

The first one is Tahrpup CE 6.0, a Puppy whose packages comes from Ubuntu Trusty Tahr. Tahrpup started as a project to upgrade Lupu to make use of the newer Tahr packages, so it is the spiritual successor to Lupu. It was developed and maintained by Phil Broughton (aka 666philb).

The second one is Slacko Puppy 6.3, direct successor to Slacko 5.7. It is still maintained by 01micko.

This release also marked Puppy Linux moving forward to support 64-bit machines (previous Puppy have always been able to run in 64-bit machines, but only in 32-bit mode). Both Tahrpup and Slacko Puppy offers 64-bit editions as well as the regular 32-bit versions.

Community Editions

Community involvement has been the tradition of Puppy Linux from day one.

Before the launch of “Woof”, Barry was fully in charge of releasing Puppy Linux. Once a while however, Barry encouraged the community to take the latest release, enhance it in any way they see fit, and release it as a “Community Edition” (CE) Puppy with his endorsement.

A CE release is usually coordinated by a community-appointed “project manager”, and supported by a few “core” developers who did the actual customisations — code, packages, artwork, etc, based on feedback on the community. CE project usually runs between one to three months with many releases in between to test for community feedback before the final release.

CE releases usually provide richer experiences than standard releases; they are usually better looking and more user-friendly due to many contributions and integration of feedback from community during their development.

Every series had its CE release. Series 1.x has 1.09-CE; Series 2 has 2.15CE, series 4.x has 4.2 and 4.2.1CE.

After the release of “Woof”, every Puppy release is virtually a CE release. With woof, everyone can build their custom Puppy from scratch in the same way that Barry himself built the official Puppies.

For example, Series 5.x Puppy is virtually a CE release by every definition except by name. Series 6.x Puppy (Puppies based on Woof-CE) are all CE releases — both Slacko Puppy and Tahrpup (Tahrpup even has CE as its name).

Puplets

Another aspect of community involvement in Puppy Linux is the popularity of puplets (“puppy lites”).

One of Puppy design aspect was to make it easy to make a “remaster”, that is, a new Puppy ISO that contains pre-installed applications and configurations.

The ease on how remasters is made has made various members of community to make their own custom remaster, specific enough for their purposes, but general enough for use by others; so they offer them up for others.

These custom remasters are known as “puplets”; and there are hundreds of them. You can almost always find a puplet that meet your needs.

There are puplets that are tailored for heavy office applications; these comes with Libreoffice included. There are puplets meant for use in kiosks; these comes with only web-browser pre-configured to run in kiosk mode. There are puplets for authoring audio; puplets for running webservers; puplets for numerical computation, puplets for multimedia entertainment, “barebone” puplets meant as a base to build others, etc.

Although they are not considered official in any way, they are by any means part of the Puppy Linux family and its rich history. They are the best examples of the values that Puppy Linux can offer — its flexibility and its enthusiastic community involvement.

Puppy Linux Family

Puppy Linux is an old, mature distribution. Its ideas, principles and spirit have been well tested and well known for many years. It is therefore of no surprise to see other distributions that share the same principles and ideas. Some of them even behave very closely like Puppy.

These are distributions which are inspired in one way or another, from Puppy Linux. We consider them as a “derivative” in spirit, in idea. We call them as “offshots” to differentiate them from puplets, which is a true derivative.

Some of these offshots are forks of Puppy. Fatdog64, for example, was forked from Puppy Linux when it was at version 4.0. Although it is now an independently managed distribution and shares almost no code with the original Puppy it came from, it still claims to live up to Puppy’s ideals: small, fast, and versatile.

Some of the other offshots are inspired by the idea of Puppy Linux and adapts it for use in another distribution. DebianDog, for example, is an offshot of this type. It takes Debian Live-CD and molds it so it behaves very similarly with Puppy Linux.

Some takes a puplet and molds it into something that is more user friendly and called it something totally different (but acknowledges the source), for example, Simplicity Linux.

All of these distros are no longer considered as part of Puppy Linux distribution, but one can be mistaken to think that they are — because of their likeness and their similar behaviours. All of these distributions acknowledge that they owe their existence to Puppy Linux; if not directly in code, then in idea or in spirit.

Many of these distributions cross-share their improvements to each other; many of these distributions’ discussion are hosted in the same Puppy Linux forum (in different, distro-specific threads). Many of their developers and maintainers cross-post and comments on distributions different than their own. Many users of these distributions hop from one to another, and talk about them as if they are all Puppy. Indeed, in spirit, they all are. All of these distribution developers and maintainers were Puppy Linux users in the past, who decided to improve it on their own, one way or another.

As such, it is just natural to consider them as part of the larger Puppy Linux community. This larger group is called as Puppy Linux family distributions: it includes all of the Puppy Linux distribution releases, puplets, and these offshots too.

Closing Note

If you have read it this far, you may also be interested to know more about various Puppy Linux distributions that have been released in the past, and their relationship to one another. Head on to Puppy Linux Family Tree to satisfy your curiosity.

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