So you
should get excellent performance, provided your machine has at least 128MB of RAM
available. With Puppy Linux in RAM, that also frees up your CD/DVD drive. So you can
pop in a CD or DVD and play it without disturbing the running Puppy Linux system.
Sets no firewall rules??”Because Puppy Linux uses a Linux 2.6 kernel, the iptables firewall
is built in. However, no firewall rules are set by default. So, if you are thinking of
expanding Puppy Linux to offer some services (Web server, mail server, and so on), keep
in mind that it is intended for a desktop system and not built to securely offer services.
Every major category of desktop applications is represented in Puppy Linux. For word processing,
you have abiword. You can play music with GPlayer and video with Gxine. Much of the SeaMonkey
Internet Application Suite (derived from code that was previously part of the Mozilla Application
Suite) is included for Web browsing, mail, news, and HTML editing. For other Internet client applications,
you have GAIM (instant messaging), Gftp (FTP client), and several remote login and remote
execution tools (secure shell and telnet).
Other personal productivity tools that come with Puppy Linux include calendar (Ical Calendar),
spreadsheet (Gnumeric), contacts (Gabby and SeaMonkey Addressbook), finance manager (Xfinans),
and personal information (DidiWiki) applications.
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