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Linux FAQ’s

• Why Linux is not as user friendly as Windows?

• Why there are So Many distros / live CD’s?• Which Distro is best?• Why does Linux matter when Windows is

doing what I want it to do?• Which Live CD do I really use at least once

in a week?

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Linux GUI issues

• It’s loyal to it’s core

• I mean it’s tightly integrated with the command line interface of the OS

• It was designed, developed and used by techies. So no issues

• The end user feels confused

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Why many Linux Distros?

• There are different distros for different people, purpose and processes

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different distros for different people, purpose and process

• People* For Techies - Fedora, suse * For beginners - Ubuntu, Puppy * For Support people – Knoppix * For Music lovers – musix, movix

• Purpose * Games * Education * Science - Scientific Linux * Languages - BOSS for hindi * Religious - Muslim Live CD

• ProcessesLinux LiveCD Router or GParted LiveCD

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Number of Applications and Users are growing

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Windows History

• Windows 3.1 early 90’s

• Windows 95 Launched in Nov 96

• Windows 98

• Windows 2000 and XP

• And Now Windows Vista AFTER 7 YEARS OF DEVELOPMENT!!

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Windows is NOT keeping Pace with the growth

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Why?

• Developers in the future will need more flexibility and room to extend the OS

• Open Source is the solution

• Free is the right price

• Linux is here and will change the computing in the long run

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Enough Windows bashing

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What is my point?

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Which Distro do I really use?

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Puppy Linux

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Why?

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Why?

• Extremely lightweight – 60 MB• Boots in RAM

Therefore extremely fast• All needed applications bundled together• Easily open word / excel files (once you mount the

hard drives)• Connect to the LAN easily• Option to connect and work on the windows

network

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Puppy listed at No. 18 at distrowatch.com (March 31, 07)

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Wizards

• Click on Desktop and choose Wizard

• Choose Network – Connect to network

• For Anything and Everything there is a wizard

• People love wizards and NOT commands!

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Boot into RAMdisk

• FAST

• Frees the CD Drive

• you won’t hear much noise coming from your hard drive!

• And the beauty of working entirely in RAM is that whatever phishing and spyware is going on won’t make it to the hard disk!

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Why not have your O/S run from RAM all the time?

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Think: How about Linux based Thin Client?

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Boot from other media

• To create a Puppy Linux boot thumb drive, you simply choose the option "Install Puppy USB card" under Setup on the Start Menu.

• The script will give you the instructions for creating the thumb drive.

• ease with which Puppy Linux can generate a bootable USB thumb drive version of itself.

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The killer feature : rdesktop• rdesktop allows you to use any Windows NT/2000/XP/2003

server exactly as if you were sitting directly in front of it.• an open-source version of the Windows NT Terminal Server

client. • put my server's IP address in the data entry block below the

heading server. For e.g. 10.0.0.11• For the options heading, I would enter -a24 (for 24-bit color)

and -f (for full screen)• As soon as I selected OK, the screen would display my

Microsoft XP login screen. • Once I am logged in, it would be as if I were working directly

on my Microsoft XP server.

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Highlights:

• Puppy Linux is not based on any other distribution. Puppy use a different binary package format than the more popular distros.

• unlike Damn Small Linux, which was originally derived from KNOPPIX

• Creator and lead developer Barry Kauler wrote almost everything from scratch.

• Giving way to many unique ideas that have captured the interest of Linux users

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Applications: out of the box

• GAIM messenger which handles all the major IMs like Yahoo! and MSN.

• pdf reader

• An Internet suite, firewall, media player, word processor, FTP program, spreadsheet program, DVD/CD player/burner, and an IRC client

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Word Processor: Abi word

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Puppy Linux with gxine playing DVD

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Puppy Skins

• http://www.goosee.com/puppy/wikka/DotPups• scroll down to the section on WindowManagers • Click on "IceWM Full" and download it • After that, grab "IceWM Menu for Puppy" and "XP Theme for IceWM." • Use the filemanager, Rox, to install the applications you downloaded• get out of X Windows by hitting alt-ctrl-backspace• Once you are back at the command line, type in startx • Puppy will now have a new look and feel• You can then test out the available themes under the Start Menu -->

Themes• Needs more than 64 MB RAM for storage

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Puppy Skin

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Install extra packages

• Install extra packages not found on the main distribution by using Puppy-Unleashed compressed (.tgz) archives.

• Official way to install extra packages: PupGet• Unofficial way to install : DotPup• the installation is so simple that even a novice

could do it• Both are intuitive, providing a large range of open

source software packages for every taste and purpose.

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Official way to install extra packages: PupGet

• Go to the start menu and chose PupGet. • A green window will pop up. • Chose the Install or remove packages and a list of

applications that you can add will pop up. The system will download and then, using the file manager the system will find the files and a simple click on the program will install.

• Once the new files are installed, you have to stop X windows in order for the new applications to become accessible.

• Ctrl-alt-backspace will stop X windows and you can restart by typing startx.

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Unofficial way to install : DotPup

• it provids a long list of third-party software built by Puppy Linux enthusiasts.

• Since Puppy supports Unionfs (if you specify the option at boot prompt), software packages can also be installed while in "live CD" mode.

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Save your data on to the Live CD

• Remaster is SO EASY

• Puppy Linux allows you to save your data on a CDROM version of itself.

• It means that you can create a live Puppy Linux CD that has all the documents you need to carry with you

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Create and distribute applications with OS

• EduPup - to let the children to learn computers having some fun at the same time with TuxPaint, TuxType and TuxMath.

• Hacao - a Vietnamese-language Puppy

• Grafpub - for digital imaging professionals and graphic artists with GIMP, Inkscape, scribus

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Games

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Thank You