Puppy Linux 3.01 Review

Posted by gsh on Dec 11, 2007 5:49 AM EDT
OSWeekly.com; By Matt Hartley
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I just finished taking the latest version of Puppy Linux for a spin and was planning on doing a review. However, considering this was on my notebook, that meant connecting to the Internet, preferably via wireless.

I'm not a Linux developer, so I can only assume that distros like Ubuntu Gutsy, which are known for running a new wireless stack are a curve ahead just like a lot of other distros in testing. But I was shocked and disappointed to discover that WPA remains but a pipe dream in the latest release. In Ubuntu Gutsy, despite network-manager challenges, I was able to get WPA2 working using Wicd on both RT61 and RT2500 wireless cards.

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