Puppy Linux is a niche computing solution that shows the flexibility and usefulness of open-source tools and the staying power of the Linux operating system. Normally in this column, I focus on new ...

Dubbed Puppy Linux, the OS is one of dozens of custom and guerilla variants on Linux circulating throughout the broader software community. (Many are tracked on the Distrowatch open-source Web site.) ...

I noticed a trend in the reader response e-mails to an earlier newsletter sampling various Linux distributions that can boot up from a USB keychain. Here are some of the comments I received: * “Puppy ...