Breeezy is an education-based Linux distribution designed for eeePC and kiosk PCs. It is a variant of Puppy Linux that is optimized for educational purposes.
Breeezy is a Linux distribution that has been specifically designed for educational purposes. It is based on Puppy Linux and can be used both on eeePCs and kiosk PCs. The distribution has been developed to work as a small browser and is capable of displaying HTML pages, office documents and multimedia content.
Originally known as Safepup, the distribution was developed for browsing purposes on Win-PCs without touching NTFS. In December 2007, it was ported to work on eeePCs using a flash-install procedure. A remastering guide for the ISO is also available. Additionally, Breeezy can be deployed as a network-booted Puppy using TFTP server and PXE booting.
Puppy Linux, on which Breeezy is built, is a unique operating system that is based on GNU Linux. It features an incredibly small size but is still full-featured. The operating system can boot into a 64MB ramdisk, which means that the entire system runs in RAM.
Unlike live CD distributions, Puppy Linux loads everything into RAM, which leads to applications starting instantly and responding to user input without delay. Puppy Linux can boot off various devices including flash cards, USB memory devices, CDROM, Zip disks, LS/120/240 Superdisks, floppy disks and internal hard drives.
Puppy Linux occupies around 50-60M on most storage media. During bootup, everything is uncompressed into a "ramdisk." The live-CD can boot up on systems with only 32M RAM, but the recommended minimum is 128M RAM to ensure optimal performance. Puppy Linux will automatically use a swap partition if it exists, and it eliminates writes to Flash memory during a session, thereby extending its lifespan.
It is worth noting that a swap partition may be needed to run Firefox or Mozilla on PCs with less than 64M RAM. In fact, a swap partition is necessary to run most of the large GUI applications on a PC with only 32M RAM.
Originally known as Safepup, the distribution was developed for browsing purposes on Win-PCs without touching NTFS. In December 2007, it was ported to work on eeePCs using a flash-install procedure. A remastering guide for the ISO is also available. Additionally, Breeezy can be deployed as a network-booted Puppy using TFTP server and PXE booting.
Puppy Linux, on which Breeezy is built, is a unique operating system that is based on GNU Linux. It features an incredibly small size but is still full-featured. The operating system can boot into a 64MB ramdisk, which means that the entire system runs in RAM.
Unlike live CD distributions, Puppy Linux loads everything into RAM, which leads to applications starting instantly and responding to user input without delay. Puppy Linux can boot off various devices including flash cards, USB memory devices, CDROM, Zip disks, LS/120/240 Superdisks, floppy disks and internal hard drives.
Puppy Linux occupies around 50-60M on most storage media. During bootup, everything is uncompressed into a "ramdisk." The live-CD can boot up on systems with only 32M RAM, but the recommended minimum is 128M RAM to ensure optimal performance. Puppy Linux will automatically use a swap partition if it exists, and it eliminates writes to Flash memory during a session, thereby extending its lifespan.
It is worth noting that a swap partition may be needed to run Firefox or Mozilla on PCs with less than 64M RAM. In fact, a swap partition is necessary to run most of the large GUI applications on a PC with only 32M RAM.
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