The Puppy Linux Chihuahua Firefox software is an Alpha distribution that's based on Lassie. It comes with a live hotplug feature, making it easy to add and remove devices on the go. It's a lightweight and user-friendly operating system ideal for low-spec machines.
Puppy Linux can also boot off of a flash card or any USB memory device such as a flash-Puppy, CDROM, Zip disk, or even floppy disks. The size of Puppy Linux occupies about 50-60M on the USB Flash drive, CDROM, or any other storage technology. When booting up, all files uncompress into a RAM area called a "ramdisk". While the live-CD will boot up on computers with only 32M RAM, having more RAM is recommended.
Puppy Linux automatically uses a swap partition in case it exists. In booting from a USB Flash device, Puppy Linux tries to load all of the Flash files into physical RAM. However, if there is not enough RAM, Puppy Linux copies the excess into a swap partition to avoid any writes to the Flash memory during a session. This feature greatly extends the lifespan of any USB flash memory device. A PC with 128M RAM is the recommended minimum to use Puppy Linux.
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