Puppy Linux
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![Desktop with one of multiple integrated themes with XMMS a multimedia player, mtPaint a painting program for creating pixel art and manipulating digital photos and mplayer running, plus an opened text file under Puppy Linux 2.15 CE Viz (with default WM: IceWM)](/Images/godic/202502/05/Puppylinux-215ce21746.jpg")
![wNOP v0.2 on EeePC: Puppy 3.01 & Compiz-Fusion](/Images/godic/202502/05/WNOP02_EeePC_11746.jpg")
![Puppy Linux 4.3.0](/Images/godic/202502/05/Pup-4301746.png")
Puppy Linux operating system is a lightweight Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and minimal memory footprint. The entire system can be run from RAM with current versions generally taking up about 210 MiB, allowing the boot medium to be removed after the operating system has started. Applications such as AbiWord (wordprocessing), Gnumeric (spreadsheets) and MPlayer (multimedia player) are included, along with a choice of lightweight web browsers. The distribution was originally developed by Barry Kauler and other members of the community. The tool Woof can build a Puppy Linux distribution from the binary packages of other Linux distributions.