Busy with PC work- & a new "Puppy"

That's how it always goes, right? "Feast or Famine".

I sometimes go a week without one phone call & then will get hammered with 4-5 jobs at once. I'm venting- but not complaining!

This past week, I was given three PC's to overhaul: two were so viri/spyware infested that the ISP called to tell the people to take them offline (!!!)- ouch! The laptop wouldn't boot & someone had given the woman the idea that the hard drive or motherboard had fried? Whatever...

I went ahead & worked on them, simultaneously, whilst doing all the rest of the household chores & child-refereeing- as per normal.

All three computers were cleared, tuned, & returned the following day (in your face "GeekSquad")- lol...


On to my next adventure in Linuxland: Puppy Linux.

Puppy is a live CD offering from the open-source world of Linux. Basically, you download the .ISO image & burn it to a CD. Then, pop the disc into the CD-ROM & reboot the PC. Puppy will load itself into the system's RAM (assuming 128mb min.) & you will be looking at a very clean, attractive desktop in a matter of two minutes. Because it runs in the RAM memory, it is extremely fast. By default, it adds in a file (to the hard drive) to retain your settings. That way, anything you set up remains set up the next time you boot it.

I did a walkthrough of the programs & utilities & then went to the Puppy forum to read what others had been doing with this distro (distribution) of Linux. I found that it could be loaded, alongside Windows 98, without affecting the MS OS. Sounded interesting, so I did it. Worked very well & is actually much more responsive than the 98 install.

However, trying to do the very same with my uncle's PC has proven problematic, & we are still hard at it- trying to figure out why the same instructions aren't working for him?

Puppy Linux is a great OS- even (& especially) as a live CD. Works very well on old hardware. Everyone loves a puppy!