Krishnan's Blog

I tried using Puppy Linux for quite some time. I was pretty much impressed by it. It enabled me to work with Linux without the need to install. I need Windows XP to test a lot of software and also to duplicate and troubleshoot client problems. Puppy Linux is a very thin software and it was fun to use it from USB stick. I used the 4GB HP drive for the purpose. However the version of puppy linux that I was using had some serious bugs. I was using puppy linux 5.2. It recognized my laptop's wlan card but the drive was not good. With WPA connection type I faced frequent disconnections. My laptop has Broadcom 802.11b/g WLAN card. Connecting to wi-fi during meetings and all was becoming very difficult and hence I had two choices. 1. Moving to WIndows XP. 2. Moving to a stabler version of Linux. I decided to go with the later. As Ubuntu is my favorite Linux distro and I have been using Ubuntu from 2008 on my home PC I decided to go with it. I had a Ubuntu 10.10 CD but I needed a USB stick ...

Linux operating systems come in different flavors and size. Every linux distro that is available or comes out into the market are unique and are accepted by a wide variety of people. I basically love Ubuntu Linux. Ubuntu is robust and at the same time is light and easy to use. It is also a very stable operating system and doesn't crash or hang. In the past I have used Fedora 2 and Knoppix 3.2. I felt that Fedora is a very very heavy operating system. Knoppix was a revolution as it brought the live CD concept into the market. Still it was not up to the mark for me. It has been years since I have started using Ubuntu. Recently I came into a situation where I had to have windows on my laptop to test windows based softwares. But I wanted to have Linux as my operating system. The only option was to have a live USB stick. Hence I did a google search to see which Linux OS would be suitable for me. I came across, DSL(Damn Small Linux), Puppy Linux and a few more. Some time in the past I ha...