Puppy Linux "Wary" For Linux

Puppy Linux “Wary” is a minimal, free and open-source distribution of Linux derived from the Puppy Linux operating system and designed from the ground up to be as small and lightweight as possible. It is an official remix of Puppy Linux.

The Wary edition of Puppy Linux is available for download via Softpedia or directly from its official website as a dual-arch Live CD ISO image, which has been engineered to run on both 32-bit and 64-bit computers. It has approximately 150MB in size!

Being an official Puppy Linux remix, the distribution includes a minimal boot prompt that will automatically start the live environment with default drivers in five seconds from the moment the user boots the OS from the BIOS of a PC using either a USB thumb drive or a CD disc.

You’ll have to choose a keyboard layout and a timezone, set the hardware clock and select a display server before you can use the graphical desktop environment, which is powered by the IceWM window manager.

The graphical session uses a single panel layout. The panel is located on the bottom edge of the screen and includes a main menu for navigating and launching apps, a virtual workspace selector, a taskbar, and a system tray area.

Despite the fact that the operating system has only 150MB in size, it includes a plethora of lightweight applications, among which we can mention AbiWord word processor, InkLite vector graphics editor, Viewnior image viewer, mtPaint image editor, Gnumeric spreadsheet editor and HomeBank finance management tool.

The Planner project management, Figaro’s Password Manager, SeaMonkey all-in-one Internet suite, Transmission torrent downloader, gFTP file transfer client, uGet download manager, Ogle DVD player, MPlayer video player, Asunder Audio-CD ripper and ISO Master CD image editor are also included.

The Wary edition of Puppy Linux proves to be the perfect operating system for low-end computers, as well as machines with old and semi-old hardware components.