First:
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If you are new to Linux:
Nice promotional website for beginners
Linux Newbie Links
Where is the source code for Puppy?
UNIX Tutorial for Beginners (UNIX very nearly the same as Linux)
Configuring The Linux Kernel: a tutorial/review
The Linux Command Line
The difference between a Process and a Thread
Linux Filesystem Hierarchy | 2
Why is the Linux filesystem so *@&% complicated?
Linux Bash Commands
BASH quick reference (Requires Flash) Very comprehensive for a quick reference
LinuxCommand.org
Security discussion:
CERT on Home Computer Security
CERT on Home Network Security
Pros and cons of always running as root in Puppy
Security Engineering Downloadable book
Security under Puppy: remote access
Viruses: can I get them?
Website will test your browser's security
Encrypt files with bcrypt in Puppy
Educational discussions:
Shell Scripting Programming in the Linux "shell." Bash, ash, busybox etc., explained
The Linux Swap Partition How big?
Puppy and unionfs
Setting the computer clock Daylight savings, Windows vs Linux, localtime vs utc
Intro to Puppy
Flash video tutorials for Puppy!
how the boot process works 1 | 2 | 3
Boot loader showdown: Getting to know LILO and GRUB
/dev/loop devices
Linux vs Windows: file names and file type associations
What's a Window Manager?
Excellent discussion of Puppy's desktop (Icons, links, etc.)
Cdrecord TAO burn glitch - two extra sectors
How to:
Use ISOmaster when remastering Puppy
Booting programs on startup
Change the mouse size and or color
Set the mouse double-click speed
Set font sizes in Mozilla, Puppy | 2 | JWM | ROX
Set clock to show day, month, year & 24 hr time, in JWM
stop the screen messages during boot, so you can read them.
Read the contents of the MBR
Edit the GRUB menu configuration file
Edit boot stanzas in GRUB
Puppy Intro:
- Puppy 2.10r1 Manual | English | German | Spanish (From this website)
Klhrevolutionist's Unofficial PuppyLinux Guide
Boot prompt "cheatcodes" for Puppy Linux
Printed book - 50 pages
Booting (running) from CD:
- Booting 2.02 with less than 128 MB of RAM
Boot from floppy, run from CD
Boot problem with puppy 1.0.6 on notebook - simple solution
Booting Puppy and a USB keyboard: order of driver loading
How to burn a bootable CD from Windows
How to delete the Pup001 file from within Puppy
With pup001.zip on NTFS Hard Drive
- How to do a "frugal" install The recommended way to install Puppy
birth puppy by hand - step-by-step manual hard drive installation
Enlarging the pup001 file in XP (NTFS) | Another way, using Notepad to make .bat file
GRUB4DOS and WINGRUB No hard drive install; configure GRUB in Windows!
HardDiskInstall (PuppyLinux Wiki page.) Good partitioning instructions.
How to run Puppy from Windows NTFS partition
How to install Puppy on Windows hard disk and dual-boot with Windows 95/98/98SE (without having to partition your hard drive.)
Interesting discussion about partitioning a Hard Drive for dual-booting Windows and Puppy
Raffy's Install Puppy to Hard Disk (The whole enchilada)
Step by Step: Installing Puppy Linux to Your Hard Drive
Install Puppy to HD from iso, without floppy or CD
WAKEPUP 1.0 - New, alternate Puppy boot disk released
GRUB To the bit level. The definitive GRUB webpage
Discussion about which partitioning tool in Linux is best
- Alternative MBRs
Boot Puppy on USB flash from NTFS partition (Works if your BIOS can't boot from USB!)
Booting from USB with floppy
Easiest way to install to a flash card
Helping Puppy find user_cram.fs at boot
Installing on USB 1
Installing on USB 2
Test report: installing to several types of flash memory
Newer version of syslinux works better for booting Puppy from USB
- Adding a session to DVD from command line And naming the session
Burn fails because directories too deep (See also this forum post, Barry's 16June05 entry on Puppy's News page, and this excellent explanation of how Mozilla Mail causes the problem.)
Burning multisession Puppy CD with Mepis' K3b
Burning multisession Puppy CD with Puppy's cdrecord
How to save a snapshot of current state to multisession disk
Multisession DVD 1 | 2
Comprehensive Memorex technical reference for CDs/DVDs (1.8 MB pdf)
- Use GRUB to Boot into RAM from VFAT partition on HD (same as running from CD?)
How to run Puppy from Windows NTFS partition | XP-installer for Puppy 1.0.7 / 1.0.8r1
PupWin98.zip with Puppy 1.0.4 (Run Puppy from within Windows 98 )
qemu-Puppy (Run Puppy on an emulator running in Windows)
Running RTL (Real Time Linux) with Pupp ... round task Discussion
PLD - Command-line Linux
Building your own custom Puppy (Puppy a la carte):
- How to use ISOmaster
Compiling for puppy: leave out the symbols
How to edit menus in JWM/fvwm95
Problem building Unleashed Puppy: too many files in image.gz
How to remaster Puppy live CD
How To: Remastering live CD without pain
Puppy From Scratch Barry's official webpage for compiling & remastering Puppy
How to remaster Live-CD based on Hard Drive installation
Remastering; how to enlarge image.gz file system
Pizzasgood's quick remaster how-to
Speedup for building unleashed Puppy
How to add Xorg to Barebones Puppy 2
- save, restore bookmarks in Mozilla & Firefox
Defaults-Wizard v0.1.0 A GUI to change the default apps
Partial documentation of the about:config entries in Mozilla and Firefox
How to set menu font size for Mozilla/Firefox applications
- Alternative way of installing software
Bladehunter on Compiling from source code
How to get Make command to work in Puppy 2.01 from HD
Compiling applications for Puppy
Dependency Checker for dotpups and alien programs
Dockapps
The Dotpup and Pupget Wiki page
dpupmaker.sh v1.6 -- compiles source tarballs into Dotpups
How do dotpup packages work?
How to feed Puppy "C" to make a 'fat Puppy.'
How to compile and run WINE for Puppy
How to do away with Mozilla
HOWTO Install certain major applications outside pup001
How to install Linux games
How to install .tar.gz files for Linux beginners
Install big applications outside the Pup001 file
Installing Gimp, Firefox, OpenOffice
Installing Nero-Linux in Puppy Step-by-Step how-to on installing apps in Puppy
Macromedia Flash (In Firefox)
OpenOffice (How to install from tarball)
Other painless tarball installs
PupBeGone Package Remover for Built-In Unleashed Packages
pupgetmaker.sh v1.1 -- compiles source tarballs into pupgets
Realplayer
RealPlayer in Opera
Remove Mozilla, install Firefox and Thunderbird instead
Samba, what's it all about? (Hint: it's all about sharing.)
unrpm with standard rpm2cpio, for extracting rpm files
what's this usr_dex.sfs and usr_more.sfs thing?
How to add Xorg to Barebones Puppy 2
- Nanowrimo Puppy
Puppy 1.0.5a (Developer Puppy) (See Barry's 29July05 entry on the Puppy News page for details)
Backup and Restore
- How to auto-sync pup001 on a schedule
Use Linux to backup hd to, restore hd from, DVD
Use the dd command to copy files, partitions, whole drives
How to backup files to CD
- How to show more hardware info in Puppy
Using modprobe
Dial-Up modems:
General
The Linux barrier: dial-up modems
How to tell modem connection speed
Modem commands | 2
Which AT command string to use with external modem?
Softmodems (AKA winmodems)
Howto compile HSF/HCF drivers for Puppy2
HSF/HCF softmodem dotpup packages
How do I compile Conexant softmodem driver?
CD, DVD drives
Burning CDs with gcombust (Bottom of page)
IDE connections from motherboard affect Burniso2CD
Memorex technical reference for CDs & DVDs (1.8 MB pdf)
Hard Drives
Use hdparm to improve hard disk throughput
Input devices (Mice and Keyboards):
USB mouse doesn't work in 1.0.3 (Also here)
International keyboard instructions
International keyboard instructions for Puppy201
Sven Daemon for Multimedia Keyboards
Laptops
Issues with laptop cooling fans
Battery use remaining on laptop
Printing
Printing with CUPS (Especially this post with step-by-step instructions.)
Printing in Puppy200 or 201 using CUPS
(At last report, CUPS required usr_devx.sfs, a 44+ MB download, whereabouts unkown.)
CUPS Printing New installation script
Sound
How to add ALSA to Puppy 1.0.4 HD install
Video:
3D-Dri-Kernelmodules for most Graficscards
Dell latitude d505: screen stuck at 640x400x1
FAQ entry on "screen flicker" (bottom of page)
HOW TO Fix resolution / refresh rate on Intel 815
How to install nVidia 3-d graphics drivers
Screen refresh rate
Linux and the Intel 810 chipset (Webpage)
Webcams:
Guide to using webcams in Puppy plus compiled drivers
Wireless:
Useful thread #1
ndiswrapper gui written in puppybasic
How to retain (Netgear WG311T) wifi config on reboot
wireless drivers for 2.02 (6 Aug 06)
WPA encryption state of play for 2.02
checking your chipset
- Adding DLLs to Gxine so WMA files will play
Audacity A fast, cross-platform audio editor
Flash 4 Linux Good for design Macromedia Flash in Linux (6 Aug 06)
How to disable screensaver while using Gxine in Puppy 2.12
How to MIDI
Mtpaint 2.02 a small painting/image manipulation program
Mplayer TV (requires Mplayer to be installed) For ATI TV tuner card
Streamripper 1.61.11 Shoutcast and Icecast recorder
streamtuner stream directory browser
- How to: Speedup DNS Resolving With a DNS cache.
How to set up a Linux network Debian Tutorial
Explanation of internal and external IP addresses
How to change (spoof) the MAC address of your network card
How to get ethernet wizard DHCP to run at Boot-Up
Using ifconfig to turn eth0, ath0 on, off
Dial-Up modems:
Getting dialup modem to work in 1.0.3 | June 12th warning re wvdial, on Puppylinux News page
Lucent Winmodem dials, but no internet
Penggy Puppy - Dialup program
DSL modems:
DSL setup how-to
Synchronous pppoe module - for ADSL connection
Firewalls:
Configuring a Puppy firewall behind a router
Ports: stealth vs closed debate
Quicktables 2.3 Firewall Script Generator
Shares:
How to network Puppy and XP Access files on an XP machine, for beginners
Browse shared files on another computer
Sharing files on a local network with Puppy
Puppy-to-Puppy LAN with Samba
Share files and folders between Puppy <-and-> Windows Both ways!
Xeznet can crash entire GUI back to a command prompt!
Wireless modems:
Wireless Puppy
- Advanced Bash scripting guide
A gnu gcc compiler for Puppy
Editing the pup001 file (from another distro)
How do I define a syntax highlighting schema to Beaver?
Java 1.5.0_04 Installer
Learn to program + Programming in Puppy
Scripting references - Bash, Bourne shell reference PDFs
Steve's Bourne / Bash Shell scripting tutorial
The Linux Terminal - a Beginners� Bash Tutorial
How to get Make command to work in Puppy 2.01 from HD
- A build server for Puppy
sshd (remote desktop) server, dotpup package
Testing applications in someone elses computer through VNC
Use remote VNC connection for beta testing?
- How to disable screensaver while using Gxine in Puppy 2.12
- Log into server automatically at bootup
Puppy-based website server is easy - only lacks mail server
Running Apache and hosting a web page, without a hard drive | Comprehensive and clearly written
Setting up a web server on Puppy; Quisp, Monkey
webenvironment pup (lighttpd,mysql,php) 1 | 2
- How to add ALSA to Puppy 1.0.4
How do I save sound volume settings in xtmix?
Loading sound module so it starts at boot
- Add a (Textmaker) icon to the desktop | More re desktop icons
Browsing Puppy's filesystem with Mozilla
Does Puppy have a screenshot utility?
Encrypt files with bcrypt in Puppy
How to resume downloads with wget
How to use gtkcat to find files
How to link to a website from a Rox desktop icon
Making ROX more fun: changing file associations
Open Gaim in puppylinux chat forum
Setting the Time in Icewm
Add Unicode fonts to Puppy
Use wget to download large files in Linux or Windows Automatically resumes download if interrupted
- Configuring the wireless network (After you install the drivers)
HowTo for pcmcia wireless?
Linksys wireless-b card driver install and setup
Madwifi for Puppy (driver for wireless cards with Atheros chipset)
Miracle wireless puppy on Toshiba laptop (Sat Pro 6100) (Detailed description. Very well done.)
What driver do I use for my wireless card?
What is a Wireless adapter that Puppy can autodetect?
Where do I put wireless dhcpcd settings, to load at boot?
Wireless driver packages available for Puppy
Wireless driver packages updated
Wireless driver packages for Puppy2