Puppy Linux - Small but Powerfull and Feature Rich Distribution

What is Puppy Linux?

Puppy Linux is an operating system for computers. Other well-known operating systems are Microsoft Windows, Apple OSX, and MS-DOS. Puppy Linux is based on GNU/Linux. It is completely free and open source software.

Puppy really is small, the live-CD typically being 85MB, yet there really is a complete set of GUI applications. Being so small, Puppy usually loads completely into RAM, which accounts for the incredible speed.

To download, just open the link and browse http://puppylinux.com

The documentation is also available at the website.

How is Puppy Different?

• Small size, ~100MB! This lends itself to some very useful and unique features.
• 'Live' booting from CDs, DVDs, USB flash drives, and other portable media.
• Runs from RAM, making it unusually fast even in old PCs and in netbooks with solid state storage media.
• Very low minimum system requirements.
• Boot time is well under a minute, 30-40 seconds in most systems.
• Includes a wide range of applications: wordprocessors, spreadsheets, internet browsers, games, image editors and many utilities. Extra software in the form of dotpets. There is a GUI Puppy Software Installer included.
• Puppy is easy to use and little technical knowledge is assumed. Most hardware is automatically detected.

Puppy Linux Screenshot

Blueman - Feature Rich Bluetooth Manager for Linux

I have been searching for easy to use bluetooth manager for Linux with gprs dial up connection support. Its not so easy for a normal user to connect gprs internet via bluetooth. After i did a lot of googling, I have found Blueman.

For Ubuntu, blueman is already a part of Ubuntu ready to install Package. But for Fedora, no rpm package is available till date. I request Fedora packagers to build a rpm version of Blueman and made it available for Fedora users so that anybody can manage bluetooth connection so easily with the click of mouse. Since I am not from the programming background, i am not able to package it.

Some of the features of Blueman are given here. For more details, please visit http://blueman.tuxfamily.org

Blueman is a GTK+ Bluetooth Manager

Blueman is designed to provide simple, yet effective means for controlling BlueZ API and simplifying bluetooth tasks such as:

• Connecting to 3G/EDGE/GPRS via dial-up
• Connecting to/Creating bluetooth networks
• Connecting to input devices
• Connecting to audio devices
• Sending/Receiving/Browsing files via OBEX
• Pairing

Blueman also integrates with Network Manager 0.7, so any Dialup/Network connections will be made available (via HAL) to Network Manager.

Dependencies:

• python-gtk2 (>= 2.12)
• bluez-gnome (>= 0.25)
• bluez-utils (3.26 <= x <= 3.28)
• python-bluez
• python-dbus
• python-notify
• policykit (>= 0.7)
• obex-data-server

Build Dependencies:

• libbluetooth-dev
• python2.5-dev
• python-distutils-extra