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Puppy Linux 22.12, new version based on Slackware

who wants a puppy to end the year? Well here you have Puppy Linux 22.12the new version of this veteran flavor of Linux, which for a few years now has divided itself between different bases, although always with the same purpose: to offer a brief, but functional and focused system for use in live mode, although in the end the user commands.

This version is a hodgepodge they call S15Pup or S15Pup-22.12+1 and is built from the variant Slackware-basedso as expected, this new version of Puppy Linux builds on the stable foundation of Slackware 15, released earlier this year after a few years of development.

However, Puppy Linux 22.12 not only feeds on Slackware software, but also he also takes his own from Salix, another derivative of Slackware that was also renewed this year taking advantage of the occasion -a new version of Slackware only goes away every many years- and that usually maintains more updated applications. Specifically, Puppy Linux sucks its bit out of the Salix 15 repositories.

Puppy Linux 22.12 is therefore binary compatible with both Slackware and Salix and is available for 32-bit and 64-bit x86 architectures. Its novelties include two Linux LTS kernels, Linux 5.10 and Linux 5.15, to choose according to the needs; the latest versions of applications like Abiword and Gnumeric (pure puppylinuxera essence) and others like that.

Its managers say that Puppy Linux 22.12 maintains “the traditional look and feel of Puppy Linux”, which is understandable with the aforementioned applications, but also with the usual JWM window manager as the default option of the graphical environment. However, in the category of browsers it includes Chromium, Firefox and Palemoon, where power is always good.

No, Puppy Linux is not a distro for everyone, even those looking for a lightweight system. There are similar and more accessible ones in the Linux ecosystem. But he is a true veteran in these fights who can be trusted, so if you need something like that… You have the download ready at SourceForge.

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