A chm file viewer would be a helpful inclusion in Puppy. A lot of digital computer books come in the Windows chm (help file) format so the Linux viewer for this would be great.

Sorry, the files mentioned above for Puppy 2.17 should have been: pup_save.2fs, pup_217.sfs, and zdrv_217.sfs. I have since downloaded devx_217.sfs, the kernel-src_217.sfs, and EZpup217. EZpup installed OK, put new icons on the desktop, and put Open Office applications in the menu instead of icons ...

Here's my experience with a 2.16 to 2.17 frugall upgrade / install: I had a 2.16 frugal install in hda4. The 2.17 CD recognised the 2.16 and updated it automatically. Then I was booted into 2.17 desktop with my old 2.16 save_2fs setup. The boot manager started automatically asking if I wanted to ...

As one person said, Puppy is primarily designed as a memory-based distro - either by running in RAM, or by a frugal install and working from the CD/RAM. And although you can install it fully to the HD it is not designed for that purpose. Yet, due to Puppy's usefulness more people here are asking for ...

Puppy has conquered the minimalist RAM side of an operating system. But it is too concentrated on RAM use / frugal install. I, too, would like to use a mega puppy or a multimedia puppy -dedicated to hdd install and not RAM use. Gentoo has Sabayon as a multimedia version, Debian has ArtistX, Knoppix ...