I had an idea (Ubuntu + Puppy Linux)

Markus Weissbacher weissbacher at gmx.net
Sun Jul 10 00:13:12 UTC 2005


Knoppix can do this also with the boot option "toram", but it needs a
lot of physikal memory and the system isnt faster using the swap. This
also just starts at about 1gb ram.

Am Samstag, den 09.07.2005, 17:46 -0500 schrieb Dougie:
> hey everybody,
> I've had this idea in my head for a while.  I was looking around the
> Puppy Linux website (http://www.goosee.com/puppy/), and it seems to
> run differently than most other distros.  Like knoppix, it defaults to
> run as a live cd BUT instead of running off of the CD it loads the
> full distro into memory yeilding a warp speed distro.  
> I know it would be a deviation from the Debian base of Ubuntu, but I
> thought it would be pretty cool if some one started a fork/merger that
> brought some of these strengths together.  I really like my Ubuntu,
> but I'm also getting very interested in Puppy Linux.  
>  
> God bless all y'all,
> fisher





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