FATDOG64 LINUX 814

Nate Drake decides to look in on Fatdog, a Puppy-based OS that’s grown into a very credible canine in its own right.

Nate Drake

Licence GPL V2 | http://distro.ibiblio.org/fatdog/web/ Every dog has its day and for the team at Fatdog, there have been many. The project started out in 2008 as a simple extension of Puppy Linux. Any experienced Linux user will tell you that Puppy’s designed to be lightweight and easy to use, but the number of customisation options and requirement to install extra software to have a workable OS make it unsuitable for beginners. Fatdog (as the name suggests) is the pup grown up. Its developers have placed emphasis on a fatter – that means more bundled apps – version of Puppy, while remaining very fast and efficient. We couldn’t see any better proof of this than when downloading one of the latest versions (814) of Fatdog, as the ISO weighed in…

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