Has your hard drive ever crashed on you before? Have you ever tried to
turn on your computer and it wouldn’t start? Did you get the blue screen of death ?
If you have ever not been able to to start your computer
because your hard drive failed on you, then you should check out <a
href=”http://www.puppylinux.org/”>Puppy Linux!</a>
It is a very small, and lightweight Linux distribution. Make sure you
download the ISO, burn it to a CD and store it somewhere safe. Even I
have had to dig through my stack of CD’s to find my Puppy Linux disc.
The whole operating system runs completely in RAM! So if you hard
drive has crashed or your computer will no longer start, you put the
Puppy Linux disc in your computer and presto… You can get online!
You can watch YouTube, view pictures, instant message, and a lot more.
This is a very good distro for old computers with very little Ram. Its
really lightweight and always there when you need it. It has built in
Partition Editors that can help you delete all the partitions on your
computer and format it to one big NTFS partition, or the opposite. It
can help you split a large hard drive into multiple hard drives. That
way, you can have One operating system on one partion, and another
Operating System on another partition. OR you can have your Operating
System on one partition and store all of your movies and music on the
other. That way if your Windows installation ever fails on you and
goes corrupt, all of your data is safe.
I had a really old laptop that didn’t even have built in wireless and
the hard drive was going “click, click, click”. That my friends, is
the sound of death. (To a hard drive.) So I put Puppy Linux in the old
Dell, hit esc, and booted from the internal dvd drive. I got my old
Linksys usb internet adapter, and in minutes I was watching YouTube
videos, checking my Facebook account, and surfing the web.
Have you ever tried to delete something in Windows and it always said,
“access denied” or gave you some kind of error message and would not
let you delete it? I had that problem a few weeks ago! “Unlocker”
could not even unlock it so that it could be deleted. So I booted up
Puppy Linux, went to the file manager and deleted that pesky
file/folder and it was gone for good! Viruses and stuff can prevent
you from deleting them inside windows. But if you boot some other OS,
like Puppy Linux, they just can’t stop you….
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