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Puppy Linux, one of the most efficient Linux distros released the new 3.0 version today.

Despite being a fully independent, developed-from-scratch, distro, one of the new features in Barry Krauler’s puppy is binary compatibilization with Slackware 12.0 for package managment and install.

The new release’s kernel is 2.6.21.7, and the new initial ramdisk format now is cpio (like Ubuntu). It allows the user to use an older kernel in order to avoid some hardware detection problems common in some newer kernels. Also, true flush to flash drives is now available.

The .iso image for download is less than 100 MB so I couldn’t resist to just get it and try it out on an old PIII laptop with 256 MB RAM. I think it’s been the best LiveCD I’ve tried so far in so old a machine as far as performance is concerned. But hardware detection is a real problem.