Information about different files used in Puppy Linux.

Puppy Specific File Types

• Save File - AKA 'Pup Save' stores updates, in a frugal installation.
• Save File - multisession - savefiles used on mutli-session optical media
• BaseSFS, PupSfs - SFS file containing linux directory structure, in a frugal installation.
• Devx - SFS containing standard Puppy compiling tools

Package File Types

• PET - Puppy software packages, loaded into SaveFile
• SFS - Puppy software package, read-only, loaded as file-system layer
• DEB - Debian/Ubuntu software packages, generally compatible with Puppy 5.2x Lucid

General File Types

• BIN - executable program files (binary code)
• Binary Code - executable program files
• SFS - read only compressed file system
• Source Code - uncompiled code
• TAR - compressed files
• TXZ, tar.xz - files using xz compression
• TGZ, GZ, tar.gz - files using gz compression

Document Files

• PPD - printer configuration files
• PDF - portable document file
• DjVu - stores scanned documents

Linux Files

SaveFiles
How to avoid loading SaveFile
How to Resize Savefile
Other
AssociateFiles - How Associate filetypes
How To Add MIME Type
Internet Media Types
RootFs - linux directory structure
Software Package Naming Convention
File - File identification software
FileManagers

Linux Package Management comparison
How Puppy Works page