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This is an old revision of HuPuppy made by darkcity on 2011-12-03 06:59:05.
Puppy Versions List
Forthcoming
Name | Description | Link |
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PARM | ARM based devices are getting cheaper and faster. One device called the Raspberry Pi has excited developers enough to start making a Puppy ARM derivative | thread |
Puppy6 | Compile from scratch for maximum speed and performance. Create a new build system that supports multiple platforms, with a user friendly package manager, and a well stocked repository | threadblog |
QtPuppy | Based on a Barebones Wary | link |
Saluki | Based on a Racy or Wary to be decided. Focus will be user friendliness, innovation, artistic look and feel, and solid, functional applications. | thread |
Official

Name | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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Puppy 4.31 | 2.6.30.5, 2.6.25.16 or 2.6.21.7 | 104.9MB | JWM | Official release, works well on a wide range of computers | announcement pup-431.iso download |
Puppy 5.28 | 2.6.33.2 | 129MB | Openbox, JWM | Lastest Version of Puppy5.2x Lucid (Ubuntu based) | downloadforum announcement |
Puppy 5.3 | 2.6.38.4 | 132MB | JWM | Lastest Version of Puppy5-Slacko (Slackware based) | thread |
Quirky 1.3 | 2.6.33.2 | 111MB | - | Barrys latest cutting edge Puppy | release |
Quirky 1.4 | 2.6.31.14 | 123.7MB | - | Cutting edge Puppy using Xorg 7.3 and older kernel | release |
Racy 5.1.101 (5.2beta1) | - | 94.5MB | - | Racy is small and fast for modern hardware. | release |
Wary513 | - | 120.7MB | JWM | Good support for older hardware, includes updated GtkDialog and BaCon | download announcement |
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Language Versions
Active/Unknown
Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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AttackPup | LightHouse Pup 4.43 | - | - | - | Puppy with BackTrack features for penetration testing | Attackpup |
Barebones 2.02 | - | - | - | FVWM | Puppy 1.0.3 for slow connections that uses the dillo browser (no Firefox, Opera or Mozilla) and notably does not include Abiword | Barebones |
Barebones 5(Lucid) | - | - | 91.8MB | - | Minimal version of Puppy 5 | Barebones |
Breeezy | - | - | 80MB | JWM | By RaffyM for the ASUS Eee PC (also available as live CD of 80 MB for other machines) | website download |
BrowserLinux 501 | Puppy51 | - | 93MB | - | BrowserLinux is a fast and small for surfing the web. | link download |
ClusterPup | - | - | - | - | Creating a Puppy supercomputer, simplifies setting of mpich cluster | link |
DPup Extrimo 5.X.7 | NextPuppy | 2.6.39.4 | 139MB | JWM, Enlightenment | A Dpup based on Next Puppy with different Window manager and applications | forum, download |
Fatdog64-520 | - | - | 184MB | - | Fatdog is an all 64bit version of Linux built from source packages using T2 and using Puppy Linux scripts and structure. | link |
FatFree | Puppy 2.17 | - | 51MB | JWM | 2.17 cutdown to add your own pets | forum |
Fluppy 013 | Puppeee | 2.6.35.7 | 150MB | IceWM, FLWM, OpenBox | This is Puppeee with Eee-specific functionality removed and a full size kernel and a full Xorg with DRI, Mesa, and Nouveau. | Puppeee |
Guy Dog 5.0.0 | dpup | 2.6.39.4 | 105 MB | Openbox tint2 | minimalistic, small, elegant, speed, innovative and full-featured puplet. | forum download |
InsidiousPuppy001 | - | 2.6.32.26 | - | - | Its key features are high Debian and Lucid Puppy compatibility, a good selection of applications (through Debian's repositories), an excellent multimedia stack and good hardware support. | link |
Legacy OS 2 | - | - | - | IceWM | Designed specifically for older PCs - saving hardware which would be landfilled. | forum |
LightHouse Puppy 5.03 G | - | - | - | iceWM, JWM, lxde, openbox | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. | homepage |
LightHouse 64bit Puppy 5.11 A | - | - | - | - | Lighthouse is a quick and easy to set up, full-featured operating system. 64bit Version | homepage |
Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
Mac Pup 520 | Puppy52 | - | 174MB | Enlightenment E17 | All the apps from Puppy 5 with the Enlightenment E17 window manager | homepage |
Mac Pup 525 | Puppy525 | - | 155 MB | Enlightenment E17 | All the apps from Puppy 5 with the Enlightenment E17 window manager | homepage |
MijnPup52 | Puppy52 | - | 279MB | - | MijnPup is a fast remastered Puppy including LibreOffice and FireFox. | link |
NextPuppy 5.0.1 Alpha 3 | DPup | 2.6.39.4 | 73MB | WindowMaker | Lighweight and compatible with both old and new hardware, low memory consumption. | thread next-5.0.1 download |
NOP4.31 | Puppy431 | - | - | - | Nearly Office Puppy, GNU office apps remove, ready for OpenOffice to be added | - |
Puppeee 4.3X | Puppy 4.3.1 | - | 129MB | IceWM, FLWM, OpenBox | Puppeee is an ultralight, user-friendly Linux distribution for the EeePC | Puppeee |
Puppeee Arcade 10 | Puppeee 4.3X | - | - | - | A Eee PC distro with the fast FireDog browser suite, easier save-file management, 3D acceleration enabled as standard, great gaming options. | link |
Puppy2.14X (top9) | Puppy2 | - | - | JWM | Vastly updated version of Puppy 2.14, good for old hardware | 214X-top9.iso download, forum |
Puppy525Retro | Puppy525 | 2.6.30.5 | 130MB | JWM | Rebuilding of 525 with the kernel and drivers from the reliable Puppy 4.31. | link |
PupRescue 2.3 | Puppy528 | - | 292MB | - | Rescue tool for Windows systems that has died, got a virus, needs cleaning. Include tools to wipe hard drives, clone drives, find duplicate files and recover lost files. | forum PupRescue-2.3 download |
Puppy Arcade 10 | - | - | - | - | Features lots of emulators, a BIOS installer and frontend downloaders and a cabinet-friendly, multi-emulator rom-loader, supports fullscreen and joypad navigation. | link |
QuirkyNOP | - | - | - | - | Nearly office Quirky. Choose if you want Open/Libre Office or GNU apps. | QuirkyNOP |
Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
Rexbang 2.4 | - | - | - | - | inspired by CrunchBang & ArchBang. Thunar file manager & Pidgin instant messenger have been added. | forum |
SailPup 5.25 | Puppy525 | - | 384MB | JWM OpenBox | Some network-tools and seachart-viewer are added. Further a grib-file-viewer and some other sailing-stuff. | forum downloads (u:puppy p:linux) |
SlimPup 3.1 | Puppy525 | 2.6.33.2 | - | OpenBox | Looks like Crunchbang, but more lightweight since it's Puppy. Eliminates cluttered menus by having a more concise menu. | homepage download |
SpeakPup V0.05 | Puppy 2.17 | - | 90.3 MB | - | Customised for blind people featuring screen reader, speech server and soft brailler | blog forum |
SPup100 | - | - | - | - | Slackware base compile | link |
SuliPuppyEN | Browserlinux | - | 124 MB | JWM | Education programs, english , author kros54 | download forum |
ThinkLinux | Quirky 1.2 | - | - | JWM | - | Think Linux |
TXZpup 4.5 | - | 2.6.27.7 | 117MB | - | Compatible with Slackware binaries , built using standard linux tools, TXZ package management. | TXZpup |
Wary5x | Puppy431 | 2.6.30.5 | 107MB | JWM | wary 5.1.1 retro with 217/431 base. | link |
WaryNOP | - | - | - | - | Nearly office Wary | WaryNOP |
Wary Watcher 511 | Wary511 | - | 191MB | - | Video surveillance systems | forum |
XOPup 2.2.RC | Puppy 5.11 | 2.6.35 or 2.6.31 | 115.6MB | - | Supports the One Laptop Per Child hardware. | announcement |
Xp-like _Puppy_ENG | Puppy431 | - | 146 MB | IceWM | author s-kami | download |
Name | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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Hungarian Derivatives
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Superseded
Name | Superseded by | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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BrowserLinux 401 | BrowserLinux 501 | Puppy51 | - | 90MB | - | BrowserLinux is a fast and small for surfing the web. | link |
Puppy 5.26 | Puppy 5.28 | - | - | 127.4MB | Openbox, JWM | Official bugfix and update of 5.25 (Ubuntu based) | downloadforum |
Puppy 5.25 | Puppy 5.28 | - | 2.6.38.4 | 132MB | JWM | Common version of Puppy5.2x Lucid (ubuntu based) | link |
Puppy 5.2 | Puppy525 | - | - | - | - | Puppy 5 Lucid (ubuntu based) | - |
Puppy 5.1.1 | Puppy52 | - | - | - | - | Common version of Puppy 5 Lucid (ubuntu based) | - |
Puppy Squeeze | InsidiousPuppy001 | - | - | - | - | - | link |
TeenPup | Legacy OS 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Wary512 | Wary513 | - | - | 119.9MB | JWM | Good support for older hardware, release emphasis on incremental improvements. | release |
Wary09 | Wary 5.0 | - | 2.6.35.7 or 2.6.30.5 | 111.6MB | - | Excellent support for older hardware | release |
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Unmaintained
Name | Similar Puplet | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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BuddaPup 215 | MacPup | - | - | - | Enlightenment | Puppy with Enlightenment window manager | forum |
DCL | - | Puppy3 | - | 173 MB | Xfce | 2008 version is based on Puppy 3.01 with the latest Xfce, meant to merge Xfce and Puppy. | author |
Digipup 216 | - | - | - | - | JWM? | Puppy for Ham radio. Also known as EMCPup | forum download (puppy linux) |
DPup477 | DPup | - | 2.6.27.4 | - | - | Dpup based on Debian Lenny repositories, also using a large portion of Debian Sid. RETRO version. | dpup.org |
DPup482 | DPup | - | 2.6.30.5 | - | - | Dpup based on Debian Lenny repositories, also using a large portion of Debian Sid. MAIN version. | dpup.org |
DPup485 | DPup | - | - | 171 MB | - | updated some libs and gtk to be more compatible with newer application versions | link |
DragonPuppy | - | - | - | 108MB | Xfce | Used Fatfree Puppy to created a stylish, Xfce-based puplet with Firefox, The GIMP, multimedia | forum |
eBoxPup | - | - | - | - | JWM? | Alpha Puppy for the eBox 2300SX computer, comes with Opera. | |
EcoPup | - | - | - | 668Mb | JWM? | Beta with Firefox 2 and OpenOffice 2 zipped up (for use once installed) rather than preloaded. Useful as Win-look-alike for Internet Cafes. | forum |
EduPup | - | Puppy 2.11 | - | 166Mb? | JWM? | Includes kid's software such as TuxType2, TuxMath, GcompriS (also with italian sounds), SuperTux, and TuxPaint (with tuxpaint-ConfiG and TuxStamp). Good is for grade school. | |
EmptyCrust | - | - | - | 45Mb | JWM | Stripped down Puppy | |
eXpand Barbie | - | - | - | 245Mb | JWM | Puplet for women with Xfce, StumbleUpon and 60+ links to flash games online including Bubbles. | forum eXpand215b download (puppy linux) |
eXpand DOFUS | PuppyArcade | Puppy 2.14 | - | - | - | Puplet based around playing the MMORPG Dofus includes many other programs as well for a complete web environment. Made by lvds. Good for gaming. | forum |
FireHydrant | - | - | - | 192Mb | icewm | Firefox, flash, java, plus thunderbird, sunbird and lightning. 19 themes, a few new games. | tracker |
Flightpup | - | FatFree | - | - | JWM | Fat Free with FlightGear open source flight simulator and wNOP | Forum |
GrafPup201 alpha1 | - | - | - | 80MB or 397MB | - | Customized for graphic designers and other imaging professionals with current versions of Gimp, Cinepaint, Inkscape, and Scribus. | link |
HappyLinux | - | Puppy300 | - | 141MB | xfce, Jwm | Puppy 3 with Xfce window manager | forum download |
JustinBieberLinux | SlimPup | SlimPup | 2.6.33.2 | 135.8MB | - | Justin-Bieber themed linux... It's a joke. | homepage download |
Pupeee | - | - | - | - | - | For Asus EEE PC, not to be confused with Puppeee by Jermiah | Puppeee 4.2 downloads |
PuppyStudio 3.3 | - | Puppy5 | - | - | - | Puppy modified for recording sound and multimedia | Puppy Studio |
Watchdog | Wary Watcher 511 | - | - | - | - | video surveillance systems | - |
Name | Similar Puplet | Derivative of | Kernel | Size | Window Manager | Description | Link |
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Version Links
If you are short on time just add a link to Puppy Version not listed. If you have time please update the appropriate table/s above. Any help shifting links to the tables appreciated.
Cielo derivative of Wary
SevenPuppy Hungarian derivative of Puppy Linux
Frankenpup derivative of Wary, developed by samedog
Puppy for librarians
Twinkle for retired Time Travelers
pUPnGO Command line only
Older official versions
Puppy Derivatives forum page
Puppy Family Tree
Quickset based on Lucid
Web Server
Lucid Flux Flux WM version
French Puppy Linux: Toutou Linux
Vietnamese Puppy Linux: Hacao Linux
Brazilian Portuguese Puppy Linux: Succi Linux, BigpupBr
SevenPuppy Hungarian derivative of Puppy Linux
Frankenpup derivative of Wary, developed by samedog
Puppy for librarians
Twinkle for retired Time Travelers
pUPnGO Command line only
Older official versions
Puppy Derivatives forum page
Puppy Family Tree
Quickset based on Lucid
Web Server
Lucid Flux Flux WM version
French Puppy Linux: Toutou Linux
Vietnamese Puppy Linux: Hacao Linux
Brazilian Portuguese Puppy Linux: Succi Linux, BigpupBr
More Versions
This is the old table. Any help shifting Puppy Versions listed below the to tables above appreciated (screenshots now go on separate page).
![]() | The information on this page may be out of date. Any help updating appreciated, more info on the Wiki Index page. |
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Name | Window Manager | Description | Size | Download |
Gamepup | Xfce | alpha | 125Mb | HTTP Metalink |
Hacao | IceWM | Hacao is Vietnamese. The project's purpose is a complete, yet lightweight operating system that can run on low-specification computers. The entire user interface of Hacao has been translated into Vietnamese. | 282Mb | Torrent Metalink HTTP |
Icepup | JWM | Firefox puplet with wired and wireless support. Leafpad and VI Console Editor are the only applications present (formerly known as Foxpup and Litepup). | <60Mb | HTTP MD5 |
Hurt Me Plenty | JWM | with Quake demo | ?Mb | HTTP MD5 |
KDEPuppy | KDE | Based on Puppy 1.07 and in alpha developmental stage | 125M | HTTP FTP Torrent |
LighthousePup | IceWM JWM | Lighthouse215SeaM analog clock, graphic system monitors, MPlayer, GQView, StreamTuner, enhanced context menus desktop icons themes cursors terminal CL prompt, SFS Editor. Available Mariner SFS expansion pack with OpenOffice, FireFox, Opera, Java. Also K3b CD/DVD Burner, GIMP, Graphics SFS | 182M | HTTP |
Mean Puppy | JWM? | Opera based (by John Murga) | 50Mb | HTTP |
MicroMuppy | Xvesa | Created by Mark Ulrich. Regular Muppy is very modular, that is why it is so large. MicroMuppy isn't. | 12Mb | HTTP |
Minipup | JWM | Puplet for diskless PC (miniPC) by Raffy Mananghaya; includes Firefox 1.5+, Mplayer and desktop publishing tools like GIMP and Scribus. | 85 Mb | HTTP |
MinipupOffice | JWM | Puplet for diskless PC (miniPC) by Raffy Mananghaya; includes Opera 9.02 and OpenOffice 1.1.4. | 92 Mb | HTTP |
![]() | KDE | Codename Muppy 008. Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
Muppy 007 | KDE | Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
Muppy 006 | KDE | Created by Mark Ulrich. "Muppy" is very modular, that is why it is so large. | 405Mb | HTTP |
myPup | JWM | Alpha Web 2.0 Puppy based on 2.16 | 88Mb | HTTP |
NaNoWriMo | JWM? | aimed at writers. Based on Puppy Linux 1.0.3. by Mathias De Mare | ?Mb | HTTP |
NOP (NearlyOffice) | Xfce | Xfce desktop environment, XSane, Blender, Opera and more, by an aerospace engineer. Prepared for OpenOffice.org. | 90Mb | HTTP Metalink BitTorrent |
Onebone* | None | With ELinks, YTree and Midnight Commander | 28Mb | HTTP FTP |
Optimised | Window Manager | by Kenny. Default browser is Firefox (an Opera installer exists) with plugins. Optimised has Grip, Audacity, Mplayer, Gnumeric, Abiword, gtKam and XFMedia | 98Mb | HTTP |
pcPuppyOS | IceWM | Includes OxygenOffice, Citrix client, Limewire, Skype and WINE | ~600Mb | HTTP |
Picopup | None | tiny | 8Mb | HTTP |
Pizzapup 1 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | |
Pizzapup 2 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | |
Pizzapup 3 | IceWM | It replaces SeaMonkey with Firefox, has XMMS, Mplayer, IceWM and lots of other visual enhancements, and optional encryption. Current version is 3.0.1, "based" on Puppy 2.14. | 95Mb | FTP |
![]() | IceWM | Alpha. also known as 3.03CE. Derived from 2.14R. Resulted from the Talking Stick Project. | ??Mb | HTTP FTP |
![]() | IceWM | "Simple, Elegant and Fast" Pupeez is aimed to users who just want a internet / media / photo PC. There is one application per task. Pupeez is aimed at 'technophobes', parents and grand parents. Pupeez is desgined to run on a computer with minimum 128Mb RAM. | 77Mb | HTTP |
Puppy 214R | Window Manager | Puppy 2.14 remaster with earlier kernel | 69Mb | HTTP |
Puppy 216CE | Window Manager | Puppy 2.16 remaster also known as evergreen | ?Mb | HTTP |
Pup4Dos | JWM | For running Puppy in DOS | ?Mb | HTTP |
PupWin98 | JWM | Puppy version 1.0.7 with Mozilla, for running outside Windows, starting from MS-DOS launched by an icon on your Windows98 desktop | 61Mb | HTTP |
PupWinQE | JWM | Nickname Winky, QEMU version 0.8.2 pieces to run Puppy in Windows XP, needs an ISO, coded for puppy-2.11-seamonkey.iso | 779KB | HTTP |
Regression | Window Manager | Puppy 2.02 remaster with earlier kernel + Firefox +MPlayer +Sylpheed To make continued use of Mark's 3D-DRI graphics driver wizard and my wifi drivers | ?Mb | HTTP |
![]() | Xfce | Description | ?Mb | HTTP |
![]() | JWM | (not-so-minimalist puplet) has OpenOffice.org, Firefox, R with docs, rplot, stats4u (win), easychem, gimp, xsane, xnview, acrobat reader, pdftk with gui, freemind, tiddlywiki, skype, xtensoftphone, streamtuner, xmms, k3b, k9copy, xgammon, xaos, a bunch of rescue utilities, qemu plus kqemu and gui, wine, dosbox, cups, jwm plus icewm. | 550Mb | HTTP |
SafePup | JWM | Light puplet based on Puppy 2.13 and barelypup by Raffy Mananghaya for safe web browsing in WinXP PCs; also suitable for PCs with no hard disk. | < 60 Mb (+zdrv=16MB) | HTTP |
Simplepup | Xfce | stripped down (based on Empty Crust 1.0.7), XFCE window manager, Firefox 1.5.0.1 (with flash and gxine plugins), Thunderbird 1.5, Abiword 2.4.1, Perl 5.8 (use ndiswrapper right away for wireless cards), Graveman 0.3.8 (and upgraded burniso2cd), Gxine 0.4.6 (with added codecs), Mtpaint 2.10, GQview 2.0.1 | ?Mb | HTTP FTP |
Transitions | JWM | built on Fat Free 301, + IceWM, LookXP, TrueVista themes, FireFox+Flash+Java, Dillo is default HTML. OpenOffice 2.2. GIMP. Xara Xtreme. MTPaint 3.1. Gaim 1.5. MPlayer, XMMS | 269Mb | HTTP FTP Torrent |
Tmxxine Prism | IceWM | Open Source Time Travel official distro, contains top programs, from Open Office to Komposer, Firefox, EzPup enhancements, Gimp, Xara - 144MB version also available | 333Mb | HTTP |
Tmxxine Vision | IceWM | Open Source Time Travel official distro, contains top programs, from Open Office to Komposer, Firefox, EzPup enhancements, Gimp, Xara - 144MB version also available | 333Mb | HTTP |
Wolf Pup | JWM | Wolf Pup is a barebone distribution that has been setup with only the bare essentials needed for the CD to work. Users will find the convenience out for themselves when they start adding and removing the packages they like to use as they grow accustomed to the Package manager. | 68Mb | HTTP |
wNOP | Xfce | Wobbly NOP with Xfce and Compiz Fusion | ?Mb | HTTP |
XPuppyPro | JWM? | looks like Windows XP | 77Mb | HTTP |
Screens

eXpand Barbie

dragon puppy
Puppeee (fullsize)

TeenPup (fullsize)

TeenPup 2 (fullsize)


GrafPup (fullsize)
for more see Screenshots
Find out about version information
Information about the version of Puppy is stored at /etc/DISTRO_SPECSYou can see this file by going to a terminal emulator and typing in the following code (ensure letter cases are copied exactly)-
cat /etc/DISTRO_SPECS
Related Pages
Linux Wikia - Puppy pagePuppyLinuxNews - release news
PuppyLinuxNews - derivative release news
List of derivative versions on wikibooks
Information about versioning system
How Puppy2 Works
Release archive (in German)