PeppermintOS vs Puppy Linux

PeppermintOS and Puppy Linux 5.0 are Linux operating systems. Both are designed to operate quickly while needing a small amount of hard drive space, random access memory (RAM).

PeppermintOS is based closely on Ubuntu, with most of the differences being in the packages chosen for the user interface. Puppy Linux is a separate distribution, with significant modifications compared to each of the other Linux "families."

Puppy is ordinarily installed using a compressed file system, meaning that it only requires about 100MB of disk space. PeppermintOS recommends at least 4GB of hard disk space, and generally cannot be installed with less than about 2GB free disk space.

PeppermintOS comes with Dropbox, so you can synchronize files among computers and keep files backed up online.

PeppermintOS uses the popular LXDE (Lightweight X11 Desktop Environment), while Puppy uses the less-well-known JWM as its window manager.

PeppermintOS allows access to the full Ubuntu repositories, meaning that tens of thousands of software packages are available. Puppy Linux also has access to the Ubuntu repositories but not all programs work due to the substantial differences between Puppy and Ubuntu.

Both systems come with Adobe Flash Player, meaning that youtube and other sites that use Flash will work.