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DogLinux, a Puppy Linux on steroids and Debian 11
A few days ago the release of the new version of DogLinux was announced (Puppy Linux-style
Debian LiveCD), built on the Debian 11 "Bullseye" package and designed for testing and repairing
PCs and laptops.
Distribution is characterized by the inclusion of applications as GPUTest, Unigine Heaven,
CPU-X, GSmartControl, GParted, Partimage, Partclone, TestDisk, ddrescue, WHDD, DMDE
. The distribution allows you to check the performance of the computer, load the processor
and graphics card, check the SMART HDD and NVMe SSD.
Main innovations of DogLinux
This new version of distro has been prepared with updated Linux kernels 5.10.92 and 5.16.7,
plus x86-64 kernels are built with EndlessOS intel-nvme-remap patch to upgrade NVMe SSD
to Intel Core i3/i5/ Make available 8th- 10th Gen i7 platforms with Intel RST Premium with
Optane enabled in BIOS.
Booting with HWE kernel 5.16 uses new Paragon NTFS3 driver by default instead of NTFS-3G,
plus updated HWE stack is also included: libdrm 2.4.109, Mesa 21.3.5 (built with LLVM 11 to
avoid duplication ).
We can also note that NVIDIA's controller has been updated to version 470.103.01 to
support RTX 2050, MX550, MX570.
It's worth mentioning that the layout size is optimized for use in Copy2ram mode (allows
removing the USB drive/network cable after downloading).
In this case, only the used squashfs modules are copied into memory.
It contains three versions of NVIDIA proprietary drivers: 470.x, 390.x and 340.x, also mentions
that the driver module needed for loading is automatically detected.
Running GPUTest and Unigine Heaven automatically detects laptop configurations with Intel+NVIDIA,
Intel+AMD, and AMD+NVIDIA hybrid video subsystems and sets the necessary environment variables
to run on a discrete graphics card.
Of the other changes that stands out from this new version:
Added Chromium 98.0.4758.80 (official build) from Debian 11 repositories instead of Google
Chrome.
The Realtek rtw88 driver with WiFi module support 802.11ac RTL8821CE Revision RFE4 was
developed for kernel 5.10 Added a program to display information about
the CPU-X system (created from git slice of 20220213).
Updated program for copying defective hard disks HDD SuperClone 2.3.2
UEFI update PassMark memtest86 9.4 Updated DOS program HDAT2 7.4
Firmware updated Linux-Firmware-20220209 Design features:
Booting in UEFI and Legacy/CSM mode is supported.
Also over the network via PXE with NFS.
From USB/SATA/NVMe devices, from FAT32/exFAT/Ext2/3/4/NTFS file systems.
UEFI Secure Boot is not supported and should be disabled.
There is an HWE boot option for new hardware (live/hwe includes new Linux kernel, libdrm
and Mesa).
A live32 i686 version with a non-PAE kernel is included for compatibility with older hardware.
Finally , if you are interested in knowing a little more about it, you can check the
official website.
Download and get DogLinux Those interested in trying this distro should
know that the system environment is based on Porteus Initrd, OverlayFS, SysVinit and
Xfce 4.16.
The pup volume monitor is responsible for mounting the drives (without using gvfs and
udisks2).
ALSA is used directly instead of pulse audio.
Applied custom script to solve sound card HDMI priority issue.
You can install any software from the Debian repositories, as well as create modules with
the necessary additional software.
Post-boot activation of squashfs modules is supported.
the shell scripts and configurations can be copied to the live/rootcopy directory and
will be applied on boot without the need to rebuild modules.
The work is done with root privileges.
The UI is in English, files with translations are cropped by default to save space, but
the console and X11 are set to show and change layouts with Ctrl + Shift.
The default password for root is "dog" and for "puppy" it is "dog".
Changed scripts and configuration files are located in 05-customtools.squashfs.
The installation can be performed with the installdog script on a FAT32 partition with
the boot loaders syslinux and systemd-boot (gummiboot).
Alternatively, ready-made configuration files for grub4dos and Ventoy are provided.
It can be installed on the HDD/SSD of a pre-sale PC/Laptop to demonstrate the performance.
The FAT32 partition can then be easily removed, the script does not make any changes to UEFI
variables (boot queue in UEFI firmware).
The size of the live image downloaded from USB drives is 1.1 GB and can be downloaded
from official website.
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