xPUD, the ultra-fast booting Linux flavour
Posted at 1:14pm on Wednesday April 8th 2009
Weighing in at a mere 48MB, xPUD boots up before you can even decide how to pronounce it. This mini distro is built upon Mozilla's XUL and Gecko engines, with an interface called 'Plate' which includes a web browser, media player, BitTorrent client and other tools. There's not a great deal of information on the website just yet, but read on for a video of its über-rapid bootup.
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Pretty sweet
Dan (not verified) - April 8, 2009 @ 1:27pm
xPUD does rock, and I'm considering using it as the base of mine... the only problem... does it support wireless??
Top Stuff!
bob_moss - April 8, 2009 @ 2:31pm
This would be great on netbooks, where fast boots are important (as is the simplistic interface). I'll definitely be trying it :-)
Veeeery interesting. Someone
Muzer (not verified) - April 8, 2009 @ 7:35pm
Veeeery interesting. Someone please tell me if linux-wlan-ng and synce are in the repos. If so, I'm getting that!
Owait, it's not out yet.
Muzer (not verified) - April 8, 2009 @ 7:36pm
Owait, it's not out yet. Damn!
wireless wirless
Anonymous Virtual Penguin (not verified) - April 8, 2009 @ 9:21pm
In a VM I got no wireless.
I'm gonna instal this on my
Anonymous Penguin (not verified) - April 8, 2009 @ 11:46pm
I'm gonna instal this on my Acer. It's tottally awesome!
Bandwith Limit Exceeded
Chilly Penguin (not verified) - April 9, 2009 @ 1:17am
"The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to the site owner reaching his/her bandwidth limit. Please try again later".
Bandwith Limit Exceeded
Etern4lDragon (not verified) - April 9, 2009 @ 6:48am
I think it's the /. effect
I installed in on an Acer
kc9jwc (not verified) - November 2, 2009 @ 2:03am
I installed in on an Acer Aspier One(110). Dual boot with XP.
Boots very fast, but while it recognizes my wireless network, when I put in my pass phrase it tries but fails to connect. All other Linux distros I have tried connect fine. I did install the additional drivers. I'd LOVE to have Xpud available for fast boot up internet access. Any Ideas?
JUST GREAT
Silver Wolf (not verified) - December 25, 2009 @ 1:53am
I installed it to USB, booted in 8 seconds, works with my WIFI, sound and graphics too.
Toshiba Satellite A210
The only thing its not supporting is my webcam :(
but still the most impressive os ive seen yet due to the speed.
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