After four months of testing, my own version of Linux is ready for release. Its name: Tipsy Puppy. It's fast and cuddly at the time, can boot off a USB stick and likes to play games, including Windows games. Will you take it home?

Once you get the complete ISO file (212 MB), burn it to a CD, and boot your computer from it. It will ask you what kind of video card you have. If everything works all right, you will be seeing something like this:

If you open any window, it should have a nice wobbling effect. It will move across desktops if you drag it to the right or left edge. Holding ctrl-alt and the left mouse button will put all those desktops on the face of a cube that you can rotate. The icons on the left are the disk drives installed in the computer. Double-click to mount them and see their contents. You can run Windows programs by right-clicking on them, and selecting the "Open with windows program loader" option in the menu that pops up. If the fancy graphics stuff (compiz) gets in the way, you can turn it on and off from the "Other" menu.

Tipsy Puppy is a "puplet" (derivative) of Puppy Linux, created by Aussie genius Barry Kauler. It is most directly derived from NOP (nearly office puppy), a puplet that replaces the regular desktop environment with a more powerful environment named "xfce". Other components of Tipsy Puppy are WINE (Windows Is Not Emulated), which allows it to run Windows programs pretty much natively, plus a collection of video drivers developed by Mark Ulrich.

 Have fun storming the castle...

Woof, woof, hic!