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This report contains information about the WattOS distribution. WattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu-based Linux. It was developed by Ronald Ropp, a technology consultant based in Portland, Oregon. The goal of WattOS is to balance responsiveness, function and footprint. WattOS celebrated its fourth release on August 14th 2011. It can be downloaded [http://www.planetwatt.com/ here] and is approximately 540MB. WattOS is accessible to regular users and does not require command line expertise | This report contains information about the WattOS distribution. WattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu-based Linux. It was developed by Ronald Ropp, a technology consultant based in Portland, Oregon. The goal of WattOS is to balance responsiveness, function and footprint. WattOS celebrated its fourth release on August 14th 2011. It can be downloaded [http://www.planetwatt.com/ here] and is approximately 540MB. WattOS is accessible to regular users and does not require command line expertise to use. | ||
====Release History==== | ====Release History==== | ||
Revision as of 23:36, 19 October 2011
Part 1
Background
This report contains information about the WattOS distribution. WattOS is a lightweight Ubuntu-based Linux. It was developed by Ronald Ropp, a technology consultant based in Portland, Oregon. The goal of WattOS is to balance responsiveness, function and footprint. WattOS celebrated its fourth release on August 14th 2011. It can be downloaded here and is approximately 540MB. WattOS is accessible to regular users and does not require command line expertise to use.
Release History
R4 released August 14th 2011.
R3 released January 10th 2011.
R2 released June 23rd 2010.
1.0 released July 17th 2009.
Installation/Startup
I downloaded a WattOS iso from here. I used VirtualBox as an environment for WattOS. VirtualBox is available for download and can be installed using the wizard provided. I mounted the WattOS iso on a virtual drive and used it to create a new virtual machine in VirtualBox.
Basic Operation
Usage Evaluation
Part 2
Coming soon...
Part 3
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References
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