COMP 3000 2011 Report: Quirky

Quirky

Background Name of the Distribution

 Quirky. 
 Quirky is a Linux distribution and is in the "Puppy Linux family", also known as a "puplet". 

Who develop it:

 Barry Kauler

Latest version Quirky 1.5-beta1 (142)

Its goals

 Quirky is a Puppy Linux sister project called Woof is a tool for creating custom Linux distribution. Quirky, a sister project of Puppy Linux, is a Linux distribution built with a custom tool called Woof. The underlying infrastructure, such as boot-up and shut-down scripts, setup tools, hardware detection, desktop management, user interface, speed and general ease-of-use are common across all distributions built with Woof, but a specific build will have a different package selection and further customisation (even totally different binary packages). Quirky is developed by the founder of Puppy Linux and Woof to push the envelope a bit further, to explore some new ideas in the underlying infrastructure -- some of which may be radical or odd, hence the name Quirky.(note1)
target audience
 Quirky is not for “everybody” as the developer said. Quirky using the latest version of the Linux kernel, support utf8 in jwm desktop environment, the Internet Connection Wizard integrates pwireless2, especially for older computers with low memory installation.

its approximate size

RAM252

Installation/start up

 Automatic Xorg startup 
 The desktop will start automatically, so less questions at first boot.
 Start the Vmware first,install it with the same steps as ubantu.
 Installation picture is as follows.

Basic Operation

After install the quirky successfully, the above picture will show up. Then click the red X in the top of the left to leave the page.

The picture above is the graphical interface. User can click the icon to do the operation they want to. It is very user friendly. The user can also click the menu.

Here is the example after user clicked some icons.

Usage Evaluation

 Quirky has small size and run fast just like its sister program Puppy Linux.
 All applications will be able to start quickly, and immediately respond to user input. Puppy Linux can startup from a flash card or any USB storage device (which is flash-Puppy), or CD-ROM (which is live-Puppy), or a Zip disk and LS/120/240 Superdisk (This is a zippy-Puppy), or floppy disk (which is the floppy-Puppy), or hard disk (which is hard-Puppy). It can even use more than one section of the burning of CD-R/DVD-R to save all the content back to the CD / DVD(note2)
 Personally, I highly recommended.

References : Note1http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=quirky Note2http://www.ddvip.com/mc/os/linux/7050.html (google transfer)