How to Start Using Puppy Linux

Make a Puppy Linux Live Disc
To familirize yourself with Puppy Linux boot a live disc. Test your hardware. Try the included software.
If you want to install Puppy Linux without a live disc then follow this procedure: Installing without a Live Disc

Free support is available from the Puppy Linux Forum

Download the latest production version of Puppy Linux.
Experimenters may want to Download the latest development version of Puppy Linux. (if any)

InstallationNotes
InstallationFrugal
InstallationFullHDD
InstallationFullUSB
GRUB Quick Guide - GRand Unified Bootloader
Run Puppy from Windows 98. See also Pup4DOS
64 Meg or Less RAM
How To Install Puppy on a NTFS Partition ... i.e. most Windows XP/2000/NT installs

Grub Quick Guide
WiFi aka Wireless or IEEE 802.11
MultiLingualPuppy

FrequentlyAskedQuestions
Puppy Tutorial Videos
How to do things in Puppy.
Linux For Beginners
History of Puppy
PuppyReleases
Puppy version numbering
Former wiki locations: Drupal wiki and Wakka wiki
MicrosoftWindowsUserHowTo
Mounting and Unmounting drives
Printing in Puppy
Security
Privacy, see Tor.

How to use a NTFS partition with Puppy Linux for Windows NT, 2000, and XP users.
List of HowTo's in the Wiki, see CategoryHowTo.
List of HowTo's in the Puppy Forum
Use FTP with gFTP
Install Puppy to a USB flash drive by using the Puppy Universal Installer
Run Linux off an USB stick?
Use the Console command line tutorial

Bling

Minimum Hardware Requirements, see CategoryHardware.
Modems
PCMCIA wireless card
USB
Trouble Booting USB Keys/USB Flash Drives
Changing Mouse

How to program with Genie language in Puppy
PuppyBASIC
A to Z of Bash commands, see BashAsh.

Booting