I want a Python Puppy !

[Claudio Grondi]

Magnus Lycka wrote:
> Claudio Grondi wrote:
> 
>> I have just discovered the existance of Puppy Linux which is a 
>> complete operating  system with a suite of GUI apps,  only about 50 - 
>> 60M booting directly off the CDROM ( http://www.puppylinux.org ).
>>
>> This approach appears to me very Pythonic, so it were a nice thing to 
>> have a full featured Puppy Linux Live CD prepared for Python programming.
>>
>> Have someone already breed a Python Puppy and is so kind to share a 
>> copy of it with me?
> 
> 
> I think the Ubuntu Live CD has a lot of Python thingies, but it's
> much bigger than 50-60MB. That hardly matters if you intend to use
> a CD, but it might not fit on a cheap USB memory...

Ubuntu Live CD comes directly with Python 2.4.2. Ubuntu was able to use 
  mainboards (ASUS P4P800-SE) onboard sound out of the box and to write 
files to USB stick. I have some trouble to understand how Python works 
on it because it is not organized as on Windows (e.g. there is no [Lib] 
directory under the [Python2.4] one) and I failed to start Idle (can't 
access idlelib) after a longer time of searching for a  file to start 
it. At least the Python command line runs when I type  \>python  in the 
console window and some of the Tkinter examples run too.
Compared to Suse installation DVD full packed with data, Ubuntu Linux is 
limited to a CD - I don't have enough experience to tell if it good or 
bad, but it seems, that Ubuntu supports less software packages then 
Suse. Does it matter, when one has the option to install software by 
compiling source code distributions?

Currently Ubuntu is my favorite, because it seems to be at the moment 
the only Linux distribution supporting already Python 2.4.2 out of the 
box, so maybe it is worth to dig deeper into it for the purpose of 
installing it on a harddrive. Anyone here who uses Ubuntu for developing 
larger Python projects?

Inbetween I was also told 
(http://www.murga.org/~puppy/viewtopic.php?t=4612), that Python for 
Puppy Linux "is available in the grafpup package repositories (try 
googling grafpup). Install it as an alien package using pupget.", so 
there seems to be Python 2.4.2 
(ftp://grafpup.com/packages/python-2.4r2.tar.gz) support in Puppy Linux.

But that is not what I was looking for - it can only serve as a starting 
point for building a Python Puppy Live CD/DVD distribution myself. 
Probably I have much to try and learn before I can start on it and 
succeed, so "I want a Python Puppy" is still open for beeing provided.

My vision is to have a Python Puppy DVD, i.e. 4 GByte of files with the 
entire Python environment and another software tools I could use on 
almost any PC to continue work on Python projects stored on an USB 
stick. This would make my programming environment mobile without the 
need of carrying a notebook/laptop with me (a DVD and a USB stick should 
be enough to be mobile in the todays world, where it is so easy to get 
access to a PC).

I can only hardly believe, that there is none Puppy Linux derived 
Python distribution with most of the important extension modules already 
available out of the box completed to a nice package with Gimp, 
Firefox/Thunderbird, Open Office, etc., so please let me know about it 
helping this way to avoid reinventing the wheel.

I am surprized, that the Puppy kind of Linux distribution seems not to 
be popular among the users of comp.lang.python, so maybe someone can 
explain to me why it is that way to calm down my fascination before I 
put too much efforts into it in order to discover, that it is maybe a 
dead end.

Claudio