As the Operating Systems evolve, their foot print on the system hardware also grows, the system requirements to run have become outrageous, making older hardware obsolete. Today we are going to introduce you to a free VMWare Virtual Applicane called Puppy Linux 4. You can give this virtual machine a try and see how easy and fast it is, if you like the GUI and the interface, go ahead and install it on real old hardware. It will make your old, dumped computer with low specifications come to life again. You can try the virtual appliance to see what all programs and features it comes with and give it a spin without actually even ever formatting your hard drive, once you are comfortable with running the Virtual Appliance, you can go ahead with the real physical install.

Advantages of running Puppy Linux 4:

Puppy Linux has many advantages, the biggest one is the hardware compatibility with older hardware. Although it is a Linux based operating system, it is extremely friendly to Linux newbies. The second biggest advantage is that it boots up incredibly fast. It is fully capable of running  just from RAM for disk less operation and comes as a full featured, containing everything you need to do about going about every day computer business.

Download Virtual Appliance from VMWare:

You can download the Virtual Appliance from VMWare right now and give it a try, the download size is only 96 Megabytes and the virtual machine itself can run only on a total of 256 Megabytes of RAM. The download links is as follows, good luck and do share your experience with us:

VMware Virtual Appliance Linux Puppy 4