xPUD is very different. Back up instead of persist

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newbody
Joined: 28 Mar 2010
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All of us wants persist of changes. personal settings
and installed new software and so on.
if that is not easy to make then the work around
can be to make a back up and restore of the whole thing?

Tiny Core has something like that too and yesterday I realized
that that is how xPUD Linux OS also do it. Sadly that project
is now inactive.
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Company / developer Ping-Hsun Chen and Many Others
OS family Unix-like
Working state Inactive
Source model Free and open source software
Latest stable release 0.9.2

PUD (Penk's Underbred Distro) GNU/Linux is a Taiwanese Linux distribution based on Ubuntu,[1]
with ideas borrowed from the LAMPPIX and Damn Small Linux projects, ...
Its main purpose is to provide a complete Linux desktop with many popular applications and tools,
yet remain small and simple to operate.
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and it is small and have a small group of such apps. I tested old 091? image with firefox
and several newer with Chromium browser.

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title    xPUD 0.9.2  boots with persist 
root    (hd0,1)
kernel    /xpud-0.9.2-image noisapnp  lang=en kmap=se screen=1024x786 

title    xPUD latest  xpud-10272010.iso boots with persist ?  uses Chrome 
root    (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage isofrom=/xpud-10272010.iso noisapnp lang=en kmap=se screen=1024x786 
initrd /opt/core

title xPUD latest? xpud-10272010.iso
root=hd(0,1)
kernel /boot/bzImage noisapnp lang=en setkb=se initrd=driver.opt,codecs.opt,apps.opt screen=1024x786 
initrd /opt/core
I used Puppy to open up the iso and to extract /boot and /opt directories
I downloaded the extra apps and placed them in /opt so they could be used
when it boots up.

What AntiX and other standard? Linux Devs don't like is being root by default.
xPUD is root by default. So that is unusual. Only Puppy and Slax varieties
are like that? Nimblex comes to mind? Porteus maybe can be set up like that too?

Anyway can AntiX learn from xPUD how to make easy backups and restore or
is that superflous? Take a lot of time to do the backup maybe?

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