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ABOUT THE PUPPER

GoldenDog Linux is a Linux Workstation that aims to be friendly, simple to use and yet provide all the integrity, stability and reliability that a platform like Debian Stable has to offer.


Why Debian?
There were a few reasons why. Primarily because I had been a Debian user for most part of my life, starting around 2004, and had used it as my daily driver up until the year 2019 where I started using Fedora too. These 15 years of experience made me very familiar with how this operating system works.
GoldenDog is not the only work that uses Debian as platform. Many popular systems such as Ubuntu, Mint and Kali use it too. This is because at its core, it's very meticulously planned and maintained, making it an excellent choice for a reliable engine that adapts to almost every case of use.

Debian also encourages derivative works that use their software to use their official mirrors. This is why GoldenDog runs exclusively official debian software and mirrors, taking advantage of the frequent updates and patches that Debian provides, specially since this is a one-woman project that I work on when time allows, and I could not be packaging thousands of .deb packages all by myself on a regular basis, using only official debian packages makes everyone happy.


Technical Details

System Requeriments
Minimum
  • Memory: 2GB
  • CPU Cores: 2
  • Disk Space: 50GB
Recommended
  • Memory: 8GB
  • CPU Cores: 4
  • Disk Space: 120GB

Video Support

GoldenDog uses Debian's driver modules, so both support for NVIDIA and AMD GPUs are available In a terminal window type:

For NVIDIA:

sudo gdl install nvidia-driver

For AMD:

sudo gdl install amdgpu

Snap and Flatpak Support
By default neither flatpak nor snap are installed. They can be installed easily via gdl/apt from a terminal window.

For Snapd:

sudo gdl install snapd

For Flatpak:

sudo gdl install flatpak

gdl/apt package manager

Right now GDL uses the APT package manager. At this point gdl is merely an alias for apt. You can use them interchangeably.

goldendog-update

This command is a text user interface that lists packages that could be upgraded and lets you pick them individually. It might be useful for when you don't want to perform a full upgrade and select specific packages instead, for when, for instance, you want to avoid upgrading to a certain kernel version or anything.



Help and Support

Right now all support is handled via github issue tickets.
Please visit Click here to report a bug.
Support is volunteer-driven, so please be patient for a reply, and be kind to those offering support.

Thank you!

Alternatively, you can visit the Community Section to learn how to connect to my Discord server, and/or GoldenDog official IRC channel

I am curious about the name, the story behind and your other projects and volunteering

To learn more about how the project came to be, the other projects I volunteer for, such as RockyLinux and OpenInfra Check out My Blog (in Spanish) or the News Section where I will be posting articles, thoughts, anecdotes and things related to Open Source and Linux in general regularly.

Have fun using Goldendog!!