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Puppy 2 and 3 don't find their sfs files when booted with loadlin.
There was a change in initrd for version 4.

Puppy 4.12 (Browserlinux) and Puppy 4.30 boot with loadlin (but 
Browserlinux uses Firefox 3.5 and simply loading it uses up almost all of 
my 112MB memory, so use 4.31 with seamonkey if short on memory).
4.31 is a lot of upgrades (to fix crashes) and other bug fixes and more 
modem drivers.  There is a 4.30 > 4.31 service pack.

Puppy will probably still fail to work on a lot of older hardware where BL 
does work (even if you have 128MB RAM) but does have cardbus support and 
gtk2.

Puppy 4 will work with lilo ONLY if the files are all in hda1 (FAT 
partition in my case), otherwise lilo complains about a syntax error on 
the line after the last line of lilo.conf and lilo apparently does not 
really install at all.  Loadlin works with the .sfs files in /dev/hda2 and 
the other files in c:\puppy431.

Puppy linux and BL both failed to play an audible sound with opl3sa2 sound 
chip in a Gateway Solo 2000 laptop where sound worked with Win98.

Links2 is available for download.  Steven's BL3 version is libc5 X so 
won't work with even BL2 and not with Puppy.

There is no Opera package because it is not GPL. You could download some 
version of Opera 10, unpack in / (in the BL2 partition if you want to save 
it there), and try to run from the wrapper script 'opera' in /opera-10*. 
Puppy might have the required dependencies, in which case you can 
experiment with using the Puppy kernel and modules and glibc in BL2. 
(BL3 was destroyed when I tried a glibc 2.3.6 upgrade).  These upgrades 
might then let you copy over other dependencies needed by recent Firefox 
or Seamonkey (gtk2 stuff) which need the later glibc.

X and sound are so different I don't know if you can just upgrade by 
copying them.  I have not figured out why cardbus works in Puppy and not 
in BL except for wired ethernet.

Sindi Keesan