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Puppy Linux has already a graphical interface, so you don't need anything extra to shutdown, just click the appropriate menu/icons.
Yes, but what I am asking is where on the GUI do you find the menu or icon to shutdown? I have searched for hours and can't find a description of the GUI function(s).
Is quite straightforward...
From the live bionicpup 8 32-bit I run sometimes:
Ubuntu != Puppy
Said clear, any distribution is equal other distribution, at most, on kernel, and that only means Linux, not the version.
Never, except for commands (GNU Core utils, and not fully), the GUI of one distribution will be similar to other distribution. This is as the warning on movies, any resemblance is pure coincidental.
Ubuntu vs Puppy is like compare oranges and pineapples, visually speaking. The systems have similarities.
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Thanks for the Arch Linux page. I had not thought to search for poweroff because I did not know what the functions were named.
Manuals, read the manuals, is all I can say.
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All I am trying to do is use a small Linux boot from USB so I can launch a browser to get on sites I can't read with my Windows XP browser.
I understand your point, but what you can, if you have a powerful PC (and have spare disk space), better than boot live, install a virtual machine software (Microsoft Virtual PC 2004 is quite enough, but better 2007) inside Windows and run (or install) from there a GNU/Linux distribution.
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But I do not want to have the Linux interfere with the Windows on my hard drive.
Don't worry about that.
Unless you intentionally mount it (tell Puppy to have access to a disk/partition) it won't touch your files.
Note that I'm talking about Puppy. Other live GNU/Linux distributions might mount the partitions by themselves. That doesn't mean that your files will be at risk, just that you must to know it.