Not that I want to see the end of Microsoft like many do. In fact, I don't care. But it could be in real trouble if the masses suddenly became aware of simple, easy, and efficient software like Puppy -- which makes people's dependence on MS even more inexplicable.
One thing not mentioned, although it is sort of implied if you are already familiar, is the ability to run Puppy's latest on absolutely ancient hardware.
>General hardware minimum system requirements are:
* CPU Type = x86, x86_64, AMD64
* 32bit Puppy's - CPU = single core Pentium 4 or equiv, RAM = 512mb
* 64bit Puppy's - CPU = 64 bit dual core, RAM = 1gb
Puppy linux was my first linux install back when I was around 13 years old, and I remember it fondly. I recall I even found it easier to get up and running than ubuntu. (Which is somewhat puzzling in hindsight?)
And old version of Bionic Puppy I had lying around on a USB saved my butt on Friday when the Azure admin nuked my computer out of existence for not having a serial number.
I bow my head to the eternal Puppy Linux.
Not that I want to see the end of Microsoft like many do. In fact, I don't care. But it could be in real trouble if the masses suddenly became aware of simple, easy, and efficient software like Puppy -- which makes people's dependence on MS even more inexplicable.
The thing is, not everyone is an engineer so to normies it's not simple. easy or efficient. There's a reason why people like windows.
Can we take a moment to reminisce about the DSL and Knoppix era of running immutable Linux distros off of business card-shaped CDs?
One thing not mentioned, although it is sort of implied if you are already familiar, is the ability to run Puppy's latest on absolutely ancient hardware.
>General hardware minimum system requirements are:
* CPU Type = x86, x86_64, AMD64
* 32bit Puppy's - CPU = single core Pentium 4 or equiv, RAM = 512mb
* 64bit Puppy's - CPU = 64 bit dual core, RAM = 1gb
No one should be running a Pentium 4 these days unless they get electricity for free somehow. What a horrible CPU design.
Presumably it would also run on a Pentium M :).
Puppy linux was my first linux install back when I was around 13 years old, and I remember it fondly. I recall I even found it easier to get up and running than ubuntu. (Which is somewhat puzzling in hindsight?)
It was my first linux too, also at 13. I still have the boot CD I burned, framed on my wall.
In my experience Ubuntu is one of the harder distros to get working when it doesn't work ootb.
if you like puppy, check out easyOS too - sort of a successor from the original creator of puppy linux.
https://easyos.org/about/how-and-why-easyos-is-different.htm...
And old version of Bionic Puppy I had lying around on a USB saved my butt on Friday when the Azure admin nuked my computer out of existence for not having a serial number.
Last time I heard of someone using Puppy Linux was this guy creating a Cursed™ NAS that works entirely on RAM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSuSAn0o7c
Puppy Linux made me think of the first distribution I used on a 486dx4-100: Peanut Linux !