Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
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Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
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Re: Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
#2Puppy Linux made me think of the first distribution I used on a 486dx4-100: Peanut Linux !
Re: Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
#3Puppy 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?)
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#4And 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.
Re: Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
#5Puppy 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.
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#6Puppy 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?)
In my experience Ubuntu is one of the harder distros to get working when it doesn't work ootb.
Re: Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
#7Last time I heard of someone using Puppy Linux was this guy creating a Cursed™ NAS that works entirely on RAM.
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#8One 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
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#9I 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.
Re: Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
#10if 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...