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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
The mascot is a Chihuahua the guy who started the distro used to own.
It's intended for lower end hardware. One poster in the Puppy forums described how he got a Puppy instance up as a dedicated media server on an ancient Toshiba laptop with a whopping 16MB of RAM. (He had to delete everything that could be deleted and still have a running system, and actually build the Puppy image on a more powerful machine, then transfer the drive to the Toshiba to run it.)
You can do things like run it from a thumb drive if your machine can boot from USB.
It has too many quirks for me to run it as a production OS, but it has a number of devoted users.
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I wish someone would bring Damn Small Linux into the modern age... I loved that little thing, but it won't run on any of my machines.