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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I do too, and have/use it here. What's there works. There simply isn't likely to be anything further added. Like I said, development has largely ceased.
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Isn't it possible that somebody will pick up the reins at some point?
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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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Now I have Xubuntu on a laptop (Dell 125MB RAM) that is really slow, even when directly hooked up to an ethernet cable. I also compose on this laptop on LibreOffice and once it warms up the LO is pretty responsive. I don't really need the laptop for anything but composing but would getting Puppy or something like that speed things up for me?