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I always enjoy a Puppy release, and version 4.00 (with optional kernel 2.6.25 version) is no exception. Puppy is one of the most functional and effective mini distros out there, but only if you can tolerate running as root. See discussion at:
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... sc&start=0

Also, I love the original thought which has gone into Puppy's implementation, putting some bigger, mainstream distros to shame in the way it is user-friendly. If you've never tried Puppy, give it a whirl and at only 87MB for the ISO download, you don't have a lot of bandwidth or disk space to lose!

I have been playing with the latest Puppy too. This version has got rid of the gtk1 apps for gtk2 versions and so is more up-to-date (though some Puppy purists have been upset by this).
I agree with Farcry about how user-friendly Puppy is, the amount od apps available and the speed. All in 87MB!
If you want to use a livecd/liveusb with a variety of up-to-date apps Puppy is hard to beat.

Hi Farcry/Anti,
I haven't tried the newest puppy yet but I have always been impressed with the distro. The forums back when I was first getting started were a little slow to get help. This may have changed by now. Does it still create a pup001(or something like that it's been awhile) file for saving your config settings when running live? That was pretty nice. Although I always went ahead and installed it. (just me).
Have to find the time for puppy to see whats up.

anticapitalista wrote:I have been playing with the latest Puppy too. This version has got rid of the gtk1 apps for gtk2 versions and so is more up-to-date (though some Puppy purists have been upset by this).
I agree with Farcry about how user-friendly Puppy is, the amount od apps available and the speed. All in 87MB!
If you want to use a livecd/liveusb with a variety of up-to-date apps Puppy is hard to beat.

My title shows my progression. If I want something Live, small, and fast, I go with Puppy. If I want something either Live or very fast on the hard drive (such as when I want to login to my fastest laptop, quickly read some mail and shut it off all within ten minutes, i have to monkey around even less with AntiX, and I get the response I want, so that is what i use. Then when i want a full featured system that can also be quite fast, and always cutting edge, I use sidux.

My sidux system is my bleeding edge experimental system, so I do keep stable backups, and that is where SimplyMEPIS has fit in for me for the past several years. When I know that all that I am going to be doing on a desktop system is Email and browsing, I use SimplyMEPIS. I also use it if I am going to be checking out short videos, usually sports highlights, such as "Patriots Today" or New England Sports Now.

All of these systems are first rate in their niche, but if you tweak them a bit, any one of them can also be applied to general purpose every day use. Did you know, for instance, that you can install Puppy to disk and that you can use .pup packages (and you may still be able to use .tgz Slackware packages too). Quite handy. Pup is a bit weak compared to the likes of AntiX, SimplyMEPIS, and sidux when it comes to admin tools, in my opinion, even though Puppy users think they are the best tools ever. Who can beat Warren Woodford and the sidux team at sys admin tools, which are some of the best? (Mandriva, and by proxy, PCLinuxOS have very good tools too. openSUSE tools are very powerful, but I find them cumbersome; you may feel differently).

Lots of good systems out there. Is this one of our distro review threads? If not, can we start one?

We now have a sidux forum section!

Vox populi, vox ArgentiUrsumi.
[Please correct the grammar. It's been almost 40 years since I took Latin.]

I just fired up puppy as well (for the first time). I was very impressed. So small yet sooooooooooo functional.