[HN Gopher] Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
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       Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review
        
       Author : bbbhltz
       Score  : 35 points
       Date   : 2024-10-07 19:04 UTC (3 hours ago)
        
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       | nick__m wrote:
       | Puppy Linux made me think of the first distribution I used on a
       | 486dx4-100: Peanut Linux !
        
       | koe123 wrote:
       | 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?)
        
         | Retr0id wrote:
         | It was my first linux too, also at 13. I still have the boot CD
         | I burned, framed on my wall.
        
         | stodor89 wrote:
         | In my experience Ubuntu is one of the harder distros to get
         | working _when it doesn 't work ootb_.
        
       | depingus wrote:
       | 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.
        
       | ajot wrote:
       | Last time I heard of someone using Puppy Linux was this guy
       | creating a Cursed(tm) NAS that works entirely on RAM.
       | 
       | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTSuSAn0o7c
        
       | thekevan wrote:
       | 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:
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       | * CPU Type = x86, x86_64, AMD64
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       | * 32bit Puppy's - CPU = single core Pentium 4 or equiv, RAM =
       | 512mb
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       | * 64bit Puppy's - CPU = 64 bit dual core, RAM = 1gb
        
       | Vox_Leone wrote:
       | 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.
        
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