Puppy is a dog.
Oct. 19th, 2009 10:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thedarkagesMy quest for a Linux simple enough for end users and small enough to be installed on a ten-year-old machine will have to continue. Puppy Linux is not it. Puppy seemed promising, in terms of disk space, processor consumption, and lightweight X. But it has an incredible number of rough edges. The package manager is gross -- you can't uninstall packages with it. The desktop is simplified in a few respects, but all kinds of sharp corners protrude. And it crashes, over and over again.
It's a shame, because Puppy has better features than Damn Small Linux, my last candidate.
But what do you do for people with ancient, feeble computers whose Windows installations are hopelessly corrupted? Surely, there must be some distribution that can come to the rescue.
It's a shame, because Puppy has better features than Damn Small Linux, my last candidate.
But what do you do for people with ancient, feeble computers whose Windows installations are hopelessly corrupted? Surely, there must be some distribution that can come to the rescue.
