Who'd'a thunk it? Puppy does heavy lifting
Posted: Tue 15 Nov 2005, 18:37
For the past couple of months I've been sifting through a plethora of distros, trying to find the one I can use for "just getting my work done," a mission-critical system as it were.
While I love to experiment with Linux (I liken it to trying different engines and other parts in a well-tuned and tweaked-up car that you only drive to car shows), I needed one that just works, does everything I need, doesn't break unnecessarily. One on which I can keep my business records and notes, handle correspondence, develop ideas, and surf the web. Basic stuff.
Had two projects going on at the same time: 1) Building me a long list of candidates for that mission-critical system, with the Debians and the Slackware variations (including Vector, which I found the best of the "mainstream" lot), and 2) Customizing Puppy. The more I ran the li'l guy the more I liked it, but had reservations nonetheless -- "makes a good mission-critical system, just not an industrial-strength one," I wrote in my notes about a month ago. Well, proved wrong again ... the last links in that chain were finding a DotPup for jpilot (thanks brad_chuck and the folks at the Computation freebies board -- y'all know who you are!) and figuring out the multisession CD system.
Who'd'a thunk it? The distro I originally thought (with v. 0.9.1) was little more than a curious toy is now sitting in the front line as 1.0.4 Chubby, doing the heavy lifting as my main "mission critical" system. I'm self-employed (full-time taxi driver, part-time musician, some-time freelance writer), and Puppy is an integral part of keeping all that stuff straight, as a good mission-critical system should.
Y'all rock!
While I love to experiment with Linux (I liken it to trying different engines and other parts in a well-tuned and tweaked-up car that you only drive to car shows), I needed one that just works, does everything I need, doesn't break unnecessarily. One on which I can keep my business records and notes, handle correspondence, develop ideas, and surf the web. Basic stuff.
Had two projects going on at the same time: 1) Building me a long list of candidates for that mission-critical system, with the Debians and the Slackware variations (including Vector, which I found the best of the "mainstream" lot), and 2) Customizing Puppy. The more I ran the li'l guy the more I liked it, but had reservations nonetheless -- "makes a good mission-critical system, just not an industrial-strength one," I wrote in my notes about a month ago. Well, proved wrong again ... the last links in that chain were finding a DotPup for jpilot (thanks brad_chuck and the folks at the Computation freebies board -- y'all know who you are!) and figuring out the multisession CD system.
Who'd'a thunk it? The distro I originally thought (with v. 0.9.1) was little more than a curious toy is now sitting in the front line as 1.0.4 Chubby, doing the heavy lifting as my main "mission critical" system. I'm self-employed (full-time taxi driver, part-time musician, some-time freelance writer), and Puppy is an integral part of keeping all that stuff straight, as a good mission-critical system should.
Y'all rock!