Puppy is awesome!
Posted: Thu 31 Jan 2013, 07:58
I love this little Linux!
A bit over a year ago my kids managed to roach the install of WinXP on their computer. To make matters worst, I couldn't find (and still can't find) my Windows install disk. In an effort to get the machine running, I tried several small footprint Linux distro's. I even installed Unbutu. Unbutu, what a disaster! It was the most frustrating experience I have ever had. Eventually I tried Puppy. Then moved up to Wary Puppy. Unfortunately Seamonkey didn't work well with many of the online Flash game sites my kids like. Then, last week, I moved to Lucid Puppy to get Firefox support. I don't know why it took so long for me to notice that Lucid/Precise had a choice of browsers. Flash and browser are working much better now with Lucid. (Pro tip: install Flash using the package manager).
If this continues to work, I will remaster the CD so I don't have to reinstall Firefox and Flash if something goes wrong. I'm going to continue to have it boot from the CD. It's a bit more secure that way. Viruses can't modify the CD. So clean install every boot. And if the lupusave file gets roached? well I already have a saved copy. It's like having a restore point.
My main machine is a Dell Optiplex 620 that runs Win XP. If Puppy continues to work well on the kids machine, the Dell will get Puppy by year's end.
Puppy is awesome!
A bit over a year ago my kids managed to roach the install of WinXP on their computer. To make matters worst, I couldn't find (and still can't find) my Windows install disk. In an effort to get the machine running, I tried several small footprint Linux distro's. I even installed Unbutu. Unbutu, what a disaster! It was the most frustrating experience I have ever had. Eventually I tried Puppy. Then moved up to Wary Puppy. Unfortunately Seamonkey didn't work well with many of the online Flash game sites my kids like. Then, last week, I moved to Lucid Puppy to get Firefox support. I don't know why it took so long for me to notice that Lucid/Precise had a choice of browsers. Flash and browser are working much better now with Lucid. (Pro tip: install Flash using the package manager).
If this continues to work, I will remaster the CD so I don't have to reinstall Firefox and Flash if something goes wrong. I'm going to continue to have it boot from the CD. It's a bit more secure that way. Viruses can't modify the CD. So clean install every boot. And if the lupusave file gets roached? well I already have a saved copy. It's like having a restore point.
My main machine is a Dell Optiplex 620 that runs Win XP. If Puppy continues to work well on the kids machine, the Dell will get Puppy by year's end.
Puppy is awesome!