To name a fairly recent few; HairyWill, WhoDo, playdayz, ttuuxxx, tombh, gposil, rarsa, and many more. All these guys have either disappeared or dramatically slowed in the last few years. They are all more skilled than me and I maintain slacko!rcrsn51 wrote:Here is the reality. The Puppy community is shrinking. The original group of skilled developers that helped BK create Puppy is largely gone. There have been very few replacements.
Even lobster has hardly been here lately. Too busy with his "tablet".
As for "old" computers, my last one died near 2 years ago now. All the others are less than 10 years old and all capable of running slackware-current. That's a decent benchmark too, because it installs the same on every machine.
While this forum is open, puppy is alive. I don't see any reason to panic. Just use it, any issues are usually answered here.
From time to time there might be updates. Official or not.
Trawl these forums, find the "Puppy must be organised" type threads. Tell me which of those instigators is still around, then tell me Puppy will survive one of those "plans".
jamesbond pretty much nailed it
Just enjoy it folks. Leave the panic.