Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

[labbe5]

Hi,

I am a faithful user of Linux distributions, Puppy is the one i use the most because of its lightweight, ease of use, and the vitality of its community.

But i cannot help wondering why on earth so much effort is put into doing yet another OS in the same family, and not stick to one, and only one, making it better and better with time.

Puppy is my prime example of this tendency toward doing the same thing time and time again, under different guise, be it Slackware, Precise, whatever. It's like, eh! why not reinvent the wheel, each three to four months. Apps are all the same or at least doing more or less the same thing. For exemple, SimplicityOS, based on Puppy. I discovered 13.01, they got it right the first time, but keep up doing new OS : Carolina-based, Slakware-based, etc. So much effort and time. I guess i miss something here, some obsession i cannot understand toward replicating efforts done by others before, each three to four months. My best guess is to keep up the momentum, the desire to commit oneself to the task of doing something hard to learn et to put to practice : coding for free and open-source software in an ever-changing environnment. Focusing is not the order of the day, i think. But, let's say variety is the best protection against malware of any kind.
Thanks to everybody who commit oneself to the task of delivering OS.

[RSH]

[NickAu]

Personally I love the choices. Yes there are some standard things on all puppies but thats cool too, I also understand the version numbers , eg, 5.6 5.7. or 5.7.1. They are updates of kernel and assorted fixes.