[wellylug] wellylug Digest, Vol 59, Issue 7

[Bret Comstock Waldow]

On 10/07/10 12:00, wellylug-request at lists.wellylug.org.nz wrote:
> 1. Re: Resurrected Ubuntu (Andrew Tarr)
Puppy Linux flies on a machine with 256Mbytes of RAM by putting
everything in a ramdisk.  It uses components selected to work - Gnumeric
& Abiword for office for example, but generally can do most common
tasks.  FireFox is fat and will slow anything down, but there are
alternatives.

I have seen a Puppy build that provided the XFCE desktop instead of the
default Puppy one - XFCE is lightweight, but Xubuntu loads a lot in
besides that to fulfill the 'experience' so the resulting amalgamation
is no longer so light...

Puppy is designed to boot from a CD or USB memory drive with options for
persistent storage of user data and add-ons.  My machines are fast
enough that I run actual Xubuntu, but I can recommend you look at
Puppy.  You can install it to disk on an older machine that won't boot
off USB or for other reasons.  There's a good community around making
older hardware work with it - that's what it's for.

Cheers,
Bret Waldow