"Guest columnist Howard Fosdick has previously used Puppy Linux to successfully revive 'mature' PCs. Now, he takes a broader, deeper look at the parsimonious distribution and its potential value on normal desktop PCs, covering its features, flexibility, capability to peacefully coexist with Windows, ease of use, and limitations."
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Everything in that article could apply to any popular linux distribution.
Not really. Not only is Puppy much lighter by default than most modern distros (and speaking as a PPro user in 2007, I have a lot of firsthand experience with this ... distros like PCLinuxOS and Ubuntu are resource HOGS when installed on a 128MB PPro, assuming you can even get them to detect classic video cards and PS/2 mice correctly in the first place), but it also allows one to use it as a CD-R LiveCD that can update itself as needed, and it supports a wide variety of boot mechanisms out of the box that most distros can't handle without a LOT of tweaking.
Puppy is one of only two distros I've seen that come close to that type of thing (the other being DSL). Most of the others are heavy and inflexible in comparison, or (like Austrami) not functional enough to be of much use. SLAX also comes close, I guess.
Edited 2007-10-10 15:06
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2006-01-04
... this is basically advertising for 'puppy linux'
Everything in that article could apply to any popular linux distribution.
All that the article does, is describe what's possible with any Linux distribution, except it does it by peppering the article with it's name.
Puppy makes mess.