Comments on: Review of Puppy Linux on an Old Server https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/08/14/review-of-puppy-lucid/ Reflections on Technology Tue, 12 May 2026 01:35:13 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 By: Roy Schestowitz https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/08/14/review-of-puppy-lucid/comment-page-1/#comment-36270 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 15:24:53 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=2554#comment-36270 Overall I enjoyed it. Eventually I found that the same machine can deal with KDE4 just fine, so Debian runs on it now.

]]> By: Michael https://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2011/08/14/review-of-puppy-lucid/comment-page-1/#comment-36124 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 01:56:41 +0000 http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/?p=2554#comment-36124 Puppy Linux is a bizarre little distribution, and it takes quite a while to become accustomed to its quirks, but I quite like it.

Firstly, though Puppy has a repository, in practice it’s not very large or thorough. Many Puppy users end up getting a large portion of their packages from the Puppy Linux forum instead. Everything from Trinity (the KDE 3 fork) to Eclipse to CAD software can be found on there, if you’re patient enough and have the time to mess with the spotty forum search. It’s certainly not an elegant solution to the small repository, but it can be made to work.

Secondly, though the basic Puppy ISO lacks both the kernel source and GCC (among other things), there are two packages (really squash file systems) that can be installed to provide just that. (They were apparently kept out of the regular ISO to keep the size down.)

The package manager itself is pretty rudimentary, though, I admit.

Anyway, thanks for giving Puppy a try at least!

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