Been and Gone: Puppy is turning 20 years old this year!!.

[ttuuxxx]

The first release of Puppy Linux was June 2003. I hope the bring out something special for June, maybe a community edition?? Used to like it when Barry made puppy from scratch and not based on other distro's. Who knows. lol

[wizard]

I was there, happened to be shopping Linux distros for a Win XP replacement on refurbished computers being donated to schools and non-profits. Puppy stood out as unique and above any others available back then.

Thanks for the reminder
wizard

[Amol]

Hello puppy users !
There is a puppy derivative called ToOpPY Linux made by a french dev named Argolance.I wait for the 2.5 release.It's base on Puppy Precise 5.7.I praise to have it these days
Amol

[bigpup]

I agree, we do need to do something special!

How about an overview of the last 20 years of Puppy Linux?
I think I could find old images of early versions, some of the defining moments, etc.......

A special 20th version of Puppy?

Ideas?

[dimkr]

A special 20th version of Puppy?

I think 4.1.2 was the best Puppy version ever and I'm slowly reviving late 2000s applications by porting them to GTK+ 3:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3898
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3847
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3813

Also, I'm adding ready-made GTK+ 3 ports of classic Puppy applications and other applications I used to like back in the day:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3829
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3899
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3814

[amethyst]

A special 20th version of Puppy?

I think 4.1.2 was the best Puppy version ever and I'm slowly reviving late 2000s applications by porting them to GTK+ 3:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3898
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3847
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3813

Also, I'm adding ready-made GTK+ 3 ports of classic Puppy applications and other applications I used to like back in the day:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3829
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3899
https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/woof-CE/pull/3814

I think 4.1.2 was the best Puppy version ever

That was the very first Puppy I used coming from Windows. Very good, I still have it. Dedicated website for Puppy412: https://412collection.neocities.org/

[BarryK]

Hi @ttuuxxx
Good to "see" you on this forum!

I didn't realise, I see you joined in 2020.

[ttuuxxx]

Hi @ttuuxxx
Good to "see" you on this forum!

I didn't realise, I see you joined in 2020.

Great to see you also Barry on here, Yes I've been on here almost from when John's site went down, But I've been really busy since I moved back to Canada almost 8yrs now, Still own a couple places in Country NSW, Maybe for later on retirement years . I built Bionic Puppy when it first came out and never Stopped using Puppy as daily Os. Puppy is the best Operating system ever made

[Jasper]

Hi all

Does HQ have any plans to commemorate this anniversary?

[backi]

Yea !!!.....Puppy Linux ....... !!!!

......the best Thing since sliced Bread !

[geo_c]

I know this a pipe dream, an expensive, extravagant, impractical project, but here's my vision anyway:

Puppy Linux 20th Anniversary Commemorative Bootable USB Hard Drive!

Contains all Mainline Puppy Distros and bonus Dogs from the past 20 years.

Get yours for the low, low price of $19.95 USD.

[pp4mnklinux]

Hi, what is the destination of these earnings?

I suppose these are not for you, .,.because in this case you must go to other forum,

Its a good idea to mantein this site working, but...

[spiritwild]

I came along around puppy 4.31 have no clue what year that was. all a blur now

[peebee]

FYI............

There were Series0 pups - http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-0-1/ - but we don't have release dates for those............ but

downloading and opening cd-puppy-0.4.iso shows a date of 9 July 2003 for image.gz

https://web.archive.org/web/20130506000 ... reVersion1

shows: 0.1 June 18, 2003 ( @BarryK ??)

see: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html which does say 2003

then for @spiritwild from: http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... ppy-4.3.1/

pup-431.iso 2009-Oct-15 20:27:39 104.9M application/x-iso9660-image

[peebee]

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[BarryK]

FYI............

There were Series0 pups - http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/puppy-0-1/ - but we don't have release dates for those............ but

downloading and opening cd-puppy-0.4.iso shows a date of 9 July 2003 for image.gz

https://web.archive.org/web/20130506000 ... reVersion1

shows: 0.1 June 18, 2003 ( @BarryK ??)

see: https://puppylinux-woof-ce.github.io/family-tree.html which does say 2003

then for @spiritwild from: http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... ppy-4.3.1/

pup-431.iso 2009-Oct-15 20:27:39 104.9M application/x-iso9660-image

I don't know. I don't have those early releases anymore.

A long time ago, about 2010 I think, maybe later, when I was living at a country property, my computer and backup hard drive were stolen. Lost heaps of archived files.

My house was out of town, very isolated. The burglary happened when I was away for the weekend, in Perth. Got back and found the place had been ransacked.

The police did find the culprits, two indigenous men. When asked how come a matching fingerprint was found on a window, they said that they just looked in the window. When asked about the insect screen removed from the window, they said it was already on the ground when they arrived.
They came at night, with a trailer, loaded it up, but I never heard from the police whether they found the stolen goods. They only located the two men via the fingerprint, and cctv footage at other nearby locations.
I don't even know if they were convicted.

Completely off-topic, just triggered the memory, thinking about the lost early Puppy releases.

[d-pupp]

Thanks to Berry and everyone who helped with this wonderful little distro.
Happy Birthday Puppy Linux

[fernan]

My 1st puppy was Puppy 2.10 ! (year 2014)
I'm getting old !!

I still have these ISO in my hard drive:

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[sucuklu yumurta]

Slax is the first linux distribution I tried, if I remember correctly it's like 2010, in the same years Puppy first met version 5.7 slacko, then Mint, then TinyCore and then continued, I don't want to use compliments to one distribution and disrespect other distributions, Sparky LXQt is my favorite right now. Puppy Precise, Bionic Pup. i really like linux

[dimkr]

The best gift you can give Puppy for its birthday is more contributors.

We're running low on working hands:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ntributors

My priorities are changing. I'm slowly reducing my involvement and my focus is bug fixes, general maintenance and Wayland-related development: nothing related to aufs, GTK+ 2, ROX-Filer and "traditional" things like PPM, unless it's super trivial.

[peebee]

Patrick Volkerding said:
Sun Jul 16 20:35:56 UTC 2023
Hey folks! It's time to acknowledge another one of those milestones... 30 (!)
years since I made the post linked below announcing Slackware's first stable
release after months of beta testing. Thanks to all of our dedicated
contributors, loyal users, and those who have helped us to keep the lights on
here. It's really been a remarkable journey that I couldn't have anticipated
starting out back in 1993. Cheers!
https://www.slackware.com/announce/1.0.php

We seem to have decided not to "celebrate" the Puppy 20 year milestone...........??

[user1234]

The best gift you can give Puppy for its birthday is more contributors.

We're running low on working hands:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ntributors

My priorities are changing. I'm slowly reducing my involvement and my focus is bug fixes, general maintenance and Wayland-related development: nothing related to aufs, GTK+ 2, ROX-Filer and "traditional" things like PPM, unless it's super trivial.

You bring my few months' earlier enthusiasm back! The only problem with me is that I am currently learning, and hence I cannot contribute much (I know I was not asked, but sorry!).

BTW, my main reason for posting this was to wish Puppy a happy birthday. So,
Happy Birthday Puppy!

[rockedge]

We Should do a little something to mark the occasion

I added 2 new extensions to the forum to further fine tune it.

[pp4mnklinux]

The best gift you can give Puppy for its birthday is more contributors.

We're running low on working hands:

https://github.com/puppylinux-woof-CE/w ... ntributors

My priorities are changing. I'm slowly reducing my involvement and my focus is bug fixes, general maintenance and Wayland-related development: nothing related to aufs, GTK+ 2, ROX-Filer and "traditional" things like PPM, unless it's super trivial.

You bring my few months' earlier enthusiasm back! The only problem with me is that I am currently learning, and hence I cannot contribute much (I know I was not asked, but sorry!).

BTW, my main reason for posting this was to wish Puppy a happy birthday. So,
Happy Birthday Puppy!

Your comment is your best presentation.

That's the way, that's what I want.

@user1234

[Amol]

Happy birthday my puppy OS !
P.S : puppy_precise 5.7.1 here ( a hungarian update with palemoon browser ):
Amol

[8Geee]

Happy 20th. 25yrs online for mr this year.
First O/L computer was a Pentium 200MMX
First Puppy was Slacko5.5XL ( a puppy-clone of W98-2 ) in 2014.
My First spin was Slacko5.7 as EONS from 2015... newest AtomicPup23a (Slacko7.0 32bit)

Thanks for/to Puppy for an independant Linux unspoilt by M$, goog, and amazon.

Regards
8Geee

[Fossil]

Yes, indeed. "Happy Birthday, Puppy!" Also a greatful thanks to the creator/originator of the concept, Barry Kauler, without whom none of this would have been possible. As for the rest of the brave 'pioneers' who followed, it's been a pleasure to take the various incarnations of Puppy out into the springtime of the Internet.
So, what now? Before anything else, while nostalgia was fresh in my mind, I made a perilous journey upstairs deep into the attic where 'useful' items are stored 'that will come in handy, one-day'. Crampons almost a necessity! A large stout cardboard box with P.Linux scrawled across the side in thick felt-tip pen proved to be the repository of many CD's - themselves almost a relic of the past. "Puppy Linux 1.0.2 Opera" caught my eye. The operating system was compiled on May 22nd, 2005. Would it even boot up on an Optiplex 760? The answer is, Yes, it does! Well done Puppy.

[greengeek]

We Should do a little something to mark the occasion

I added 2 new extensions to the forum to further fine tune it.

I think it would be nice to start a general "CE" thread for a 20th tribute version (or multiple versions).

It would take time but could probably be finished by the end of the year if everyone chips in... (Christmas treat!)

Just the other day I booted "MeanPup Opera version" on an old Pano Toughbook and thought how amazing it was the amount of software they crammed into a small package way back then.

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[amethyst]

I have done my part by reviving Racy (especially). The older ones are really too old to make a worthwhile and usable modern day makeover. viewtopic.php?p=68497#p68497. That will be my contribution for the 20 years old party.

[ndujoe2]

I wasn't at the start of course, but I began using Puppylinux with version 1.08rl