Oldest Puppy you are running as your primary OS

[amethyst]

A customised Racy for me. Runs the latest Palemoon browser. Base sfs 55MB (old browser and unnecessary graphic drivers removed, other stuff added). Does everything I need.

[s243a]

I've experimented with some puppy4 versions recently as a container and on one computer I do run dpup stretch but mostly I use newer pupps like FATDOG811, upuphh+D and Fossapup64.

[Trapster]

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# uname -a
Linux puppyserver 2.6.25.16 #1 Tue Aug 26 10:45:53 GMT-8 2008 i686 GNU/Linux
# cat /etc/puppyversion
410
# 

[mikewalsh]

I guess for me that's Quirky64 "April" 7.0.1.....or rather, jrb's light 'spin' on it. This is Tahrpup-era, yet by means of a Xenial64 chroot - in addition to the number of packages that will run on it natively - I have everything working I could possibly want. And then some.....

Oldest 32-bitzer would be Slacko 5.7.1 from Sailor Enceladus......again, also using a Xenial chroot for newer stuff.

'Chroots' originally courtesy of watchdog, of course. A good way of keeping older Puppies still functional with reasonably up-to-date stuff. (Having plenty of RAM & storage space does help when pulling this stunt.)

@amethyst :- Nice one, mate. Like it!

Mike.

[nitehawk]

@amethyst
Your desktop looks great! Yes,...I have an old HP laptop (2005 era) that I like to use older Puppys on. I run MX Linux, and 64bit Bionic Puppy on my big main computer,...but I much rather use the older laptop. Now you make me want to go dig it out again! I usually use Precise on it, but I've also used Racy as well (can't decide which I like better). And there has been so much "tweaks" and pets that others on this forum (and the old one) have listed over the years. I've made myself a repository of a lot of them (and wish I could remember all the names of those who contributed, so I could thank them). I'm off to dig out that old laptop right now,.........

[keniv]

I'm trying to keep within the spirit of this tread so I'm posting using Racy 5.5 using Palemoon 29.1.0. Racy is probably one of my all time favourites and I still use it quite a lot even though I'm trying to "update" myself. A lot of stuff for it here.
https://racypup.netlify.app/desktop.html
Also still like Lucid 5287 though can only get Palemoon 28 to run on it. Again quite a lot of stuff here.
http://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?f=126&t=1222
To be honest I find these a lot easier to use than modern pups. Just save files here. No problems trying to get save folders to be recognised/found.

Regards,

Ken.

[amethyst]

Getting a new browser to work with an old Puppy is a huge step forward and immediately gives it the usability/functionality the general user requires. From that point on one can explore all the fun stuff, like running newer kernels, adding new themes, etc. Personally, I don't care about trying to update the builtin applications to newer versions as most have already reached a stage of maturity that one can rely on. I mean, Racy is "only" 7 years old afterall..

[keniv]

@amethyst

I mean, Racy is "only" 7 years old afterall..

Ah but seven good and well tested years.

Ken.

[amethyst]

@amethyst

I mean, Racy is "only" 7 years old afterall..

Ah but seven good and well tested years.

Ken.

It's fun running a Puppy which base sfs is only 55MB (compressed) in size.

[xenial]

I have 5 pups installed on 3 different devices.

3 are installed on my external usb drive:
Dpup stretch 32bit.
upup focal 32bit.
Scpup 32bit.

I must say i like dpup stretch an awful lot.

Xenialpup 7.5 32bit is installed on the internal HDD and is also installed on an external hard drive also.

I am damned if i know which is the oldest .

[rockedge]

It's fun running a Puppy which base sfs is only 55MB (compressed) in size.

I totally agree.

I have an UPUP 3.9.9.2 Raring still running as an Apache web server reverse proxy gateway on a Gateway machine from 2004 or so

[ozsouth]

Not a vintage puppy (10 months old), but I'm locked into ScPup64-20.06+2, as later versions refuse to run Anydesk (vital for me). Yesterday I compiled openssl-1.1.1-l & curl 7.79.1 for that pup, to improve security. I'm mostly using my new Chromebook though, as this issue made me rethink on Puppy.

[8Geee]

A spin of Slacko 5.7 made for netbooks(2008-12) AtomicPup2020 (FF27). Good for surf, not buy/sell anymore. An updated version using FF66 is my daily driver. IIRC build date on Slacko5.7 is 3/2014. And the netbook is 9/2008.

Regards
8Geee

[amethyst]

I've been using a customized version of Precise for a couple of months now almost exclusively. I've given Stretch 7.5 a go since last week. I also Have Racy and Bionic 32 in my listed Puppys. I know my version of Precise works perfectly on my machine and Stretch is also looking good. I had some minor issues with Bionic.

[tallboy]

I use 2 main versions, depending on which machine I use: Puppy tahr64_6.0.6 and EasyPup 2.4.91. Both has Vivaldi as main browser, and PaleMoon, Xpdf, Imagemagick as main additions, VMware for Windows based auto workshop manuals, a VPN service is run in the background.

tallboy