@chiefengineer :-
Is the 1GB not enough all of a sudden?
To put it in a nutshell.....NO. Hasn't been for long enough, TBH.
I know we're all very fond of quoting ISO sizes, but folks tend to forget that ISO contents expand considerably when installed or running. This is as true of Puppies or Dogs as it is of FatDog itself.
ALL OS's - whether Windoze, Crapple, OR Linux - are unfortunately getting larger and larger as time goes by. Folks demand more & more features, and while the Puppy ethos has always traditionally been to keep the coding small, light & tight, this isn't always possible.....because dependencies/libs themselves are getting larger & larger due to all the extra features they now contain.
Qt5 is one of the biggest culprits here. Developers the world over are building more & more apps around the Qt Framework, and some of the 'core' QT libs alone now occupy several MB by themselves! And the new Qt6 is an order of magnitude larger again. The complete Qt6 'framework', with all bells & whistles installed, would pretty much fill your RAM all by itself, and is around 3 times the size of many of our community ISOs; I discovered this by accident the other day, when investigating an app I was thinking of putting into 'portable' format. It had a separate 'qt6' directory. Total size? 'Properties' indicated a hair under 900 MB...!!
It appeared that the developers, instead of only including the necessary modules, had instead slapped the entire framework into the tarball .....purely for the hell of it.
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And the Puppy/Dog/FatDog communities have also moved on. Where many of us used to run fairly resource-limited hardware, a good many members are now running far more powerful machines than we ever dreamed possible at one time. For most, a decent browser is a must.....and modern browsers are, to put it bluntly, RAM-hogs. It's quite normal for a Chromium-based browser to use 1 GB all by itself with just a couple of tabs open, largely due to the sandbox that every tab runs in.....and frankly, modern-day devs are getting lazy, in large part due TO that explosion of hardware capabilities. There's no longer the need to keep the coding economical..!
"Rule-of-thumb" nowadays says that for a reasonable experience, 4 GB should be considered a practical minimum. That's if you want to be able to multi-task, and do more than one thing at a time....
C'est la vie, unfortunately. There are very, very few machines still in circulation that fit the 'parameters' that used to be more-or-less 'standard' when Puppy first hit the scene.....yet too many Puppy users still live in the world of 20 years ago, thinking that Puppies will always be as tiny as they once were.
It can't be done. As Mr. Scott of the "Enterprise" was wont to say, "Ye cannae break the laws of physics, laddie....." 
Mike. 
