Discussion, talk and tips
https://forum.puppylinux.com/
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.
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.
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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
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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. 
@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,.........
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.
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..
I mean, Racy is "only" 7 years old afterall..
Ah but seven good and well tested years.
Ken.
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 . 
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.
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
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.
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