mikewalsh wrote: Sun Jul 10, 2022 3:28 pm
@oldapup :-
What you need to understand is that every Puppy 'release' is a frozen 'snapshot' in time. It will not have updates or upgrades applied to it, not even if you beg the developer to do so.....because this is NOT the way Puppy evolves.
What will happen is that the ISO file for that specific release will be opened-up. Lots of work will be done on it, changing stuff, altering stuff, replacing stuff, making things work better.....and then that Puppy will be once again re-packed into an ISO, BUT; it will have a different version number. So, although it's an 'upgrade' to the previous version, it's not the SAME version.
Puppy is developed this way because of it being so much smaller than mainstream distros, AND probably because of its highly modular nature. Also, every Puppy ever released has always come with the necessary tools to re-master & produce your very own 'custom' Puppy, built to work just the way that YOU want it to.
Does that make any sense to you? Because that's the best way I know of to describe the Puppy development/production process....
Mike. 
This is exactly the question I had.
Coming from Windows, and after trying to find out about the main linux distros, one of the first questions is always "Until when is it supported?".
In my case, I don't handle sensitive data, I don't have a bank account, but, I repeat, coming from Windows, I'm afraid of the lack of "security updates".
One of the things I'm learning here is to stop looking at whether something is the "most updated" or the "latest version", and look more at the most stable and functional.
I've read many times here the "if it's not broken, don't fix it", and I think I'm understanding it more now, but I also understand that many of us are used to thinking of an operating system in that way, as a compendium of the latest software, because "if it is not the latest version, it is obsolete". Thanks mikewalsh for clearing that up, I need to take a closer look at what bigpup posted: https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic. ... 904#p54904
And regarding the subject of the post, I am not an expert, but I have used about 20 distros this month to try to revive several old computers that I have, and the most constant have been the pups, only a PC with pentium iii did not work, but that's because of the 256 mb of ram it has, it doesn't even run windows xp, but since they were my first experiments, I think that now I could use some other version of puppy to make it work.
Another thing is for us to want to use that hardware, going back to pentium iii, it has a win xp miniOS installed, and I only use it to be able to use a scanner, since there are no drivers other than for xp, and well... it works. I would like to see it surfing the internet, and using it to watch videos on youtube, but with its 256 ram, it can't even open the browser, maybe increasing the ram, but it only supports 512, so I don't think it's worth the expense.
In this short time of experimentation, I can say that puppy is one of the best options for older computers:
- It does not usually weigh more than 500 mb
- Loaded in ram, it is quite fast to use its tools
-Many versions still support 32 bit
-It can be installed in a full way, avoiding loading the system in the ram, when this is very limited
-Even installed in a frugal way, there are ways to make it start without loading ram (the system starts me with 90 mb of consumption 
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- It is quite easy to test the system without installing it, or to install several versions depending on what is needed.
The limit is the programs that you want to use, especially with 32 bits, and that depends on the hardware, not on puppy
Of course, you already know all that, take it as the point of view of someone new, very surprised.
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Ok -in reply to your Puppy fans here -My hardware consistes ofa HP-Compaq dc5100 sff Desktop PC < PENTIUM 4 LGA 775 Dual Core> .. 
