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The Best Puppy Derivative Ever!

Wary/Racy
5
8%
Slacko
10
15%
Tahrpup/Xenialpup
27
41%
Lucid/Precise
10
15%
Fatdog/Debiandog
4
6%
Lighthouse
2
3%
Easy OS
2
3%
Quirky ;)
2
3%
Macpup
2
3%
Fluppy
2
3%
 
Total votes: 66

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#21 Post by takenp »

MrToad wrote: A lot of love seems to have gone into Fluppy 013. I often wonder what Jemimah could have done next.
@MrToad, you wrote it so delicious so I wanted to try it out ) thank you!

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#22 Post by grimoire »

I choose XenialPup:)
Last edited by grimoire on Thu 21 Mar 2019, 12:27, edited 2 times in total.

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#23 Post by csipesz »

Just out of curiosity I ask: why Vividpup and UpupBB not present on this list?

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#24 Post by s243a »

nic007 wrote:The answer to this question may be hardware related, ie. which Puppy works best on your machine. I only use two Puppys on my 12 year old laptop, ie. Racy 5.5 and Tahr 6.0.5. Both work well but if I have to choose between the two it has to be Tahr mainly because tahr, as is, is more usable with its newer browser and VLC. Absolutely rock solid, so much so that it almost becomes boring to use as nothing ever goes wrong. There's only one irritation with the builtin version of VLC in Tahr, ie. the screensaver can not be disabled from the VLC settings (it doesn't work) you have to toggle it with the screen control application. So Tahr is the best but Racy on the other hand is a lot of fun to use. The whole Racy system is only 105MB (max compressed) in size. Works perfectly on my machine apart from Mplayer which crashes occasionally. I also use Racy when I want to experiment/tinker with stuff. BTW - I didn't vote because tahr and xenial is grouped together in the poll but I have video problems with the latter.
I'm in big agreement here, and haven't found a puppy that I like as much as Tahr but if I was running puppy on newer hardware then I would probably prefer a more recent puppy. I also agree that Warry and Racy are fun due to how light and swift they are. I would add Lucid also to this fun list especially since it has been more recently maintained than Warry/Racy.

I probably would have voted for Tahr if it was by itself or grouped with either Lucid or precise but I ended up voting for fatdog/debian dog. I've been trying newer puppies lately and in my opinion the one with the best perfomace was dpup stretch. However, I'm finding "strechdog" easier to use due to better handling of post install and configuration scripts for deb packages.

I havevn't given up on dpup but It seems for best results I'll need to compile more packages from source than I would have to do if I'm running stretchdog, since stretchdog works flawlessly with the debian repositories. I also find the package manager for fatdog64 rock solid. This is likely because it is using the slackware repositories which have a simpler installation process. I didn't vote for slaco because the newest slaco runs slow on my older computers, perhaps x slaco slim would work well but I haven't tried it yet.

Anther reason that I voted for fatdog/stretchdog is that both of them work much better in a virtualbox for me than any version of puppy I tried. Perhaps If I tried QEMU or VMWare I wouldn't have these issues but I haven't tried puppy in these systems yet. The pups/dogs that I'm using most now are stretchdog and tazpup, but I have used both tahrpup and fatdog64 for quite some time. I'm also using dpup stretch but don't find it as fun as either TazPup or stretchdog.

Well my preference in the past has been for Ubuntu based versions of puppylinux, I think that unless puppy significantly improves the package manager the best working versions of puppylinux will use the slackware repositories. In my opinion there is too much bloat now in the Ubuntu repositories and the debian package installation process is getting too complex/fragile. However, I admit that these complexties of the debian package management system due add better package integration to the system.

I also think TazPup has a lot of potential but it isn't on the list. EasyOS sounds very interesting but unfortunately I haven't had the opportunity to try it yet.

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#25 Post by s243a »

csipesz wrote:Just out of curiosity I ask: why Vividpup and UpupBB not present on this list?
I found that UpupBB gave me much better perormance than Xenial but I guess Xenial has more features which make many prefer Xenial over UpupBB. My preference though is UpupBB over Xenial.

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#26 Post by takenp »

I have tried Fluppy 13 and found it both fast and beautiful as well as rock solid and robust. Great distro but dropped unfortunatelly. Anyway one more gem in my collection.

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#27 Post by 01101001b »

Not in the list, but my vote goes to Dpup, hands down 8)

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#28 Post by 01101001b »

grimoire wrote:I choose LxPup :)
Great choice :wink: It was my preferred pup for quite some time 8)

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MacPup 525

#29 Post by darry19662018 »

Using Macpup 525 on the following machine.

Machine: Dell D620 - so far very nice.:)
Ran when idle: 58meg of ram:)

Using Palemoon 27.9.2 with it.

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#30 Post by tallboy »

1) Dpup
2) Lucid 5.2.8.7
3) The gorgeous Stardustpup 4.3.1
True freedom is a live Puppy on a multisession CD/DVD.

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#31 Post by mistfire »

My homemade puplet X-Slacko Slim. It can install and use almost any linux package format natively including modules
My original project TazPuppy. Small, true multiuser, and highly portable.

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#32 Post by mikeslr »

Mine. :D And you can't have it. :roll:

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#33 Post by ITSMERSH »

mikeslr wrote:Mine. :D And you can't have it. :roll:
:lol:

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#34 Post by musher0 »

mikeslr wrote:Mine. :D And you can't have it. :roll:
Ditto! :lol:
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#35 Post by perdido »

The puppy 4.12-4.31

, and later developement & redevelopement by darry, mikeb, rerwin, tuxtoo, and others makes it my
favorite (note my favorite does not mean the same as my most useful)

jemimah released frisbee and it was backwards compatible to the 4.xx T2 puppies helping it along....

Still being supported and developed for.....

https://412collection.neocities.org/

https://sourceforge.net/projects/anitaos/

The original 5.xx series are a close second, talking about before the woofCE era (which deserves recognition in its own right,)
and the people currently developing deserve recognition for keeping it all going & bypassing all the obstacles current linux developement
throws in the way.



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#36 Post by 8Geee »

I have not voted. This because I have not tried many of the other pups listed.

One thing I do agree upon is the machine at hand. For old machines a series 2 kernel probaably works best... so maybe puppy 3-series. Stuff about 10 years old looks like Slacko5.7 (however, due to CPU problems needing a kernel fix, only a supported 3-series kernel can accomplish this... so Slacko5.8CE)

If you're lucky, like me, running an AtomCPU, Slacko5.7.

My opinion is the simpler, smaller, and effective... the better the pup.

Newer CPU's after 2011 could use anything made after Slacko5.7, it depends upon what one is familiar, and what one needs, and what browser one knows how to configure.

That last sentance escapes most people... they don't configure the browser, just add favorites/bookmarks.

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#37 Post by ozsouth »

Slacko64 700RC with extensive updates. Also Lxpup64.

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#38 Post by Mike Walsh »

Well, I'm surprised that I seem to have missed this thread..! :oops:

What to choose, what to choose..? Eeeh, that's a hard one, that really is. I run around a dozen Pups, and I like every one of them; they all have their own 'character'.

I started with Tahr 6.0 CE in November '14. Soon followed by Micko's 'classic' Slacko 5.7.0. Tahr was the first Linux distro to run OOTB on ye ancient Dell lappie. Slacko has proved, again & again, to be absolutely rock-solid, and the best 'workhorse' of the lot. Sailor's 5.7.1 'upgrade' has just improved on an already flawless Puppy.

Racy, I just love playing around with.....and it's surprised me just what you can run with it. Same goes for Lucid 5.2.8.7.....and with discovering the age-related 'old-releases' repos at Ubuntu, it's not so hard to dig out necessary dependencies for Lupu. Precise 571 continues to amaze me; despite being nearly 2 years beyond EOL, the repos are all still available.

------------------------------------

I'm going to list my personal Top 5:-

1 ) Slacko 5.7.0
2 ) Slacko 5.6.0 (which I'm in right now, posting from Fred's current Quantum-portable, 64.0.2)
3 ) Xenialpup 7.0.8.1
4 ) Xenialpup64 7.5
5 ) Pemasu's Upup 'Raring'

(What can I say? The 'big' Compaq is 64-bit capable.....but I just like 32-bit Puppies. Always will.....and nowt's gonna persuade me otherwise!) :)


Mike. :wink:

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10 Years of 4.31

#39 Post by darry19662018 »

Well 4.31 would be one of the best Puppies ever 2009 17/10/2009 - wow time flies and 4.12 from 2008 and not forgetting 3.01.:)

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Re: 10 Years of 4.31

#40 Post by Mike Walsh »

darry19662018 wrote:Well 4.31 would be one of the best Puppies ever 2009 17/10/2009 - wow time flies and 4.12 from 2008 and not forgetting 3.01.:)
@ darry:-

Y'know, I've heard much praise for 431 this last few years. Is it still possible to get .pets'n'stuff that will work with it? Am I right in thinking the website mikeb helps to maintain is a relevant one? Will 412 stuff work for 431?

And what about a 'modern' browser for it? I've no idea how old the glibc must be. Perhaps one of watchdog's Palemoon packages with the glibc 'tweak', yes?

I'm genuinely curious about this, now. If I can still get packages for it, I may well give it a look. I've had the ISO for a while now, but have always been uncertain about software availability.....


Mike.:wink:

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