your opinion
is not realist at all.gcmartin wrote:In fact, with the cost of a stick of RAM today, used/new, we get the benefits that comes with RAM.
I have here only 5 type of PC's at home and no one can use the RAM stick of the other
even my Dell Optiplex SX270 can not use the stick of the burned Optiplex SX280 and also the contrary would not be possible. the plugs have other dimensions etc. If I will extend the memory of the (not burning ) older one I have to spend more money for a stick made by Dell, an American Cy I think, as to buy a complete other PC with more memory from a Chinese brand (but I have no room on my desk and in my environment for other PC than "book" PC's excepted laptop or new android solutions in coming, I have a laptop but I don't like to use it because of the poor resolution of the screen...).
and
there are billions of old PC in use in all the world
and Puppy is actually the main answer how to use them better!
if you are using Puppy with a modern top PC, it is good for Puppy but I really become a bad opinion of you as well as of the Linux movement ! if Linux is only good to run in form of Puppy (out the RAM to be performant), poor Linux...
I use Puppy because all my PC's are limited in RAM and processor power (I drive an old car, I have an old bike, my house, made of stones, will be in 7 years 100 years old but did never be broken under wind power. It seems that American people knows only an answer: develop more technical power, more short live machinery! we have a different vision of our world and environment!)
the billion of old PC's in the world are a step worse than my PC's...
and opinions as your opinion are the reason why the live time of PC's are as short. you only require more hardware instead to use the actual hardware correctly (or better if correctly is not possible any more)...
Puppy did offer in 20 Mb in 2003 more functionality and rapidly AND BUILT-IN SOLUTIONS than M$ deliver for a lot of money at the same time!The size is of no concern of mine. The abiltiy of it to provide needed functionality and to do it rapidly is what I need most.
the actual Slitaz 4.0 offers today yet in 34 Mb probably more for modern hardware and can be extended for no cost!
did you already think about the matter that the most PC's (except playing stations and PC's used as playing stations) are used to enter 8 bit characters slowly using an old mechanical keyboard system and the power is only used to produce background pictures and trays and icon bars ?
kind regards