(OLD) (ARCHIVED) Puppy Linux Discussion Forum

takenp · Joined: 05 Aug 2015 Posts: 104 Location: Moskva

Let's have some fun making kinda Distrowatch poll here (for newbies to get a point of view on puppy world)

I put here most popular puppy distros and their deriviatives (IMHO) among the wide variety of puppy forks famous as pupplets. Suggest your poll option if I forgot something on comments and I put it accordingly.

darry19662018 · Joined: 31 Mar 2018 Posts: 731 Location: Rakaia

Fluppy 013

csipesz · Joined: 08 Nov 2013 Posts: 240 Location: Isaszeg, Hungary

Precise 5.7.1

mikeslr · Posted: Mon 20 Aug 2018, 18:17 Post subject:

Slacko 5.6/5.7. They should have their own listing, to distinguish them from earlier and later Slackos.

I'd also add a listing for Saluki/Carolina or add them to Wary/Racy as Racy was their 'parent'.

mikesLr

Edit. While this poll is for "fun", still it can provide some useful information, kind of like a Cubist painting.

Just took a look at your list again. I know that you need to keep it reasonably small, so appreciate why you've combined Lucid and Precise, and Tahrpup and Xenialpup. But FatDog and DebianDog are very different 'beasts'. They aren't even in the same genus. Sort of like having one listing for Zebras and Sea Horses. Laughing

If you need to shorten the list, perhaps do Slacko/Lighthouse as both are based on Slackware. But with a separate Slacko 5.6/5.7 listing. Although now 5 years old --Slacko 5.6's birthday was August 12th-- they are still touted as solid work-horses for almost all computers which have not yet been consigned to landfills. Sad

p310don · Posted: Mon 20 Aug 2018, 23:04 Post subject:

+1 for Saluki / Carolina

takenp · Joined: 05 Aug 2015 Posts: 104 Location: Moskva

ooops sorry guys but I cant edit the poll anymore ;(

smokey01 · Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2018, 04:18 Post subject:

@takenp

Fatdog and Debiandog are not similar in any way. Why would you group them? Just asking.

takenp · Joined: 05 Aug 2015 Posts: 104 Location: Moskva

@smokey01

It seemed to me Debiandog was based on Fatdog and made by the same person. I see I'm probably wrong. But I cant edit the poll. It became closed after getting results as I understand.

ITSMERSH · Joined: 02 May 2018 Posts: 911

I voted for Tahr, though it was hard to decide between Lucid and Tahr.

BarryK · Posted: Tue 21 Aug 2018, 10:38 Post subject:

bigpup · Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA

Well, Puppy 6.0 got this for Puppy.
That is Tahrpup 6.0

nic007 · Posted: Fri 24 Aug 2018, 03:52 Post subject:

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.

infromthepound · Joined: 12 Jun 2009 Posts: 227

Legacy.
It's my go-to if I have problems on my older boxes
JB

foxpup · Joined: 29 Jul 2016 Posts: 1141

zagreb999 · Joined: 11 Apr 2014 Posts: 573 Location: Yugoslavija

regards
the best is
debiandog and pupjibaro-synaptic-openbox