Depends on use case, and enthusiast/hobby need. For most this is not a project about customers/users/$$$. It's more about trying new script hacking/programming ideas, mods and custom libs improvements. These make the 'update trend' I think.Robin2 wrote: But a big part of the reason I switched from Xubuntu to Puppy was to get off the "update treadmill"
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Of course there is a need, from time to time, to bring out a new version when an error is discovered.
For others it's about getting old hardware to function again, simple and fast. These only need stability, and eventual spare apart updates. Gotta love all those motherboards work again.
With that said, for instance, I'm currently in need of office applications on wary 5.0 or racy5.5 on sfs form because abiword isn't cutting it anymore for that I will probably try lazy puppy on the future while keeping customizing my puppy to my needs.
puppy is the best for cheap used netbooks compared to windows7 default installations that they came up with (using a intel gma3150 motherboard, also known toshiba n455 aka if you need to test something on this let me know)
I also want the newer quirky builds to try f2fs and not wear down my usb drives. That's only possible with a 3.8 linux kernel, which is not on wary/racy or lazy puppy I think. So a new excuse to get me a new puppy hehe
Puppy is all around pretty stable, and great for satisfying particular needs.
PS: I'd also try a https://www.jolicloud.com/jolios netbook/laptop based puppy. For instance, I can't seem to adjust screen brightness, volume seems pretty low compared to windows7's settings -default os now borked. But laptop based specifically to improve battery life reporting and customizations. Also some keyboards keys fixed on windows7 don't work as expected or at all on puppy -functions keys-