Re: Euthanise Puppy?

From: Russ (rjkfsm_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 06/15/05 

Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2005 07:36:58 -0400

jimbo wrote:
> Ð¥ñØmü++ wrote:
>
>> Looks like it time to euthanise Puppy...the modem would connect
>> momentarily then quit. Sound card still dosent work...I tried the
>> obvious choices that worked with other distros. Funny how each distro
>> used a different driver. Must be the Kludge-factor raising its ugly
>> head yet again. I played with PC-BSD over the weekend,
>> thanksforasking.Oddly the iso to download was about 650MB but burning
>> an "image" of it only produced *one* cd. Hmmm...needless to say it
>> *didnt* work either. Although it was interesting to see an endless
>> cascade of error messages about some missing getty files or something.
>> I think I'll try Ubuntu next after reading a really good reveiw of it
>> on the web...too bad about Puppy...it was kinda cute. But he'll have
>> to be put down.
>> :(
>
>
> Puppy is barking on my machine just fine. But I must admit that it is
> more of a "toy" than a serious distro. If you have a need for something
> that will run on some old underpowered hardware, Puppy may be for you.
>
> Why don't you try Knoppix or Mepis or PCLinuxOS? All are LiveCD distros
> that can be installed to your hard drive if they work on your hardware
> and you like them.
>
> Good luck, jimbo

... and DSL, too.

RK