Yes and I really like the ability to build up one's own custom system.@vtpup - using Puppy's layered file system it is easy to do both by having barebones + a buildback sfs ...using my example before, just have a symlink to standard.sfs in the /pupXXX directory
But what I'm talking about is the nature of the standard version. It is essentially a presentation version for those who have never used Puppy Linux before. It should start up right off the CD and have all standard Puppy applications in place ready to click on and demo.
The option once that is played with and absorbed, should be to extend it, or actually remove components. But that must be an option, not the standard.
I think we are on the same page, I think it's great to be able to remove standard apps through a layered version of those, but all I'm saying is that they should not be removed from the main Puppy version, only removable.
The prior poster was suggesting, I believe that the primary distribution be a barebones one. I don't agree with that.
Barebones is a wonderful option. And one I'd like to use myself, after having initially cut my teeth on the standard Puppy.
But there should always be an initial standard fully featured LiveCD version with apps included that is Identifiably the Puppy Linux. Otherwise, it's as inviting to a newcomer as pure old Debian was.
"Okay, sure I can install 20,000 programs once I learn the operating system, but what does it do now? Can I connect? Can I write? Can I download email? Can I play my music and videos? Can I burn a CD?"
If the answer to that is no, you have to install something first, I may never bother to spend the time. Furthermore, If I do bother to try to install something, the liklihood is I will install the full version of what I'm used to, and never see the benefits of native Puppy apps.
I think every person who gets hooked on Puppy initially will want to later expand and contract their system -- truly customize it. But somebody new needs to just start running things off the CD or they will never be interested at all. The fine points come later, after they see how amazingly small yet full featured it can be to start with.