POLL: Where did you hear about Puppy?

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kethd · #1 Post by **kethd** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 01:21

I suggest an administrator start an ongoing Poll to learn where we all heard about Puppy, how did we get here -- so that we know what is working, and how to maybe optimally encourage Puppy Propagation.
(And make it sticky somewhere at the top of an appropriate Forum.)

In my case, I think the answer is FrozenTech.com:
FrozenTech's LiveCD List - http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

Puppy is currently ranked #9.

#2 Post by MU » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 01:43

I read about it in the german print-magazine Linux-User.

Puppy 1.0.4 was a CD delivered with that mag.
It costs 5.50 Euro, and is released monthly (current issue ships with Ubuntu 5.10).

Very nice mag, focussed on "beginners", but I often find nice program-descriptions I haven't read of before in the web, and tips on enhancing your desktops with small windowmanagers and other tools aside the mainstream.

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2005/0 ... index.html

Mark

paullecorde · #3 Post by **paullecorde** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 02:00

After the Knoppix CD I ordered didn't work, I went here
http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html and looked through the list and decided to try Puppy. The thing that got me to try Puppy after looking at Barry's website is that he gave detailed instructions on burning a live cd and a link to software for burning iso's with. Because I was able to burn the live CD, I tried Puppy and it worked 100 times better than Knoppix, which required too much memory to work as a live CD.

dvw86 · #4 Post by **dvw86** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 02:04

I also found Puppy at http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html. I was looking for a small but "usable" Linux. I was tired of operating systems being way too large and slow. I was just hoping for an OS to be under 1 gig. I was pleasantly surprised to find just how much Puppy offered for being so small.

#5 Post by **Flash** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 02:10

I read about Puppy in the Knoppix forum's Other Live CDs' category. Puppy turned out to be what I was looking for when I tried Knoppix. It is far more user-friendly than Knoppix, and seems to have far more potential too.

willhunt · #6 Post by **willhunt** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 02:26

A friend told me about menuet I thought is was a variation of the university of mich project and just had to see what the puppy was all about! and it was well worth it I have learned a lot from this distro

also would like to report he's just going nuts on that menuet
I never was good at asm

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php

kethd · #7 Post by **kethd** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 02:52

[This thread is turning out pretty good, even without an actual Poll mechanism -- but once it gets to multi-page it will get bogged down -- is there a way to make it latest-first, or last-page first?]

Lobster · #8 Post by **Lobster** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 03:25

here is my story:

http://peace.wikicities.com/wiki/HolyGeek_Linux_Report

aahhaaa · #9 Post by **aahhaaa** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 04:35

I found Puppy at Distrowatch; it's small enough that I could download it on dialup!

#10 Post by **Pizzasgood** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 16:26

I found it from google, I think. Not sure, though. It might have been some site that listed minimal OSs. I was looking for something reasonably small so I could download it with dialup, and that preferably didn't mess with partitions. The problem was I could only find the super-small floppy-based linux distros or the big ones. Then came Puppy, with the magic number 50.

distortedstar · #11 Post by **distortedstar** » Tue 22 Nov 2005, 18:45

Even though it wasn't long ago...I honestly can't remember...google, maybe? I was just looking for small, fast linux livecd that I could use on my laptop for optimum performance while working on a paper. I had tried out DSL, but (while an awesome distro) it's just not my cup of tea. Stumbled on puppy..read some of the forums...realized there was a great community, and... Turns out I've made what I found my primary OS. Who would've thought?

dewdrop · #12 Post by **dewdrop** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 02:02

Hi,

I guess I too found Puppy either at DistroWatch or Frozentech a couple of years ago.

I had read some things about Linux in general and finally curiosity got the best of me so I downloaded or ordered one of the Live CD versions - can

raffy · #13 Post by **raffy** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 11:31

I've been watching ibiblio.org for a long time, looking for tiny, speedy Linux distros. Am also looking for WYSIWYG editing in browsers, and when Puppy began featuring Firefox (2004), I tried it. Before this, I was using Peanut Linux.

Guest · #14 Post by **Guest** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 13:11

linux.org

Puppy Dog · #15 Post by **Puppy Dog** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 18:16

Heaven link at Distrowatch.com

Rich · #16 Post by **Rich** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 18:41

I found Puppy from a thread in the Toyota Owners Club forums. Someone asked about linux and someone else linked to Puppy in a response.

EbVT · #17 Post by **EbVT** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 19:30

Found it at Distrowatch and a Kanotix User Forum

EbVT

kcin · #18 Post by **kcin** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 19:35

I found Puppy on Distrowatch too.

And I still always navigate to Puppy via Distrowatch on my first visit every day, to register my support in the rankings.

kcin

sulemasc · #19 Post by **sulemasc** » Wed 23 Nov 2005, 21:16

It was http://www.linux.org/dist/list.html for me - spent many an hour simply reading up on all the listings, and checking out home sites. Puppy just caught my attention as being quite novel when compared to the info about other distros, and I was just too curious to pass it by. I seem to remember laughing when it was referred to as a toy - kudos to that brainiac

Mark

Guest · #20 Post by **Guest** » Fri 25 Nov 2005, 22:32

For me, I first heard about Puppy at work. A co-worker was putting together a presentation about threats to Windows-based corporate networks, and he had a slide on small LiveCD & USB Linux distros. Puppy (1.0.1, I think) was one of them. I downloaded all of the distros listed and was most happy with Puppy.

My migration to Linux at home went from a single drive with WinME to a two drive system. The second drive first contained Fedora Core 2, then Fedora Core 3 (FC3). Shortly after upgrading to FC3, I began to use Puppy's live CD on it too. When WinME decided to no longer work for me, I transferred my personal files to the second drive and install Puppy to the WinME hard drive. I now dual boot Puppy 1.0.6 and FC3 with Puppy as the default.

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