Puppy Linux on Wayland, Sort Of

34 points by dimkr1 4 years ago | 5 comments
  • xupybd 4 years ago
    I had a work PC fail at a quarter to five one Friday night. They needed a PC on the floor to view online PDFs for production. The workshop is on a different network to our office domain. The only spare I had was set-up for domain access. At close to five I didn't want to reinstall Windows. I downloaded Puppy Linux to a USB flash drive and set them up for the night shift. It's still running. It's faster and more stable than the rest of our network.
    • ChuckNorris89 4 years ago
      Puppy linux îs close to whichcraft on how fast it is. Too bad it isn't well kmown outside the techie circles.
      • pjmlp 4 years ago
        Most netbook distributions used to be Puppy Linux forks actually.
    • christophilus 4 years ago
      I’ve never even considered using Puppy.

      Anyone using Puppy as a daily driver? What’s your experience like?

      I’m currently Fedora+Gnome and Arch+Sway, depending on the machine. Pretty happy with both, but Debian compatibility would be nice, since that’s what I run in production.

      • TonyBagODonuts 4 years ago
        I had used puppy for about a year, it's super fast, loaded the entire os into ram at boot. Gave up on it when I started trying to get non-repo software into pups, certain things just wouldn't work, Kodi for example, so I moved on.