Review: A first look at Puppy Linux 2.17
Since my Puppy 2.16 review took so long that 2.17 came out before I finished it, I decided to dive into Puppy 2.17 now so I don't get beat by 2.18 (though I offer no guarantees).
I downloaded the Puppy 2.17.1 "no lzma" version -- which runs faster but is slightly larger than the standard version. I'll take faster over smaller any day, especially when "large" is 90-something megabytes.
First the good: As usual, loading a new version of Puppy takes a little longer since old configuration files in my pup_save need to be updated. All of my configuration information transferred over ... except for printing.
When I heard that Puppy was going from its tried-and-true printer configuration system to CUPS, I knew I was in for trouble.
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