How I Found Puppy
I came to Puppy out of necessity. I was supervising a Work for the Dole project - an opportunity for unemployed Australians to spend their time productively for the community benefit - that aimed to recycle old "useless" PC's for charity. We started out loading them with Win95 licences people had discarded, but those soon ran out. We couldn't afford WinXP, which was all you could buy at the time, and being government supported we couldn't be seen to be doing anything suspect with software.
The son of a friend suggested I try Ubuntu - version 4.10 back then. It was difficult to load and simply wouldn't work on some machines but we had no choice, and they supplied the software on CD for free! It was made for us, so I ordered a batch of CD's. When they arrived they were version 5.04 and worked better, but were still slow.
I started haunting Distrowatch, looking for anything we could use. We tried Mandrake/Mandriva, DSL, Mepis, XandrosCE, Slax, PCLinuxOS Mini-Me etc, etc. Some were ok for a few machines and not much good for others. DSL was fast enough, but it had that funny Fluxbox interface and our users simply wouldn't/couldn't get it. Then I found Puppy 2.00! Wow!
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