Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Fast and small, yet not lacking features
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Cons:
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None found
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I've recently been comparing several light-weight distros: Damn Small, Tiny Core, SliTaz, and Puppy. Although not the lightest, Puppy will run from HD on a 64MB computer, and from RAM and live CD in 128MB.
The installation went smoothly and everything worked. The only oddities are that the system cannot have multiple users (not likely to be a problem on the sort of computer for which it is intended) and the software installed by default cannot easily be removed (though extra items are easy to install and remove). The desktop, using JWM, has a rather retro feel (my reaction was Amiga!) but is easy to customise. The basic software package includes SeaMonkey, AbiWord, Gnumeric, MTPaint, Inkscape, and media viewers. There's an active user forum and support appears to be good.
By comparison, Damn Small Linux had no unicode support; Tiny Core did not have a conventional filing system, making it difficult to get to grips with; with SliTaz, I never found out how to enable the Compose key, and most of the documentation was in French.
If you have a very small computer, Puppy is just the thing to give it a new lease of life.
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