@jgm@... wrote:
"distros like Puppy, designed to be very small and to work on ancient hardware
Puppy is my no. 2 distro behind Debian and currently supports three (3) editions:
o Wary Puppy (for "ancient" hardware)
o LuPu
o Slack Puppy
LuPu runs great on my 2005-era desktop with a P4 single-core processor (I wouldn't call it "ancient"). The default window manager is OpenBox. Puppy has a very small footprint on an older hard drive and, among other things, serves as a node for my Cassandra cluster that I run for grins.
My observation has been that many experienced desktop Linux users prefer a light window manager to either KDE or Gnome. Fortunately, there are some good ones to choose from.
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