Get an old PC working again with Puppy Linux

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 13, 2011

“There’s no doubt Canonical’s popular Ubuntu Linux distribution
gets the majority of attention in the Linux world these days, but
there are myriad others equally worthy of consideration.

“I looked at Linux Mint not long ago, as well as a few key
Ubuntu derivatives, but today I’d like to focus on Puppy Linux, a
new version of which was just released.

“When I looked at the top 10 Linux distributions back in
September, Puppy Linux was 10th in popularity on Distrowatch, which
tracks the page hits garnered by each flavor of the open source
Linux operating system. Since then, however, it has moved up to No.
9, and for good reason.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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