I've used Puppy a few times. I'd imagine that there's a good chance that it'll run on your machine. Puppy is *very* much lighter than Xubuntu in my experience. XFCE is really not king of the featherweight class any more.

Puppy has been good for hardware on past machines of mine. However, it uses all its own configuration applications with their own quirks and so it can take a little while to get used to them at first.

Puppy feels like its made to be used as a desktop distro - attractive intuitive desktop with all key apps pre installed, despite its small install size and minimal requirements.

If the puppy desktop feels a bit foreign, I recommend that you try an LXDE based distro, as this has replaced XFCE as the most fully featured low spec DE in my view.

You might want to investigate these distros as alternatives: tinyme, crunchbang, knoppix

Sam.

On Sunday 14 Feb 2010 10:17:42 main-request@lists.alug.org.uk wrote:

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Hi

Has anyone used Puppy Linux. Im looking for a small lightweight distro with good hardware support.

Puppy Linux seems to work on very low hardware, has flash support out of the box and good wireless support.

I tried Xubuntu but couldnt get it installed. I tried Fluxbuntu but wasnt impressed. I tried DSLN but it required a lot of tweaking.

I just wondered if any of you Linux lovers had tried Puppy Linux.

Ive got a P2 300mhz with 160mb ram.

Simon