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Re:Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review by thekevan on Monday October 07, 2024 @06:32PM (#41771814)
One thing not mentioned, although it is sort of implied if you are already familiar, is the ability to run Puppy's latest on absolutely ancient hardware.

>General hardware minimum system requirements are:

* CPU Type = x86, x86_64, AMD64

* 32bit Puppy's - CPU = single core Pentium 4 or equiv, RAM = 512mb

* 64bit Puppy's - CPU = 64 bit dual core, RAM = 1gb

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Re:Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review by shiroiushi on Monday October 07, 2024 @08:39PM (#41772673)
No one should be running a Pentium 4 these days unless they get electricity for free somehow. What a horrible CPU design.
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Re:Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review by tdeck on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @01:56AM (#41774207)
Presumably it would also run on a Pentium M :).
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Re:Who's a Good Boy? A Puppy Linux Mini-Review by NikkiA on Tuesday October 08, 2024 @09:59AM (#41777469)
The Pentium M was based on the Pentium III though.

(and closer to the first 'Core' (non-Duo/non-Quad), since the evolution went P3>PM>Core and P4 was mostly tossed away apart from a few years of Celerons)

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