Many years ago when I was a baby distro-hopping penguin, I new so little. And many distros were full of watered down unix illuminati. Very condescending/dismissive/unkind advisory know it alls. Boo! Hiss!
A rather intriguing Linux, not even on version one had a kind user; knowledgeable, patient and willing to answer my noob questions. I had that distro on the back burner, valuing its incredible speed and efficient programs but its screen scrolling was s l o w on my hardware …
And then … I was helped with making use of my very old graphic card. Whoosh, all of a sudden Puppy Linux was viable and still very different, experimental and well … just small, efficient, ran from RAM as root. Basically the way Linux for a desktop could be …
I was hooked in …
I was not much for programming but could support in a variety of other ways. Daily news-letters, youtube talks, curating the wiki, posts on the forum. Testing every release and reporting back etc. etc.
I am no longer active but remember …
… support your distro … My very first act was starting this page … grown a bit since then https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppy_Linux
I never tried Puppy Linux, but always stayed in the back of my mind.
I honestly don’t know how to contribute to a distro as big as Debian…
I used Debian Knoppix, before I had a spare hard drive. Puppy can now be built and be compatible with Debian …
I think my first experience with linux, actually, was running Puppy on my mom’s old computer from a live usb. I never really ended up doing much, but it was fun.
Yep Puppy works well on older hardware, as does Austrumi which is sadly dormant …
Should try Slitaz
Tried it, liked it. Glad it is still active. It uses much software I am familiar with. https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slitaz
What browsers are used with it, can not remember?
Isn’t a custom Firefox browser?
https://doc.slitaz.org/en:handbook:internet
Midori and firefox
