One Laptop Per Child; Puppy to the Rescue
Barry Kauler, the creator of Puppy Linux, discusses his experience with running a slightly-modified Puppy 2.0 alpha on a "thin station" computer.
We Puppy enthusiasts were saddened to read of the disappointment of the developers of the OLPC laptop manufacturers, testing a custom Red Hat Linux, due to the extreme slowness. That was the main catalyst that prompted me to write this page. Okay, we don't have the $2 million to pay like Red Hat, but we do have a system that works well.
With a 433 Mhz CPU you have to expect some delays, however with Puppy the responsiveness is mostly immediate. Everything happens in a fraction of a second, and it feels like a 2GHz CPU running XP. The big applications do, however, need a bit of time to load.
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