alt.hn

I had Puppy Linux on a USB stick when I was a kid. It was the first Linux flavor I used for an extended period of time for two very specific reasons. It was small, I didn't have much time to spend at the library waiting for downloads, and I couldn't afford a very large USB stick.

I had nuked the MBR on our family computer. I never figured out how I'd done it but that the fix was to restore it using a Windows recovery disk. But that took about 2 years of using Linux live CDs as a compute environment, eventually progressing my computer knowledge to trying to install Ubuntu to the hard drive so I could start saving files, and saw that the Windows partition existed on disk and did a bit more research with that knowledge to learn about MBRs and dual booting. The Tech Tv channel back in the 2000s was a great way for a 10 year old to learn about computers!

Thanks for the trip down memory lane, and for kicking off the acquisition of skills I've centered my career around!

by kami23

It looks like after 3 years there is a (early?) release available: 2510-25111 trixiepup. 11/19/25

https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=puppy

But back in June there was some event that used the language Dev Leaves and Turn Off The Lights

TrixiePup64 11.1.1 (Development discontinued) 6/7/25 https://forum.puppylinux.com/viewtopic.php?t=14554

Maybe positive things happened between June and Nov.

by WarOnPrivacy