Distribution Release: Hacao Linux 4.21

I don't know if anyone looked at DistroWatch Weekly this week but the screenshot of Hacao Linux, running in English rather than Vietnamese, is very pretty indeed. It looks like an aesthetically pleasing distro. For that reason alone I may just take a look.

I'm eager to hear how it's different from PuppyLinux. Keep us up to date!

Well, considering I refuse to run Puppy Linux, now or EVER, I won't be able to give you that info.

There was some bad taste in my mouth somewhere, but now I remember. Sorry for bringing up that issue again.

Sounds like classic PTSD-- Puppy Traumatic Stress Disorder.

I received an e-mail from a now former member of the Puppy community who described someone with a dissenting view in their forum. Apparently some people there thought the best way to deal with him was to bash his head in. Yep, another death threat directed at someone else. If the text that was sent me was accurate (I didn't visit the Puppy Linux forum to confirm so I can't be sure) there was agreement that head bashing was the way to go. Sadly things like this end up reflecting on the Linux community as a whole rather than one tiny little unfortunate corner of the community.

> Puppy Traumatic Stress Disorder.

A puppy soiling your heirloom family rug can do that to you.

I used Puppy quite a bit at one point, but once I started to get a lot of data on my installs, I needed to get beyond the 2GB pup_save limit and have proper non-root accounts and permissions, as well as an easy upgrade path.

Still, Puppy definitely has its uses, and on really, really old hardware, it's great. It's still the best thing for my 1999-era Compaq Armada laptop (233 MHz CPU, 144 MB RAM).