Puppy
I am posting from my old 650Mhz PIII, which has a full install of Nearly Office Puppy, with assorted frugal install boots for other users.NOP includes the Hiawatha web server and PPLOG as a personal blogging applet-thingy. I found it useful to work on articles, editing and re-editing and then copying the copy (and its BB codes) into the submission box of a couple sites I post at and/or a forum or few. PPLOG has turned out to be a little engine that could.
And it is tiny, yet powerful, and now we are installing PPLOG around our domains, just for its handiness as a blogging tool. And some of the coding for that was done on this little machine.
Puppy, too is another little engine that could. And can and does! This old box was a Win98 machine, and NOP runs it just as well, if not better. What was destined for the land fill is continuing to serve humanity as a little workstation and tiny node on the network of networks.
Stuff gets done on this old 'puter even though you can't watch movies or play high end games. (In fact there are no games on standard NOP. None.) But it still has enough oomph for a webstation that gets shared out to a non-profit and other users booting other OSes (mostly Puppies) to cyber-cafe it from time to time.
Without Open Source software this system would be a dinosaur left running programs that will never again have updates on an OS there are no updates for either. With Puppy it is staying way more up to date in the programs it runs and the OS that powers it. Staying fresh! Never stale.
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