Hi! Nicholas,   
      
   On Sun, 02 Dec 12, you wrote to me:   
      
    NB> @MSGID: 1:154/10 50bb7ee6   
    NB> @REPLY: 3:640/384 01c07342   
    NB> @PID: GED+LNX 1.1.5-b20120229   
    NB> @TID: SBBSecho 2.20-Linux r1.216 Nov 22 2012 GCC 4.5.4   
      
    NB> @CHRS: CP850 2   
      
    PQ>> Nope.  It's Linux with training wheels, for dummies.  Woof!   
      
    NB> Hmm. I never really read up on Puppy, but I was always under the   
    NB> impression it was just a smaller distro where you had to do a lot of   
    NB> the work yourself, like ArchLinux or Gentoo.   
      
   Puppy is consumer-level GUI, in a roughly 100Mb .iso; I still run a fourth   
   vBox, very occasionally, from just the .iso release.  (Heck I use the same   
   vBox, on blue moon days, with other distros just to have a sticky-beak at   
   them.)  Puppy is nearly industrial-strength, and in some cases it is... in   
   internet cafes & kitchens.   
      
    NB> And that *buntu was the Linux with training wheels for dummies. :)   
      
   They are many orders of magnitude removed from Puppy.  Puppy is a single-user   
   GUI environment without a GCC, for example.  Forget about 'man' pages as   
   well.  They've removed the fat you would find in most other distros.  Imagine   
   jamming Debian into 100-or-so megs.  That's what they've done.  Its main   
   attractions are that it's designed to work on minimum & old hardware.  Two of   
   my Puppy vBoxes only run on 128Mb RAM; the same as my two Win98SE vBoxes; four   
   machines for only 512Mb.  Whoo!hoo!.   
      
    NB> BTW, here's the first reply using Michiel's care package. Though   
    NB> while I was adding everything, I realized I don't use CP850 as my   
    NB> local charset here like you do. Here's hoping..   
      
   It works!  You just need some weird characters to toy with now.   
      
   Cheers,   
   Paul.   
      
   ... Move your vowels every day or you'll get consonated.   
   --- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox   
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