WTF?! NO floppy in Lucid or in Meerkat!

[Liam Proven]

2010/9/25 Franz Waldmüller <waldbauernbub at gmx.at>:
> Hi,
> Liam Proven wrote:
> [snip]
>
>> Of Ubuntu variants:
>>  * Xubuntu is not that small any more.
>>  * Lubuntu is looking promising. I have run it successfully on a P4 with 256MB.
>>  * As Lubuntu is gathering speed, the future of U-Lite is uncertain.
>> It may rise again in a new form - I chat to the maintainer regularly &
>> he is still deciding what to do.
>>  * The current version of Puppy, v5, is called "Lucid Puppy" and is
>> now Ubuntu-based as well.
>>
>>
> Puppy Linux is quite fine if you have to boot from a cd on an old
> machine. But as far as I am informed the default user created upon
> installation is *root*. I would not use this OS as a working environment.
> (I just use it to access my email account when I log in from an
> untrusted computer - these windows boxes are very often cramped with
> malware and keyloggers)

Yes, I concur. This is why I have long advised against Puppy. The
maintainer knows of the issue but dismisses it as unimportant.

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