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by thekevan 624 days ago
One thing not mentioned, although it is sort of implied if you are already familiar, is the ability to run Puppy's latest on absolutely ancient hardware.

>General hardware minimum system requirements are:

* CPU Type = x86, x86_64, AMD64

* 32bit Puppy's - CPU = single core Pentium 4 or equiv, RAM = 512mb

* 64bit Puppy's - CPU = 64 bit dual core, RAM = 1gb

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No one should be running a Pentium 4 these days unless they get electricity for free somehow. What a horrible CPU design.
Presumably it would also run on a Pentium M :).
The Pentium M was based on the Pentium III though.

(and closer to the first 'Core' (non-Duo/non-Quad), since the evolution went P3>PM>Core and P4 was mostly tossed away apart from a few years of Celerons)