**Puppy Linux is:**

- Ready to use → includes software for common tasks
- [[https://www.osnews.com/story/24740/puppy-linux-top-dog-of-the-lightweight-distros/ High functionality with minimal hardware]]
- Fast, versatile, unique Linux
- Built on shared principles, tools, Puppy applications and configurations
- Small size → 350 MB or less.
- Different versions → over 5000
- Just works on Intel, AMD and ... {{color text="now " c="red"}} [[http://wikka.puppylinux.com/Puppi ARM]]
- A platform for [[http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?p=1039384#1039384 Linux innovation]] and support
- Variety → hundreds of derivatives, for your needs
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**Official releases**
- official release every two years.
- predictable for users
- gives us some (fairly) fixed release deadlines / timelines
- helps to keep puppy current and up to date

Each official release has a "definition of done":
- 32 bit version
- 64 bit version
- passed user testing:
-- works with frugal install
-- works with full install
-- boots to desktop
-- working on target devices:
---- audio
---- video
---- ethernet
---- wifi
---- samba
---- printing
---- bluetooth
---- mounted drives (exfat, ntfs, fat32, f2fs)

I guess ARM based Pups would be irregular or "not fit" in many ways, but hopefully
with 01mickos work, when could endevour to always include an "official" ARM release along with
the 32 and 64 bit official releases.

**Policy on "Community Editions"**

A "community edition" is a re-release of an official version,
with latest Woof-CE fixes, forum contributions, and a few more apps
installed by default.

Community Editions could differentiate themselves from "official" releases in that they have:

- extra "puppy-xxx-contrib" repo installed by default, (containing packages made by users after the official release)
- latest woof-ce codebase
- updated program versions and libs
- manual bug fixes & tweaks from end-users, testers, forum
- more default programs added
- therefore, a bit more "user friendly" than a regular Puppy

The extra repo and programs would be nice to add as after an official release cos
users often create lots of great PETs and SFS packages after a Puppy is released,
and these can easily be added to a user contributed "contrib" repo, which get included
in a CE version by default (using Pkg, anyway Wink ).

Anything older than 4 years, we don't support - we don't make new packages for it, back port
bug fixes to it, etc - we simply forward users of these older versions to forum threads.

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