Hi! Nick,

On 04/13/2016 11:31 AM, you wrote:

 PQ>> Quite old, for sure.  My bad.  I'm just flogging a dev environment I
 PQ>> took great pains to build years back.  I have a couple of USB boot
 PQ>> sticks with later Puppies, which is its usual user environment, but I
 PQ>> wouldn't trust any of those to run Fido.

 NB> Are you talking about those specific USB boot sticks? Or newer versions
 NB> of Puppy Linux in general? I would think they're a lot more secure
 NB> nowadays than they were back then?

Well, umm... both.  The 'dev' PC (i.e. the only one of three with gcc & make,
etc) and this ~/1384 node are installed versions of Puppy, originally booted
using a USB stick (different versions).  The first was originally installed to
actual hardware, and then in late 2010 converted to a VirtualBox (vBox)
appliance.  The Fido node was created as a vBox from USB.  I no longer have
those USBs formatted as such.

I do have USBs formatted for later Puppies: v5.25 & v6.02(/Tahr?), each with
multiple saved session settings for booting three PCs: two desktops & a
netbook, for booting each for different reasons or situations (wired network
versus wifi).  E.g. I am using the v5.25 USB on the netbook to write this note.
 I can boot any PC with either USB if the BIOS allows.  I think you know this
and you know about the Puppy distro, and I regret having to write this down.

This node's Puppy, v4.2.1, was developed as a one-off project by a bloke who
promised that he would not be maintaining it, nor would he improve on it.  Fair
enough.  It's a miniature version of most OOtB Linux distros.  OTOH as with any
other Puppy, the default user is root AKA the admin user in windows terms.  One
big difference with this one however is the ability to run daemon jobs
goober-style (bash scripts in the background), and exit/logout.  The vBox &
jobs keep running.  Do that with any other Puppy and the machine shuts down.

I'm exhausted.  Mmm... what was your question.  Oh, later versions: they're all
simplistic pimped, small, fast, GUI blowjobs for the unwashed consumer masses. 
I'll try to keep an eye out for any other prospective multi-user Puppy.

Cheers,
Paul.

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