Curse you, Puppy Linux!

I recently had to reinstall Win98SE on a refurbished computer system – when compared to my ubernoobie-level dabblings with puppy the experience felt exactly like a visit to the dentists and KNOWING I was having the wrong teeth extracted.

I can't wait for someone to bring out puppy1 puplets entitled "Cujo" or "Baskerville" for those of us losing knuckle skin and blood while resurrecting old hardware for PuppyOS to frolic in. Some hiccups in getting my five “scrapheap” Pentium-era machines operational – turns out that my small efforts to reduce toxic landfill were not completely successful. After much frustration I had to loose to the ravages of time (and programmed obsolescence):

Alright - I'm bitten. Puppy linux /PuppyOS represents the final nail in my Windows XPerience, but before I make the divorce final I want a Puppy version that reliably runs Zotero (Firefox 2+ add-on EndNote replacement) and a swathe of indespensible Windows programs (incl. VirtualDub and StatView, R and Statistiklabour, PersonalBrain - all under WINE, I guess... but I'm a noob and I haven't got there yet).