There is alot going on in the Puppy Derivatives discussion at the puppylinux.com site today.  Puppy derivatives are not some new financial scheme to make money for sneaky people; rather they are distributions that are based on one  of the official releases of Puppy Linux.  First on the list at the moment is Muppy Linux 008.4c Final. which was originally based on Puppy 3.01  There are a couple of versions, including Muppy-Mini (150MB) and Muppy Live (800MB).  Versions of the KDE and Gnome desktops are also available as options.  Muppy is set up to install the latest programs from Slackware 12.1.

Puppy Linux Developer's Edition was first posted just 10 days ago and has already attracted interest because it includes many of the programs that developers need in order to code and compile new software for Puppy. Developer's Edition is based on Puppy 4.00.

There is a new edition of Lighthouse Pup based on an earlier version of Puppy, version 2.15, which shows that all versions of Puppy are represented and have something to reccommend them and people who are interested in maintaining and using them.  

 Another new puplet is Boxpup based on the window manager Openbox, which is known for its simplicity and speed.  Out of the box it shows just a blank screen, with no icons on the screen and no taskbar at the bottom--though these things can be added with other programs. 

There is another new Puppy that makes claims to speed, and that is Greyhound Puppy (full disclosure: that is mine).  Greyhound gains its speed by doing away with the nonessentials and is unusual in the sense that there is no ISO image to download and install; rather there is just a set of instructions for training any puppy to  be a greyhound.

Also showing messages today is Surfpup, designed for web surfing and showing an extremely simple screen, with only the trash icon and a taskbar at the bottom;

You might also be interested in Churchpup, which is a full-featured Puppy derivative aimed primarily at Christians but open to all. ChurchPup focuses on Bible study, office applications, internet, and email, but also includes applications for multimedia presentations, audio and video editing, and musical notation.

MacPup Dingo is a 95MB ISO based on Puppy Dingo with the Icewm Package (Extremely small package from Ttuuxxx)  and Wbar (Docker application)  and a Modified Brushed Metal theme for ICEWM all giving it  an OSX kind of look.

Then there is Skinny Pup, which was created by NoNameAmI who only joined the Puppy community a few weeks ago, which shows that Puppy and the community are friendly and open to newcomers  as well as that Puppy is a fine platform for customizing.

You can see all of these for yourself by just clicking over to http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/index.php?f=35 and you can also see many of the Puppy Derivatives here on puppylinux.org