labbe5 wrote:It is based on Stretchdog[/b], which in turn is based on Debian Stretch.
which, means it is ancestrally based on Debian-live (not on Puppy at all, though StretchDog does allow user to use some Puppy utilities, but provides more of its own). It is not a derivative of Puppy - it is a derivative of Debian-live, though possibly the most popular version uses an initramfs (modified) from Porteus Linux.
Puppy itself has an independently developed initramfs, but relies on Debian, Ubuntu, or Slackware repos for its main app functionality.
The DebianDogs has its own independent github site: "The DebianDog Organization at Github":
https://github.com/DebianDog/
which I started at a time saintless (Toni) was still an active(lead) developer of the DebianDogs, but that github site has since become almost entirely run and looked after by Fred.
The Dogs also have their own website, created on that github resource by Fred:
https://debiandog.github.io/doglinux/
Unfortunately (at least I consider it unfortunate) DebianDog doesn't (as yet?) have its own forum (there are certainly enough DebianDogs and interest in them to justify a larger forum area/section). Such forums take a lot of extra admin work though - the DDs could do with having their own John Murga type figure who would take than on (setting up, administering forum uses up precious time for actual distro development work) and time to establish, so I guess that lack is not surprising.
I do myself feel that the DebianDogs should be announced to Distrowatch (DD been around for almost six years now!), however, or at least the latest incarnations such as BionicDog with Fred-created github "[Debian] Dog Linux" homepage notified as its home site. But such announcement are up to Fred of course since he pretty much the DDs sole developer nowadays - though it is a community project in terms of its development model.
I wonder what saintless is up to these days.
As for Simplicity Linux, I haven't yet tried it at all - I'm sure it is great and a lot of work. However, I do feel, looking at its website that its (StretchDog dependent) developer does not give anything like as much credit to DebianDog's development work, brushing it off rather with the briefest of statements:
"We’re proud to announce the release of Simplicity Linux 19.10. It is based on Stretchdog, which in turn is based on Debian Stretch"
Indeed the Simplicity Linux sourceforge project page seems to not mention StretchDog at all!
"Simplicity Linux uses Puppy Linux and derivatives as a base, uses the XFCE window manager, and comes in 3 editions: Netbook, Desktop and Media."
wiak