Hi,
An OS that can grow from 100mb to 3 or 4 gb, that is a feat. It is amazingly easy to fit Alpha OS to our needs. I found everything i hoped for in the new repository, and, what i can say? It is is even better than previous releases.
I used to be a user of Puppy Wary and some other derivatives. Very good OS for their size, multimedia codecs already integrated, that is a big thing for those who own only a computer for multimedia experience, but Puppy Wary and derivatives are not up to standard in regard to managing packages. Not enough apps and dependencies to fit our specific needs. Too much scattering around. If only active members of the Puppy community stayed together toward one goal : making Puppy Wary great, instead of creating one new Puppy after another. So much effort and energy spent on every direction possible. Barry and contributors are bright fellows that keep track on delivering good OS, year after year, though.
But, for the time being, i definitely prefer AlphaOS, i feel it is a kind of Puppy Wary on steroids, and i love it.
By the way, the gray design of v.7.0 is very attractive, indeed.
In my opinion, this change, in regard to the richness of the repository, is for the better.
Is a v.8.0 in the cards? It is so fast developing!