Aah Slax. My gateway drug into the Linux world and experimenting with computers in general. Back when I was in school looong ago when I got a copy in a tech magazine I bought from a streetside vendor.

Forgot about it at some point, I'm glad too to see it's still around! Doubt I'd be in tech or so interested in tinkering or programming or whatever if it weren't for that.

have several old laptops accumulated over the years, and they are running these days much better under the PuppyLinux purely from USB than they did back then under XP, Vista, 7.

I agree with other commenters that Neverware was bought not for old laptops. It is the supposedly zero-administration of Cloudready that in some CXX targetting PowerPoint looks like that old mainframe/terminal setup or like JavaStation (you stick the badge in and your work environment comes up) - CXX like to cut costs through magic of zero-administration/etc. May be Google will even risk to roll it out internally.