[4][5] Puredyne was a featured download on productivity weblog Lifehacker[6] and was named as one of the two software of year 2010 by the PixelAche network of electronic festivals.

Reasons stated for this decision involve difficulty in maintaining the distribution, and a lack of consensus with regard to future direction.

Its live form made it a perfect system for workshops or installation in locked down workstations which is the case in most universities and institutions.

[5][8] Used as a Live CD, puredyne is a complete Linux multimedia desktop environment that can run from virtually any x86 machine.

The system also comes with GCC and special SDK tools to facilitate the modification of the distribution, the addition of new software and the creation of new ISO images.