[Cialug] Small Linux Distros

[Tim Champion]

I would second DSL (Damn Small Linux).  Actually, I've done a regular debian
installation, and then uncheck everything during the intstall except maybe
SSHD.  Then apt-get install only the things I want.

I'm running DSL on my xbox, and its very quick, runs well on the original
xbox hardware with 128 MB or RAM and like a 600 or 800 Mhz celery.

Tim Champion
timchampion at gmail.com


On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Matthew Nuzum <newz at bearfruit.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I'm looking for a small distro to permanently install on a machine.  Are
> any of the small distros Debian-based.  Can anyone recommend one?
> >
>
> How small are you thinking? DSL is debian based. It's 50M. For a
> console based system the last time I did an install of Debian it was
> pretty small. Ubuntu Server is also pretty compact. Also, I know this
> streches the concept of compact a little, but with the "create a usb
> startup disk" feature in Ubuntu you can make a full desktop with
> persistance on a 1GB thumb drive.
>
> Saw this with some distros I'd not seen before:
>
> http://www.downloadsquad.com/2009/01/11/20-awesome-free-os-downloads-that-arent-windows-7/
>
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