[clue-tech] Recommendation for Lightweight Distro

[Brian Gibson]

I've been testing out Lubuntu and it runs faster than Xubuntu.  It's still not official yet, but it is in the repositories.  Or get the Live CD for LXDE (http://www.lxde.org/) which has Debian under the hood---there's even a USB image already prepped for you.  There's Puppy, not sure about Flash support though.  I've used DeLi Linux if you're targeting a 486, but I don't think it has Flash.


----- Original Message ----
From: Warren <warren at guano.org>
To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
Sent: Fri, October 23, 2009 6:09:18 PM
Subject: [clue-tech] Recommendation for Lightweight Distro

Can anybody suggest a lightweight linux distro that can boot off a 1GB
compact flash (on an IDE-to-CF adapter), run in RAM, and supports
Firefox and multimedia apps like flash and mplayer?   ...I guess like a
kiosk.

Normally, I'd just run Damn Small Linux, but it's having trouble
identifying the on-board Intel ethernet adapter on the target machine.

BTW, if you've never taken a look at xPud (http://www.xpud.org/), give
it a try.  It's fast and uncomplicated.  It had trouble recognizing the
wheel in my wheel mouse (!) and the built-in installer for flash and
other multimedia apps doesn't actually seem to install anything, but it
shows a lot of promise.

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