[clue-tech] Recommendation for Lightweight Distro

[WILLIAM PATTERSON+I*I SMITH]

I installed Debian 5.03 on an old P II laptop with 260 k ram and its been running fine. Pointer stick and all, USB and ethernet. Bill Smith

> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 21:35:36 -0700
> From: bwg1974 at yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] Recommendation for Lightweight Distro
> To: clue-tech at cluedenver.org
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> 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.
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> ----- 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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