Re: [school-discuss] Smallest Linux Footprint

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Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:02:39 -0800 (PST)

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That might be too thin ... I'd suggest Puppy Linux, lots of nice choices there. The HP E140's have a 1 gHz processor.

Actually I'd try a number of distros to see which one suits them best, works best with their machines ... other popular & reasonably light distros are Slax, Vector Linux (Slackware -- very fast) & others like PCLinuxOS (used in Karoshi server suite), older Mandrake/Mandriva & even a stripped-down media versions of Ubuntu if memory serves....

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Sent: Thursday, March 5, 2009 12:40:28 PM
Subject: Re: [school-discuss] Smallest Linux Footprint

Stewart Ives wrote:
> Hello world,
>
> I've been working with someone who is currently using HP's E140 thin/thick
> desktops to provide a "Windows" desktop to users. They want to switch over to
> Linux and are looking for the smallest linux desktop they can configure on the
> E-140's.
>
> I suggested they look at the Knoppix CD load as that is around 650MB in size
> and they would be able to burn it into the 1GB ROM without any problem.
>
> Does anyone else have any suggestions I might pass along.

Damn small linux:
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

- cameron