__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Wednesday 28 June 2006 12:53 \__
> __/ [ William Poaster ] on Wednesday 28 June 2006 11:41 \__
>
>> Austrumi Live-CD is a complete linux OS, which is only 50MB & fits
>> onto a mini (business size card) CD. Based on Slackware, it uses
>> Enlightenment as a desktop. On booting, it copies itself into RAM for
>> faster application access, & thus allows the CD drive to be available for
>> other tasks.
>>
>> http://cyti.latgola.lv/ruuni/index_en.html
>>
>> Downloaded from sourceforge:
>> http://sourceforge.net/projects/austrumi/
>
> Your mentioning of the compactness of this distro reminded me of this.
>
>
http://channels.lockergnome.com/linux/archives/20060623_dsln_damn_small_linux_gets_bigger.phtml
>
> Puppy is growing to be a dog, size-wise and requirements-wise. It even
> includes Opera 9, which unlike SeaMonkey, supports the most modern
> standards, but raises the minimal resource bar. I guess there is a novelty
> tradeoff which, in due time, will make old hardware obsolete.
Oops. DSL and Puppy mixup. Typical...
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