Top 5 Tiny Distros
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| I was cleaning up my /home partiton when I noticed I had several tiny distros
| hanging around waiting to be tested. So I thought this might be a good time
| to write an updated Mini-distro Roundup. Unlike last time, the five
| contestants are all less than 88 MB in download size. The five contestants
| are CDlinux 0.6.1, Damn Small Linux 4.3r2, Puppy 4.0rc, Slitaz 1.0, and
| Austrumi 1.6.5. All of these are the latest stable except Damn Small and
| Puppy, that are release candidates. So, we'll cut them just a bit of slack in
| the stability department if need be.
|
| [...]
|
| And of course that honor goes to Puppy Linux. I found it probably to be the
| most complete and definitely the most functional. Being able to use my
| wireless ethernet just really impressed me. And I've always been impressed by
| those Puppy tools. These guys are writing their own software instead of using
| others' in many cases. I think that's cool.
|
| So Puppy wins this competition today. They placed very high last time as
| well. They kept improving while others remained stagnant and even found some
| new competition. I wonder how things will look in 3 more years.
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http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/26480
Another beta review:
Yoper 3.1 Beta
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| There are some rough edges as YOPER is still in beta. YOPER's repositories
| may not have some of the packages people are looking for. Also YOPER does not
| have a integrated control center like other major distributions do. YOPER may
| not be best suited for the beginners but for people who are ready to
| experiment with distributions, YOPER is worth trying.
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http://planetoss.com/detail.php?id=11
Recent:
Why I can't get a new laptop
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| It's all Linux's fault.
|
| [...]
|
| So, because of Linux, I don't need a new laptop and I'm not letting myself
| get one. I didn't install Ubuntu for that reason; I did it because I was
| switching over to Linux completely, on principle, rather than buy into Vista
| in all its unscrupulous, bug-ridden glory. Saving money on upgrades is an
| unexpected side effect. And I have to say it's not altogether welcome. It's
| good for me to be more frugal, but damn, it's frustrating to keep my wallet
| in my pocket when these shiny new toys are so tempting.
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http://www.dwasifar.com/2008/04/why-i-cant-get-new-laptop.html
Life after cyber-death
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| But thanks to improvements in desktop versions of Linux, we can now do
| something better.
|
| Apart from being able to run easily on clunky old machines, the great thing
| about Linux is the way thousands of the world’s most professional programmers
| have volunteered their spare time to improving the breed—with nothing to gain
| save personal satisfaction and the respect of their peers. Thanks to their
| efforts, there’s recently been a flood of slick desktop versions of the
| rugged open-source operating system.
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http://www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10500554
Supporting The Latest and Greatest; Supporting the Oldest and Slowest
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| Kudos to the developers at Vector Linux for scaling down as well as scaling
| up. There’s nothing more friendly to the environment or the budget than
| keeping an old system going rather than building or buying a new one. So long
| as a computer can do what you need it to do it’s not obsolete. I’ll be
| following up my AliXe review with reviews of other lightweight and small
| footprint Linux distributions, including Vector Linux Light when it’s
| released.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/linux/blog/2008/01/supporting_the_latest_and_grea.html
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