Re: Hi & Distro Recomendation for newbie

Thanks foar the tip. I need something for rescue and file transfer in
the dedicated computers in my lab. These have all of 8 Mb of memory and
Knoppix won't run. Likewise Gentoo. If the early versions of Windows
will run with 8 Mb why won't Linux???

Douglas

> Slax is a Live Linux distro based on Slackware. They have several
> variations. Sounds like you may like the "Frodo" edition which is only
> a 47MB download.
>
> http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
>
> "SLAX Frodo edition is the console base for all other SLAX releases. It
> doesn't contain almost anything, only full working Linux command prompt
> and drivers."
>
> Personally being a Windows admin I like the desktop. I chose the
> "standard" edition which has KDE 3.4 ready to go. I booted into the
> Live system and had it installed onto a laptop in under 30 minutes.
>
> Not to mention you can use the Live Scripts on this sight to "roll your
> own" distro.
>
> Good luck,
> Tim
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Received on Thu Sep 15 07:28:35 2005