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  1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

    Computer ponies, need some advice. Looking for a really light Linux distro, what would you recommend?

    Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:29:59 UTC from web
    1. NewPatrol NewPatrol

      @eaglehooves i know nothing about linux, sorry

      Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:30:35 UTC from web
    2. Bit Shift Bit Shift

      @eaglehooves If you have no dependency on any particular packaging system, either Tiny Core Linux (~10MB), or its even-more-cut-down variant Micro Core Linux (~7MB I think, and you get it from the same site as the main TC).

      Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:33:50 UTC from web
      1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

        @bitshift I was kinda thinking Damn Small Linux. I've got HDD space, but an old Celeron (1.2ghz) with a very poor video card that is just tired. I'll look into Tiny Core.

        Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:37:05 UTC from web
        1. Bit Shift Bit Shift

          @eaglehooves Damn Small is about as small as you can go without explicitly using cut-down variants of core components (such as X), yeah. Only other particularly small one that comes to mind is Puppy, so maybe give that a look too?

          Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:41:10 UTC from web
          1. Sir E. Hooves III Sir E. Hooves III

            @bitshift I'm downloading DSL and Puppy now, it's taking forever sharing a connection with Netflix, but hopefully I'll have this thing booting tonight. It's junk, but I figure I can throw some crazy paint scheme on it and use it as a web browser at least.

            Tuesday, 22-May-12 01:44:25 UTC from web