Whats the SMALLEST distro I can get that's

dominionlife · 01-06-2005, 04:02 AM

full featured like Mandrake or Fedora but smaller

Nothing over a gigabyte since I am on dial up

dominionlife · 01-06-2005, 04:03 AM

like I can use RPM's and stuff

Cron · 01-06-2005, 05:33 AM

DSL (DSL=Damn Small Linux) is full featured LiveCD distro, that fits in 50mb, and can easily be installed on hard drive. it has better tool than rpm, (IMHO) MyDSL repositories, you just click on program and it is installed

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PBSchmidt · 01-06-2005, 05:46 AM

Just for completeness:

Feather Linux
TinyLinux for 386
TRBT Linux for 386

(last two I would not really recommend for, e.g., OOo...)

HTH, Peter

dominionlife · 01-06-2005, 06:21 AM

thanks I've already DSL and Feather I'll give the other two a look

PBSchmidt · 01-06-2005, 06:30 AM

Well, one look should do - with tiny, I am trying to get my old 386DX40 back to work

and that's what tiny and TRBT is meant for.

Cheers, Peter

Chris H · 01-06-2005, 07:43 AM

Beatrix weighs in at a 180Mb download.

Has OpenOffice, Evolution, Firefox, CUPS, Gaim, Gnome 2.8, kernel 2.6 and apt-get will do all your package management.

For a more featured distro Ubuntu fits on one cd.

PBSchmidt · 01-06-2005, 08:40 AM

Hi Chris H,

I am going to check Beatrix, thx for the pointer. I am always interested in small distros that make life for my customers easier

Cheers,

Peter