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Old 08-15-2003, 09:25 AM   #1
thosm
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Looking for Linux "Lite"

I am wondering if anyone can recommend a basic, fast GUI based Linux distribution. All that is really needed is a nice lite GUI, a file browser, and networking.

Thanks,
Tom Murray
 
Old 08-15-2003, 10:52 AM   #2
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ZipSlack www.slackware.com

Lighter? ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/0.5/iso/i686/arch-0.5-base.iso (might not have a gui, but wouldn't be hard to strap one in ).

Cool
 
Old 08-16-2003, 11:45 AM   #3
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Vector is great, it's small, fast, 100% Slackware compatable and uses IceWM as the default GUI. I use it on an old 100Mhz Pentium I have.

www.vectorlinux.com
 
Old 08-16-2003, 04:30 PM   #4
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Thanks, MasterC and C8H10N4O2. The one prerequisite that I left out of my original post was "easy to install".

Slackware seems to be attractive for certain tasks and certain users (i.e. advanced), but I kinda wanted something that was a no-brainer to install. VectorLinux caught my eye last night. Seems to be what I need. I'll have to check out the website some more.

Thanks again for the info,
Tom Murray
 
Old 08-16-2003, 04:34 PM   #5
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http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...990#post419990
 
Old 08-18-2003, 02:54 PM   #6
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OS X Jaguar.

Easy to install and built on Unix.


hee hee hee
 
Old 08-18-2003, 08:34 PM   #7
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OS X Jaguar.

Easy to install and built on Unix.
Err, just thought of another prerequisite:

Low cost or free
 
Old 08-18-2003, 09:38 PM   #8
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http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

You can tell it what you want to do with your Linux.

Or, try Gentoo. You decide what you want to install with that as well. Plus Gentoo is extremely powerful if you'd ever need it.
 
Old 08-18-2003, 09:44 PM   #9
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Vector is a text based install but straightforward - its fast though - JAMD is meant to be good.

You can check out all the major Linux distributions and more at Distrowatch:

Click here to go to Distrowatch
 
Old 08-18-2003, 09:56 PM   #10
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Quote:
Originally posted by tbellas
OS X Jaguar.

Easy to install and built on Unix.


hee hee hee
heh, Apple make a version of the OSX "Darwin" Unix core available for x86 machines. Too bad the hardware support for it is almost nil though...
 
Old 08-19-2003, 12:30 AM   #11
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Err, just thought of another prerequisite:

Low cost or free

That was my attempt at humor.

Its a great peice of OS, but it is costly.
 
Old 08-19-2003, 03:14 AM   #12
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>> but I kinda wanted something that was a no-brainer to install.

All Linux need some brain. Only Windows does not need brain.
 
Old 08-19-2003, 01:20 PM   #13
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why not strip down you own dist just install the progs you will use and left others out (not the depencies of course) and you will have small gui based dist as for me i got one 500 mb suse install as my test machine and 1 gb install for my main workstation running redhat as for you mb depend on your needs and those dist listed above does the same think they are all based on other major dist.
 
Old 08-19-2003, 03:14 PM   #14
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heh, Apple make a version of the OSX "Darwin" Unix core available for x86 machines. Too bad the hardware support for it is almost nil though...
Give me a G5 and give me bliss.
 
  


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