Thursday, February 16, 2012

Mini distro fun

Just been playing around with SliTaz, a tiny (and I mean tiny) distro.
Although ridiculously small (around 30Mb download), it is actually a really useable little distro.
I installed it onto a 1Gb USB stick for now to play around a little (as well as having a live version in a virtual machine) and have been updating it, adding Firefox 10, Flash etc to bring it up to the spec which my wife would want on her EeePC (she is pretty cheesed off with the Xandros install on her 701 and wants an alternative on a SD card). We have tried various other light and mini distros - LXDE versions of the main distros mostly, but they all need well over 1Gb of disk space to install in - which on a little 4Gb drive isn't really useful.

Check out SliTaz - I think you will be impressed!

http://www.slitaz.org/

1 comment:

kernowyon said...

Is that Tiny Core Linux?

http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/downloads.html