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Operating Systems => Linux and UNIX => Topic started by: jrigby on 31 October 2002, 07:21

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: jrigby on 31 October 2002, 07:21

whats a small linux distro that is somewhat easy to use but still pretty small??

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: RudeCat7 on 31 October 2002, 07:36

This is pretty small...and quite popular.
Tom's Root Boot Disk (http://www.toms.net/rb/)  (http://smile.gif)

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: jrigby on 31 October 2002, 07:58

well preferably something a little bigger between 10-60 megs possibly but thanks!!

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: Master of Reality on 31 October 2002, 08:03

OpenBSD.... definately not easy to use though

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: jrigby on 31 October 2002, 08:15

well i do need something thats easy to install the rest can be left up to trial and error.
thanks again

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: voidmain on 31 October 2002, 21:26

I have heard people say good things about Peanut Linux:
http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/ (http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/)

Also here is another page listing several small distributions:
http://www.elinux.com/articles/distros/min_flop.jsp (http://www.elinux.com/articles/distros/min_flop.jsp)

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: Calum on 31 October 2002, 12:55

Trinux - runs off 3 floppies, however it only really includes rescue type apps, so you'd need to do some work to make it into a proper linux installation

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: LorKorub on 31 October 2002, 15:13

Ice Pack Linux is small, compact, and noob-friendly. I believe they have it at http://www.linuxiso.org. (http://www.linuxiso.org.)

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: KernelPanic on 31 October 2002, 19:49

yeah peanut linux is cool, but knoppix has to be the smallest distro. It takes 0Mb  (http://smile.gif)

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: fox on 1 November 2002, 04:23

Dragon Linux is a UMSDOS distro that's around 60-80 and includes X... (most small distros don't). It's based on Slackware (as most small/umsdos distros...?)

Now I don't remember the addres, but it's on the frontpage of this site.

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 1 November 2002, 04:55

Dragon Linux:
http://www.dataphone.se/~dragon/thomas/dragon/ (http://www.dataphone.se/~dragon/thomas/dragon/)

Knoppix technically takes up 0 MB. You need the 700 MB to burn the CD that it boots from...

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: Doctor V on 1 November 2002, 05:05

How small does it have to be?  You want to compltetly wipe windows out right?  I remember on another post you said you wanted somthing easy to install.  If this is your first time using Linux, I'd suggest just going with Mandrake 9.0  its very easy to install and use.  It autodetects your hardware, and make partitioning very simple.  Some people have called Mandrake bloated, which it is.  Its certainly not the smallest distro as far as disk space goes.  But 4 GB should be more than enough for it.

V 0.8.7

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: jrigby on 1 November 2002, 08:10

yeah size doesnt really matter now I have a few extra hard drives lying around I posted this before i read about the MS bullcrap
thanks I have about 20 gigs on my computer now and a few 6 gigs not installed

[ October 31, 2002: Message edited by: jrigby ]

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: voidmain on 1 November 2002, 21:00

RedHat 8.0 or SuSe 8.1 or Mandrake 9.0 then.  (http://smile.gif)

Title: small linux distro??
Post by: SpaceMonkey on 1 November 2002, 23:10

all of the dragon linux links on the page for download are broken