[hllug] Re: Lightweight Linux Distros

  • From: Lee Parmeter <geek@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: hllug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2009 21:34:51 -0600

WB5BKL wrote:
My son Ian is considering a Linux installation on one of the new smaller
laptops.

I found this listing:

http://lightlinux.blogspot.com/2008/06/top-10-of-lightweight-linux_24.html


Are there others that you would recommend?
In general, Absolute Linux is a very lean slackware based distro.
http://www.absolutelinux.org/about.shtml

If the laptop is a "netbook", then there are several new derivative distro's that are tailored to work well. For example:

http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home

-Lee


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