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.shtmlIf 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