[ncolug] Re: small distros
- From: Chuck Stickelman <cstickelman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 May 2011 23:32:47 -0400
I've been thinking about a similar sort of thing. Though I want/need
the system to run from a liveCD.
Chuck
On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 20:55 +0000, DiGioia, Larry wrote:
> OK guys –
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> What is the fastest booting small live distro that will give me a
> browser?
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> I don’t even care if it’s a text based browser, it just needs to
> already be there, and working, when it comes up. This needs to be on a
> flash drive, BTW. All I need to do is authenticate to our Websense,
> then kill power, and boot my other AV tools, which “assume” web access
> and have no means of authentication, to get their updates. (Websense
> will not idle time out on a given IP for about 10 minutes.)
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> So far I have found that (on old machines of course) Knoppix (and
> variants) are excruciatingly slow on HW detection, Lubuntu isn’t
> actually very “light…” and Puppy needs me to install a browser, etc.
>
> Larry DiGioia
> HP Technology Services
>
> Rolls-Royce Energy Systems
> 105 N. Sandusky St.
>
> Mount Vernon, OH 43050
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