On May 18, Alan Grimes directed electrons to calmira_tips@xxxxxxxxxxxxx: >> www.linuxfromscratch.com >NICE!!! >That fixes almost 50% of my gripes with linux... Ok, so you're not exactly impressed with the kernel... That's ok :) Another ultra-minimal distro that may be interesting is Toms RTBT at http://toms.net/rb. It is a super-small compressed distro that fits onto one diskette. It boots, uncompresses the filesystem into a ramdisk, and operates from there. Everything is in memory, and doesn't touch your drives at all (unless you tell it to). Disk space needed is -0- bytes. Takes a minute or two to boot, but makes a very nice ultra-mini setup that I use for system administration and such. I can't get it to make a dialup net connection (it only supports network links), but it's still fun to play with. You can find a list of mini-distros of varying types and sizes and feature ranges at http://www.blj8.com/Computers/Linux-Unix/Distributions/Mini-distributions/index.html -=Brian=- To unsubscribe, send a message to listar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe calmira_tips" in the body. OR visit http://freelists.dhs.org