[ncolug] Re: small distros
- From: nor thern <zboson2003@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 16:23:07 -0700 (PDT)
--- On Tue, 5/10/11, DiGioia, Larry <larry.digioia@xxxxxx> wrote:
> From: DiGioia, Larry <larry.digioia@xxxxxx>
> Subject: [ncolug] small distros
> To: "ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <ncolug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: Tuesday, May 10, 2011, 1:55 PM
> OK guys – What is the fastest booting
> small live distro that will give me a browser? 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.) 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 ServicesRolls-Royce
> Energy Systems
> 105 N. Sandusky St. Mount
> Vernon, OH 43050
2 more
fast boot , has browser
http://www.slitaz.org/en/get/index.html
32MB
http://mirror.slitaz.org/iso/cooking/slitaz-cooking.iso
supposed to boot in ten seconds
http://xpud.org/download.en.html#tab-1
http://xpud.googlecode.com/files/xpud-0.9.2.iso 64 MB
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