On the subject of small distro's like DSL. Anyone know if they can operate on Compact flash or similar memory cards? Just thinking if you a writable media like a CF card holding your distro as well as offering storage space, might be kind of interesting.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Behalf Of Peter E. Williams > Sent: February 7, 2004 12:43 AM > To: CLUG General > Subject: Re: [clug-talk] Live CDs for 486s > > > > > On Fri, 6 Feb 2004, Jason Louie wrote: > > > This months presentation by Peter has really inspired me to do some > > digging on my own and while looking around on the web I found this > > distro. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ This distro can be purchased as > > a business card size, (~50mb). It runs a deviation of BlackBox and can > > surf the web and do some graphical stuff too. Very nifty and > it's still > > not in version 1.0 yet. Only problem though is I can't find it in my > > heart to burn it on a full CD. > > > > Great tip Jason. I love Linux more every day! I heard about damnsmalllinux > and the 50mb is even smaller than what I was told. The business card size > CD is also brilliant. > > As a presenter, its rewarding to learn more about the topic one presented > and to inspire others as well. Thank you Jason. Another example of this > occurred when I learned from Jeff (Clement) that there is a > smaller desktop > than blackbox which I've already been looking into. Thanks for that Jeff. > > It's called ratpoison because it kills the mouse. You use the keyboard > exclusively to do everything on the desktop. I think its a great idea > because IMHO its not only faster to do things with the keyboard, but > ergonomically safer since it puts less strain on your wrists than the > mouse. Ratpoison can be downloaded from freshmeat.net or sourceforge.net > > I think I'm now going to see if I can combine ratpoison with > damnsmalllinux. > I can now image being able to install linux on even more 486 computers and > facing fewer potential hardware and X11 (video) issues because a mouse is > out of the way (a used serial mouse is often at the end of its life) and > because of new found hard drive space. Who knows... yet. > > > Cheers and happy installing, > > Peter Williams > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca
