Good, you reminded me. Will get all three burned, just in case someone brings a very small laptop :-) Do i still remember that installation for Kin when he got a (tiny) 386 palmtop and i was at a loss as to what to put into it :-) Cheers Szemir
On October 27, 2006 14:26, Mitchell Brown wrote: > Let's not forget distros for smaller machines too! I'm partial to Puppy, > but DSL is great as well! > Can't forget Xubuntu as well... > > On 10/27/06, Jesse Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, 2006-27-10 at 13:38 -0600, Shawn wrote: > > > *ubuntu, Suse, Mandriva, PCLinuxOS, FC > > > - for newer users, or simple desktop type systems > > > > I put Suse 10.1 on a machine awhile back, and I regret it. Suse used to > > be a great distro. but I've had nothing but problems with 10.1. From an > > updater that's broken out of the box, to a clunky interface for > > installing new software, I'm going to stay away from Suse for awhile. > > > > On the other hand, I'm running Ubuntu on two of my systems and I'm quite > > impressed for the most part. I'm upgrading to 6.10 at the moment. The > > one thing I'm a little confused about is that I changed the entries in > > my sources.list file from dapper to edgy, but I'm not sure if Edgy is > > like Sid in Debian (ie. it's always an unstable branch), or if that's > > the official name for 6.10 and the testing branch will get a new name. > > Can anyone shed some light on this for me? > > > > > Gentoo, Linux > > > - for the hard core, stuff (lean servers, dedicated users, etc.) > > > > Well there won't be time to do a full install, but that would be cool. > > > > > Debian > > > - for standard server needs > > > > I completely agree. I'm really impressed with Debian on servers. > > > > Jesse > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > clug-talk mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > > **Please remove these lines when replying _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
