Thank you ed, downloading now. I have been looking for something like this for a while, will see!
take care, Alvaro On Thu, 2004-04-01 at 10:28, Richards Jr, Edward C. wrote: > What is it? > Feather Linux is a Linux distribution which runs completely off a CD or a USB > pendrive and takes up under 64Mb of space. It is a Knoppix remaster (based on > Debian), and tries to include software which most people would use every day > on their desktop. > http://featherlinux.berlios.de/ > > I have it running on my old Compaq Presario 1825 laptop. It is really sweet! > Runs fluxbox as window manager so it runs REALLY fast on old hardware. It has > some nice premade scripts for installing The Gimp, Firefox, Thunderbird, > Opera, OO, Synaptic, etc. It also has a hard disk install routine from the > desktop. I haven't tried that yet so can't comment. It looks like a really > good newbie distro, especially for older hardware, except that it does an > auto log-in and I assume as root, but it doesn't automount any of the drives. > For those not familiar with fluxbox, right click on the desktop to access the > kicker menus. > > Enjoy, > > Ed Richards > > > This email, including any attached files, may contain confidential and > privileged information. Any review, use, distribution or disclosure of > included information by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you > are not a named recipient or authorized to receive and / or act on > information sent to a named recipient, or have reason to believe you are not > or should not be one of the named recipients, please notify sender > accordingly by reply email and delete all copies of this message prior to > forwarding, copying or otherwise reproducing this message or attachments > thereto. For information regarding the export control status of items > discussed in this document, please refer to the project control list. Thank > you. > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
