Hi all, Thanks for all your replies so far, last night, I had a play round with Damn Small Linux 4.3, Puppy Linux 4.0 and Deli Linux 0.7.2. So far I'm leaning toward Deli Linux for no real reason in particular apart from my own preference.
Interestingly enough I have tried larger distros on this machine xubuntu , ubuntu, redhat and xp pro and all of these would not play nicely with the onboard graphics and either display a blank screen or at best only display 600x480 with minimal colours. Although the machines I was able to test the wireless pci card on ubuntu (6.06 but not the latest version) and xp and this worked flawlessly. an older version of puppy linux recognised the card but all the latest versions of the three distros I have tested did not recognise this. I probably won't put too much effort into fixing this as the pc in question will probably end up living next to my router and I've got another machine I can use this card in anyway. On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 22:39 +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > On Tue 20 May 2008 16:27:04 NZST +1200, Kerry wrote: > > > Hi I'm after a fairly specific *nix distro. I want to run a server/test > > machine and would like a disto with the following attributes > > > > Small (the machine only has a 2gb hd) > > Runs the kde desktop > > Uses RPM as a package manager > > > > Anyone got any thoughts as to what I should try out? > > openSUSE 11 > > The minimal installation option is a few hundred MB I understand. > Command line package management now easily rivals Debian's. > > However you'll have to do without KDE with whatever distro you choose as > (installed system + swap + space for data) is not going to fit into 2GB, > unless you are very prudent with only installing minimal KDE. > > Hard disks are cheap, try trademe or Molten Media. > > Volker >
