You could have a look at these

http://spins.fedoraproject.org/lxde/
http://spins.fedoraproject.org/xfce/

I have lxde on a asus eeepc. You can you use either fedora's liveusb creator
or ubuntu's Unetbootin to create a bootable usb system.


On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Voytek Eymont <[email protected]> wrote:

> a daughter of a friend asked me if it's possible to run applications from
> a USB memory stick; I asked her what was it that she wants to run, she
> told me 'cygwin, to run some c code'
>
> I said 'why don't you boot your Acer netbook from a Linux on SD media
>
> now what is asking what Linux should she get ?
>
> so, what distro should I suggest for a uni student to 'run some c code' on
> an Acer netbook ?
>
> I did a brief search, came across Moblin, is that a good choice ?
>
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