Depends what you are looking to do.

Have you tried Puppy Linux?

DSL - Damned Small Linux

I agree wireless is harder on lighter distro's.

Maybe that is the area that you need to Master. Then load that as a
custom script.


On 11/30/11, Edwin Humphries <[email protected]> wrote:
> G'day all,
>
> I'm looking for the right distro to install. I have a couple of laptops
> that I don't care if they break, so I can take out to work-sites where
> we're doing installations in sometimes less than hospitable circumstances.
>
>  1. Because they're old laptops, I need a fairly lightweight
>     distribution - perhaps based on xfce or Enlightenment or similar.
>  2. There for things like network configuration & troubleshooting, so
>     support for media playback is of no consequence.
>  3. Because so many networks are wireless or hybrid with wireless,
>     simple wireless support is essential.
>
> It seems to me from the distros I've tried, you can have condition 1
> met, or condition 3. But not both - most of the lightweight distros seem
> to assume that one is rpepared to spend half-an-hour on each wireless
> network setting it up - and whilst I'm not a newbie, I don't really get
> off on always doing things the hard way.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
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