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? > > -- > > NetSense Computers logoRegards, > Edwin Humphries > Mobile: 0419 233 051 > NetSense Computers (Ironstone Technology Pty Ltd) > 79 Barney St (P. O. Box 423), Kiama, NSW, 2533 > Phone: +61 (0)2 4233 2285 > Fax: +61 (0)2 4233 2781 > Web: http://www.netsensecomputers.com.au > > -- > This email is intended for the named addressee/s only and may contain > confidential or privileged information. If you are not a named addressee > please delete it and notify the sender. > -- > > "/At every moment he beholdeth a wondrous world, a new creation, and > goeth from astonishment to astonishment, and is lost in awe at the works > of the Lord of Oneness./" Baha'u'llah, The Seven Valleys > "./.. humans are interesting. With all the wonders there are in the > Universe, they invented boredom./" Terry Pratchet, Hogfather > "/The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is > the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a > stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as > good as dead: his eyes are closed./" Albert Einstein > /"Stuff your eyes with wonder ... live as if you'd drop dead in ten > seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid > for in factories./" Ray Bradbury > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
