Look no further! Distrowatch has a review of Slitaz Linux. Its a 25mb live/installable CD with a full graphical desktop. 25mb is not a typo! It seemed so unbelievable that I immediately downloaded and fired it up. Its real, and it works, and its graphical, and being totally memory resident, its very fast indeed on just about anything. Modern kernel, and uses JWM as the window manager, and SLIM as the display manager. Even includes Firefox in its 25mb.
I'm enthusiastic about the many odd and quirky manifestations of open source, and many will not share this, but if you are ever looking for a tiny, very fast, fully functioning OS to package with your application, this is worth looking at. It runs Revolution just fine - at least, it runs compiled applications, and StackRunner. I did not try the IDE yet. There is an issue with fonts, font sizing and fields. Unlike with the standard distributions, the fit of the text onto buttons was not perfect. This is probably due to not having all the fonts, its something one would have to tweak. But probably also, though I haven't done this, you would get around it by running the IDE itself on Slitaz and tweaking that way. If you do try it, you'll probably want to mount a flash drive to try out apps, and its not totally obvious how to do this. At least in this incarnation you have to use the manual mounting tool, and I had to specify sdb1 manually. If you want something a little less barebones, then of course Slax or PCFluxbox or Puppy. But this one is where for some reason you want something even more minimal. The kind of system that will only run Win 98, but you need proper security. The charitable sector comes to mind. Peter _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
