On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Lee Bengston wrote: > Thanks, Tony - I didn't bother to try to compile from source, either, > given what appeared to be scant repositories. I installed TinyMe > under VMware, and it seems quite happy in that environment. I'm in it > right now using the Opera browser. The attraction is that the TinyMe > virtual machine compressed is less than 400MB, which is significantly > smaller than what we normally see on a more standard distro like > Xubuntu. Combine that with a lower memory requirement, and it could > be a decent alternative for PC's that have less memory and hard drive > space to allocate to a virtual machine.
My favorite for tinier-than-thou Linux distributions was the "Zipslack" directory of the Slackware distribution. I could install that, which took less than 100MB, then add a few from the "X" series to give me X11, and I was in business... The ZipSlack distribution was originally designed to fit on a 100MB Zipdisk, and had no graphics, but had a full development environment. Add X11 to that and you've got enough to run Xastir. I don't know if there's still a Zipslack directory in Slackware, but if there is, that might be a good way to go. -- Curt, WE7U. archer at eskimo dot com http://www.eskimo.com/~archer Lotto: A tax on people who are bad at math. - unknown Windows: Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates. - WE7U. The world DOES revolve around me: I picked the coordinate system!" _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir
