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Minimal Desktop Live CD

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What is your favorite minimal desktop live CD?

Damn Small Linux
32
27%
Feather Linux
3
3%
Flonix
0
No votes
SLAX
52
44%
BeatrIX Linux
3
3%
Puppy Linux
18
15%
Luit Linux
1
1%
GoblinX Mini Edition
6
5%
Benix Kanotix
2
2%
Gentoo
2
2%
 
Total votes : 119

Re: Benix Kanotix

Postby nick » Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:28 am

spacepenguin wrote:i have not voted yet because my favorite mini linux is Benix Kanotix which is not in the list (although it is mentioned here by at least two other people).


I added it to this poll. Do you know of where I can get more information on Benix Kanotix? All I've seen so far is a download for the ISO.
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Re: Benix Kanotix

Postby spacepenguin » Fri Aug 26, 2005 11:37 am

nick wrote:Do you know of where I can get more information on Benix Kanotix? All I've seen so far is a download for the ISO.


I found Benix Kanotix through the Kanotix forum (http://forum.kanotix.net/) - maybe you can get more information there, it doesn't seem to have an own site (yet).
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Postby ozar » Mon Jan 09, 2006 9:17 am

I voted DSL, but Slax is right up there with it in my opinion.
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Postby DanZ » Tue Jan 17, 2006 11:27 pm

I think Gentoo belongs on the list as well. It is cli only, but it has the basic desktop tools you'd need, like a text editor, web browser, irc client.
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Postby spacepenguin » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:06 pm

Gentoo has a Mini-Live-CD? I didn't know that. Is it specially designed just for that purpose?
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Postby DanZ » Wed Jan 18, 2006 12:11 pm

It's just the install disk, but the only things not on it that I'm running now, is xorg and fluxbox. Gentoo comes with a fairly complete basic set of tools to get around your day. I should know, when I had system failures this weekend, all I had to surf the net and chat on IRC was the Gentoo disc :)
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Postby BeteNoire » Thu Feb 02, 2006 4:00 pm

SLAX, because DSL is ugly as hell :)
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Postby irevoc » Mon Jul 16, 2007 12:13 am

NimbleX because it has almost everything I need in 200MB
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There's a new kid in town

Postby burdicda » Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:00 am

http://www.pcbypaul.com/absolute/

This baby is the "ONLY" way to go if you got 64meg or less
and want it all !

The gui
The icons
The codecs

I put this on a pentium mmx 200 with a 2meg video card
and after some tweaking was watching wmv video movies...in
full sync without jerking....

Season to taste...but wow ya'll gotta try it at least....

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Postby haslab » Sat Sep 29, 2007 8:22 am

I would vote for NimbleX because it has a special edition that is only 100MB and has KDE. A, it has GREAT hardware support!
That's extreme :)
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Favorite Live CD - Mini Distro

Postby Scapegoat » Tue Dec 25, 2007 3:33 pm

The one distribution that has never let me down, no matter what computer I've tried to install it on is Puppy. Right now I'm running version 3.01. Slax for some reason won't run on older machines. And I don't see any way to install. DSL was comparable to Puppy, but the recent versions put it on the same machine unfriendly list as Slax. TinyMe and TinyFlux, both of which are based on PCLinuxOS, aren't too bad. NimbleX is okay too. But Puppy is the best. :)
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Favorite Live CD - Mini Distro

Postby capoverde » Wed Dec 26, 2007 4:24 am

Yes, I can confirm what Scapegoat says. For me, too, Puppy has gained the very top position:

- after I've tried about two dozens of Linux distros, of which more than 1/4 Live-CDs, and nine other operating systems;

- after almost two years of daily use without problems;

- after having amazed several friends (and myself) with its ultra-fast hardware detection and startup, even on older machines -- two minutes at most and everything works: simply fantastic.

And if one finds any minimal bug (not easy), there's an equally impressive support team.
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What about Nimblex?

Postby nimblex guy » Fri Mar 07, 2008 11:34 pm

Why is NimbleX not listed along other small distros? I think nimblex beat them all! It has almost everything you need for office and multimedia in only 200 MB, the connection to the net is OK, and it recognizes all my hardware. So, why is NimbleX not listed?
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Postby rada » Wed May 28, 2008 11:12 am

DanZ wrote:I think Gentoo belongs on the list as well. It is cli only, but it has the basic desktop tools you'd need, like a text editor, web browser, irc client.


Definately the best, least bloated, most efficient out there.
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Re: Minimal Desktop Live CD

Postby registereduser » Tue Jan 06, 2009 5:33 am

Can you please add Frenzy.
It still fits on a small CD

It is 200MB, based on FreeBSD and works great as a spartan desktop.
besides many, many security, rescue and hardware tools it also features
browser - opera
word processor ....
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