[Chester LUG] Distros for the eeepc

[Les Pritchard]

I've always found Damn Small Linux to be a very nice mini-distro.  DSL-N has
the 2.6 kernel and apparently it works with the eeepc.  It doesn't come with
a load of applications installed, but you can add them to the very small
footprint (talking couple hundred megs).  You can boot it off a usb stick or
CD to give it a go first.  Installation isn't that graphical, but there
isn't much to it.  You could always bring it along to the next LUG and we
could help if you like the look of the live cd version.

Have a look at it here:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/dsl-n/

(can you tell that I'm using a few precious minutes plowing through my
emails whilst waiting for a meeting to start?!)

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 3:51 PM, Michael Crilly <e-mail at mcrilly.co.uk>
wrote:

> I was thinking gentoo on a live cd. Not for newbies, but you'd learn a
> lot during the installation. It's small and very customizable.
>
> On 5/20/08, Paul Williams <wilp4a at hotmail.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > Hi guys.  time for an update.
> >
> > Ubuntu on the eeepc died a death.  It took ages to get it on my sdhc
> card,
> > as my 2g model cant fit the distro on the 2gb ssd.  I couldn't be
> bothered
> > to go through all the hastle of putting it back on -not when Xandros cent
> > back on in 12 minutes!
> >
> > Still, it leaves me with a distro I'm not too keen on, that isn't really
> > supported by asus (all the packages seem geared towards the 4g model).
> >
> > What I'm after is a distro that is small, and will leave me with plenty
> of
> > space on the ssd (supplied version of xandros is 1.6 GB installed - 2.3
> on
> > the 4 g model tho.).
> >
> > I need one that is easy to install (pref simple graphical installer), and
> > updated regularly, with good support.
> >
> > I looked at Puppy linux, but there's no guarantees that it'll work.  I
> heard
> > about pupeee linux, which is puppy for the eeepc, but I couldn't seem to
> > find a full iso, just a bunch of files.
> >
> > Any ideas (remember, newbie here, please keep it simple!)
> >
> > Ta
> >
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