[Wolves] Small Linuxes

[Aquarius]

sparkes spoo'd forth:
> On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 21:27, Steve Ruffles wrote:
>> Would this do as a smoothwall box - I've heard folks use these to protect
>> networks. Would it manage Knoppix run from cdrom (if machine has optical
>> drive?).
> Knoppix is the last thing I would recommend for low end hardware.  
> 
> Let's take a cool distro and make it boot and run from a live cd.  All
> fine so far.  Then let's take loads of helpful features like
> autodetection of hardware so it boots so much easier on the majority of
> machines (of course this is bloat but it is a cool feature our users
> will love it).  All fine so far.  Then lets pile in as much crap as we
> can and compress it until it runs like a dog on older hardware.  Let's
> not look for best program for the filesize and memory it uses all our
> users have kick ass hardware and don't mind waited a couple of mins for
> an application to decompress, load and get to a usable point.  Hell our
> users have the latest hardware like us don't they?
> 
> It's another example of a good idea gone bad when feature hungry
> programmers start adding bloat for no other reason than it might get
> them laid.

Sparkes in "If I only had a brain" shocker. :)
 
There are lots of distributions based on Knoppix that do not have such 
heavy hardware requirements but *do* retain the hardware detection and
so on. I recommend either Damn Small Linux or Feather Linux, both of which
seem great to me and keep all the nice features of Knoppix. DSL will fit
onto a 50MB business card CD. Don't listen to sparkes, he doesn't know what
he's talking about. :)

Aq.

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