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Re: [LUG] Help Please - Small Distro Wanted

 

Julian Hall wrote:
> David Bell wrote:
>> I'm looking for a small distro (e-mail, browse, edit - sort of thing) to
>> install on an old'ish Acer laptop. Puppylinux installed easily and fits
>> the spec, but operating as root seems a bit dodgy. DSL seemed to install
>> happily to the hdd, but wouldn't boot.
>>
>> Currently Xubuntu is installed but it is rather slow compared
>> with several other small Slackware based live distros I've tried, all of
>> which failed to install for various reasons.
>>
>> Any suggestions welcome.
>>
>>   
> Hi David,
> 
> You mentioned 'various reasons'.. what kind of problems are you running 
> into? Particular hardware issues?  This might help people with 
> recommendations.
> 
> Kind regards,
> 
> Julian
> 
SLAX ?
This may meet your requirements

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Eion MacDonald
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