Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320

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Author: Rik
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To: Hampshire LUG Discussion List
Subject: Re: [Hampshire] linux for toshiba satellite pro 4320

On Sun, 2009-04-19 at 15:26 +0100, trotter wrote:
> At 23:31 18/04/2009, you wrote:
>
> > > [1] http://www.tinycorelinux.com/
> >
> >nice one, will.
> >
> >i love the idea of having a basic installation then choosing which
> >apps you require... i don't need 3 web browsers, 7 email clients and
> >19 text editors.
> >
> >in fact, i like this idea so much, i've registered on the forum and
> >hope to donate some time and energy into helping this project.
>
>
> Suprising that we haven't had popular distros doing this.
> With broadband not being available to some people and BB being
> flaky enough that sometimes a corrupt ISO is downloaded.
>
> Theres also how long it takes for a dvd ISO to download with 4 Mb
> connection I tend to look for cd based distributions to download.
>
> Martin N
>
>
> Co-Moderator of MiniDisc and amithlonopen yahoo groups.
>
>

A tad more bloated, but none the less very worthy of a mention:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/