On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know
> if any of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block
> called slitaz.
>
> http://www.slitaz.org/en/
>
> Very small distro...fits in a 24.8 mb live cd. Can run entirely on RAM
> as low as 64MB. Linux kernel 2.6.24.2 and all the good stuff. I wish i
> could try it out but I only have old PPC machines lying around...never
> owned an x86...
Personally, I wouldn't bother. You can only do so much with Linux on a
low-end machine. OpenBSD (and to be fair NetBSD) run so much better,
and there are scripts out to make a liveCD for OpenBSD. My only gripe
with NetBSD is comparing how long security fixes take to come out (if
they ever do):
Debian and FreeBSD tend to come out within a day of each other.
OpenBSD, if its vulnerable at all, given the changes they made
to the compiler, takes about a week (but there are never new
bugs created by a fix), and NetBSD may take a month or more.
Doug.
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