On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Patrick Benson wrote: > Patrick Lambe wrote: > > > My question isn't directly related, but is in the same arena. I've got a > > laptop that I use primarily for windows development/games/surfing etc but I > > would like to have relatively small linux distro on it for those occasions > > when only Linux will do (network sniffing/configuration/testing etc) But > > I'm humming and hahing about whether to go with leaf + all the other stuff > > I find I need or whether to just bite the bullet and install a mainstream > > distro with pretty much everything turned off. I guess my prime > > consideration is that I don't want to waste any more disk space than > > necessary (as if windows isn't wasting enough of it ;o) Any thoughts? > > Why not try: > > Trinux - http://trinux.sourceforge.net/ > All the tools you'll ever need you can find on a 3-disk setup... > > muLinux - http://mulinux.nevalabs.org/ > > tomsrtbt - http://www.toms.net/rb/home.html > > with a few more... http://www.hardcorelinux.com/floppy-distros.htm >
Another possibility which works nicely for me is cygwin. It even does X, though I'm having trouble getting XFce to work :-) Here's a good starting point for network tools under Cygwin: http://www.caida.org/tools/measurement/netramet/changes.xml -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... _______________________________________________ Leaf-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user
