I've been happy using Feather for lightweight stuff (it's a stripped down version of Knoppix), but I don't know if it's been updated recently.
You can also search at distrowatch.com for distributions to fit your criteria. -Steve David Nielson wrote: > I've got a laptop with a PCMCIA ethernet adaptor and I'm sick of running > Windows on it exclusively. > > Because its only NIC is PCMCIA, I can't just PXE-boot it. > > So I copied the LTSP kernel and initrd into the laptop's /boot/ > directory and booted from it, and since the LTSP initrd doesn't have > drivers for PCMCIA stuff, it can't boot. (Drivers? Modules? I don't know > the terminology) > > I know that if I (for example) installed a full-blown distribution of > Linux, I could use XDMCP every time I log in to connect to my LTSP > server, which is almost like it being a real thin-client. But then I'm > potentially installing a huge distribution on the laptop, which is > basically wasted. The nearest distro I have that I could use is Fedora > Core 5 or 6, and that is an awfully big distribution for this laptop. > > Is there a lighter distro that I could install, and easily configure to > automatically connect via XDMCP to the LTSP-server, rather than log into > itself? Is there maybe a distro made specifically to this task? > > David > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _____________________________________________________________________ > Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss > For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
