adraker
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Posted: Jan. 07 2005,13:58 |
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A magic hole opened up in the high speed
network at the office the other day, and I was able
to suck down some iso files, which are normally blocked.
So I got Feather 7.1, Sam and DSL 0.9.2 syslinux.
I was wildly impressed with all, particularly the MENUS
in Feather.Sam and Feather are great distros as they come.
But you can't add to Sam unless you HD install.
And it's not "easy" to have a self contained Feather cd where
you can restore the dpkg structure. Or so it seems.
Without going online....
Or copying usr to ram so you can write to it.
Admittedly, I am not VERY familiar with these
other distros.
But these are very, very good nevertheless.
Even though there is more "faffing around" installing
equivalent packages with DSL, (and its no great trouble),
you have a smaller, more flexible OS for low ram machines.
And you can make a fully self contained cd without going
online after it boots up.
The 50 meg base limit is a good thing.
Normally, I would not have downloaded the others at home
on dialup.
Thats my impressions anyways.
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