BillH
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Joined: April 2004 |
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Posted: April 01 2004,14:34 |
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Here (in part) is a post I left on the Feather Linux board.
DSL is by far the best 50Mb distro I've tried. By best I mean that it works on all my hardware with no problems at all. [Puppy: eth0 trouble, Austrumi: X trouble on some hardware, SLAX (180 Mb): DSL has better usability and is faster than FastGUI on SLAX]
| Quote | I am part-time faculty at several universities, so I don't have an office. I do everything out of a backpack. I can find plenty of computers around campus, but nothing real heavy duty. An ideal tool for me would be fast and light, like DSL, but with a stronger set of office applications. Mostly I'm living in a W-dows world, so easy file-compatibility would be a big plus for me. (I keep my active files and a firefox + setup tarball on a 128 meg usb stick, BTW.)
So my suggestion is this: work closely with DSL and let them take care of the base. Take the 8 cm disk as a limit and build the best portable office on the DSL base.
I can see two camps here and at DSL... One group, like me, that takes it "on the road", and another group that is focused on doing HD installs on older hardware. |
Ladislav at DistroWatch had a nice opinion piece about having too many new distros, basically.
| Quote | | If you are thinking of creating a new distribution, then think again. Not counting various floppy and embedded Linux projects, there are already more than 300 active distributions in existence today. Unless you have a really cool, innovative idea, don't expect to get an enormous number of followers with a yet another remastered edition of Knoppix. Instead, why not join an existing project? |
Rather than seeing Feeather and DSL drift apart I hope that a closer relationship can happen, with DSL providing the best, fastest 50 Megs and Feather (or someone...?) filling up an 8 cm CD with fast, complimentary office-type apps.
Comments?
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Keep it simple.
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