[ale] looking for a very lightweight distro
Scott Castaline
skotchman at gmail.com
Wed Jul 14 22:53:50 EDT 2010
On 07/14/2010 10:13 PM, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> You can download a 10MB (!!!) ISO of TinyCore Linux to run in a
> VirtualBox VM. It boots in less than a second! Once booted you can use
> its built it package manager to install a few packages and then choose
> "Burn USB Drive" to create a thumb drive you can boot from. I would
> suggest pulling the drives out to save power. Using a P2 is likely to
> cost a lot more in energy in 1 year than you would spend on an SBC.
>
MicroCore is 6MB, but strictly CLI main console only. But is usable.
>
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