Linux or BSD on tiny HD?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Feb 03, 2005 at 12:06:43PM -0500, Ivan Avery Frey wrote:
> You may want to use sarge (Debian Unstable), there is a torrent for all 
> the CD images. I guess I would burn the first CD and install the rest 
> off of the net. York University has a Debian Mirror.

I find jigdo even faster and more reliable for getting debian cd/dvd
images.  And if your internet connection is decent, the netinstall cd
makes more sense, just downloading the packets you want from the
internet during install.

> Sarge uses linux 2.6 and 2.6 has better support for ISA pnp. My ISA 
> Creative soundcard just gets configured automatically now.
> 
> Sarge also has tools for partitioning ntfs partitions. As for live cds I 
> don't think you will find one that doesn't use either KDE or GNOME.
> 
> A less resource intensive desktop environment is Xfce (www.Xfce.org). 
> Oh! A Xfce 4.2 based Linux-Live CD! I was WRONG!.

Lennart Sorensen
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