My struggle with getting small Linux distros installed on my laptop

[sciguy-Ja3L+HSX0kI at public.gmane.org]

That would have been an interesting one, but I was concentrating on 
obscure distros, particularly those that claimed to be built for 
situations with limited space from the  outset.

Manjaro Linux finally won me over. No distro worked well from a USB 
stick -- slowness was always an issue. I neded up making room on my HD, 
and I ended up with a very fast system on a 10G partition, not 
including 2G swap on an SSD drive.

Wireless, cat-5, and all manner of touch (finger and pen) all work.

Paul

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On 31 Aug 2012 at 20:37, Christopher Browne wrote:

I'd be curious as to how stock Debian compares... It can certainly be 
tiny, more so than most options out there.
Expected challenges to me would be...
- might need to pull custom kernel to support hardware, as Debian has a 
tendency to elderly kernels in stable releases
- I'm not sure WiFi support is necessarily what all would term 
"friendly" (mind you, haven't tried that lately, so I could be 
surprised)
- not sure what out-of-box touch sense you're likely to get
But I'd expect "office" software to be handled pretty happily. And you 
can have *any* window manager you want, including plenty of obscure 
ones! :-)
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