Mini Linux Distros

melloe · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2024 2:36 pm Post subject: Tiny Core Linux 2.9

Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 2.9
Tiny Core Linux Robert Shingledecker has released Tiny Core Linux 2.9, a minimalist Linux distribution in 10 MB: "Tiny Core Linux 2.9 is now posted. Change log: upgraded udev to 151 with several rule adjustments and new rules added; updated libstdc++ 6.0.9 to support exceptions; updated glibc 2.9 to support i486; updated wbar - eliminated background relics; updated appbrowser - added 'Provides' to search for 'What provides', also error handling and speed improvements; updated appsaudit - added 'Display All Not Depends On'; updated tc-config - persistent home and/or opt; improved language support by auto-loading locale support extension(s); added functions checkroot and checknotroot for improved user handling; new 'Set TCE Drive' in control panel to setup TCE directory, optional and mydata.tgz from cloud mode...." Read the full release announcement http://tinycorelinux.com/forum/?topic=5193.0 for a complete list of changes.

Download: http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
tinycore_2.9.iso (10.1MB, MD5).

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SimpleLinux EXT Release 2 is out and easier to use...( EXT is the larger <400 mini ) http://www.simplelinuxdistro.co.cc

Link to mirrors and torrents on page

Easy to use. Using XFCE Window manager and Openbox WM. Feature fast booting. Include large selections of application, modules. Feature Juk, RealPlayer 10, KPlayer, and DVD Player (MPlayer) and more, but small in size (EXT R2 - 356MB, Mini - 90 MB)

SimpleLinux EXT R2 mirrors http://www.simplelinuxdistro.co.cc/2010/03/download-simplelinux-ext-release-2_15.html

SimpleLinux EXT: http://www.simplelinuxdistro.co.cc/2010/01/download-simplelinux-ext.html

SimpleLinux mini A1 http://www.simplelinuxdistro.co.cc/2010/02/download-simplelinux-mini-sub-90-mb.html

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melloe · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2024 6:31 am Post subject: Tiny Core Linux 2.10

Another bump for Tiny Core

Distribution Release: Tiny Core Linux 2.10
Tiny Core Linux Robert Shingledecker has announced the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.10, a minimalist graphical distribution in 10 MB: "Tiny Core v2.10 is now posted. Changelog: updated Appbrowser / tce-load - recursion now fully supported; updated Appbrowser, no pop-ups, GUI redesign, dropped menu for buttons, added status area; updated flwm_topside moved location and look of iconize button; updated appsaudit, added wait cursor during selective updates; updated cpanel cursor support and removed full paths; updated flwm ondemand, now fully automatic; updated tc-functions for additive home setup support; new hsetroot replaces Esetroot for logo PNG support; updated Backgrounds / wallpaper for hsetroot support; updated exittc to not call exitcheck, backup occurs within exittc; added missing rule for mmc support; added directory indicator for improved appsaudit 'On Boot' selection...." Here is the full release announcement. http://tinycorelinux.com/forum/?topic=5493.0
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/
Download http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
(MD5): tinycore_2.10.iso (10.1MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2024 1:05 am Post subject: DragonFly BSD 2.6.1

BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 2.6.1
DragonFly BSD Matthew Dillon has announced the release of DragonFly BSD 2.6.1, a BSD operating system originally forked from the FreeBSD 4.x code base: "The DragonFly 2.6 release is here! Three release options are now available for 32-bit: our bare-bones CD ISO image, a bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image (minimum 1G USB stick needed), and a GUI bootable USB disk-key image with a full X environment. The GUI USB image replaces the DVD ISO image we had in the previous release, to work around issues with DVDs simply being too slow to boot an X environment from. Two release options are available for 64-bit: our bare-bones CD ISO image and our bare-bones bootable USB disk-key image. The 64-bit release is now fully supported." Read the full release announcement which includes a complete list of changes and improvements. http://www.dragonflybsd.org/release26/

Download http://www.dragonflybsd.org/download/
www.distrowatch.com download link does not work. Links at distrowatch below do work.
(MD5): dfly-i386-2.6.1_REL.iso.bz2 (218MB), dfly-x86_64-2.6.1_REL.iso.bz2 (232MB).
2010-04-05

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melloe · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2024 6:35 pm Post subject: Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0

Distribution Release: Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0
Dragora GNU/Linux Matias Fonzo has announced the release of Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0, a 100% "libre", general-purpose distribution built from scratch: I am pleased to announce the final version of Dragora GNU/Linux 2.0. Dragora is a powerful and reliable GNU/Linux distribution created from scratch with the intention of providing a stable, multi-platform and multi-purpose operating system. Highlights since RC2: the installer includes a better detection method for the CD-ROM, the option to install GRUB in a root partition is back again. The installation of the packages is slightly faster with clzip 1.0 and lzip 1.10. This release comes with Runit as default init scheme, Linux-libre kernel 2.6.32.11, OpenSSL 1.0.0, GCC 4.4.3, and more. Added cURL and Expat to complement Git." Read the rest of the release announcement for additional details. http://listas.usla.org.ar/pipermail/dragora-anuncios/2010-April/000007.html
With Downloadon page http://dragora.org/os/ISOs/dragora-2.0/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
dragora-2.0.iso (446MB, MD5).

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melloe · Posted: Wed Apr 14, 2024 6:05 pm Post subject: CDlinux 0.9.6

NEW • Distribution Release: CDlinux 0.9.6 standard 30MB, community 225MB, and console 30MB
CDlinux Ben Zhao has announced the release of CDlinux 0.9.6, a small live CD featuring the Xfce desktop, several popular desktop applications and a handful of administration tools: "CDlinux 0.9.6 released. This release is a major upgrade. Almost all components are upgraded to their latest stable versions, like Linux kernel 2.6.33.2, X.Org Server 1.8.0, Mesa 7.8.1. Thanks to the open source ATI and Intel drivers, we now have fairly good 2D/3D support on almost all ATI and Intel chip-based video cards. PAE is also enabled in this release. As a result, we can support up to 64 GB of RAM now. While the downside is that you can't run CDlinux 0.9.6 on older CPUs (5×86, K6, Pentium, etc.) any more, not even the Mini edition. ( Older versions available on left panel all links ) http://www.cdlinux.info/wiki/doku.html/
Package upgrades: GTK+ 2.18.9, Qt 4.6.2, JRE 6u19, Firefox 3.6.3, Midnight Commander 4.7.0.4...." See the release announcement http://www.cdlinux.info/wiki/doku.html/news/latest and release notes . http://cdlinux.info/releases/0.9.6/RELNOTES

Download http://www.cdlinux.info/wiki/doku.html/download/latest
Community version at www.distrowatch.com
(225MB, MD5).

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masinick · Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2024 4:53 am Post subject:

PCLinuxOS just released a set of distros with various desktop and window management environments - release date 4/13/2010.

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Distros: SimplyMEPIS
sidux - no CAPS!, antiX, Debian

masinick · Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2024 4:24 am Post subject:

Here with KNOPPIX 6.3, the Linux Magazine version from the April 2024 issue 113 of Linux Pro Magazine. It uses LXDE so it is lighter by far from the very bloated KNOPPIX 5.3.1 DVD from a few years ago. Still has the "Initiating Start Up Sequence" female voice to welcome you to KNOPPIX.

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sidux - no CAPS!, antiX, Debian

masinick · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2024 2:56 am Post subject:

antiX, even though not all builds of it are truly small, still uses up less than half of a CD in BASE form, so I think it still qualifies as a mini distribution. Admittedly it is growing in size. It is not a DSL or a SliTAZ, or even a Puppy. It is as flexible or more flexible than any of them. It got a few good ideas from Puppy in terms of the persistence features, and anticapitalista checks out SliTAZ too, so if there is something to be gained there that can be applied to the BASE version, we could see it. In past releases, anticapitalista has not been too proud to get ideas from Absolute Linux, a Slackware based distribution, and before that, ideas came from sidux, and of course, originally from SimplyMEPIS, which gained early live technology from KNOPPIX and its stability from Debian Stable. I feel that anti gets most of the best and gets rid of the rest, so for those who like to build their own systems, this one, with antiX2USB and other tools, including remastersys, is great. With the former sidux metapackage installer and smxi scripts. you can very easily add additional development environments, applications, and window managers to antiX with just a few menu selections and it does not take long to do this at all.

You can also run antiX as either a Debian {Stable,Testing,Sid} distribution. By default, Testing is enabled. Stable and Sid are typically provided in the apt source file, comment out the ones you do not want and uncomment those that you do want, refresh and dist-upgrade and you are on your way. I do that with smxi and it manages any transitions VERY well.

I was one of the ones pushing the envelope very early in the game. I used smxi with Debian Sid before I used it with the real sidux. I used it with Debian Stable and SimplyMEPIS before Harold Hope (h2) even considered supporting that, and I was into it real early on with antiX too - enough so that h2 mentions my name, at least in the antiX implementation. I asked Harold about a few quirks in the program, and he pointed out that the quirks were really on the part of SimplyMEPIS, which modifies the standard way that Debian does things.

Anyway, when it comes to mini distributions, there is as much experimentation and adaptation going on in this space as there is in any other space except for the netbook, smartphone and cloud spaces, but distros like this one have a good level of overlap with those distributions, and antiX is in those games, at least some of them. I am using antiX this weekend and really enjoying it.

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sidux - no CAPS!, antiX, Debian

melloe · Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2024 4:30 am Post subject:

I installed Knoppix 6.2 sometime back when it came out. Took a while to get the root password set. Had problem with the install corrupting some libs. Got it fixed tonight. I agree, it is quite good.

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masinick · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2024 12:16 am Post subject:

6.3 is even nicer than 6.2 was, and I have to say that I like the KNOPPIX 6 series better than the 5 series for a Live DVD; the 5 series had simply gotten too large for the DVD to be of much use; it was too big and slow; much better now.

If installed, however, KNOPPIX is just a Sid based distribution, so if you have 6.2 actually installed, no need to run out and get 6.3 except to run live.

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Distros: SimplyMEPIS
sidux - no CAPS!, antiX, Debian

melloe · Posted: Mon Apr 19, 2024 6:34 am Post subject:

I am here with it ( Knoppix 6.2 ) and a BUNCH of updates since.

I could not ask for much more.

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melloe · Posted: Sat Apr 24, 2024 6:40 am Post subject: Macpup Opera 2.0

NEW • Distribution Release: Macpup Opera 2.0
Macpup Johnny Lee has announced the release of Macpup Opera 2.0, a small Puppy-based Linux distribution featuring the latest Enlightenment 17 window manager and the Opera web browser: "Macpup Opera 2.0 is based on Puppy Linux 4.3.1 (Linux kernel 2.6.30.5). It has all the applications from 4.3.1 plus Opera 10.10 and GIMP 2.6.3. It also Has dBUS 1.2.16. The Enlightenment E17 window manager version .061 was also compiled and installed from source. You can also use JWM, use the exit menu to change window managers. Please note that not all the options in the E17 system shut-down menu work with Puppy Linux, that is why the exit menu was added. The battery module in this build of E17 had a problem of maxing out the CPU, so I removed it. I have added a script to check battery status, just click on the battery icon if you are using a laptop. The included E17 themes are customized for Macpup." Read the full release announcement for further details. http://hardkap.net/forums/topic/macpup-opera-20#post-1632

Main Page and Download: http://macpup.org/
Or at www.distrowatch.com
Macpup_Opera2.iso (164MB, MD5).

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masinick · Posted: Sun Apr 25, 2024 2:44 am Post subject: Back with antiX tonight

MacPup sounds quite interesting. I am here now with a lightweight side of antiX, running in an IceWM setup using Iceape, the Debian branded implementation of Seamonkey, the community developed version of the classic Netscape/Mozilla Internet Suite, still sponsored and available from Mozilla download sources. The Debian version of this browser is fine and with the nicely tuned antiX infrastructure around it, this is a nice fast system for browsing and Email use, and it is quite flexible and extensible to set up for other things as well - either small and lightweight or full featured, heavy laden desktop environments as well. The lightness of the default setup is excellent, but so is the flexibility to make what you want from it, and there are lots of useful tools to assist you along the way.

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Distros: SimplyMEPIS
sidux - no CAPS!, antiX, Debian

melloe · Posted: Mon Apr 26, 2024 8:29 pm Post subject: Kappa 1

Kappa 1
Kappa OS is a linux distribution based on Slax. The aim should be a simple operating system with basic applications. Kappa OS system is suitable for beginners and advanced users. It is intended to have low-resource system requirements and is designed primarily for netbooks, mobile devices and older PCs. http://www.kappa.yw.sk/

Features

doesn't require installation
ISO file fits on a single CD
packages are in .LZM
on ISO file is memtest utility
optimized for desktop usage
supports 32-bit

Download ( torrent only at this time ) http://www.kappa.yw.sk/download.html

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