<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/27/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Liam Proven</b> <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 27/09/2007, C David Rigby <<a href="mailto:c.david.rigby@gmail.com">c.david.rigby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 9/27/07, Liam Proven <<a href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com">lproven@gmail.com</a>
> wrote:<br>> > On 27/09/2007, C David Rigby <<a href="mailto:c.david.rigby@gmail.com">c.david.rigby@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> > > There is also fluxbuntu (<a href="http://fluxbuntu.org/">http://fluxbuntu.org/
</a>, but site down for<br>> > > migration). I took a quick look at the live CD. Not enough to really get<br>> a<br>> > > feel for it, but it seems to warrant further investigation. Like<br>> > > Ubuntu-lite, it seems to be having the usual "growing pains" in terms of
<br>> a<br>> > > stable web presence.<br>> ><br>> > May I suggest that you don't top-quote?<br>><br>> Sorry - that was a bit sloppy of me.<br>><br>> > Sure, there /is/ Fluxbuntu, but it seems to be mainly an effort to
<br>> > produce a version of Ubuntu for Fluxbox fans rather than anything more<br>> > directed or focussed.<br>> ><br>> > But then, there are /many dozens/ of Ubuntu spinoffs now.<br>> ><br>> >
<br>> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu-based_distributions">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ubuntu-based_distributions</a><br>> ><br>> > Many don't have a particularly close or narrow focus, they're just
<br>> > Ubuntu for a particular perceived "market" or target audience.<br>><br>> Point taken. Is it reasonable to consider starting from Debian as a base<br>> rather than Ubuntu? Are there any minimalist distros based on Debian?
<br><br>Well, you could argue that Debian /is/ a minimalist distro, but I<br>think that if you are targeting the desktop, Ubuntu is a better<br>starting point.<br><br>The problem soon will be kernel 2.6. I believe there is some older
<br>hardware it doesn't support, and neither Debian or Ubuntu supports 2.4<br>any more.</blockquote><div><br>Debian is rather minimal, but the standard installer's minimum base system is still a rather complete "unix-like" system. This is fine with me, but perhaps a single user, desktop system could do without some of the programs that are considered necessary for a multi-user *nix. Could it do without the mail server, for instance? The Debian base system checks in at just under 500 MB installed, and that is without
<a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> and various X-dependent desktop apps. By doing a base installation, then adding <a href="http://X.org">X.org</a> (deselecting the "all drivers" option and including only the graphics and input drivers I actually have) and then adding icewm and firefox, I get a system that is around 700 MB installed, IIRC.
<br></div><br>I understand your point about the kernel. "Resource constrained" overlaps quite a bit with "old" but it is inevitable that we eventually lose support from the kernel for older hardware. Kernel
2.4.xx is still maintained, though (see <a href="http://www.kernel.org">www.kernel.org</a> - the current stable version is <a href="http://2.4.35.3">2.4.35.3</a>, released 23 Sept 2007). So, somebody must still be using it.
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