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dragos240
March 17th, 2010, 02:50 AM
With samba networking support? Anyone know of a good one? I need to install this one fast, within 15 mins, i1586 preferred (running this on win 98 machines).
MooPi
March 17th, 2010, 03:06 AM
Ubuntu Minimal and fluxbox ? I know zero points for originality.:p
gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 03:14 AM
The only fluxbox based distro I know are Lunar Linux and Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox edition.
I don't know how light Lunar is, and it's not as easy as Linux Mint.

But Linux Mint Fluxbox edition, is not very light. :/

Only thing I can recommend is what was listed above, Ubuntu minimal, then add xorg and fluxbox, it doesn't take long at all really.
dragos240
March 17th, 2010, 03:21 AM
The only fluxbox based distro I know are Lunar Linux and Linux Mint 8 Fluxbox edition.
I don't know how light Lunar is, and it's not as easy as Linux Mint.

But Linux Mint Fluxbox edition, is not very light. :/

Only thing I can recommend is what was listed above, Ubuntu minimal, then add xorg and fluxbox, it doesn't take long at all really.

Well I know Lunar is source based.
gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 03:22 AM
Well I know Lunar is source based.

I'm assuming you don't like source based? Or just don't prefer it.
dragos240
March 17th, 2010, 03:24 AM
I'm assuming you don't like source based? Or just don't prefer it.

Actually I use gentoo, It's just that it takes longer to setup is all.
gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 03:38 AM
Actually I use gentoo, It's just that it takes longer to setup is all.

I went through some of the installation in Virtualbox, and it has a pre-compiled kernel and everything. I never bothered with it again because I was in a bad mood that day. I don't know the minimum requirements either.

I found this though, maybe it'll help:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=575456

Didn't really read the whole thing.

EDIT: Thought that was ram. That's just determining by the .iso size. :/
dragos240
March 17th, 2010, 03:46 AM
I just looked intro tinyme. It runs nicely on 64mb of ram, and it looks very nice:
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Not exactly fluxbox, but pretty good!
gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 03:54 AM
I just looked intro tinyme. It runs nicely on 64mb of ram, and it looks very nice:
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Not exactly fluxbox, but pretty good!

TinyMe plays nice with 64mb ram? I never thought about installing it on mine with those specs. ):

Thought it would be too heavy.
dragos240
March 17th, 2010, 04:00 AM
45.9 mb ram usage!
gymophett
March 17th, 2010, 04:02 AM
45.9 mb ram usage!

I guess unused ram is ram wasted. :)