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Matthew Wiebelhaus
August 15th, 2007, 05:46 PM
I looking for a SMALL debain based distribution that has support for Intel 945 Grapichs card and Intel pro wireless 3945. I know ubuntu has support for all of these and i know if i cant find anything else i will probally stick with ubuntu. Any ideas?

DalekClock
August 15th, 2007, 05:57 PM
Well, there's Xubuntu (http://www.xubuntu.org), that's based on Ubuntu and uses the Xfce desktop, which is more lightweight than GNOME.

Matthew Wiebelhaus
August 15th, 2007, 06:14 PM
YEEAHS I know but i tried to install last night and it did not go so good

ThinkBuntu
August 15th, 2007, 06:28 PM
Maybe Dreamlinux? Not my cup of tea, but most reviews are very positive. It's Debian-based and uses the light Xfce desktop, and also includes a whole bunch of proprietary software. For that reason, I bet it'll have what you need for your wireless card.

reacocard
August 15th, 2007, 08:19 PM
What about Wolvix (http://wolvix.org/)?

Outrunner
August 15th, 2007, 08:22 PM
How about Linux Mint, it's based on Ubuntu(which, as you know, is based on Debian). Or maybe MEPIS which is moving it's base from Dapper to Debian Sarge(I think)


What about Wolvix (http://wolvix.org/)?

*cough* Wolvix isn't Debian based *cough*

reacocard
August 15th, 2007, 08:26 PM
*cough* Wolvix isn't Debian based *cough*

oh sorry. still nice though

DSL (http://damnsmalllinux.org/) is another option. (that is debian-based)

Outrunner
August 15th, 2007, 08:30 PM
oh sorry. still nice though



Yeah I agree. It's a very nice distro.

(to Matthew Wiebelhaus)I think it's still worth a try, even if it's not Debian based

WishingWell
August 15th, 2007, 08:56 PM
I looking for a SMALL debain based distribution that has support for Intel 945 Grapichs card and Intel pro wireless 3945. I know ubuntu has support for all of these and i know if i cant find anything else i will probally stick with ubuntu. Any ideas?

Zenwalk or straight slackware, Debian or SuSE would work great too since you could just choose what to install on it.

I'd probably choose FreeBSD with that setup because of their excellent wireless support.