Puppy linux, SLAX or Damn Small?
By scammerwear
@scammerwear (1433)
Singapore
December 26, 2007 10:44pm CST
I'm a junkie for USB distros, the idea of having your whole desktop with you everywhere you go has always been a big plus factor for me. So far I have tried puppy, SLAX and damn small.
SLAX is great, but somehow I can't seem to find a QEMU version (is there actually something like that out there?) and I would prefer not to make one.
Damn Small is, well, damn small. However. the default interface was too painful for me, and after poking at it a small, I gave up.
Today I tried QEMU puppy, and I really like the interface. The problem is that the QEMU version was painfully slow.
I'm actually looking for a usb distro that has a QEMU, not too painful to use and able to run LAMP easily. Please shower me with your 1337n355 and share with me your experience.
2 responses
@jarves (814)
• Philippines
28 Dec 07
I have used Puppy linux and Damn Small linux. I had it before as an iso image and burned it on the cd. The interface on puppy linux is quite sloppy. I have used a lot of distros of linux but not have found a perfect interface for it to fit on a usb.
@scammerwear (1433)
• Singapore
28 Dec 07
Ahh, you feel my pain then :) There are more and more usb distros coming out though, people are just tired of huge OS that look pretty and does little of what they really want, like... vis*cough*, ahem.
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
2 Feb 08
I use Dapper Drake 6.6 because it gets along with my hardware the best. I also have Windows XP on the hard disk to manage the media files because there is too much Windows only stuff under my hood. Linux is good for navigating the unsafe streets of the Internet and not bringing home a virus.
@scammerwear (1433)
• Singapore
2 Feb 08
Hmm actually I never did try Dapper Drake before, the first version of Ubuntu I tried was Feisty. It was pretty good but a little heavy for my liking and I prefer KDE :)
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@CraftyCorner (5600)
• United States
5 Feb 08
Feisty & KDE did not get along with my hardware as well as they needed to. My computer is a custom Windows machine put together before I learned beans about the Linux Penguin. I am considering, in the future, maybe building a new PC and it will be Linux and keeping this machine Windows. The reason why I am keeping a Windows machine is I can't afford to replace my pre-existing peripherals. Hopefully, the Linux guys can Linux all hardware by reverse engineering...
