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nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

Suppose you could only keep three full installs on your Desktop.
What would you install on three ext3 partitions on a 5 to 10 year
old P4 machine with 512MB memory?

I have only done frugal install the last 2 years so I know
almost nothing how to compare those that only do full install.

From my frugal installs I maybe would test Linu Mint LXDE first?
Due to it already having most things included?

Then I am very unsure of which other two to chose.
PCLinuxOS is too new to me to boot so I have no
experience of how it is to use but I got impressed that
it could have persistence also on frugal install.

And surprise it allowed me to be root. That is incredibly unusual.
I have not dared to ask them why that is so. I mean very few distros
does allow it.

So I fail to suggest a third. But overall I love Puppy but would never
do a full install of Puppy. Sorry. Don't get angry on me.

Which three linux distros would you chose?

yes very egotistic egoistic of me. The reason is that I have no idea
what to add to my Dell Dimension now when I can do full install on ext3 Smile

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

Why wouldn't you do a full install of Puppy? Shocked

If it was my machine, I'd be going for lightweight distros.

Here are some I've enjoyed using (although all my distro-hopping only made me love Puppy more!)

antiX
SliTaz
Crunchbang

Also Xubuntu is worth a look, if you don't object to Ubuntu.

mark

darkcity · Joined: 23 May 2010 Posts: 2215 Location: near here

no more, installs, just use this fella

http://usbkey.slitaz.org/img/IMAG0222.jpg

amigo · Joined: 02 Apr 2007 Posts: 1757

Mint and PCLinuxOS are supposed to be among the most user-friendly of all distros -and I guess dumbuntu is also... LOL

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

CrunchBang is on my list of project for sure. Maybe most high
on the agenda. And the next release of Knoppix maybe is good too?

What about ArchBang is that one difficult?
Any more suggestions? Have fun sharing what you like.

antiloquax · Joined: 27 Jan 2012 Posts: 405

Archbang is pretty easy to install (which is why the real Arch users get annoyed!)

linuxbear · Posted: Fri 30 Mar 2012, 14:42 Post subject:

Bodhi Linux 1.4 on laptop and desktop
Puppy 5.28 on the stick

nooby · Joined: 29 Jun 2008 Posts: 9385 Location: SwedenEurope

steve_s · Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 1543 Location: Austin, TX, USA

i've done a full install of puppy, but man, the save file, filesystem 3, is just such an easy way to do it. then you can try new ones, different ones, without changing an install at all. i keep finding myself drawn to it and it is what i use most of the time, frugal install.

Installs i've done: ubuntu, probably one of the easier ones, although it is too winozy these days, harder to hack. Gentoo: not easy, although i've done it a few times. Once it is installed, it is very, very fast! And FreeBSD, although not technically a linux. Not an easy install, for sure... Confused

Billtoo · Joined: 07 Apr 2009 Posts: 1495 Location: Ontario Canada

Vector Linux Light 7.0 on my eeepc701.

mini-jaguar · Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 402

1. Puppy Slacko 5.3.1. Strong and mighty is he.
2. Commodore Vision O.S. SuperTuxKart was slow because my computer is not so new, the other stuff worked fine.
3. I guess some other Puppy, maybe the Lucid 5.2.5 with the older kernel, I think I had it installed in full for a short while and it was fine. Or I would try 3-Headed Dog, seems like a serious Puppy. Puppy Arcade 10 might also be interesting, but it seems to work better on some machines than on others.
(edit: Lucid with the old kernel turned out not so great in full install. Will try 3-Headed Dog.)
(2nd edit: tried 3HD in full install on Asus eeePC 701, both version 3 and .005. Both versions had serious shutdown problems. This may or may not happen on other computers.

Reinstalled Slacko, which had been on there before and seems fine in full install on several different computers.

Saluki might be worth a try in full install.)
(3rd edit: now experiencing problems with Slacko in full, on one computer only-Slacko fine on other, but I now suspect the cause to be an unstable version of Songbird-on Slacko and 3HD. Will go back to testing 3HD in full install...)
(4th edit: I was using an eeePC 701 for testing, I think the problem was the grub, but now I have Puppeee 1.0 on it in full install and it works. 3HD might be good in full, but now I don't have a computer to experiment this on.)