.:: Phrack Magazine ::. Internet Security Lectures by Prabhaker Mateti. O'Reilly's CD bookshelf. Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world. Digitale-media.be. OMG! Ubuntu! | Everything Ubuntu. Daily. Ivan Ristić. 8 of the best tiny Linux distros. The winner: Slitaz 9/10 We hope you've seen that the world of light distros is more exciting than you may have imagined.
Choosing the right one depends on the hardware you want to run it on and what you want to use it for. The Ubuntu-based distros are interesting, particularly the nascent Lubuntu, mainly because they have a tiny footprint but offer the promise of installing anything from the vast Ubuntu multiverse. However, we were looking for a a distro to work painlessly in a cramped hardware environment. Honourable mentions must go to DSL and Tiny Core at this point, which have clambered into the territory of the minuscule. It's amazing how usable a system can be that takes up less space on your drive than your holiday pictures. Puppy Linux and Unity were both easy to use, although the latter was a bit more polished (and bigger). There can be only one winner in the context of our Roundup, and it should be Slitaz. First published in Linux Format Issue 130 Liked this?