On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 10:44 PM Giles Orr via talk <
talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 at 19:11, Kevin Cozens via talk <talk@gtalug.org> wrote:
>
> On 2021-03-05 5:57 p.m., Aruna Hewapathirane via talk wrote:
> > Understood. I just want to try and build the smallest lightest kernel. Like
> > puppy linux or knoppix. I use Debian at home so this is good news.
>
> Other options for a small distro are DSL (Damn Small Linux) or Morphix.
While I agree that Damn Small was pretty good ... it was discontinued
nine years ago. I know this because I was a fan back in the day, and
was very sorry to see it go. DistroWatch tells me that Morphix was
discontinued in 2003. I'm not sure either of these are good choices
...
Maybe try DistroWatch set to "Old Computers?":
https://distrowatch.com/search.php?category=Old+Computers#simple
Their first recommendation is Puppy, which is hardly surprising. I
wasn't much of a fan. Eighth on the list is Tiny Core. Tiny Core is
.... interesting, without doubt. And light, again without doubt. But
a real PITA because of the way it stores stuff.
If Raspberry Pi OS is in the running, I'd go with that. I find it a
decent lightweight OS that acts a lot like other OSes that people are
used to. This cannot be said of Tiny Core, and Puppy is a bit out
there too.
I decided to take Puppy and Tinycore for a drive. Remember those good old Dos6.22 and Clipper+Dbase3 days ?
The attached screenshot is self explanatory :-)
I found a few other interesting SBC's and one that caught my eye is the Orange-Pi has anyone used one of these ?
http://www.orangepi.org/
I will be contacting Mat and Stewart off-list to follow up with the used Pi's.
Thanks everybody for all the support and advice and info - Aruna
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