Is there any other Distro?

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Is there any other Distro?

#1 Post by maxraign »

Hello Friends,
I would like to know if there is any other Distro that can be loaded into RAM as puppy can be and like to compare them.
Any one having an idea?
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#2 Post by Cerryn »

I haven't tried that many distributions, but I know that DSL (Damn Small Linux) and Slax have options to be loaded completely to RAM, although in the case of Slax you need a significant ammount of RAM.

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#3 Post by Lobster »

Somebody needs to update this page after their experiments. . .
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Distros
(I combined with another page and then deleted the duplicate)

Austrumi (I think is our closest rival - I would recommend looking at this)
DSL (Damn Small Linux - good hardware recognition - I looked at 2.3 - just seems inferior to Puppy - BUT it was able to use my USR Robotics modem where Puppy could not)
Featherweight Linux (KDE based - not very popular but I thought good)
BeafantIX (150 meg - needs 256 meg ram to load into RAM - Uses Gnome. Looks good - limited apps)
Mitrax (fast and good but project abandoned or temp stalled)
ELE (Based on DSL - security centric)
BBC-Linux (Rescue disk - old but very good set of utils - more for experienced users)
Menuet (runs from a single floppy - too much fun not to include)
Luit Linux - never tried this
Byzantine OS - uses XUL - very different - good but abandoned project

1) FeatherLinux **not as good**, a knoppix based distro, can't boot off read-only sticks
1) CpxMini based on kanotix, **quite good** but 250 MB, "toram" boot option runs off ram-disk
1) SLAX Popcorn Edition v 5.0.6 Patrick Volkering is the originator and sole architect of Slackware, upon which several other useful distros are based, like Vector, Zenwalk, STX (I think) and Slax. None of these others are done by PV though. Slax is built in the Czech Republic by Tomas Matejicek using quite a lot of his own technology
1) mandrake move II - seems everyone goes stick these days - slow

there are two more - they got removed when the old wiki was :-( ebt-linux (?) and some other ...

cpx-mini is **useable** but currently the script to transfer it to 256 MB stick don't work.
cpx has **gcc** already builtin, however. instead of pupget it has a debian based klik-client for apt's which is just great

Hope that helps :)
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#4 Post by Sage »

If you read through Barry's notes, you see that he discovered another obscure use of his RAM technique after he independently wrote his distro. Can't remember the name of the other distro.
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Slax not the same as Slackware

#5 Post by marksouth2000 »

Lobster wrote:
1) SLAX Popcorn Edition v 5.0.6 from good old P Volkerding - slackWare is a binary distro, around for 10 yrs or so
To give fair credit where credit is due: Patrick Volkering is indeed the originator and sole architect of Slackware, upon which several other useful distros are based, like Vector, Zenwalk, STX (I think) and Slax. None of these others are done by PV though. Slax is built in the Czech Republic by Tomas Matejicek using quite a lot of his own technology.

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#6 Post by Lobster »

Have edited my entry

I just cut from this page which needs some work
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/Distros
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Re: Is there any other Distro?

#7 Post by HaJo »

maxraign wrote:if there is any other Distro ... like to compare them.
http://distrowatch.com has a list of linux- and bsd-distributions.
On their seach-page at http://distrowatch.com/search.php
you can look for distros with certain features.
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#8 Post by lostdog »

maxraign, Take a look at this site. You'll find all the live cd distros there.

http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
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#9 Post by tempestuous »

Lobster wrote:BUT it was able to use my USR Robotics modem where Puppy could not
Lobster, did you see the USRobotics modem setup utility I compiled here -
http://www.murga.org/%7Epuppy/viewtopic.php?t=4242
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ah ha

#10 Post by Lobster »

ah ha :)

No (must have been heavily sedated at the time)
Will look into it - many thanks for notifying me :)
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