Short answer....Debian Sid.konaexpress wrote:@james C
Love the black and blues of your take 3.
What distro did you say that is? Guess I will have to go play with ice.
John
Longer answer ..... I used to start with a very minimal net-install of Sid (occasionally testing) and add onto the base to get a fairly small end result to remaster. Then I discovered http://www.linuxbbq.org/ .Saves a whole lot of work.
The particular ICEWM spin is Wuxbuntu http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... o/download . Only 300Mb download, installs to about 1 Gb ...not bad for Debian.
Wallpaper,themes,etc. are from various Puppy releases.And a bit of tweaking.
http://linuxbbq.org/about.html
Minimum requirements (hardware)
CPU 32-bit: Intel Pentium Pro / II or Intel Atom or AMD K7 or VIA C3-2 Nehemiah
CPU 64-bit: AMD64 / Sempron or Intel Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge or Intel Atom or VIA Nano
RAM: 512MB for MATE/XFCE4, 1024MB for GNOME3/KDE4
RAM: 256MB for all other WMs
VGA graphics adapter, acceleration only recommended for GNOME3
optical disk drive or capable of booting from USB
HDD minimum 3GB of disk space, 6GB for "Roast your own"
For older hardware (older than 12 years) we also offer experimental 486 releases.
If you plan to run Linux on even older computers (386DX or equivalent), you might consider
using specialized distros like TinyCore, slitaz, DSL, PuppyLinux or the like.
Minimum requirements (user)
Of course you should have a basic understanding of computers and high interest in Linux
to run and configure LinuxBBQ. If this is your first journey to Linuxland, bring with you a
big bag of time and patience. We tried to make LinuxBBQ work 'as good as possible' out of the
box for most hardware on the world, but it is very likely
- or even a requirement -
that you need to tweak your configurations and your setup. This is the beauty of LinuxBBQ,
it gives you the freedom and the full control over your computer. As long as you have an open mind,
you're brave enough to ask, and ready to take advice we guarantee that you will have
a lot of fun and -- most impotantly -- that you will learn a lot about GNU/Linux with LinuxBBQ.
Users who are 'afraid' of using the Sid (unstable) branch of Debian are of course welcome
to participate in discussions and development around LinuxBBQ, too. It is very unlikely, though,
that LinuxBBQ changes the Debian branch. On the other hand, by 2014 LinuxBBQ will feature new
bases, like the U-Series (Ubuntu), the F-Series (Fedora), and forks of dormant and inactive distros.
Those who need a more 'corporate' version of Debian Sid are recommended to visit and try Siduction.
Those interested in using the Testing variant might find joy with AntiX.
Our recommendation for a stable Debian desktop is Crunchbang.
If you have just switched from Windows to Linux, take a look at SolusOS.
Everybody else: come in and have a bite!