[/caption]Puppy Linux (latest version is codenamed Dingo) is an elegant micro-distribution with a live CD that comes in at 90mb, lives entirely in ram, and gives one all the features of a fully fledged server. Did I forget to mention it has a wiki, or that it passes the test of turning otherwise useless hardware into a usable and attractive desktop in which one can spend hours fiddling with settings?
It beat off Xubuntu for bootablility, and the competition in terms of user-friendliness. Both feather linux and damn small linux don't even come close, although dsl probably takes the cake in terms of weight. Perhaps there needs to be a featherweight division for Linux disto's? Puppy is arguably in a category of its own. (I have yet to get hold of a working copy of Damn Small BSD to compare a non-Linux, Unix-based OS)
The simplicity of Puppy and the barebones of the OLPC are key elements in the microPC revolution.
http://www.puppylinux.org/
http://www.puppylinux.co.uk/
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